Scientists confirm that a mind-boggling 91% of all Christmas activities include some form of consumption, from traditional retail channels to online shopping to snickerdoodles. [ed: this statistic is completely fabricated, but the snickerdoodles recipe is for real.]
Well no more! For the 2007 season, we here at the Not to Scale Studio vowed not to buy a single Christmas present, but to instead lovingly craft all gifts by hand in a 400-square-food Manhattan studio apartment.
To our surprise, we followed through. The last gift (a knitted wool kerchief for Grandma Judy, who's Jewish anyway) was completed on 12/26, in the home of the receipient just as the last of the gifts were being exchanged. As the latkes were passed, we quietly closed the door on this year's craft storm and hoped there was no such thing as knitter's lung.
Well no more! For the 2007 season, we here at the Not to Scale Studio vowed not to buy a single Christmas present, but to instead lovingly craft all gifts by hand in a 400-square-food Manhattan studio apartment.
To our surprise, we followed through. The last gift (a knitted wool kerchief for Grandma Judy, who's Jewish anyway) was completed on 12/26, in the home of the receipient just as the last of the gifts were being exchanged. As the latkes were passed, we quietly closed the door on this year's craft storm and hoped there was no such thing as knitter's lung.
