Productive Week
(I'm sorry if you read my first attempt to publish this post with the photos hanging off the edge of the page... What a crazy convoluted business this has been. Anyway, I'm now trying to figure it out with Flickr as my image host... and changing my whole stinkin' layout.)On to my post: Last week was spent turning messes like this...

Happy Halloween!
This year we carved pumpkins at our friends' house... Evelyn's pumpkin is the only one not in this photo. For some reason, Picasa won't let me upload more than 4 photos at a time so I'm still working out the issues with that. We let the kids design their own this year (this is easier to do when you each have a pumpkin to carve. In the past we have only bought them for the kids so it was harder to relinquish creative control!)

Good Times
The sock mittens are taking shape rapidly, and I loved Charisa's idea of overdyeing them in blue... I'm going to try that later this week just as soon as the thumbs are complete. I'll still most likely donate them as they are a bit tight for my hands, and I only have made hats and scarves for charity recently.Yesterday, I received exciting news that I won a

The Socks that Were...
I'm having picture issues on my blog. I've noticed lately that when I upload directly from my computer to Blogger that my pics look all grainy and horrible. This didn't happen before, so I decided to investigate what the peeps on the interwebs had to say about it. Apparently since Blogger merged with Picasa (or invented it? Whatever...) they want me to use Picasa to upload to my blog. Which is fine - I have Picasa, but I haven't played with it much so I'll have to mess around and figure it out. Hopefully that will help the pics retain their quality - we'll see.

Finishing What I Started
I have several friends who do not write posts on Sundays. I don't know if this is due to a religious observance, or just because they take weekends off to enjoy more time with their families... but Sunday afternoons around here tend to be pretty mellow and therefore pockets of time become available for such things as reading, writing, knitting, and other quiet activities. Everyone is home from the church service and fellowship, and the kids are now outside enjoying the last remnants of the sun before Autumn takes hold for good.There is so much to tell you. After eight and a half months of diligently working for a couple of hours at a time here and there, I finally finished m