Holidays Are Here....Finally!!!!

I have the next two weeks off from my full time job! YAY!!! Except, now I have a miserable cold. How is it that the body knows when you are going to slow down, take a break, pause??? This is not the first time I have been "under the weather" during the holiday season....it seems to be a perennial gift from the kids I work with. Oh well, nothing lasts forever as we all know.

Tomorrow... is the Winter Solstice! This means that the light will start to come back, oh what a blessing that is. It has to be my favorite day of the whole winter! Even though it is the shortest day - longest night, it means that...days will get longer, mornings will be brighter, coming home will be less eerie, and walking in the park with my Sophie will be more pleasurable....in the light.
I am trying to find and finish some projects that have been waiting for attention. Here is a Punch Needle piece that I did to experiment with a night sky. 

Living On The Edge
 Punch Needle by Tony Latham

Design by Deanne Fitzpatrick

I used the largest Cameo needle with Paternayan tapestry wool yarn, one strand at a time. I dyed the colors to work with my own color palette.