Our October

It's hard to believe this month is gone already!  We've been staying busy getting ready for our neighborhood yard sale next weekend, Larry repainted our deck a couple of weeks ago while I pulled up the last of my sunflowers and weeded flower beds, we went to the fair and I changed jobs, again.  Hopefully, things will settle down for me at work now and I can stay put!

A week or so ago, during a very windy day, we lost our glass top patio table.  I got home from work first and found it like this:

Glass was everywhere!  I'm still getting pieces stuck in my feet.  Our patio set was one of the very first things we'd found when we started estate saleing a couple of years ago.  Oh well.  Larry had an idea to replace the top with wood and that's what he did today!  We wanted it to look rustic and I really love how it turned out.  

I threw a couple of burlap Mexican coffee sacks over it and added a pumpkin.  :)

Twenty-five or so years ago, Larry's brother, Steve, visited Israel and brought us back this mezuzah and Larry hung it on our door today to honor the Jewish side of his family. 

 

And now we are ready for all the little zombies and princesses who will be here tomorrow night!

Hippie Dippy Crafty Day!

I went to a fall craft day this morning at the home of one of the nurses I work with. I had asked my Facebook friends earlier in the week for some ideas for an appetizer that I could take today and I went with Doghouse Dip! This recipe came from Dawn, my friend and local PartyLite candle lady. She's made this for candle parties that I've attended and it is SO good! It's called Doghouse Dip 'cause if you ever find yourself in the doghouse, this dip will sho' get you out!! It's chili mix, sour cream, cream cheese, corn and black bean salsa and shredded Mexican cheese. It'll knock your socks off and then put 'em back on for you. There were six of us ladies there, Lisa P, Lisa S, Heidi, Norma, Rosie and me. I work with five of them, everybody except Rosie. We had so much fun! And so much food!! We had my dip, a yummy Mexican dip, peach cobbler, chicken salad sammiches, a cold cuts, cracker and cheese platter and piggies in a blanket.

Here are two frames that Rosie and Heidi painted. They did such a great job! I was worried how my raggly little stuff was gonna look because I am not the least bit crafty. Ami got all the creative talent in our family!!

This is Rosie's frou frou pumpkin.

I LOVE it!!

Here's the pumpkin that I painted. I got a little foam one from Hobby Lobby so I could use it every year. It was Lisa P.'s idea to poke holes where I had painted berries and put a light inside. It's really pretty all lit up! Don't laugh at my leaves!

This is the picture frame that I painted. I have a picture of me and Ami that Brian took of us last year at the Fox in Atlanta when we went to see the play Wicked. I thought this frame would be perfect for that picture! And I can leave it out all year!

We had such a great time today! We're planning to do it again next month and make Christmas stuff.