Bailey the Magnificent Leaf Magnet!

It's like magic...the way leaves stick to Bailey's head. Dozens of

them and they always end up in the house, in the car, even in my bed.

She is a leaf magnet. Sometimes there are as many as three or four

stuck to her chin. But they don't bother her a bit. I can usually find

her with her face stuck into a pile sniffing for something good I'm sure.

After a couple of days she smells like an old wet pile of leaves. That's

my girl! We had a great weekend, lots of food for our tailgate party.

It was a perfect Fall day. Monday I go with my sister and niece to

check out a prospective college for next year. It's hard to believe

she's graduating.

When life gives you fauna, what do you do?

Well thanks to my Humblebeads niece Heather, I've been making

molds for clay. And that's about as far as I have gotten. I'm gonna

do something more than make molds, but I either have to wait till

the cruise in March for her to show me how to add special finishing

techniques or I'm gonna have to experiment on my own.

Hmmmm....that's a tough one.

I have been rolling ideas for Christmas gifts around in my head.

Kind of making a list, I know, WHAT DO YOU MEAN CHRISTMAS?

But if we don't get started now, it will be here before we know it.

I have stuffies to make for the kids, and ideas for other things that

I can't mention. I make my own Christmas cards, I love to stamp

and emboss, not to mention embellishing. That takes a bit of time

to say the least. Geary actually helps with the cards, its kind of fun

to have him help with stuff...

Today Geary and I went together and picked another 15 pounds

of blueberries. I just can't get enough of them and they are still

so abundant! I picked some for my mom and froze some.

Left some for us to eat when we wanted. I see blueberry pancakes

in my future. And this is Blueberry Festival weekend in South Haven.

Tomorrow the Aunts and I are walking the craft show. The weather

has been totally perfect. Speaking of weather, we had waterspouts

off the lake Thursday. Really pretty cool. I saw the tail end of the

funnel rising up in the air. I probably should have been a little

more cautious, but we always go look to see whats coming instead

of seaking shelter. One of these days we'll get caught being stupid.

I can say we don't stand outside during a thunderstorm anymore..

dah!

Last night we celebrated my Uncle Rick's daughter's wedding. How

sweet it was...a little out of the ordinary. I can finally say I went to

a wedding where the Groom and the Best Man wore camo.

The Grooms cake was decorated in camo frosting. Jenny's garter

was camo elastic, but thank goodness she wore a beautiful gown.

They didn't go on a Honeymoon right away, as goose hunting

opens on Monday. Yee Haw!

But really, we had a great time with all the relatives being there.

Lately that seems to be the only time we all get together. And of

course I forgot my camera....