Fall, finally!

Woke up today to these on the table... made by my little sister. So festive!

I'm so happy it's autumn, all officially and everything. Last night my bestie and I watched Tim Burton's Sleepy Hollow, which is my big autumnal feels-bringing movie (along with The Rocky Horror Picture Show). I watch it every year and I love it so!!

Feeling like continuing with my ripple... I'm actually into a pink swathe now.

Other stuff of note:

• Still on my cold shower grind! I'm 21 days into the 30 day challenge.
• I now have over 100 subscribers on YouTube! What??
• Faking It is back! Shane remains the best.
• I'm hanging in there. Are you?

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spring, finally

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sweet Sunday

I decided to revisit this gnome hat pattern with yarn I actually like, rather than the only DK yarn I could find at the craft store. My BFF E gave me two skeins of delicious Malabrigo Silky Merino some time ago, and they've been decor for me since, sitting on a shelf with other pretty things. I guess I'm a cheap acrylic yarn girl at heart; I feel bad if I can't make something really nice with really nice yarn, and my skills are just not that great with crochet or knitting, so I haven't had the heart to use it till now. Anyway, I decided to bite the bullet and use the Piedras skein for this hat, which once plopped upon Plummery's wee head, was perfect.

I confess, after the first time I made this hat a while ago I was quite elated and tried twice more to make it again, only to mess up both times, get discouraged, and quit knitting for a while again. But I've been practicing my knitting rather a lot the past couple of weeks. I've made two dishcloths and this hat, and I was so pleased with myself that I decided to make the hat again.

This yarn looks and feels like bubblegum. So soft.

So far, I haven't messed up and been unable to fix it. I've "tinked," I've had the needles slip out of the loops twice and had to carefully re-insert. Knitting, man. It's stressful.

I have yet to block anything I've knitted; it's just something I don't understand as of yet, and will have to research on YouTube to figure out.

When I went out to the table, I found my mom decorating cookies. How cute are they? My mom is the literal cutest. I need a cookie decorating label for this blog. You don't know how often we decorate cookies in my house.

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every single day

I honestly cannot eat enough peanut butter and jam sandwiches these days. Every now and then I rediscover them and revert into a six-year-old and can't believe how freaking good they are!

Today, I'm:

• watching: The Glee Project season two
• crocheting: fauna hats
• planning: to try and knit??

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kitschy and delicious

Are you seeing these granny square cookies?? I'm freaking out! These in particular are right up my color-obsessive weirdo alley. (There's a tutorial here.)

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star cookies

With the help of my little sister, I baked and decorated some star-shaped cookies for a Fourth of July party I'm going to tomorrow. I've been doing a lot of socializing lately and it has WORN ME OUT.

(Do you see the Mario Bros. star-inspired cookie? My sister and I have decided to do a whole Mario cookie collection sometime.)

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blue canary in the outlet by the light switch

Make a little birdhouse cookie in your soul!

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snowflake cookies

My mom and little sister made the most beautiful sugar cookies for a holiday event last night! They were all snapped up (one lady even casually claimed the leftovers my mom was setting aside -- "I'll just take these...!") but luckily I got the very last one.

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March marches on

Still hanging with my friend L! We spent the night of St. Patrick's Day quite regretting the fact that we got our drink on. These cookies my mom made were nommed on as if they had medicinal qualities:



I'M SURE THEY WERE FILLED WITH LUCK...



Today we hopped out to the craft store because I had a hankering for some yarn for Yet More Pixie Hats. (I've made, like, six or something...) I'll probably do a regular beanie as well, but this pattern is still really fun for me.

Tonight: another family birthday.

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