Al fin.... relaxing Christmas day.

I just want to say that we had so much fun on Christmas Eve party-dinner last night. All of our work from previous weeks worthed it.

Thanks to the Host, here with her new toy.

We represented a "pastorela", where every guest had to play a role, here you have the Angel and the Angel's helper.
The Little Demon said: it supposes we don't like each other, Butterfly.


After our funny pastorela, we had Christmas lights ( I don't know how to call them in english and I'm too lazy to investigate right now). Anyways, the children had the chance to hit the traditional piñata of the season and sing "posadas".

Christmas morning, my girls wearing the night-gowns I made for them.

Finally a little nice breakfast and that is it... I finished my Christmas work!

Bufandas para el frio.

Teachers in my girl's classes are going to have home-made scarves as a Holiday gift, this year.
For this one I used two cotton fabrics for one side and flannel with strawberries pattern for the "inside" as a snuggle cozy feeling.

The multi-age class is called Love-cats, so I decided that our male teacher, can use this pattern of cats with a brown fabric as well in one side, and a flannel with doggies for the inside. I'm not expecting him to use it on his Christmas dinner, but maybe at school, where this kind of patterns are well accepted for a cool teacher.
I think it looks good though, even for a trip to the mountains.

On this scarf, I put together 3 different cotton fabrics for the look side, and flannel with little squirrels for the warm side.
I choose green fabric because her student at my home says, her favorite color is green.
I'm happy I finished these projects in less time expected (uffff).
Please, let me know your comments, some people in my house think different that I do, concerning to combination of fabrics.

Guess the song

Mexican Alejandro Fernández, sings something you might recognize.



Of course this is not Mexico, but a city in Europe.

What a week!!! It is Christmas time...

Usually by this time of the year I'm busy preparing our annual trip to Mexico, to visit family at three different locations in the country (we do the same in summer now, but with much more time, less people at the airport, less luggage, etc.)
I have to say, however, that I'm still soooooooooo busy, I can't believe how many things to do. At least we have our decorations.


Pepe complained in this picture, because it was more about the tree than him, well, actually that was my purpose, because I don't know when the chance would come again to have a Christmas Tree and Pepe dressed up.

Another thing we had at our home, was the visit of friends. "Los Arredondos, -little pollos- came and helped Aitana and Bidane to make cookies.

Decorating the cookies wasn't the most fun, eating them (27 cookies) had a great ranking.


Nutcracker at the Spreckels Theater , the girls had fun.


It was a nice combination, we went to watch the performance of a good friend, with the great company of a little cute and mama.

Mecano, Un Año Más

We make our balance of the good and the bad...
Un Año más (One more year) from Mecano, a Spaniard "trio", that was a hit during the 80's, when Rock sung in Spanish was very popular among the young "spanish-speakers" of that time. I could say "chicos fresas", but is a very difficult term to translate, maybe the Mexicans around can help me, hopefully they do not come with insults, thinking they are not "fresas" (you know who I mean).

2008 is almost over and our road had its difficulties, I'm just thankful I'm almost there.

Paz y Amor U2

You know I LOVE U2, my favorite Band, and for this Season of Peace and Love, I can't leave them out. Or better to say, after my opening with "Band Aid", I want to share with you Christmas music along this month, -for me- is a necessity turn the first page with U2, later I'll post Christmas carols and "villancicos".