Turkey, Turkey, Turkey!

 Or maybe it should read "Turkey, Wild Indian, Turkey"!  DD is home for the week and brought her Thanksgiving decorations to share.  She's not fond of Cici batting the turkeys around the table.  At least she's entertaining Cici.  Cici may actually enjoy the peace and quiet when DD goes back to school.

Sweet & Savory

Where has the month gone?????

I can't believe we are midway through November, Thanksgiving is on our doorstep, and Christmas will be here before we know it.  Fall is my favorite time of year because it is all about chillier temps (I'm still waiting for those), fall colors and leaves falling (still waiting for the leaves to fall), comfort foods, and making Christmas gifts!

Here is a basket I recently finished.........

This will be a Christmas gift.  The pattern has instructions for a set of 4 nested baskets. This is the largest.  I have everything ready to do the others, if I can find the time.  It has a round wood base and a rolled Gretchen rim.  It had been awhile since I did this rim treatment.  Here is what it looks like at the beginning of weaving the rim.....

Kind of messy looking..........so much fun to bring order into chaos!  Hard to believe it's the same basket.

I can't believe it's NOVEMBER!!

It's November which means Christmas will be here before you know it!  Have you started your shopping yet?????  Sometimes it's not the gift, but the bag it comes in that counts!  Just ask Cici...............

This shopping bag was a source of entertainment for several days.  The bag came home with me after I met DD and her roommate in Columbia on a Saturday in October (turned out to be Mizzou Homecoming, so maybe not the best Saturday to go to Columbia!) and we did a little shopping.  I did purchase my first Christmas gift, not a large item, but something small that caught my eye.  Got to take the ladies to lunch as well.

Here they are sharing a dessert!