A Mile in My Shoes

It's been too long...

Should I write about recent events chronologically?  Or in matter of knitterly importance?  Or by cuteness?

Oh heck, I'll start with the weather, and then go chronologically....

Why the weather?  Because yesterday, it was 66 degrees F, we spent the entire day outside, and it was absolutely wonderful.  My nieces were over, and we had a ton of fun playing in the leaves

Today? It is 32 degrees F, cold, and we're in the middle of a thunder-snow.  Yep, thunder, lightening, rain, sleet, snow... you name it, it's happening here! Just a little different from yesterday!   I think we have about 2 inches of sleet/slush in our driveway right now.  The first picture was taken at about 3:30 pm yesterday, the snowy one was in the same place, about 4 pm today.  Unbelievable!  If you don't like the weather in WI, wait about 5 minutes, it'll change!

I'm so glad we spent the entire day outside yesterday.  And that I took pictures!

OKC (Obligatory Knitting Content):
For those of you that come here for the knitting (I'm sorry, I'm really sorry there isn't more of that....) Here is the Christmas Stocking: Pre-rip and Post-rip.  I realized, as I was about to do the heel the first time, that I missed the sentance that instructed me to decrease the stocking on one side.  Oops. So I put off ripping it.  It was too pretty. I waited until I was up at Lake Lundgren Bible Camp's Crafters' Retreat (it was so much fun even I was sick of crafting by the end of the weekend!)  It was good to have the moral support.  I've since re-knit, got past the heel, and as soon as I finish the gusset I'll have one band of fair isle and then the toe decrease.  Hallelujah!

Let's see, what else?  I think if I were to be chronological, I'd have to mention the Window Stars I've been obsessed with lately.    

It's kinda like origami, involving a little glue and double stick tape, and colored wax paper.  They are so cheerful!  I love them!  And I've made about 12 more since I took these pictures.  You tape them to your windows (hence the name "window stars") and the light shines thru making glorious geometrical designs from the different layers where the paper is folded.  These were all made using one sheet each of colored wax paper.

Let's see, what else?  Oh yes, Halloween.  We did a little trick or treating this year.  Iris was Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie, and Harrison was not Major Nelson.  I was a little upset about this (their first year not in related costumes) but I got over it when I saw how adorable Harrison looked in his Peter Pevensie (of Narnia) costume.

 

Oh, and maybe one more picture...I've been busy this afternoon.  What's better on the first snowy day of the year but homemade bread?  Yummmmy!

Trick or Treat...

Iris has a cute little painted tin bucket for trick-or-treating.  It is orange on the outside, yellow on the inside, and has the shapes of a moon and some stars punched out on one side.  We found it in the craft section of a pumpkin farm about 5 years ago.  At the time I thought we should pick up a few more, you know, in case we ever had more children. Well, we obviously had one more child (only about a year later), and I've regretted not getting another bucket, because they are just so darn cute!

Enter Martha.

And this Good Thing.

One trip to Michael's (for the buckets and M*d P*dge) and one to W@l-M@rt (for the candy wrappers candy) and we have this:

A new Trick-or-Treat bucket!  I've never decoupaged in my entire life (I'm not even sure that I spelled it right.)  But this was so much fun!  Iris' bucket is made with Mary Jane wrappers, and Harrison's with Tootsie Rolls.

My only problem is what to do with all the unwrapped candies?  Would anyone like a Mary Jane?