autumn and other natural disasters.

I don't know about your neck of the woods, but it's cooling off where we are and we couldn't be more thankful.  Both of us are itching for autumn to make its grand entrance into 2011.  Lately we've been able to keep the windows open and the AC off during the day and on today's morning run it was actually COLD.  Fantastic!

The slightly cooler weather sent me upstairs into the craft closet to organize/sort out all the yarn & tools we have.  I knit, John crochets - and never the twain shall meet.  ;)

I popped on a bad romantic comedy and whipped up a little earwarmer headband with a bow.  Simple & practical.  It didn't take any time at all to knit and I had it finished before Sigourney Weaver & Jamie Lee Curtis were hugging in the pool (can you guess which bad romcom I watched?!).

Here it is!

If you don't wanna wear it yourself, it also will fit on your favorite monster*.

Clearly Rory loves wearing it!

I can't wait until it's cool enough outside to wear.  Right now if you keep it on too long you get too hot and then your world becomes sepia and your face has expressions all its own.

If you leave it on monsters too long they get scared and make this face...

Anywho!  Did you hear about the earthquake?!  Of course you did!  It's the 21st century -- everyone was tweetin' about it.  We live a little over 2 hours away from the epicenter so we got a good little shake.  It scared the cats!  Penny came running down the stairs looking confused & scared and Fleas starting hissing at the rattling glasses.  It was cute!  And now we're onto our next natural disaster - Hurricane Irene.  Irene is supposed to pour down on us Saturday which means bad storms for us, which means the power will go out, because the power always goes out during a storm, which means we will set out all our candles & flashlights accordingly.

Yeah... ready for summer to be over now.  Bring on the fall!!!

*no monsters were harmed during the making of this post.

birthday (stockings) & libraries. and flags?

we jumped from bed yesterday and headed to the local community college to check out the track they have.  it was pretty darn awesome.  we had a great walk and enjoyed seeing the college, lots-o-nature, and most importantly the library.  here, check it...

the library is fairly new and GORGEOUS.  definitely our new favorite place and a check mark for the PRO side of the ongoing list in our head for staying in this town or not.  right now, I'm adding some songs to our shuffle and going to head on over to the track again and then go get a library card.  I'm stoked.  can't wait to find a book and cuddle up in front of one of the huge windows and read after I get a couple miles in on the track.

Penny laid on the scrap fabric bag & watched me sew.

today is a good day.

also, it's Mister's birthday.  (and Flag Day.)  I got him lots of little gifts that he will open tonight. I also sewed up a Birthday Stocking (ya know, like the kind you hang from the fireplace on Christmas) and filled it with some stocking stuffers.  this sounds weird, but my guy LOVES Christmas, so I wanted to give him a bit of Christmas cheer on his summer birthday.  he was pretty darn excited when he saw the birthday stocking.  if I ever get a sewing machine (my WISH, because hand sewing even the littlest of projects is kind of not fun and takes forever) I will make a better birthday stocking and maybe we can start a tradition of sorts for ourselves.  down below is a photo of the stocking sitting on the mantle.  I whipped it together super quick, didn't draw out a pattern or anything so it's awkward AND by the time I finished I was over it and didn't even put a loop on it so it could hang.  so it plops instead, lifeless & flat.  he didn't care that it didn't hang though, so we're good.

BIRTHDAY stocking filled with treats & toys.

okay, okay, okay.  now I'm off.  busy day. 

to the track, to the library,
to the store to pick up the birthday (ice cream) cake
and ingredients for supper. 

happy FLAG DAY, to you yanks!