Monday afternoon Almanac

Elizabeth posts one of these many Monday mornings. I thought I'd put some things down in this way too as the week begins. I've used some of the prompts that she used in her post this morning. And as I came to write a Tuesday post I realized I had saved this in draft to come back to later. And forgot I hadn't posted! A Tuesday post will come later in the day then!

I find myself:

::noticing God's glory in the changing of the leaves. I love the bright reds, yellows & oranges. Ree & I spent some time outside this morning and the air was very chilly (could have to do with it being very breezy!)

::listening to Grey's Anatomy on in the background; Ree upstairs in her bed "resting" aka singing at the top of her lungs & jumping around her bed. I don't mind. She's not calling to get up yet & she's having fun.

::clothing myself in jeans, sweater and handknit socks. I love sweater weather! And handknit sock weather. I need to finish my autumn socks before the season is gone

::creating by hand a Tinkerbell costume still. Between the slippery fabric and not really working with a pattern it's slow going. Ree & I also made some Halloween decorations this past weekend. I finished some cork gnomes I'll post on Wednesday. 

::keeping house Laundry washed & put away; both (!!) bathrooms cleaned; floors swept; toys picked up

::crafting in the kitchen I have enough ingredients for meals for this week in the freezer. This makes me happy. My goal is to not have to go to the grocery store until the end of the week. Tonight is pork chops.

::loving the moments When Ree asks to "do crafts" or "go to the craft store". The other day we needed to go because she NEEDED to do a pumpkin craft. She walked up to the Halloween aisle and stood there for 10 minutes trying to decided what she wanted to get. And once she picked some things out she NEEDED to go look at the yarn "just for a minute". Be still my heart!

::planning for the week ahead This week it's all about Halloween! A Halloween play date party this afternoon with Ree & her cousins & a little friend; tomorrow some errands; Wednesday time at my parents; Thursday an early Halloween lunch with the littles, my mom, sister & Aunt; and Saturday trick or treating at the zoo with the animals and a Halloween supper party here with our family. 

Weekending

A pretty low key weekend around here.

Yesterday my mom came up for the day. We went to the craft store (Ree's new favorite place to go)
Ree made a "Tinkerbell". It was supposed to be a make & take craft for kids. It included hot glue guns. So Ree picked out the colors she wanted & the lady working made it.
I bought some fabric to make Ree some pajama pants.
We came back home for lunch & tea.

After Mass today we went to ANOTHER craft store. We got some pumpkin & ghost foam cutouts to hang in our front tree. And a little bit of yarn for me.

On the main road I pass by these gorgeous trees all the time but as I'm always driving I can't get a picture. Today I wasn't driving. I still couldn't get the best picture! But it's better then none!

When we got home I cut out Ree's Tinkerbell Halloween costume. Well partly cut out. The shirt is finished. But I need to take it apart to re-do it again. The skirt is partly cut out too.

I made some more owls to take to my sister-in-laws this afternoon.

And I just remembered the Patriots are playing in about ten minutes so I'll turn them on for a bit!

Linking up with Amanda at the habit of being

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Her new found love: scissors!

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Yarn Along

I've been knitting like crazy this past week. Except I broke my own rule of only having one project going at a time. I've had 3. I also broke my rule of casting off one sock & immediately casting on for the second one. Instead I cast on for a pair of socks for Ree. It's ALMOST enough to make me go out & buy another pair of sock needles. 

As for pictures I don't have any "in progress" shots today. But I do have a picture of the cowl I finished yesterday afternoon.

It's the Cinderblock Cowl from Karen at Pumpkin Sunrise. I loved it! It's supposed to be a Christmas gift but I want it for myself. If I keep thinking this way no one is getting handmade Christmas gifts this year! Due to the fact that I had to use smaller needles then the pattern called for & my yarn wasn't as heavy as it called for I knit an extra pattern repeat of the first 8 rows.

As for reading I'm in the middle of The Lake Shore Limited. It was on the "staff recommendation" shelf at the library. It's only ok. Not horrible but I did return the other book by the author without reading it. 

Right Now

Right now I am (well today I have been)

~still thinking of the hundreds....HUNDREDS of grackles that were in our front & back yards this morning. It was unbelieveable. Kind of like a scene out of Alfred Hitchcock "The Birds"

~enjoying homemade apple crisp. Up next: oatmeal cookies

~finishing up some knitting projects

~making a list of the many more knitting projects to be started

~procrastinating making Ree's Halloween costume. I have everything needed...now it's onto cutting the fabric (a Tinkerbell dress)

~needing to write up a meal plan. I have all the ingredients for dinners for the rest of the week & into next week. Now I need to put it to paper to remind myself

~loving the Autumn light

~wanting to put something together for Amanda's Kindred Magazine

~pondering the subject of "home" thanks to said magazine theme

~feeling grateful for my little one & being able to spend my days with her

~wishing there were more hours in the day to do all the fun things we'd like to do

~hoping this beautiful weather continues!

Weekending Autumn style

Please excuse the amount of pictures. I love the colors of Autumn and I couldn't decide which one to leave out!

This weekend was:

~Fun at a local Fall Festival
~tons of funny shaped gourds
~BEAUTIFUL mums
~a hayride
~picking out pumpkins
~sitting on antique tracter's
~enjoying a fire in the fireplace at my parents
~dessert & presents to celebrate the actual birthday day of my cute nephew
~Ree finding out she can make shadow shapes with her hands
~rainy Sunday morning sleep in for me while Ree & her Daddy got up to play
~afternoon knitting
~looking forward to football this afternoon
~the sun is shinning for a bit. Hooray!

Linking up with Amanda at The Habit of Being

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There is nothing more that Ree enjoys then going outside & helping Daddy work!