The colors, the foods, the weather, the clothes…you name it.
This is the time of the year when I most enjoy cooking.
Going for a long walk outside with my scarf whipping around my neck.
Sitting in a comfy chair reading a book, with a cat on my lap.

Today’s mail brought a General Foods International Coffee Pumpkin Spice flavor from the wonderful Katie! Thank you, Katie!

With typical Katie flair, the tin came wrapped in fabric and tied with ribbon!

I made up a little cup and Josh and I both tried it and agreed - it’s delicious!

Your wool and goodies will be in the mail on Monday, Katie! : )

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Another thing I like about this time of year is the cooking magazines.
Infact, I have a hard time not buying the Thanksgiving issues of all the magazines.

I always tell myself that I don’t need another one…
…and then I’m standing in line at the grocery checkout,
…mesmerized by the cover photo,
…. and then my stomach grumbles,
… and I buy it.

Does that ever happen to you?

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And the third good thing…

My favorite pair of shoes.
They are Kenneth Cole and have a cute little heel.
I bought them years ago.

I don’t know why I felt compelled to post a photo of them.
Maybe because I love them to pieces and since I wear them any chance I get,
they deserve a mention.

Well, I promised exciting news in my last post and here it is (very exciting to me):
one of my pincushion & sewing book sets has been included in the September/October issue of Quiltmaker Magazine (page #56)! Yay!

I made a trip over to Pacific Fabrics last night to stock up on sage green thread and there was the issue in the store. The nice folks at Quiltmaker have mailed me a copy and it’s on it’s way, but this was the first time I had seen it in person. I was so excited I told the clerk while I was checking out and she politely fussed over it. But when another customer came over to stand behind me and the clerk said “Look at this magazine - she’s in it, we have a celebrity in the house.”
I was completely embarrassed and practically ran out of there……

….which was probably for the best. I can’t have the paparazzi following me home!


; ) So, that’s been a bit of excitement over here.

And then, this morning my sweet friends Christina and Maia let me know that my Etsy shop has been mentioned on Indie Fixx!
Wow! That is so cool!

So a big “Thank You!” goes out to the great people at
Quiltmaker magazine and Indie Fixx : )

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I did have the foresight to make more of the pincushion/sewing book sets that are in the magazine. At the moment I am out of the little bee charms that I used on the pincushion. So I have three that I’ll be listing in my shop today.

For those of you following my lamb plushie crusade, here’s the latest installment:

I made another mock-up the other day.
You’ll notice that this one is… well, blue.
That’s because I didn’t want to use any more of the fuzzy fabric that I’m saving for the final ones. So instead, I used this blue fabric that I had.

Josh took one look at this one and said:
“It looks like he’s been shorn and he’s blue because he’s cold!”
Haha! Poor little lamb.

Had to share a shot of that cute lamb tail!

So now I am ready to start working on the little quilts that will go with the lamb.
I will be doing ALOT of fabric cutting today.
The quilts will be about 12″ x 12″ 10″ x 10″ when they’re done.

But first, a trip to the post office, grocery store and possibly the coffee shop!

Thanks again to everyone who reads this.

Thanks so much for stopping by! : )