stay tuned!

next week i'm pairing up with Tara of the the pink couch for some festive fall fun so stay tuned and come back for recipes, tutorials and giveaways! sweet, sweet november...fall into something pretty!

lurve birds

my gal natalie commissioned me to make some love birds for a wedding cake topper...i was familiar with ann woods' amazing birdies and surely did not want to copy hers so i thought and thought and thought some more then i did research to make sure i wasn't copying anyone else and i came up with this...

the week in review: oct 18-24

we looked at pumpkins, sampled apples, listened to rain and watched the nephew a-go-go score a touchdown. i made birdies and yoyos, received a felt order and sent out packages. we ate baked goods at home and yummy sandwiches from lincoln market. overall a pretty average week in the life of the a-go-gos. gotta go, we're gonna try to get in a mini hike today, happy last week of october!

raining not pouring

it's been raining all day today but in a lackluster kind of way. no flashing or crashing just drip, drip, drip. i quite like the flash and crash so was disappointed but the overall gray did allow for some happy tunes on the ipod while the sister a-go-go popped a berry apple crumble into the oven.the mister spent the day in the garage working on a new version of his cookie-tin dulcimer while i popped in a couple of times to add a coat of paint to a paper skeleton for a scrumdilly-do project. it was wet enough to for me to have to take cover but dry enough for the birdies that decided it was party time in the garden. we ended up puttering about, working on projects and watching movies. not bad for an end to the week.yesterday we headed out to hit up a few open studios for the open studio art tour. there were a lot of people on the map but we chose only two studios to visit. i'll write more about those later but they were pretty neat and i am glad we decided to visit. after the second studio we hit up gopher glen for our third apple haul of the season. we a-go-gos do love our apples. this time around we picked up some jonalicious, braeburn, winesap and chesapeake. good eats! not much of an update or blog post but it is what it is. tomorrow we may try to head out on a hike and then hang out with the nephew a-go-go. i may put him to work on this scrumdilly-do project. happpy almost november folks! stay tuned for some crafty fall fun next week!

buzzity buzz

yesterday a bee kept flying into the family casa. completely uninvited, she would saunter in and buzz, buzz, buzz about. zipping this way and that, doing her best to retrieve pollen from the curry colored tablecloth or the sleeve of my shirt. she would hunker down on top of the shiny black-top of the kitchen island and scootch her way under the built-in hot plate. skootch, skootch, skootch...i started calling her edna in reference to our confusion over a character from auntie mame. are you familiar? auntie mame hires a secretary to take dictation as she writes her memoirs and the secretary is the epitome of awkward and sad. she is brilliantly played by Peggy Cass and when she first bellows out her name "agnes gooch" i thought she said edna skootch and i loved it so much i wrote it down. i'm still sad her name was agnes and not edna...someday we'll get a duck and name her edna but until then....back to the bee.she flew in and made herself at home but she was quite the noisy one. i tried shoo, shoo, shooing her out but that just seemed to peeve her a bit and she huffed off to hide out between the slats of the window shade. mr. a-go-go and i managed to work as a pair to remove her without injury and off she buzzed into the candyland that is the sister a-go-go's garden. i suppose she really liked it inside the casa because she reappeared whispering sweet nothings in my ear. this time we got out the cricket catcher and shooed her out in no time. if you are wondering what on earth a cricket catcher is it is a tupperware bowl and a piece of thin cardboard...you know...really advanced.it was then that we decided to keep the screen door closed (i suppose she thought we had an open door policy) and still she tried to get in. the weather was pretty dandy yesterday, it was. the original forcast was for rain but it was lovelier than lovely and all the wee birdies were out in full force. there was even an ongoing turf war between two hummingbirds. it lasted all day. have you ever watched hummingbirds fight? i think they are the original jedi tie-fighters. they zig and zag and hide in plain sight. very amusing but maybe that's just my opinion.after we all puttered about we headed out to run errands (including a visit to the nursery) and then we were off to the pumpkin patch like we did last year. chesebrough farms grows all kinds of pumpkins. this year they had all sorts of blue and green pumpkins, it was extra spiffy. and if you read my last post you will know i am waaaaaaay behind on uploads so this year's pics may take a few days before they are up. maybe more than a few. on second thought, i don't think i wrote about being behind on uploads here. i can't keep anything straight.after pumpkins we drove down a dusty dirt road just to see what we could see and all we saw were cows so we decided to go to target where i saw a wonderfully purple cardigan that i did not buy because we are brokity-broke. it really was a nice day even though there may have been a wee little snark out here or there, ahem. one might think how sad it is that the highlight of the day was a pumpkin patch but they would be wrong...the highlight was the bee who buzzed in for tea.

i've got nothin' for ya today (other than a mini whine and a few pics)

spent WAY TOO MUCH time in my noggin which means the bad bad brain is lurking about. i'm feeling down and defeated and a bit bored with my bad brain. ugh. do you ever do that? spend too much time in your head. comparing and wondering and wishing and feeling not up to par? it seems that the only way i felt to combat it was to get crafty so i cut out fabric for yoyos. why would i want to make soooo many yoyos? what was i thinking? i also did a little recipe fun for scrumdilly-do but am missing an integral part of the project before i can continue. i need a long nap. the mister isn't fairing any better today. he has been working, working, working on a way to make the bandolier a-go-go sellable and things keep getting twisty so he's stressed as well. thank goodness for the sister a-go-go who has been working all day on a yumerriffic dinner...the rest of the family has arrived so it is time to eat! here's to hoping tomorrow is better!