Long time no see......... {or should I say blog}

{living}

Wow...... um so yeah, I can't believe it's been over 3 months since I've posted anything..... and I had been doing so good too...... I actually even had a couple posts that were almost ready to go near the end of June, but then real life got in the way.  I feel I'm saying this more and more lately, but summer really flew by!  Now that Autumn is here though I'm trying to get back into the activities and routines that I really want to be doing (and blogging about...). We didn't even have Theme Food Week any this summer (definitely need to get back into the swing of that this month).  I have been working on a 1:48 scale Christmas Tea Room at the North Pole Dollhouse, which I'll be doing a post about here soon when I finish up the last couple little things that need to be done on it.

I'm getting really excited for Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas too, along with cooler weather and falling, brightly colored leaves, and pumpkins, and pumpkin flavored everything..... We've actually already had our annual Halloween party (we ended up having it so early because it was looking like no one was going to really be available any closer to the end of the month) and I've made and worn the first of my two Halloween costumes this year. (yes you read that right, I had the first costume planned since last year, but then I saw the inspiration for the second one and really wanted to do that one, but was still really into the first - and had already started working on it - and then while I was still debating doing both, the friend I babysit for told me that she wanted her daughter to be the same thing my second costume was going to be (without knowing that I had been contemplating the same thing myself) so that sealed the deal.  One costume for our party and one for Halloween itself.  And yes I was being deliberately {confusingly} vague about the costumes on purpose..... I''ll be showing them off/chronicling making them in their own posts soon.  Pre-Thanksgiving Dinner this year is kind of a big deal too because it's the 10th year! I've already started going through all the decorations from past years trying to decide how I can put it all together without it being too crazy for the theme of "10 years of Thankfullness".

Now I would get some of this stuff I'm talking about written up and posted today, but I did manage to slip on some mud and fall down a hill (well okay it was a really small hill/embankment) this weekend and also managed to wrench my arm/shoulder back in the process and I must have pulled a muscle or two because it is extremely sore..... to the point that even typing kind of hurts..... so stuff will have to wait for another day, but I did want to make myself at least get a bit back into the groove.....

With more coming soon!