A Soggy Saturday

The weather here today couldn't be yuckier ~  is that even a word?  It's cold, rainy, windy.  A nasty nor'easter.  And . . .  here's the yuckiest part . . . we're supposed to get wet snow later this evening.  SNOW??!!!  We don't snow around here in October.  It's not going to be much. A couple inches that's probably not going to stick to the roads, and will be gone by tomorrow mid-day.  But still, snow!?

I've decided to "hunker" down here in the house and get some projects done.  That's the best thing about a cold, rainy Saturday, right?

I'm going to sew the binding onto another one of these:

I bought this silly, cutesy Halloween fabric a few years ago and never did anything with it.  I decided the other night I'd make a couple little quilted tablerunners using it.  

Silly Halloween on one side, pretty autumnal print on the other.

I may sit down and do some more stitching on this:

I started this cross stitch project . . . gosh . . . it's been so long ago, I don't even remember.  

I bet it's been 14 or 15 years ago.

Think I may need to add some more floss stitches to his beard.  Looks a little thin.

I'm gonna bake a batch of Halloweeny cupcakes using all this:

I'm sure I've mentioned in past posts how I like using cake mixes, and adding extra ingredients to them for my cakes and cupcakes.  It's so much easier, and the cakes turn out great every time.  I have a great book that gives tons of ideas and recipes for using mixes.  

The Cake Doctor Returns by Ann Byrn

Using those Oreo cookies and Junior Mints candies, I'll be making a special bunch of cupcakes for a very special young lady who is celebrating her 21st birthday Sunday, although her birthday is actually Halloween.  How cool is that to have a Halloween b'day?!  I don't want to share too much about them, because she reads my blog and I don't want to spoil the surprise.  

So, you're just going to have to wait til tomorrow, Shannon! ;o)

 Another project I plan to tackle, will need these items:

Again, I can't divulge my plain for these because they're to be made into a little special something for that Birthday Girl, Shannon.  I'll be sure to share what all that up there becomes, and the cutesy cupcakes in a later post.

My favorite Halloween movies will be watched, most likely with a huge bowl of popcorn.  

I'm not a gory movie person at all.  I like the cutesy, kiddie Halloween movies.

Another movie I used to just love, but it's never on TV anymore, and I've yet to find it on DVD is the The Halloween Tree.  It's a cartoon made from the Ray Bradbury book. I really like The Nightmare Before Christmas too, but we don't have that on DVD. We had a VHS copy, but no more VCR's in the house.

A few other movies I might try to get in this weekend:

The Others ~ ghosts.  Van Helsing ~ vampires.  They're appropriate for Halloween.  And I can get a dose of the gorgeous Hugh Jackman.  And, yeesss, I'm getting the itch to watch some Christmas flicks.  

I will be perusing through this fabulous magazine. 

 I have to blame another blogger, Michael from Inspired by Charm, for tempting me to fall of the wagon.  By "falling off the wagon" I'm referring to my constant addiction battle with magazines.  Especially the SIP's ~ Special Interest Publications.   I will say, though, I think it's probably one of BH&G's best Christmas Ideas edition in years.  Every page is filled with the greatest show-and-tell pics, eye candy, project ideas.  A couple popular and well-known home dec/design bloggers are featured as well.  It was well worth me caving into temptation to grab it up.

By the way, have you all visited Michael's blog?  Oh, it's fabulous!  He's fabulous!
If you haven't visited him at
Inspired by Charm,
 you should pop over there when you're done here.

I think another "have-to" for today will be a big pot of steaming hot soup.  I'm thinking maybe a creamy, cheesy potato soup with some warm homemade cornbread.  

Hope you all have a fun, and spooktacular, weekend!

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