Autumn Leaves

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When the leaves are this colorful, who would notice that the sky is gray?

Almost-Finished Crafts

We've been working on clearing out the guest room to get it ready to become a nursery.  It has been quite a task, as the guest room also housed storage, a lot of miscellaneous books, and all of my craft stuff.  In going through my craft stuff I found a box full of almost-done projects.  

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All of them are so close to being done, that I wondered why I didn't finish them before.  And then I realized that each of them had an item or two that I still needed to get from the store.

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I made this hat about a year ago, just after my birthday in 2010.  All it needs is to have ribbon sewn on.  I had the ribbon; so what's the problem?  I had no matching thread.

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I made these sweaters over the summer just after we found out that Baby P was on the way.  Both sweaters  are missing buttons.  Also the one on the right needs an eye, a beak, and feet embroidered on to the ducks on the front.

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This project is a little more embarrassing because it has been almost-finished for a few years now!  When David and I were on our honeymoon in Ireland I bought yarn, and later made these Christmas stockings for our first married Christmas.  Because of the two-color patterns there are "floats" of yarn along the inside, and when you stick your hand inside your fingers catch on them.  To fix this, I've been meaning to line the stockings.  Each year at the beginning of the holiday season I have the best intentions of getting this done, but here we are at Christmas number four!

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These hats are made using scraps of leftover yarn from other projects.  I made them both sometime in the last year.  They also need to be lined.

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Last weekend I trekked out to Fabric Depot to got all of the odds and ends that I need to finish these projects.  My goal is to complete them all up before the new year.  I'll keep you posted as I finish them up!

Expectant

I think most of the people who read this blog know already, but in case you don't: I'm pregnant!! 

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 The baby is due at the beginning of April, and it's a boy! 

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We are very excited to be growing our family, and we cant wait to meet "Baby P" when he gets here!

Thanksgiving 2011

We had a small gathering for Thanksgiving this year, but we still cooked up a storm.

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Even Sprocket helped.

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We tried a new dessert: Dutch apple dumplings. They were tasty!

Halloween Bread

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Yep, a bread pumpkin, bread tombstone and bread ghosts.

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Happy Halloween!

Inspired by Baby Bok Choy

I have been trying to rededicate myself to posting on this blog.  My goal was to post once a week in September . . . but that hasn't been working out.  I really am planning on posting more, though, so don't give up hope!

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On Sunday evening, David had a group meeting for one of his MBA classes, and they ordered a pizza.  So I was on my own for dinner.  I've been reading the book Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant, which is all about cooking and eating alone, so I decided to get inspired and make myself something fabulous.  Luckily earlier in the day our neighbor Marty brought us over some vegetables from his garden, and among them was baby bok choy.

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I started by sauteing the bok choy in a little bit of oil and vinegar.

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Then I sliced a tomato from our farm share,

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and poached an egg.

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Then I tossed it all on top of a piece of toasted bread that I'd drizzled with olive oil.

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It was delicious . . . so I made another!

Legitimate

Ever since we got Sprocket, we've been meaning to get him a tag with his name on it.  He already had a few tags: one with his animal licence number, and one with his microchip information, but we figured it would be a good idea to have one with his name and our phone number on it, too.  So we got this.

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Doesn't he look excited?  Actually he was really confused about why I wanted him to look at my hand, and not my face.  He eventually complied, though!  Hooray, after having Sprocket for 2 years, now he's legitimate!