Right now my little darling is making her dad’s chess pieces sing the Santa Lucia song. She is drilling them quite hard to behave and sing. It is absolutely adorable to watch and it makes me sad that we loose this childhood ability to imagine that the simplest things are some completely different than what they really are.

Grown-up life is all about time and duties. The lack of time and the excessive of duties. Entire December went by in a blur without being able to get anything done. When I wasn’t working, I was too tired to do anything other than the bare necessities. In turn I feel guilty about all the things I didn’t do but should have and sad over all the things that I wanted to do but didn’t do.

I however managed to do one thing! Make a Christmas dress for my little sweetheart. Literally last minute before Christmas.

Dress

I sometimes wonder if there is really any sense in starting things early. They always seem to somehow get done no matter how late you start. Ok so maybe not quite as nicely but the difference is really marginal. Like this years Christmas dress. I had been thinking about it for more than a month and yet I didn’t find time to start until few days before Christmas. Everything that could go wrong went wrong and I ended up hitting the pedal on my sewing machine full force just few hours before Christmas dinner to get it done.

My gut feeling however tells me that I would have been doing last minute things anyway on Christmas Eve even if I had started at the beginning of December. You tend to use up all the time you have anyway

Back of dress

I hacked together a new collar design (based on a very expensive dress I saw in a store in London) for the Geranium dress that I have made twice before all in just few hours. Ok, there are things I would have liked to do better and differently but it is much more rewarding to actually make something real than to just make trial versions first.

Collar

It is almost impossible to get good photos of the dresses my little ones wear. Standing still really isn’t her thing. I guess it isn’t important. It is the moments I want to remember not the details.

Unwrapping presents

Dancing

The fabric is an old Enchanted Garden Daisy by Riley Blake Designs I had lying around.

Happy New Year everyone! Lets hope 2014 brings us plenty of time and less guilt!