Happy Belated Thanksgiving!

Our outdoor autumn porch scene.

Hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. Its been kind of a crazy one for us/me.

About our porch scene: this is what it looked like in tact a week ago. Now the squirrels have started in on the corn. I find that appropriate though, and am thankful they waited until we were getting ready to put up our Christmas decorations. We got the whole kit and kaboodle for $2.90 at the pumpkin patch so not bad at all.

What's your favorite Thanksgiving dessert? Mine is pumpkin roll---yum. Its always my job to bring the pumpkin roll and chocolate mints--so easy to make, too. I will have to share the recipes I use sometime.

Project complete: Repainting bathroom cabinet doors

Happily, we have a ton of storage in our main bathroom (very good for people like me who have a beauty product addiction). I decided we needed to change things up in there though and make it look classier and I think I succeeded. What do you think?


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Good day!

Good day, all! It's been a busy couple of weeks. I have been working on finishing up some projects around the house for the year so that I can enjoy the holidays and have more time to do what I enjoy most--holiday baking and crafting, oh my!

The time change this AM was perfect. Although I wish the cats knew what DST was because they tried to wake me up to feed them at their regular routine time. Oh, vell. Posting pictures later on of something I have been working on. Got some chores to work on and am working on clearing out my email inbox first.

Finally getting things done feels SO good.

Why I buy my toilet paper online now...

Is this a weird post or what?? TMI, maybe? Oh, vell.

So if your hubby is like my hubby, he uses an abnormal amount of TP. I think this must be a guy thing because I've heard countless other ladies mention this issue. So early on in our marriage I hunted around forever looking for a good TP that was low cost enough to feed his addition (seriously, one year for his birthday I just gave him a big box of TP and peanut butter--he was thrilled.)

I finally tried the Wal-Greens version:

Love it! So this is the only brand we've been purchasing for the past year or so. But I was getting aggravated because people were catching on to me and lately anytime I go in there they are sold out. So I thought, hey, maybe I can order it online and have it shipped to my house? Great idea, right?! Lol..well I went to Walgreens.com and as of press time, they don't sell their TP online (or anyway, everytime I check it states "out-of-stock"). Hah! But drugstore.com does! So I promptly ordered 10 packages to be sent to home--same price--free shipping + MyPoints points--yay!

Apples today

Working on using up the rest of a peck of orchard apples today. Going to make these Glazed Apple Cookies:

Recipe found here.

Also finishing up a few projects--will post pictures later.


HaPPy CoLumBuS DaY eVerYoNe!


**UpDatE: cookie pictures**

Preppin' my apples

Oven-ready.

Voila!

 

 

Show n tell..?

I made this! Well...no....not really. I purchased a "blank" one from Michael's and colored 'er in--hah! It's one of those photo holders.

Okay, the end. Goodnight!

Lazy day

My day thus far:

Yes, thick men's socks. Don't hate. Its cold here today!

One of my favorites!

Mmmmm coffee.

I picked up a few Halloween easy-breezy crafts at Michael's a few weeks ago and I think I will "work" on those today--hubby's grilling later---and I need to get outside at some point and do some fall clean-up in the yard but other than that I am taking it easy today!