What a Difference a Day Makes!

How does the weather go from leafy-adventures temperature to 3 inches of snow in one day? The minions were very excited and there was immediate talk of a snowman.

At least it helps to put one in the Holiday Spirit!

Or in my case, in a Holiday crafting frenzy!

Chilly Weather

Chilly weather is definitely upon us and what better way to warm up than a nice bonfireand smores.

Marshmallow-moustashe-y goodness :)

Bright Ideas

I had a bright idea this year where I would sew up some Halloween costumes for the minions. I have a little bit of little man's monkey suit to finish up this afternoon but I managed to start and finish little miss' Red Riding Hood Cape this morning. I think it's a hit.

At least little man digs it. The kicker is that I was at the store the other day scoping out some Halloween costumes that were on sale for potential dress up stuff to use as Christmas presents and I saw this little white snow princess something-or-other ensemble that I thought about picking up for little miss because I figured she would wear that no problem. I didn't pick it up because "Everyone loves a cape right? She'll wear it.". Ha ha. We will have to see how it goes. She may go Trick or Treating as little miss this year :)

Perfect Days

We were blessed with a lovely warm fall day this weekend, perfect for a leaf pile. The minions enjoyed themselves thoroughly.

More photos can be found on my blog.

My personal Monsterfest and an Fall Kitty

Hello! This is my first post because I have spent all free time leading up to this past weekend knitting 3 shawls, sewing a dress for my 9 month old, and hemming and altering my bridesmaid's dress. I was doing all of this for my SIL's wedding. It was a truly beautiful fall wedding! I hope to upload a few shots to share. Until then, here is a Pointy Kitty I have made up from the Wee Wonderfuls site in some very Autumn colors. The kitty turned out much smaller than I expected, but it was not too bad to make.

For the past few years, my husband and I have taken time in October to have our own little MonsterFest. AMC used to have some really great ones, then they started putting commercials in them, and then the movies started being from the late 70s and up to the 90s. I'm a big fan of older movies, and this just was no good for me. So we make up our own. Tonight we will begin the festivities! We haven't exactly gigured out when we will watch what, but these are the movies I hope to work in over the next 15 days:

Phantom of the Opera - 1925
Diary of a Madman - 1963
Village of the Damned - 1960
Children of the Damned - 1964
House of Dark Shadows - 97 min (if we run out of time, this will be one of the first on the dropped list)
The Beast with Five Fingers - 1946
Masque of the Red Death - 1964
Tower of London - 1939
Invasion of the Body Snatchers - 1956
The Leopard Man - 1943
Kwaidan - 1964
The Mysterious Doctor - 1943
The Walking Dead - 1936
And the MXC Monster Episode, Monsters vs. Mascots

We love our MonsterFests, and what is great about this year is that we've only seen two of these before! Each year we think we've seen it all and there will be nothing new, but then we search and find new, old, scary movies to watch!

I must also get to work on my 4 year old's Halloween costume. He wants to be Rodney Copperbottom from the movie Robots. I think I have some scrap fabric that will work, and he wants to use boxes to make his costume, so I have a bit of thinking to do.
Will report with more before too long!

Photos of Fall

All 3 of these photographs were taken by my lovely (yet blogless) SIL who was kind enough to e-mail them to me for posting.

More of her work can be found here.

Camo

I knitted this little camo set for my brother and SIL's upcoming bundle that is due to arrive this December. Probably not a coloway that immediately comes to mind when knitting for a baby, but they like camo...

All 3 pieces were knit using Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sport in the Camouflage colorway. I used this pattern for the pants and US5's The socks and hat were knit on US3's and for the patterns I just used your basic St st sock with a short row heel and 2x2 rib for the hat.

I thought camo, corn field... it falls into the category of Autumn :)