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17
Nov 11

Musing on Halloween Cookies for Thanksgiving. Who’s the turkey now?

Another Chapter filed under I never did this as a child so I have to do it with my children or their childhoods will be utter failures is making holiday cut out cookies.

Since Christmas has turned crazy the last few years, I got this great idea to decorate cookies at Halloween.

Here are the Halloween cookie cutters.

Notice they have never been used.

I might was well mention they were not used Halloween 2010 either.

Thanksgiving.

Perfect time for cookies.

Here is the Halloween dough.

 

This dough was made and has been refrigerated since Halloween. Halloween 2011 not 2010.

 

So when the kids got home today, the flour was flying.

 

Note to self. Change from exercise gear before flour.

 

Also just noticed in two months my foot has turned the color of flour.

Most excellent.

FYI, Thanksgiving and fall-ish cookie cutters are in the shape of oak leaves (which look rather like Christmas trees), acorns (small and large), pumpkins and turkeys.

So we had our Kodak makin’-the-cookies moment.

Check that off the list.

And check out this turkey. I think it turned out really creepy (I mean cool) with our Halloween sprinkles.

 

Gobble, gobble.

 

Do you make Thanksgiving cut outs?

Surely I must be the only turkey who does….

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26
Oct 11

Yellow. My autumnal muse.

Fall. The time of year when the hot red of summer slowly simmers into bright yellow that’s been hanging around since spring.

All this making a stew of  burnt orange.

Or pumpkin. Or rustic umber.

Fall’s orange makes me reflective.

Today I wanted happy. I wanted yellow.

And you know what ~ there is lots of yellow to be found.

 

 1.

Found my Cotton Patch Tri Club Rickstrong T-shirt.

2.

The wheels on the bus go round and round.

 

I live on a busy street.

Every fall when school cranks up again, I love hearing the school buses in the morning and afternoon.

The sound of a school bus makes me happy. I don’t need to know what terror might be going on inside those ironclad yellow walls.

Sometimes shallow infatuation from afar is best.

 

 3.

The flower of Kappa Alpha Theta.

 

Thank God for the pansy. In the dead gray of winter, its little cheery face shines.

These poor ones are left. I need to go by another pot and save them from a slow dehydrating death in the Red Rider.

 

4.

This photo needs to be scratch and sniff. Think kettle corn.

 

Okay, this candle’s color is  yellow-sliding-into-blond-hair-with-auburn-highlights yellow. But this burnt yellow got a boost from Instagram.

 

5.

Every now and then even the grandest of ladies needs a face lift.

 

All week I have watched painters prepping and working on neighbor Deidre Knight’s yellow 1900′s house. I wondered — will it remain yellow.

As of this afternoon, looks like they were covering the primer in ….yellow.

 

6.

Nuff said.

 

Only the coolest yellow family on the planet.

 

7.

And the leaves.

That is what inspired me to dwell on yellow today. Driving up to Athens through rolling Central Georgia hills filled with all shades of yellow.

What yellow makes you happy?

iPhone Photo Phun