Hello All! Happy Sunday to you. Today is when daylight savings time ends, and we fall back an hour. I suppose that would technically make today the longest day of the year. With gorgeous fall weather like this, I am thrilled for the extra hour to enjoy it.
I have been spending a lot of time with my yarn as of late. As most of you know, I sew, cook, garden, read, scrapbook, do photography, and embroider as well. Still, I appear to have been bitten by the yarn bug lately.
(here's proof!)
This lovely lady is Daniella - my friend Christina's foreign exchange student from Venezuela. She is one of the sweetest girls I've ever met, and so much fun to hang around with. Being out of the country and away from her home has been a challenge and a joy for her, and I know she thinks of Christina, Don and their loving kids as a part of her family. It was such a pleasure to get to spend some time with them all and get to know Daniella personally. The hat and scarf she is sporting in this photo were ones I made for her the night before a big football game that she was to go to. She was so concerned that she didn't have many warm clothes to wear this fall, so I was happy to offer this little gift. I've already been asked for the pattern for the hat and scarf several times, so I am working on writing one up right now. I'll be sure to let you all know as soon as it is finished!
In other homey news, I have been preparing for the beautiful fall season, clearing out the clutter and taking stock of our resources to find out what we will need to replace, repair, or restock before winter hits. With the time change comes the change of the smoke alarm batteries, as well.
As a part of our fall preparation, we often find ourselves looking through our freezer and pantry to make an inventory of the various foods we have on hand that need to be used. You know what I'm talking about. We all have them. The odd can of green beans or half bag of rice sitting sadly in the cupboard, neglected for months of meals. For me, making a pantry inventory then allows me to be more creative with our meal preparation, by using the ingredients that I know we have on hand. We still do plenty of grocery shopping, but I dont double up on items we already have this way, and I can plan ahead to gather items that would compliment the foods we have and need to use. Many of our favorite dishes were formed through this manner, and its a tradition with the changing of the seasons that we have kept up with for several years. I hope it will be for many more years to come as well, though in future years, I envision looking through my pantry full of home-canned goodies waiting to find a tasty use. Yum!
Hat and scarf look great-i bet she loved them.
Look you planning ahead, taking inventory and cleaning up! i look around and just groan at the thought of what needs to be done lol! Good for you!
Posted by: Myriam | November 05, 2007 at 11:47 PM
I know she loved them!!!
I just bypassed the whole, take an inventory, and went shopping! I officially have way too many canned tomatoes and tomato sauce!
Posted by: Christina | November 06, 2007 at 05:53 AM
Love the scarf and hat! And fall is a wonderful time of year :)
Posted by: Felicia | November 06, 2007 at 10:47 PM