A reluctant fairy and a real fairy. The one on the left is my sister, and we show our love for her by piling tinsel on her inert form. (We were decorating the tree at the time.) The one on the right sits on top of the tree and looks demurely kitsch.

I’m crossing my fingers that the recipient of this present doesn’t read the blog, but here is the result of the pattern-writing and chart-making that I wrote about just over a month ago. There will be proper photos of this creation – and a pattern, too – once the aforementioned recipient has opened it. (I say “there will be a pattern” with some surety, because I have already written it. It needs some final polishing, and probably the chart should be written out into plain English, but it exists as a whole and not as flimsy notes written on the backs of envelopes, which is my usual MO.)

It only remains for me to say: whatever you’re doing tomorrow, and whoever you’re with (and whatever you’re eating!), I hope you enjoy it tremendously. I certainly plan to!