Happy Halloween!

(This was actually a carnival costume, back then Halloween was unheard of in Austria.)

Say hello ...

... to my new best friends.

I have been suffering from cold feet for as long as I can remember. Once the temperature falls below 60 or so, my toes turn into icicles and stay that way until the next Summer. And when I go to bed with cold feet I cannot sleep. So I set out to find something other than a hot water bottle (not a good idea with lots of sharp kitty claws around) to warm up the bed and I found this little foot warming pad. It works so well, I did not wake up until 8 am today (we had our first frost last night). And the new slippers are for keeping my toes toasty during the day (combined with wool socks). I am ready for Winter!

Feline Friday

Just some random kitty pictures from the week.

Current Projects

There is a lot of hand stitching going on around here at the moment,  mostly Christmas projects.

All three patterns are available for free here, here and here.

I have also been playing around with the recently orphaned blocks of my 'Women of the Bible Quilt'. I have decided to stop working on it and use the blocks I already have for a wall hanging. To be honest, I lost interest in it because there are so many other things I want to do and these blocks were very time consuming. 

In between I am knitting squares for a future blanket.

And as always at my house there was some cooking and baking happening.

I was feeling a bit under the weather last week and totally forgot to do the 'A Day in My Life' post, sorry, I thought 'hanging around, trying to feel better' did not really make for an exciting blog entry. I will pick it up again next month.

Feline Friday

Double Precious.

Just a little add-on to let everybody know that her fluff is just that, a lot of medium length fur, not fat. And her fluffiness is very misleading, she hates to be picked up and does not like to be touched much, except when she wants her head scratched.

Feline Friday

Miss Maggie busy counting all the falling leaves.

Miss Brownie not happy to have her nap disturbed for a photo.

Mr. Leo, the master sleeper. He looks so comfortable, no matter where or in which position he sleeps.

Trick or Treat

I treated myself to some yummy sock yarn in Halloween colors, the perfect calorie free treat.

Another Finish

I just finished a pair of fingerless mitts. The pattern is free and can be found HERE. They were really quick and easy to make.

Feline Friday

It is nice to see my gifts being appreciated.

BOO!

My little stitchery is all finished. I used some leftover cotton yarn to wind around the frame. The pattern is from last year's designer of the month series on the Aurifil blog. You can find it and all the others HERE.

Cooking and Stitching

Dinner last night: Homemade pumpkin gnocchi with blue cheese sauce.

My project for today: A little Halloween stitchery.

Feline Friday

Mr. Leo, all comfortable on the office chair.

"Kitten" Birthday

Our adorable little "kittens" turned 2 today and because we don't know when our other three girls were born they got to celebrate their birthday today as well.
Here they are enjoying a special birthday treat. Del had to hold on to Jackie to get him into the picture because he did not want any of the tuna and Miss Brownie decided she would rather not be in the picture.

And here are the blankets I made for them. I also wanted to make some toys but decided to hold off on those until Christmas.

Monday Morning in the Garden

It has been a while since we had such a beautiful sunny morning. I just had to take advantage of it while hanging laundry.

Weekend

Saturday was cool and rainy, perfect for working on indoor projects. We fall cleaned the bedroom. It involved a lot of vacuuming and dusting and moving of stuff. Since it also doubles as my sewing room there are lots of storage totes with fabrics under the big worktable and the bed. Everything got moved out of the room, the floor was thoroughly cleaned, all the furniture was dusted and polished and all the stuffed animals got a vacuum bath, even the mattress came out of the bed for a good vacuuming and then got freshened up with the help of baking soda. Three of our cats are not afraid of the noisy blue thing and helped us with the cleaning. The others were hiding out in the porch. By lunchtime we were almost finished and we took a well earned pizza break.

After lunch we put everything back into the room. Because we worked so hard we treated ourselves with a nice big slice of this in the afternoon.

It is a spice cake with caramel icing, very yummy, but I do not make it very often, the icing is so sweet it knocks your socks off, but once or twice a year it is just fine.

Sunday morning I organized my craft cabinet which was in dire need of a makeover. I had recently just crammed everything into it that I wanted to keep away from the cats and it was a mess. I organized the projects that need working on in baggies and baskets and now I have a better idea of exactly how many WIPs are hiding in there. Plenty of stuff to do in Winter. In the afternoon we had more cake and watched movies on Amazon. It was a good weekend.

I have a busy day ahead of me today, I am a tad behind with making the birthday gifts for the kitties and their birthday is tomorrow, there is also laundry to be done since the forecast said it would be dry weather for most of the week.
I hope your weekend was a good one too!