Happy Halloween !

Happy Halloween !!!!!

Have fun, be safe and don't eat too much candy !

Aaahhhhhhhhh Autumn

When asked what my favorite season is, I alway seem to hesitate because I like them all. Winter with it's cold, crisp nights and moon light glistening off of the snow. Spring when everything seems to come alive again with it's yellow green color and crocus peeking through the grass and daffodils. Summer with it's balmy nights and roses and warm fresh tomatoes straight from the vine. But autumn, autumn seems to overwelm my senses. The leaves all red, orange, yellow and brown and the smell of them, I love how they smell. I love to walk through the newly fallen leaves all crunchy and smelling so good. And there are the first smells of fireplaces and thoughts turn to cuddling with the one I love.
Yes I'd have to say that autumn is my favorite, it's the season I missed the most when I lived in Florida. Every year as part of my birthday gift my sister would send me a bag of leaves and I'd always open the bag before I opened my real gift. I'd open it and take a huge wiff ..................then I'd dump them out and just look at them for a while, admiring all of their beauty.
No, the leaves above aren't ones that my sister sent me many years ago. They're fresh from my backyard. Yep dorky as it sounds I go around my yard and pick out what I think are the prettiest, just like little kids do. Yep, autumn is my favorite.

So what's your favorite season ?

Knitter's Coffeswap Three Questions

I didn't think I made the cut for this swap, but I did !

So here's the low down:

1. Whole bean or ground? Whole bean

2. Fully-loaded or decaf? Decaf, unfortunately I can't do caffine anymore :(

3. Regular or flavored? I'm not picky, I love to try new things

4. How do you drink your coffee? With creamer only

5. Favorite coffee ever? Hmmmmm, that's a tough one, lately I've been into hazelnut

6. Are you fussy about your coffee or will any old bean do? Not fussy at all

7. Favorite treats to have with your coffee? Cookies, either sugar or chocolate chip

8. Anything else about your coffee preferences? Nope only the decaf thing

9. Yarn/fiber you love? I love baby alpaca, so soft and warm

10. Yarn/fiber you hate? I can't honestly say that there is a yarn I hate, but I'm not too fond of the older "squeaky" acrylics

11. What's on your needles? I'm just a beginning knitter and right now nothing is on my needles, however as a crocheter on my hook I have 2 afghans and one sweater

12. Favorite colors? greens, blues, purples, rich reds

13. Allergies? None

14. Anything you really love, really don't like, or just need to get off your chest? Nope

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Not a whole heck of a lot of playing with yarn, up until just a few days ago it was just too warm to be in much of a yarn mood. But there has been a big weather change and at last it feels like fall.
Even though I haven't been making anything doesn't mean I can't buy more yarn.....................right ;)
Here's a shot of my purchases over the last few days.

This is from Knitwits, they're having a sale and my sister and I rode out Wednesday night.

As you can see, I didn't go crazy, only 4 skeins. Two of Cascade Quatro in a really pretty combo of green and purples color #9439. Also two skeins of Autumn House Farm finneans in mountain lilac colorway, it's a beautiful combo of lilac, tan, blue/green with flecks of off white .

Then yesterday (friday) Ralph had to go to Johnstown, PA, so I went along for the drive, hoping to see some nice fall foliage. I also decided to see if there were any LYS in the area and as luck would have it there was !

It's called Blacksmith Exchange a quaint little shop with collection of antiques and yarn. Very friendly and a really great idea to display the two together. They didn't have a very big selection because it is a small place, but I still managed to find something. Two skeins of Mission Falls 1824 Wool in color 664, it's 100% merino superwash and very soft ! And more Autumn House Farm yarn, this time baby alpaca in Fox grape colorway, because this is baby alpaca the softness is amazing as are the colors in this colorway. I must say that I really like Autumn House Farm yarns and not because it's a semi-local spinner, it's just really nice stuff.

This all four skeins of the Autumn House Farm yarn, I thought they looked very autumn-like so I wanted to share another picture.

We were also going to stop at Kathy's Kreations on our way home, but we were a bit longer than we thought, but tomorrow ! Ah yes, tomorrow we'll be going back ! Not only to Kathy's but it's also Fort Ligonier Days, so we'll do some looking at some really nice "stuff"

Because we didn't stop yesterday, Ralph was feeling bad so when we stopped at the bookstore for a bathroom break and some coffee, he got me Crazy Aunt Purl's new book, Drunk, Divorced & Covered in Cat Hair.

Oh, we also stopped at a roadside stand and got some Jonagold apples for a pie, some Fuji's for eating and some yummy concord grapes. Just because they looked so pretty and fall-like here's their picture too :)

Have a great weekend !