Autumn

So I guess it has been a little while since I've posted, eh? I have been really busy and haven't made the effort to get down here in the basement and blog anything.
The weather has cooled down significantly here, at home. On this particular day I HAD to put on Elli's new tights with her little dress and vest. I think she looks like a little Punky Brewster! I can't help dressing her this way. She'll either look back and say "Geez, mom." or "Look how cute I was! " Probably the first.
She loves to find "poppies" out in my flowerbed. They are little seed pods that grow in the impatients. They swell up real big and then pop! when you touch them. She's holding some here in the picture. My flowers are so massive that I have some poppies for the record books. And I think that we've popped so many, that they have spread all over my flowerbed. I swear, I didn't plant them everywhere that they are coming up now. It's a nice little surprise...glad I was lazy and didn't pull up my weeds :)

On another note, Singer Co. is going to replace my sewing machine for me. I, hopefully, just bought a dud of a machine and this next one will work. A very good friend of mine is going to let me borrow hers until I get my new one...however long that's going to take. Why is it that whenever I really get into the mood to make something, it never works easily for me?

Labels

I've decided to start labeling my posts. Not "titling", but labeling. Mostly so that I can sort through my stuff - hence the title of my new spot on the sidebar to the right of your screen. It will make things easier if you happen to remember something you saw on my blog (because it's so awesome that you reference it), you can easily sort through my randomness too!

On another note...Elli and I planted flowers today (yes, she helped). They look pretty cool. I did a whole planter collage in this spot where I (meaning Mike) dug out a huge hydrangea plant that I had successfully made to kick-the-bucket. It was pretty sad. Maybe mom can get some of the roots to grow. I'll be posting pictures soon!

Azalea pics

Here are some pictures of the 'E'-ster and I. Well, one picture of the two of us. These were taken on the last day my azalea bush looked pretty. It was already getting too late - you can see some of the blooms are already fading away. So sad. It was so pretty. Now it looks like a wilty, ugly bush. I can't wait for it to rain all the dead blooms away.

Hopefully we will be able to get some nice pictures in the rest of the yard this summer. I've planted a lot of stuff. I wasn't going to, because in a couple of months I will be dreading the thought of going out and watering the stupid things...but I CAN'T HELP IT!!! They are so pretty and I get so carried away. Oh well. Since she wants to be outside all of the time, I will have plenty of loveliness to look at!