Happy Halloween!!! Journey of a Pumpkin

So, here's my pumpkin, do you love it? I love glitter, and since I'm really kind of past the age where its appropriate for me to be wearing it, I try to find things to put it on. Did I mention I love glitter????

This is Viv picking out her pumpkin. We went out to Graber's, north of town, so she could get one.
She was so excited to scoop out the "punkin guts"!
Daddy helped a little.
Viv says the pumpkin was "Yummy!" We had a hard time keeping her away from it. She thinks its a big apple.
The finished product. As cute as the carver . . . .maybe.

New Additions

Here are some additions to my Etsy shop. Click HERE to see more:

Help Me Obi-Won . . . Did I spell that right?

So, here is Viv's Halloween costume. I was going to make a matching one for Sophie, but the last couple of weeks have been too much, so I didn't get it done. We went to the Trunk or Treat on Saturday and she was a big hit, we taught her to say "Help Me Obi-Won" . . .its TOO CUTE!

Busy, Busy!

Well, its been a busy week, here's the run-down:

Monday- I got my days mixed up and got up early to make green beans for a lunch carry-in. Turns out that said carry-in is on Wednesday, so while I was in town I did some grocery shopping. Then I came home and made some pork chops for supper . . .to eat with my green beans! Also, I finally got some things listed in my Etsy store













Tuesday- A sewing day! I got the curtains made for mom's new guest room. Pretty, don't you think? I took a full length pic, but it didn't turn out, so here it is in bits and pieces . . . We had an amazing sunset today.















Wednesday- Today I made brownies for the carry-in. They were from a box, but I've never made a brownie I like better than from a box. When I got back I made tableskirts for mom's tables in the family room, and I also put up some fall flowers for her. It was kind of a chilly day, so we had Cheesy Potato soup. Yum!













Thursday- A play day! I took the girls out for a play date. We had a good time and then followed it up with a little shopping. I picked up some new fabric and some sparkly shoes for Vivian.



Friday- Baking and Making! I made rolls this morning to take to a church dinner this evening. We're having a "Trunk or Treat", which means I also have to finish Vivian and Sophie's costumes . . .pictures will follow!

Singing the Praises of Grapefruit

My entire life, (well my life since age 8, when I started doing dishes twice weekly) I have HATED doing the dishes. Its one of those things you think you'll grow out of and someday enjoy or at least tolerate. Let me provide you with a list of some things I used to dislike, but now enjoy, or at least tolerate:

Broccoli

Talk Radio

The Evening News

The Weather Channel (oddly, my brother seems to have always loved TWC. When we moved into town and had cable, Ben wanted to watch TWC . . .not MTV!)

Cleaning the toilet

Cabbage

As of today, I must make a conditional addition of doing dishes. You see, about 3 years ago my sister sent me some Grapefruit dish soap from Williams Sonoma. Its nerdy, and alludes to my cheapness, but I have been saving it. I actually had it in our storage unit because I wasn't ready to use it, but about 2 weeks ago I got it out. I still am only using it occasionally, because I want it to last, but today as I was standing at a sink full of dishes, I got out the grapefruit soap and went to work. There were A LOT of dishes. Brent had made some bread, I made apple dumplings, fried some bacon and other things and then made lunch . . .plus the dishes from yesterday that I didn't want to do. Anyway, as I was standing there, my hands getting all pruny, all I could think about was how good it smelled! It smelled so good in fact, that I didn't even care that I was doing dishes! So, tomorrow when I do my dishes with my cheap Lemon-Scented Joy, I will hate doing them, but today I tolerated it . . .and maybe even enjoyed myself a little bit.

Just a Little Something to make you smile!

OOPS! I forgot I said there were 3

Here is the onesie I made today; this is my first stab at applique. I just did it kind of free form and worked with it. This will be for a friend whose baby shower I am going to in a week or so and I'm making a matching headband. I think I'm going to add some ruffles to the "bum" on it in the pink and brown fabric. If I do, I'll post that too.

Ah, isn't it SO LIBERATING to finish a project. In the past week I have finished 3!!! Here they are, in no particular order:

This is the quilt I made for Stacey's new baby, Michael. I finished the top before I had Sophie. It went together really quickly and I LOVE the way it turned out. I probably should have taken a better picture from a different angle, but oh well! I had planned on quilting this, but my batting was a little too thick for that, so I tied it with red yarn, which looks really cute on the back, which is navy blue. I sent it out in the mail today, so hopefully cute little Mikey will be wrapped up in it by the weekend!

This is Sophie's quilt. Again, I had the top made before she was born, but I just finished binding the edges this week. I did this one without a pattern . . .just worked as I went along. It is probably my favorite quilt I have made so far. Nice thin batting, and I quilted it on the machine. Nothing fancy, just "stitch in the ditch". Can you tell, I love pinwheels???

Posies

So, here are my flowers. The top one is a bunch of them- I'm up to about 25 and the bottom one is my favorite! So much cuter than in the picture, plus I don't think you can see the glitter on it, which I am in love with!

So . . .I wanted to post a picture

Pictures are down :( I'm working on some new things. I'm making flower pins, and also doing some baby headbands and applique on some onesies to sell on etsy. Gotta get some more done! I'll post pics when they're back up. Oh, and I finished my quilt for Stacey's new baby boy.

BORING!

Ugh, this blog is so boring to look at. I was just looking at Jocelyn's and I'll have to figure out something to do with mine! On the bright side, look at these cuties!

Oops, forgot to add the picture!

Here it is :)

My Newest Project

This is my dresser. The top used to be white with green leaves stenciled on. It was okay when I first had it, but now those leaves gotta go! Behold, the new marble top :)