Pumpkins, Primitive Stitching and More Paint

Sunday evening was spent "helping" Gracelyn carve her pumpkins. Her favorite words of the evening were"ooey-gooey" and "happy day" SHE did not mind sticking her hands in the pumpkins. Bath and five more readings of Put Me In The Zoo, after arguing for The Cat in The Hat and losing that argument, she was off to bed. Yesterday morning, I took the morning off from work to take Tyler and Logan to get their pumpkins. Loading them both in the car, when they INSIST on fastening themselves in takes forever! Where do they get the independent streak so early? Six pumpkins, two mini pumpkins, a bag of apples, two candy necklaces, chocolate candy, a gallon of milk, two stops, Logan telling everyone he is going to be Mario (no one else really understands him) and an argument with Tyler over how I was not going to buy him lottery tickets as he tries to grab just one little dollar for a ticket, we got home, brought all six pumpkins in to the basement and Tyler says "I am just going to watch, I don't want to put my hand in there" So, as they watched Tom and Jerry I carved their pumpkins. Nice morning though, we played in the leaves and went to the playground and played, not too many more days like that. Shelby and Shawnee stopped last night with Gracelyn and Kendall. Any day that you can hug all four of your grandchildren is a good day.

Shawnee has been busy stitching away for the Open House. Less than two weeks away, today is my day to make some step stake signs and get them placed around the community.

And I am still painting...the bottom of this is chalkboard paint.

And the black area on this one. I love using that paint. Makes the painting so much more functional.

I have not painted any of these for awhile. They used to sell really well for me. Hopefully they still do.