December Bingo

The game.

The List:
(The) Bell That Couldn’t Jingle, 12 Days of Christmas
2000 Miles, 25 December, A Child Is Born,
A Child This Day Is Born, A Holly Jolly Christmas,
A la Nanita Nina,
Adeste Fideles, All Alone On Christmas, All I Want For Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth, All I Want for Christmas Is You,
Alone On Christmas Day, An Old Christmas Card, Angels From The Realms Of Glory,
Angels Watching over Me, Angels We Have Heard on High, Another Rock And Roll Christmas, Auld Lang Syne, Away In A Manger,
Babes in Toyland/March of the Toys,
Baby, It’s Cold Outside,
Baby’s First Christmas, Bells Will Be Ringing
Best Christmas Of Them All,  Blue Christmas, Boogie Woogie Santa Claus, Breath Of Heaven (Mary’s Song), Candy Cane Children, 
Caroling, Caroling, Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire
Choir of Bells,
Christ Is Born In Bethlehem,
Christmas All Over Again,
Christmas at Ground Zero,  Christmas at K-Mart,
Christmas At The Zoo,
Christmas Day, Christmas Eve In My Hometown,
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24, Christmas In Dixie, Christmas In Killarney, Christmas is a pain in the arse,
Christmas Is All Around,
Christmas Is Now Drawing Near at Hand
Christmas Is The Time To Say ‘I Love You’
Christmas Island, Christmas Time Is Here, Deck the Halls, Ding Dong! Merrily on High, Do They Know It’s Christmas?, Do You Hear What I Hear?,
Dreidel, Emmanuel, Fame and Fortune,
Fantasy on Silent Night, Feliz Navidad, Frosty The Snowman,
Gloria, Go Tell It on the Mountain, God Rest Ye Merry Gentleman,
Good King Wenceslas, Grandma Got Ran over by a Reindeer,
Hark! The Herald Angels Sing, Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,
Here Comes Santa Claus,
Holly Jolly Christmas, I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day, I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,
I Saw Three Ships, I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas, I’ll Be Home For Christmas, It Came Upon A Midnight Clear, It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, Jingle Bell Rock,  Jingle Bells, Jolly Old Saint Nicholas, Joy To The World, Let It Snow!,
Linus and Lucy,
Little Drummer Boy,
Mary Had a Baby, Mary, Did You Know?, Morning Has Broken,
My Favorite Things, Oh Holy Night,   Oh Little Town of Bethlehem,
Oh Tannenbaum, Percy, the Puny Poinsettia, Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree,  Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus Is Coming To Town,  Santa’s Got a Brand New Bag,  Santa’s List,
Save the Best For Last,  Saviour’s Day,
Senor Santa Claus,
Silver And Gold, Silver Bells, Sleigh, Sleigh Ride,
Snoopy’s Christmas (Snoopy vsThe Red Baron),
Someday At Christmas, Song For a Winter’s Night,
Star Bright,
Step Into Christmas,
Still,  Stille Nacht, Hellige Nacht, Suzy Snowflake, Tennessee Christmas,
Thank God It’s Christmas,
Thanks For Christmas, That Holiday Feeling,
The Angels Sing,
The Bells of StPaul
The Blessed Dawn Of Christmas Day, The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late),
The Christmas Blues,
The Christmas Song, The First Noel, The Friendly Beasts,
The Greatest Gift Of All, The Heat Miser, The Holly And The Ivy, The Little Drummer Boy, The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, The Night Before Christmas, The Old Man’s Back In Town, The Snow Miser,
The Sound Of Christmas, The Twelve Days Of Christmas, The Wassail Song, There’s Always Tomorrow, This Christmas,
This Christmastime (Is The Best One Ever)
til Santa’s Gone (Milk And Cookies)
Under the Mistltoe, Up On The Housetop, Warm & Fuzzy,
We Need a Little Christmas,
We Three Kings,
We Wish You A Merry Christmas
What Child Is This?, What Christmas Means To Me, What I Really Want For Christmas, Whatever Happened to Christmas
When My Heart Finds Christmas
Where Are You Christmas?, While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks, White Christmas, Who Would Imagine A King” Whitney Houston (1996), Winter Wonderland, Wombling Merry Christmas, Wonderful Christmastime, You’re a Mean One, MrGrinch ,

My Words
My Count: 21

Bells Will Be Ringing, Blue Christmas, Chestnuts Roasting On An Open Fire
Choir of Bells, Do They Know It’s Christmas?, Do You Hear What I Hear?, Feliz Navidad, I’ll Be Home For Christmas, It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas,
Little Drummer Boy, Morning Has Broken, Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree, Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer, Silver Bells,  The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don’t Be Late), The Heat Miser, The Little Drummer Boy, The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year, The Snow Miser, The Twelve Days Of Christmas, The Wassail Song,
We Three Kings,
What Child Is This?, White Christmas,You’re a Mean One, MrGrinch,

December Calendar & Holidays

This is to remind me to make the family calendar for December and to look up the December holidays.

