We have been on fire around here this weekend. My dad has been doing all the projects that we never seem to get around to doing, like; mowing the lawn in a timely manner, stacking the firewood, weed whacking and now he's working on our holiday signature piece, the shooting star. They won't be back before Christmas so he needs to get it done. They also, very kindly, drove A1 to NH for a friends 16th birthday party. Of course we needed to make her something. We decided on an up-cycled sundries bag, lined with the leftovers from our fall napkins, a pattern AMK loved when she was here in August.
While I was out picking up the zipper, I found two great "books" that I couldn't resist. Everything about them made me want to take them home, so I did. They are Reprodepot's pattern books, Flora and Folk. They are full of the most lovely patterned paper with a CD of the same designs. I'm hoping to update the blog with some of the designs and to use them for a myriad of other projects. For right now I'm content to just leaf through and look at all the vintage inspired goodness. I also found some more glitter, Pumpkin patch, like I could resist that.
My parents stopped at the Vermont Country Store on the way back and brought me the best porcelain stain cleaner (it's the little things in life that make me happy) and a Kit-Cat clock. This clock makes me happy every time I look at it. It would be great to have an original, but since I have children that seem to break things, "I don't know what happened", it's probably better that I have the plastic version.
G has been baking, pumpkin bread (no photo, eaten too quickly), ginger snaps, and this morning he woke up at 4:00am to make his famous homemade cinnamon rolls.
While he was baking, I was making soaps, over and over, trying to get the pumpkins right. I finally have something I'm happy with. The pumpkins have pumpkin spice in them and smell delicious, the leaves are scented apple, just because I like it.
I also made skull and cross bone soaps, and a batch of Lego inspired building brick soaps. Pictures to come.

My kids love these soaps, so fun. Between soap making projects, I finished the body portion of the February Lady Sweater, and then promptly put it away. The weather has turned cold and I picked up another sweater that just needs arms. It's knit in Debbie Bliss' Cashmerino Aran, a luscious red, color 610. The pattern is Ingenue from Custom Knits. Such a fickle knitter. I hope everyone is having a lovely long weekend, back to pumpkins. Maybe I should change the blogs' name to Pumpkin Blog, all pumpkins, all the time. That might work until after Thanksgiving.