Once upon a time.....

.....there was a crazy crafty lady who loved to construct things out of fiber.  She cut a sleeve off of an old sweater....

....and had the wild idea that she could use it to build a Santa.  And what do you know!  The building inspectors were impressed.  They gave her the go-ahead to forge ahead.

Then there was an unexpected delay.  Her loving husband told her to put on her goin'-out-to-the-city clothes because he had a surprise day planned. She could only assume this would be an early birthday present.....since she had a really-big birthday coming up...one that required a loving husband to make a really-big splash.

So off the two of them went, on the 11:14 train.  And then there was a wild taxi ride across the Brooklyn Bridge to Brooklyn Bridge Park...where who do you suppose they happened to meet?

Big City Girl.  She had a little surprise up her sleeve too.  A private tour!

And then there was a subway ride back to Manhattan and an early dinner at a lovely little restaurant.  And then.......

It took the crazy crafty lady a few days to recover from this overdose of festiveness, but she was, eventually, able to return to the construction zone.