Thursday, October 25, 2007

Trick-or-Treat

Todd and I carved pumpkins last weekend. We think that his turned out to look like a party guy (a little bit of "buddy christ" for those who have watched Dogma) despite the fangs and hypnotizing eyes. I'm not sure what mine is supposed to be, it turned out a little different than expected because the pumpkin is so huge. I had to keep extending the mouth until he looked somewhat normal. We ended up with a ton of seeds to roast and so I think I will be buying the large size in the future for that reason. And the seeds turned out yummy even though we didn't let them dry the 48 hours that the recipe says we should.

We even made it down to Cornbelly's. They had some cool things like the haunted beast (a giant walk-in inflated reptile, complete with organs and intestines) and the jack-o-lantern hay ride. I don't recommend them for their cornmaze, though. It was torn up from all of the short cuts people had taken through the corn. Ironically enough, we did get kicked out of the maze for taking one of them, so apparently they are trying to police the situation - they're just a little bit late. Todd and I also rode pedal karts, which was a ton of fun, but made me sore in muscles I didn't know I had.
It was a pretty good place because most of the fun things they have are open to "big" kids too, so I didn't have to jealously watch the "little" kids have all of the fun :)

Monday, October 15, 2007

Whoa Knitta!

Well, I know what I'll do with a semester off...
I'll make
this...


and
this...


One of
these...

Then one of these...

and start this...

All in a little over a month. I haven't had this much time to knit in my entire knitting career. And I've been baking too, I made Apple Butter Banana Bread. And I want to make
Double Orange Cupcakes from
Vegetarian Times and Pumpkin Chocolate Chip Cookies. And yes, after eating all of those, I do have time to go hiking and work it off.

Proof of my hiking
Anyway, I really like having this semester off, Todd will have to twist my arm to get me to go back :)

Besides all that, we are getting ready for Halloween. Next weekend we are going to
Cornbelly's and carve pumpkins. I found some very cool carvings at Pumpkin Gutter's. It's a pretty different type of carving than you usually see, carving just into the flesh rather than all the way through. My favorites were the muppets and Gandolf.



Gandolf looks pretty freaky all lit up like that. I love them, but I think my pumpkin will be pretty simple as I'm not so handy with a knife.

Another very cool
thing is this skull font from Skull-A-Day, which is just an enertaining site any day.

Ok, well, I haven't knit now in like 20 minutes, so I better get on that, I only have 3 more months to go :)