Fall Favorites

Now that Autumn has finally arrived, it’s out with the Summer and in with the Fall. I absolutely love this time of year. I love the cool weather, the rainy days, layering comfy clothes, and cooking lots of tasty dishes too. I also love the changing leaves, Halloween, Thanksgiving, oh my goodness, Fall is the best.

Here are a few of my Fall favorites from around our place.

As soon as the first cool day arrives, I dig out my very favorite vintage hoodie. I love it. It is one of my very favorite Fall accessories.

Football! Autumn means Football season has arrived. We love to cheer for the Green Bay Packers. Agnes loves to dress up, and shake her pom-poms all over the house. She is a big football fan.

I go crazy for all of the tiny pumpkins that arrive at all of the grocery stores. How I wish I could bring them all home with me.

I love the crunchy leaves! I don’t love to rake them up, but I do love to see their beautiful Autumn colors.

Crafting on the weekends! I love to craft in Autumn. It is a great time to make blankets, spend extra time at the sewing machine, and even get a jump on Christmas projects too.

Reading is one of my favorite Autumn activities. I love curling up with a good book, and a yummy cup of coffee too.

Cooking, my kitchen is always a mess in Autumn.I love to use the Crock Pot, and bake lots of bread too. There are also pies to be made, and cinnamon rolls too. The kitchen is always extra busy.

I can’t enough of those lovely Autumn skies. I love the cool thunderstorms that roll in, and the cloudy days too.

So what are a few of your favorite things about Autumn?

Sep 21

Kitchen-work

The kitchen is the main project that we are working on. It is in need of a complete overhaul. We’ve scraped, spackled, primed, ripped out flooring, and debated paint colors.

Agnes has been “helping” too.

Right before the power-outage. We rearranged the kitchen. We moved the fridge out of it’s cubby hole, and moved the deep freezer in it’s place. The deep freezer fit perfectly, and it looks like I’ll be getting a pantry thanks to the swap. The fridge didn’t fare too well. It was acting up a bit, and not staying too cool. We cleaned it out when we moved it across the room, but it just didn’t cooperate with the change. It also started to make some terrible sounds, and refused to cool. I think it was just it’s time.

Luckily the old fridge gave up around labor day, and we did a lot of comparison shopping. James found an awesome deal, and I got a new fridge for the kitchen. I love it, and it is going to go perfectly with our kitchen redo.

Sep 20

Football!

Football season has arrived, and the little gal is ready to cheer on the Green Bay Packers!

Dad is pretty happy about it too, the Packers are his favorite team too.

Sep 19

Halloween Crafting

I know it is still over a month away, but I can’t wait for Halloween. I absolutely love it, it is my favorite holiday, and this year I want to decorate like crazy.

I’m trying to hold off until October to start decorating, but that won’t keep me from sewing something Halloween themed.

I had some orange fabric left over from my quilting stash, I pared it with a pumpkin remnant that I had hanging out. I thought about making a table decoration, then I thought about turning it into a runner to place in the large window.

I’ve added more fabric, and now it is about the size of a small blanket. Maybe it will end up being a tablecloth for the Halloween candy table. I don’t know what it is yet, but it has been fun to sew.

Sep 18