I got a lucky shot of Arden sitting on the steps to our side door. Nothing fancy, I was trying to get some cute pictures of her playing in the leaves and she wandered off – silly model leaving the photo shoot!
Pumpkin Carving
JennuineDesign
My business cards bookmarks have arrived for my Etsy shop – JennuineDesign! Thanks so much to Matthew for printing them up for me. My sister-in-law Jean and her husband are entrepenuers and have two businesses – Wiggity Bang Games and Promo Deli. Wiggity Bang Games are the creators of Quelf (SO much fun – you HAVE {…Continue Reading}
Knitting Project
As the days get shorter, leaves fill the yard signalling that autumn has arrived in full force. There is also the scent of the nearby sugar plant in the air – it used to stink to high heaven, but now it smells like peanut brittle to me. All these things combine to make my fingers start {…Continue Reading}
Chicago
If you’ve noticed that I haven’t been posting much for the last little bit (it’s okay if you didn’t miss me – really!), we took a long weekend trip to Chicago. We take the train which makes it a lot easier on Arden since she can move around a bit more and take potty breaks. {…Continue Reading}
Complete Cow Costume
Remember this? Arden modeled Victor Marcus’ cow costume after I had the bulk of it finished. It was still in progress, and now I’ve finished up the costume. Here are the final details: I spent a lot of time deliberating how to make hoof mittens, and then I realized that I could make them two-dimensional and he {…Continue Reading}
Cow Costume for Victor Marcus
My good friend Kim was lamenting about how she wasn’t able to find a cow costume for her two year old son Victor Marcus  that she liked that wasn’t insanely expensive. Since I didn’t have anything at all to keep me busy every evening for the next couple of weeks (ha!), I volunteered to make him {…Continue Reading}
A Little of This and That
I don’t have any fun projects completed to post, so I’ll just do a quick wrap up of what’s been going on. We broke ground – literally – on our garage reconstruction. On Thursday, they took out the old slab, dug for the footings, and put in the foundation walls. We’re using a treated lumber {…Continue Reading}
ReStore Chairs
Here’s a peek at a future project – four dining chairs I found at the ReStore. Arden has a thing for chairs, so she joined the photo shoot: We have Dave’s Great-grandparents’ table and chairs from their Oregon homestead that are just for show. We rarely sit on them, and hold our breath when we {…Continue Reading}
Slow-Cooker Squash Lasagna
image source Here’s a new meatless meal that has won an entry into my recipe book: Slow-cooker Squash Lasagna Source: Real Simple Ingredients 2 10- to 12-ounce packages frozen winter squash puree, thawed 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg 1 32-ounce container ricotta 1 5-ounce package baby spinach (6 cups) kosher salt and black pepper 12 lasagna noodles (about 3/4 of a 16-ounce {…Continue Reading}