Things I like...

favorite OCTOBER things

 

pumpkins

cool nights

a change in the air/light

leaves falling

deer sightings

fleece jackets

hot coffee in my cold hands

oatmeal and grits

days growing shorter

fires outside

colorful leaves

cool walks

boots

my birthday

 

a place for my pink coffee pot

    After browsing through Pinterest , Instagram and

   all the wonderful blogs I follow, I got the idea to

   make a coffee station. I had found this perfect

   pink coffee maker on Amazon but knew it would

   not make my husband happy to replace our black

   coffee maker with a pink one.  Still I couldn't

   get it out of my head.

     So this is what I came up with and I LOVE IT!

 

 

 

 

I now have a use for my thrifted coffee canister.

 

 

Moved my sugar bowl and polka dot cup and added

some linens out of my stash.

 

 

 

I put my coffee cups nearby on a shelf.

 

 

And now I love making my coffee every

morning.

 

 

at the river

     Last week was nice and cool,  so we went for a drive to the river. I was wanting to collect some 

     river rocks and Bobby was gonna do some fishing.    

 

 

    The path down to the river was lush and green.  It was filled with small orange flowers that I have

    never seen before.  

 

 

 

 

 

    And the view overhead was just as pretty.

 

 

    The Little Red River

 

 

 

 

 

       Bobby found a tiny brown trout stuck in a tiny little puddle and rescued it.   

 

 

 

     I searched the shore for just the right rocks.

 

 

    In the process I also found three heart rocks. Bobby found one too.

 

   
    This is what I came home with.

   
    And this is what I got them for.

 

 

 

art journaling

 

 

     I've spent most of the summer art journaling. I started a few paintings but haven't gotten back to

     to finish them.  The first half I was into an e-course by Alisa Burkes. Then I joined Creativebug

     and have been enjoying  a class by Pam Garrison.  I've learned new techniques from both classes

     that I hope to put to use in my own work.

 

     The following photos are my art journal pages done in ink, marker, watercolor, acrylics, crayon,

     really whatever I had on hand.