Weekend Wear for Your Doll

This is my newest listing on my Etsy shop.  The short-sleeve cardigan is knit from Opal sock yarn which is machine wash-machine dryable.  The jeans are 100% cotton light-weight denim.

While I truly enjoy knitting these little sweaters, I did get a reminder of how challenging sewing little clothes can be.  I also discovered that threading needles on my sewing machine and my serger are more of a challenge than they were a few years ago.  Those $1 store glasses sure are a welcome item here in my house and pretty much everywhere else i am!

Saturday Afternoon

Yesterday was a rather hazy fall day and it ended with a thick fog that even made the dog nervous.  By the time it was dark we couldn't see our own back yard.  We should have had weather like that on Halloween so it would be creepy.  I expected it to still be foggy this morning so I could get some morning photos, but, it was gone.  There's supposed to be more moving in this evening.  

I did get this photo and a few more similar around 4:30 just as the sun was going behind the clouds that were moving in.  

Goldenrod in November

This is what is left of the vast fields of goldenrod around here.  When the sun is shining it gives the fluff a ghostly appearance.  One day on a trip to the mailbox I must have taken about 20 photos of just fluff in the sun.  

Ah, maybe I should have titled this post "Fluff in the Sun"?  

I haven't been here in a week or two.  I've thought about stopping by.  I've even just checked to see if it's still here a time or two.  My webpage has been annoying me so I've been neglecting the blog.  Often I wonder if I need both of them.  When I took my webpage building class we had to build a site and put it out there on the web.  My first one was way back in 2001 and when that host went under so did my site.  Then, geocities was my next landing.  Again, they went away.  So now, I'm using GoDaddy.com.  It's often a challenge to get it to work the way I want it to.  Using an aircard for my internet connection doesn't make it any easier.  I have made changes while at work a couple times and it was much easier there.  Only problem with that is, when I'm at work I'm supposed to be working.

Huh?

What's with that?

Thanksgiving is coming!  Black Friday is also coming.  I'm going to be working on several items to list on my Etsy site over the next few days.  Maybe this year someone will find me before January.

Wait!  I didn't list anything until January.  Bad marketing.  Me, one with the marketing and advertising background.  Often the most educated and experienced can be our own worst nightmare.

Off to work on those Etsy items.

Have a great Saturday and I hope you have a great Thanksgiving.

Are dogs weird or what?

We were out in the back a week ago getting the hunting stand up in the tree and I noticed that Millie seemed to have an "issue" with this tree.  For over an hour she stood there looking at it, sticking her nose in it, and then finally chewing it.  The smaller twig-tree that's right next to her head also met it's end.  It kept hitting her on the side of the head so she finally just bit it in half to get rid of it.  A tree-trimming dog?  

I did get a chance to get her to move so I could see what all the hoopla was about.  Turns out, it appears that a small animal was storing nuts in there at one time.  Nothing currently in there, though, just some old shells and dirt.

Dogs are interesting....

Petunias

These colors remind me of petunias or the cosmos that I plant every year.  That's probably what inspired me to use these colors in the first place.  

I just listed this sweater on Etsy today.  The size is for a 1 year old with an approximate chest size of 20".  There's extra room here for layering.

The price is $15 and $2 for shipping.

Pinkish Bluish with hint of Purplish

This is one of the most recent listings of mine on Etsy.  You know how to find my Etsy store.  I have links conveniently located throughout this blog.  This is also hand knit out of hand dyed 100% cotton yarn.  Yep, it's those darn yarn balls again.  I know that I had a photo that I posted somewhere of those yarn balls.  

I might just have to take another photo before they're all gone.  

I finished another sweater today from more of them but it's not listed on Etsy yet and the photos are still in my camera.  I do feel that I like to pace myself with my new listings.  

Millie and I hung around outside for a few hours today since I was home and the sun came out.  Both on the same day - amazing.  Those silly lady bug look-alikes were rather vicious, though.  They were landing on my face and bouncing off Millie.  She didn't like that so much.  We probably brought a few of them in with us like we did the last time we spent some time outside on a sunny afternoon.  

What happens when I see colors like this out in the woods behind our house?  If you know me well enough, you won't have to wait for me to give you the answer.  I'll drag it out for just a little bit first since I can think of a couple other topics to touch briefly here.
Today wasn't as nice as yesterday.  We did get a chance to go outside for just a short time.  All 3 of us, me, dog, & cat, walked to the mailbox and back.  It's about 900' to the mailbox so it isn't a fast walk when the "kids" are with me.  Millie, the dog, needs to sniff everything.  I mean everything.  If she finds something particularly malodorous she has to roll in it.  She found a dead mouse in the driveway today.  Funny, I don't remember it being there yesterday when we took the same walk.  Maybe it was under enough leaves so neither of us would find it.  Then, there's the cat.  Iggy seems to make a painful-sounding yowling meow sound with every step while we're walking.  Almost as if he's telling us to stop so he doesn't have to walk so fast to keep up with us.  After all, he is a cat.  All cat owners know that they must have it their way.
Once we got back to the house Millie had to go find the dead toad that's by the apple tree.  You guessed it - roll around on it.  
That brings me to a few dog questions.  Anyone out there know why dogs feel the need to roll on dead stinky things, eat cat you-know-what out of the litter box, eat cat food, and kleenex out of the wastebasket?  What's with that?  
Back to the fall colors.
When I see colors like that, you guessed it, I buy yarn.  White yarn.  White yarn that can be dyed into vivid colors that I see outside in the fall.  I don't do that so much in the spring since everything seems to be green.  In the fall we have yellow, gold, green, red, orange and brown.  
I didn't need anymore white yarn.  I have a lot of it already.  Maybe I just don't want anyone else to have it.
How else can it be explained?