I am still working away at my in-laws Jack Russell afghan and am excactly halfway done. keep your fingers crossed I can get it done in 2 weeks!

I also started a scarf froma pattern over at Ravelry to do when I still need a fiber fix but don't want to pull out the afghan.

Close up of stitches:

Snow is supposedly on the way! Chant with me! Snow Day! Snow Day!

Feliz Navidad!

Here is our Christmas tree this year. It went up so much faster, now that all the kids cn be so helpful. My lil guys loved going over every ornament and helping decorate.

Here are a few of my favs:
Hand-carved wooden Santa from a good friend over 15 years ago:

Button Santa from my sister's small town of Hesston, KS:

Resin santa from a friend about 20 years ago:



Hand-blown santa from an ornament exchange last year:


Sobrero santa froma student about 15 years ago:

Hi all and Happy Sunday! It is another true fall day here in the plains. Cool, drab, and gray, but at least no rain. The best thing about this week is not only the upcoming holiday(Thanksgiving) but only 2 days of school...woohooo!Here is the week in review:

Monday: Puerto Rican rice and habichuelas for dinner. I was in heaven. I even had enough to take to school for lunch the next day. Sabrosisimo!!!!

Saturday:I finished this scarf that I saw on Libby's blog and fell in love with stitch and yarn. She clued me in to where I could find both!!

I still love it. I added fringe and hope to debut it next week at school LOL.

Last night I was also inspired to try out a new recipe that has tweaked my curiosity. Have you ever seen those pumpkin rolls with cream cheese filling? Well, Walmart has them for $3.50 a piece. I found the recipe on the back of a can of Libby's pumpkin can.

Tah-Dah:

It taste as good as it looks and pretty simple too. Maybe 20 min of prep?

Last but not least, I am still working on my Crochet by Numbers afghan for my in-laws. I have frogged it twice, because it has to be perfect. I am about a third of the way done, soon I'll have a pic of progress.

I am thankful for my blogging buddies and have Happy Thanksgiving and I hope you are where you want to be and who you want to be with on turkey day. I will be with my kids.....ahhhhhh!

The wedding afghan....Brett and Nicole 12/12/09

Well here it is, the wedding afgahn for my nephew and his bride-to-be. I hope its something they can use and enjoy. It fits a twin size bed, so it could be thrown over the foot of a bed or a rocker.
Close up of border and stitch:

Autumn morn....baking, yum!

My blog buddy Crafty Christina had this tasty breakfast treat posted from here. So its turned out to be a true Fall day here in kansas, gray and blustery, I decided to do some baking to warm things up bit. So far so good...I'll let you know how it comes out.
Before:

Happy Saturday everyone!

After: