Amber on a stroll..picking acorns

project: doll fashion... for Amber, Suzie and Mila

This weekend I finished all the clothes of the new doll-girls.

So many clothes as I already made, so little made it to the dolls. Now they are nicely and ready to play, I think.

So with the idea to finish other waiting projects and not to touch my sewingmachine for a while, is it that I am seeing all those lovely fabrics laying on a 'working'pile, giving me fresh clothing combinations and great new ideas...

So first all the other projects I am working on will have their turn,as I promise myself.

Know that feeling????

Oja, and the best job of this weekend what I can advise you to do after a finished project is: cleaning up! Everything ready to use any time soon.

Happy Halloween,

Forgot all about my little witch.

Just in time on Halloween in front of our window.

Hope you had a great time!

My first carved Pumpkin!!!

And it wasn't as hard as I thought it would be..... I do however want to 'have', no, refrase I 'need' this special knife we used for it at the communitycenter at Coal Harbour....Just to do it again, so handy! even to use to cut up all the pumpkins for all the soups I like to make. (now you know how my shopping-alterego works)

The best Pumpkinsoup of our Family this season is: with Thyme/Bayleave/Sage!!!!

Yummie.

Just fry onions, add garlic and cutted pumpkin, bake. Add herbs, (If you have fresh just bundle it up with a piece, say: onion, or leek) Add veg.stock (or chicken if you like) and just leave it on the stove. Puree the mass, season it with salt to your likings. Serve with some sourcreme. we love to eat it together with a toasted sandwich and goatcheese!!!!

Pumpkinpatch at Laityfarm

little acorns....

Everywhere we see the squirrels being very busy ticking out the acorns out of the oak trees, collecting it one by one, making a hole, to put the acorn in and tapping the earth with their little feet. It was a fight to collect some for ourselves.

As we see a lot of these felted ones around here, (I saw them at Lena's place, beautifull! and at http://littleseedlings2.blogspot.com/ and... still I can add some more, later...

I think for me this is a great way to get the colours of autumn inside our place. We will make a little guirlande of these or with a little embroidery with it on linen. think it will be nice. to be continued....

Seattle! we loved being there