The Month of Thanks

November is making herself known today as she arrives with snow. This is very unprecedented for our area, but they were calling for up to a foot on top of Mount LeConte in the Great Smoky Mountains. We are starting to see some flurries down here, but nothing is sticking at my house. My son lives on the other side of the country and someone from that area posted this picture on the news channel this morning. 

I am going turkey hunting this morning...in a store...for a stuffed turkey. A toy one that is. Bass Pro has this one if I don't find one I like better. 

Why do I need a stuffed turkey? Because, I have so much fun during Christmas with Edgar, my version of Elf on the Shelf that I have decided to have Trevor, the Turkey on the Table. I hope I can find a cute one and can't wait to see what mischief he will get into.

This is the month of giving thanks. Today, I give thanks to my almighty God who provides us with the ever changing weather in East Tennessee. I love all the seasons and there is something special about each one. But you have to find the humor in wearing flip flops on Wednesday and breaking out winter coats on Saturday.

Happy Halloween

It's time for monster madness and ghoulish games. Hubby and I stay in and hope to see some cuties come by our door. But where we live, we haven't had a trick-or-treater in 3 years. 

And it is cold tonight so we don't expect any this year either. We did pick up some miniature candy bars just in case. Of course we got our favorites so if we get stuck with them

If you do go out tonight with the little ones, everybody be careful and stay safe.

Knitting with no patience

One of my faults is my lack of patience. This is especially noticeable when I knit. I love, love, love to knit. But I love, love, love projects that I can finish in a short amount of time. This is not something you can normally do with knitting. So I am looking for ideas on quick things to make. First thing I found were these cute coasters. I would gather you could make them as big or as small as you wanted. These would easy.

I am looking everywhere for this. I saw it on Pinterest, but when I click the link it just takes me to somebody else who pinned it on Pinterest. Nobody seems to know where it originated. All I know is it said you could do this in an hour because of the drop stitch pattern it uses.

These wouldn't take long either. They are called boot cuffs. I think they are cute.

But my favorite is where they took their scrap yarn and just knitted small blocks and sewed them together. I would like to try this.  

I also saw this on Pinterest, but couldn't find a link to find what the 10 projects were that you could do in an hour.

Guess I will just keep scouring the web.

We have a new baby....

My nephew Jacob and his wife Brooke have blessed us with a new little blessing today. Welcome to the world Ms. Adriel Grace. 

We are all so excited that she waited until her Daddy made it home from the Marine Corp before she arrived.  

Now she is not only our newest member of the family, but in true family tradition she is also a member of the Big Bow Club and the Cute as a Button club. 

Congratulations Jake & Brooke. She is beautiful.

It's a crazy world...

Sometimes you just have one of those days and sometimes it turns into one of those weeks. I feel like I am about to lose my mind these last two day. Nothing bad, just crazy little things that make me feel like it must be a full moon. When in reality there isn't much moon at all.



I have had a front door that popped open by itself with nobody around. A computer that re-downloaded programs that have been on it for 6 months. A lady who was supposed to arrange to meet me and just showed up and waited for me without letting me know she was coming or telling me she was there.



Then there was the fact that it was a beautiful day with the temps in the mid-high 70's. I drove home with my window down only to watch the news and see they are calling for a drop in temps by the weekend and a high on Saturday of 46 with possible rain mixed with snow. Seriously?



But rather than think about all this gloom and doom, I would rather focus on the good things ... like the fact that I am going to go relax in a hot tub of bubbles. Then hubby is fixing my favorite supper of bacon, eggs, biscuits and bacon gravy with breakfast potatoes. After supper is another night of the Knockout Rounds on The Voice and I got a sneak peak at some of Thirty-One's December specials.



I love bacon gravy so all is right with my world again.

Weekend wrap up

I was in the mood to get my office better organized. I use it for Thirty-One, a craft room, and my sewing room. Organization has become very disorganized. I moved furniture around, but I'm not done with the new look yet so pictures will follow soon. I did some discount shopping at Family Dollar this weekend and found this set of cubes. 

I also picked up these little red organizing baskets. 

While I was at Joann's Saturday, I picked up some more yarn to make my little ornaments for my craft room tree. Some of my friends and I are gathering next Saturday for a craft party and I needed to get some supplies for the crafts. 

I have been looking for red and blue spatulas for my kitchen Christmas display. I found these and just had to have them. I had a 50% coupon so together I only paid a little over $3.00.

When we craft, we are going to make Christmas no sew runners so I picked up some material.

I am not sure what I am putting on these, but I picked up these tea towels for some primitive stitching.

I found some cute Christmas scrapbook paper on clearance. I have some project ideas in mind for these. 

I liked these as well. I think the top one will be used for my Jingle All The Way craft.

Now to finish getting organized.