Hats

So, I'm going to really start making the hats to sell...I've set up a website with some of the hats that I've made. Hudson and Walker both have their own beanies, I just don't have pictures of them yet. Need any Christmas presents for boys or girls? These would make good ones! Go check out http://www.finlindesigns.blogspot.com/ . Starting out, I'm going to do totally custom ordering...whatever colors are requested. Lori is going to make picture frames to custom order...and that will be coming soon. Let me know what you think...comments friends, comments!!! I vowed to take a picture of each hat that I made...and the other night I made one for a friend and forgot to get a pic...I guess I'll have to request a picture of the baby in the hat...that'll be even better!

Pumpkins, pumpkins, pumpkins

A friend and I were discussing blogs the other day and talking about how you can make yourself look or appear a certain way based on what you choose to post about. So the end of this blog is to let you see that yes, I am only human too, and nothing is perfect. And, if you think someone is, you are totally fooled, because no one can do everything perfectly...something's gotta give somewhere!
The boys got to paint their own little pumpkins the day before Halloween (one of the things I love about my days at home with them...doing fun things like this). We carved our family pumpkin that night. Finley was a little fussy in the swing, so we put her in her bumbo on the floor with the bowl of pumpkin goo and I let her play. We made sure she had her pacifier at all times so she didn't try to eat it! She had so much fun squishing that stuff around and putting it on her feet, her face, all over her clothes. I would have never ever let Hudson do that...but by the third, you just kinda roll with it more! The boys had fun helping pull out the goo and separate the seeds and guts (I just realized tonight that I never got around to roasting the pumpkin seeds...and I do that every year...). Here are some pictures of our fun! And just so you don't start thinking that we've got it all together, a few pictures to prove we don't. The morning we painted the pumpkins, we cleaned the car out first. And yes, all of this STUFF was in the car! And...now it's all in the garage...still! :)I also told the boys they had to pick up the den and put toys back in the toy box before we could paint, and they did. But this is what it looked like. So, while they painted, I took this picture...sometimes(or a lot of the time) I let what they do to help stay the way they helped do it...and let it be good enough!

Scarecrows and pumpkins

We put our scarecrows out after church one Sunday in the middle of October. We went to the pumpkin patch at Washington Farms on October 29. We rode the cow train, watched the pig races, played in the corn box, looked at the animals, raced the ducks, rode tricycles, and raced through toddler sized maze. We really had so much fun spending the afternoon together!

My computer and I have had some issues this month. It wasn't letting me load my pictures from my camera onto the computer, but I finally got it working today! So, maybe I'll do a few pictures a day for the next few days so as not to overwhelm the eye...or the blog. Here's a hat I made for Finley recently. Before she was born, I learned how to make hats and made about 3 newborn ones that she outgrew very quickly. I just figured out how to do this ruffly edge and made this for winter...I think I'm going to start making them to sell...I already have one "client" friend! This is a placemat clutch that I made for my sweet friend, Tiffany, for her birthday. I made the clutch purse using a placemat and this tutorial from Happy Together.