Christmas is coming.

It seems like the US can't get started on Christmas soon enough. In early October the stores were already setting up holiday displays. Now that Halloween has passed, all efforts at restraint seem to have disappeared. At the library we're just as guilty. We've got a holiday fiction display up. And believe you me, things are flying off the shelf. It's nuts.

It has even gotten to me. I'm already mentally planning a cookie exchange, making lists of gifts for my loved ones, and thinking of how to decorate the apartment. Since this is my first Christmas living alone and so far from friends and family, I've got a lot of freedom. I also have a cat that likes to bat at anything hanging...

I'm going to be replacing the beautiful glass ornaments that usually adorn my tiny tree with homemade ones. I'm planning on documenting the entire process up here, so check back for updates. Please feel free to send ideas too!