a day in the canyon

 I love the Fall.  It is my favorite season.  I love the colors of the changing trees, the cool and occasionally rainy weather, and the crunch of the fallen leaves under my feet. 

Eric and I went on a picnic up the canyon today with my parents and Sarah.  We admired the beautiful colors and trees on our drive up and started the barbecue up for some hamburgers.  While the coals were getting ready my mom, Sarah, and I went on a walk and took pictures of the trees and picked some of the perfect leaves to take home.  We took tons of pictures but I will just post some of my favorites for now.

After our walk we ate hamburgers and roasted some apples.  I read about roasting apples in a magazine and thought it sounded amazing.  They turned out great! 

All you do is stick an apple, like a marshmallow, onto a roasting fork and cook it over the fire.

Once the skin begins to blacken:

Peel the apple and skewer it again to roast a second time. 

Roast the apple until it is golden.

Cut the apple up and roll in some cinnamon sugar.

 It tasted great! I think I'm going to make it a camping tradition.

Woooooo!

I have gotten my second sale, albeit, not through my shop online.  I am really excited about it all! I posted a few other items yesterday, as well and some more today.
Here they are:

These were posted yesterday.  I'm still not sold on using myself as a model but my friend's baby is so cute modeling her black and green sweater.


Here are the ones I put up today:

Isn't Eric cute!? He didn't know I was taking a picture of him.  I think he'll do great as a male model.

The Great Journey

I have decided to open an Etsy Shop.  I have been considering a shop for a very long time and I finally succumbed to the prompting of my sister.  I have been having a blast the last few months creating things and learning to crochet better.  I've had so much fun, in fact, that I have bags full of items that I have no need for.  So to be productive I have decided to sell some of the things I've made.  I will be posting them a few every day and I will post pictures here for anyone to see if they would like.  Hopefully this will prompt me to actually blog more often as well!

The first three items I am posting on Etsy are as follows;

Melon Sorbet Baby Hoodie

Baby Silver Ballet Slippers

Gray Cloche Hat

Let me know what you think!