Category: autumn

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Pumpkin Boy Hat

Stepping up production of the pumpkin hats in the shop. They seem to be a hot item this year–wahoo!

This one’s a bit more of …ummmm…a boyish pumpkin. Note the bolder stitching…

and the blatantly missing scallops. No lacy lady here folks–never mind the background. This is a manly pumpkin hat–I tell you, though still made with the same soft Peaches & Cream Cotton that I love–in Burnt Orange.

But in the next few days I’ll be posting some more additions to the shop for the men-folk called the “Big Hunk” and “Little Hunk” lines. And soon…oh, I promise—so soon, we will have the “Lovely Ladies” additions to our hat collections–for us grown gals.

All because you asked. So please, my friends…stick around.

I love having you in my world.

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My Little Garden

No, no…I didn’t win the chicken boxes. But don’t worry…I only cried for an hour.  Maybe they found out that right this minute I only have this pretend chicken in my garden, who is perfectly content to sit under the rose bush among the grass clippings…without an incredibly cool nesting cubicle thingy. But I will have chickens someday.

Ok…I’m over it.

Is your garden like ours–all spent and spindley and nearly begging to be pulled up?

The strawberry sentry squirrel is still guarding away…

even though there’s only one brave strawberry left to scare the birds away from.

And good old laughing Buddah-man is still raising the roof…

whether or not the ridiculous tomatoes EVER turn red…before Christmas that is.

Spinny-wing rooster is a perfect match for…

the over achieving super hot peppers…that I’m afraid to pick….so they just keep growing…and growing. I guess what I’m really saying here is that I’m about ready for the garden gnomes to shut it all down for the season. Till it under, trim it back or dig it up so that it feels right and proper to move on…

to our beloved crab apples!

Then it will truly be Autumn.

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Things To Love…

right this minute~

Enchanted places for wood sprites…

the ability to improvise…

learning to properly pucker…

magical combinations…

impromptu button festivals…

Sugar-sweet–orange on purpose–tomatoes…

early mornings in our lovely valley…

a bit of fowl reading–ha ha…

the return to hat–and pumpkin season…

getting all the pieces to finally fit.

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Indian Corn Thingy

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Many moons ago…

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…those three little crack pots on the right (Daney boy, cousin Tim and the Bald kid) were truly, madly deeply in love with Cub Scouts and…Pony Beads.

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Every time I turned around, someone had left another Pony Bead Gekko in some unsuspected place as a surprise gift from the little boy heart. Seriously, I could have made a skirt—a very heavy, beaded gecko skirt, but you get my point.

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Well, the other day, while the Bald Kid and I were cleaning closets and sorting boxes we came across the coveted “Box O Beads.”

I said, “Hey. You should make me a Pony Bead Gecko–for old time’s sake.”

He said, “I don’t think so.”

So I snagged those beads and messed with them for a while. They were surprisingly fun to play with.

Look what happened…

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I call it the “Indian Corn Pony Bead Thing.” I was going to put a pin on the back and wear it around but I was afraid people would ask me if I was supporting some kind of “save the corn” cause. Plus it made me feel old…er. So I’ve decided to put a cord on it and hang it from my car mirror.

It’s cute. It’s easy to make. It’s Thanksgiving-y.

And just think…if I get really good at these–I can make you a skirt!

BAhahaha! 

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Pumpkin Pie Dip

If you’re inclined to say–“What?! More pumpkin?” here’s the thing. This pumpkin stuff is self-perpetuating–I swear. See, you open a can and use half of it for Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cake, and you have a bit left. So to use that bit for Pumpkin Crisp–so you aren’t wasting food, you open another can to add to it. Then you have a bit left–but not quite enough for Pumpkin Pie Dip…so you open another can…

It goes on, and on, and on. And still there is a Ziploc bag in the fridge right this minute, with a cup of pumpkin leftovers in it.

Someone stop me.

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Pumpkin Pie Dip

Ingredients

1- 8oz. pkg cream cheese, softened
2-1/4 cups confectioners’ sugar
1 cup canned pumpkin
1/2 cup sour cream
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
1/2 teaspoon ground ginger

Directions

In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and confectioners’ sugar until smooth. Beat in the pumpkin, sour cream, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and ginger until blended. Serve with gingersnaps or Snickerdoodles or Molasses cookies or fruit or if you’re really adventurous–try it on banana bread. Do you get the idea that the possibilities are truly endless? All I can say about that is Yee Haw!

Be sure to store the leftovers in the refrigerator.

Makes 4 cups.

Pumpkin Pie Dip
 
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Ingredients
  • 1- 8oz. pkg cream cheese, softened
  • 2-1/4 cups confectioners' sugar
  • 1 cup canned pumpkin
  • ½ cup sour cream
  • 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
  • 1 teaspoon pumpkin pie spice
  • ½ teaspoon ground ginger
Instructions
  1. In a large bowl, beat cream cheese and confectioners' sugar until smooth.
  2. Beat in the pumpkin, sour cream, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice and ginger until blended.
  3. Be sure to store the leftovers in the refrigerator.