• calendar
• holidays 1
• holidays 2
• holidays 3

Tutorial: Zipper Fly

Step 1:Sew the fronts together.
Usually, a pattern is marked where the pattern designer recommends that you stop the zipper or end the fly. Because I often take 2 to 3 inches (5-7.5 cm) out of the front crotch curve, I end up with a really short fly. I extend it down an inch. Where ever this point is, I’m calling it the bottom of the zipper.

From the bottom of the zipper down, you want to sew with a regular stitch. From the bottom of the zipper and up, you want to use a basting stitch. Sorry that I forgot to take pictures at that point.

Step 2

Pants on table, wrong side up. Fold
both fronts to the left, leaving one
extension pointing to the right. Pin
zipper in place, with side lining up
to center front. You will be sewing
the side furthest from center front.

Step 3

Use a zipper foot to stitch close to the zipper
on the side sticking out from the pants fronts.

Step 4:

Turn zipper over. Fold the extra fabric down
under the zipper. The extra fabric may extend
under center front. Pin and stitch about 1/8
of an inch (1 mm) from zipper. This holds that
extra fabric in place.

Step 5:

Use zipper foot to stitch close to the zipper.

Step 6:

Flip pants so that pants fronts are both on
your right. They were on the left.

Step 7:

Turn zipper over. Make sure that it’s flat.

Step 8:

Pin zipper to the fly extension on your left.
.

Step 9:

Using a zipper foot, sew close to the zipper.

Step 10:

Now your zipper is attached to both fly extensions,
but no sewing shows on the front of the pants.

Step 11:

Turn pants over so
they are right side up.

Step 12:

Butt fly template against
the center front seam. If
you don’t have a fly template,
you can copy one from a
pair of pants.

Step 13:

Trace around fly template.

Step 14:

Pin pants front to the fly
extension underneath.
Make sure everything is
nice and flat and smooth.

Step 15:

Using your usual foot, sew fly stitches in place.
I always start at the bottom. If I start at the
top, I tend to twist the fabric.

Step 16:

Hey, it looks like a fly!

Step 17:

Press

Step 18:

Admire your fly.

Step 19:

Admire your fly some more.
But wait; something is missing!

Step 20:

Cut a piece of fabric 4×8 inches
(10 x 20 cm) for the fly shield.

Step 21:

Fold Fly Shield in half, wrong sides together.

Step 22:

Press

Step 23:

Do you see the difference between the pressed
fly and the unpressed fly in step 21?

Step 24:

Overlock the edges of the fly shield. I cut off
some fabric from the bottom to form a curve.
The curve is optional. There’s nothing wrong
with a rectangular fly shield.

If you don’t have a serger, you can overlock
with your sewing machine. Use your overlock
foot and a zigzag stitch.

Step 25:

Pin your zipper shield to the
extention on the underlap
side of the fly.

Step 26:

Fold your pant fronts off to the side, so that
you only sew thru the fly shield and extension.

Step 27:

After you’ve sewn the side of the shield
to the extension, tack down the bottom
on the opposite extension. This is
optional, but it will keep your fly shield
from flopping around.

Step 28:

Admire your fly shield. Here you can see
where I tacked down the opposite side. I
sewed this shield twice along the side. I
don’t know what I was thinking the first
time, but I didn’t sew close to the edge.

Step 29:

Admire your fly from the wrong side.

Step 30:

Admire your fly from the right side.

Ta Da! No more steps.

Journal Page

This page features a background in Biocolors washable paint, but it doesn’t run when I watercolor on it. I used Biocolors because we have a lot of it. It’s a great paint for kids.

The face doodle is in colored pencil. The bird is Chunguita’s artwork, and the teddies were stamped out by Pulguito.

Thursday's Quiz

You Are Thanksgiving

You are a bit of a homebody who enjoys being in the company of people you love. It doesn’t take a lot to make you happy. You’re enjoying life as it is. You have many blessings in your life, and you are grateful for each one. You believe that life is about what you *do* have. You feel like you have enough of the good stuff. What makes you celebrate: Family, friends, and the changing of the seasons. At holiday get togethers, you do best as: The host of the party On a holiday, you’re the one most likely to: Spend so much energy preparing that it’s a full time job

What Holiday Are You?

Pins and Needles Day

Here I was thinking that today was a day to celebrate sewing, but no. Then I thought it might be about your legs falling asleep, but no.

It’s about commemorating the labor movement.

Journal Page

plastic paper, watercolor fairies, watercolored stamped images, and watercolor pencils.