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Hello friends!<\/p>\n

S has been counting down the number of days until her Christmas break, and we’re at 1 1\/2! Are you ready for the holidays yet?<\/p>\n

While S is looking forward to Christmas, we get to experience some excitement before then. On December 22 all of Spain glues themselves to their televisions for the Loteria de Navidad<\/a>. We’re getting excited to experience that tradition, and we’ve even purchased a lottery ticket for the occasion. S picked out our number the other day on the way home from school, and Todd told her that it’s all on her now. If we win El Gordo, she’s going to get a big share in the big prize. And if we don’t win it will be all her fault! (She agreed with the first scenario, but not the second.) As I’ve mentioned before, the students from S’s school sing the winning numbers<\/a> (there are a lot<\/strong> of winning numbers, so they take turns), and it will be fun to watch them. It will also be a good chance for me to practice Spanish numbers–hours of practice.<\/p>\n

We’ve also made plans for a trip to Lisbon between Christmas and New Year’s, and we’re excited for that as well. I’ll be posting photos to my Instagram account<\/a> if you’d like to come along. We’ve been invited to a lunch with the Portuguese sewing bloggers, and we’re looking forward to meeting some online friends in person.<\/p>\n

What else? Are you traveling for the holidays? When you have a few minutes amid all the festivities don’t forget to create and add your 2015 Oliver + S sewing photo mosaics to the Flickr group<\/a>. The mosaic maker<\/a> is really easy to use to make them, and in January Rachel will do a 2015 post featuring your sewing. I can’t wait to see everything together!<\/p>\n

OK, ready? These are my last picks for the year.<\/p>\n

Pinterest Picks<\/strong><\/p>\n

This paper town is like a grown-up version of snowflakes! I’d leave a window decoration like this up much longer than Christmas.<\/p>\n

\"dec<\/a>pinterest link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This T-shirt reminds me of the Oliver + B Lunch Box Tee<\/a>. This year I made a dress that looks similar<\/a> using the Liesl + Co Bento Tee<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"dec<\/a>pinterest link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I love the proportions of this cardigan and dress. This is my preferred length for the Cinema Dress<\/a>, but I hadn’t considered a longer cardigan to wear with it. With the shoes I think it would be perfectly appropriate for a fancy holiday party!<\/p>\n

\"dec<\/a>pinterest link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

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‘Tis the season for sweets, and the pretty colors and packaging of these bon bon-inspired soaps is just genius.<\/p>\n

\"dec<\/a>pinterest link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be fun to use our Straight Stitch Society Apples to Oranges Sewing Kit<\/a> pattern to make a small bag for a little girl?<\/p>\n

\"dec<\/a>pinterest link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

This pretty quilt has a contemporary Scandinavian feeling. Very pretty.<\/p>\n

\"dec<\/a>pinterest link<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Weekend Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  1. In the future, will our clothing be smart<\/a>?<\/li>\n
  2. If you remember Esprit back in its glory days, you might also know that Doug Tompkins, the founder of the company who died earlier this month<\/a>, collected Amish quilts and displayed the quilts in the company’s headquarters. This post<\/a> about those quilts has been making the rounds. (Incidentally, I spent some time working in Esprit’s San Francisco headquarters but, sadly, the quilts were no longer there.)<\/li>\n
  3. Spending the holidays with family? Here’s a little something to give you pause<\/a>, especially when you start to feel like you’ve had a bit too much family. (I’m really going to miss my family this year!)<\/li>\n
  4. Here’s a very straightforward scientific explanation of why rejection hurts <\/a>and what we can do to combat those feelings.<\/li>\n
  5. I stumbled across this article the other day and wondered if it’s true that living abroad<\/a> increases your creativity.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    OK, have a great weekend! We’ll be back next week, so don’t hurry off too quickly, will you?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Here is Liesl’s final Friday weekend links and reading post for 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":52411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20687],"tags":[20749,4],"class_list":["post-52404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-apples-to-oranges","tag-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/dec-18-f.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5jZS5-dDe","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":67599,"url":"https:\/\/oliverands.com\/community\/blog\/2018\/11\/announcing-the-holiday-pajama-sewing-contest.html","url_meta":{"origin":52404,"position":0},"title":"announcing the holiday pajama sewing contest","author":"Rachel Le Grand","date":"November 21, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\u2019Tis the season to be sewing! 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