Grove time

Saturday we took Zoey to the Grove. She LOVED it! Everyone was so happy to see her and spoiled her rotten!

I am a Rebel.

See if you see someone you know.

Football, brunch, showers, and more!

Over the past few weeks we have been pretty busy.  Two weeks ago we headed to Oxford for our first Ole Miss game of the year.  We had a great time in the Grove, during the game, and after the game.  Like always lately, I forgot to take any pictures of the weekend.  I was happy to see a Rebel win and enjoy a weekend with family and friends.  Speaking of friends, Chip and Lisa are sneaky!  We ended up going to dinner with them at Snackbar after the game.  Needless to say, I’m glad we have such wonderful friends who allow us to crash at their place on short notice when needed! :)  Snackbar has some wonderful new fall cocktails.  The Autumn Collins is delicious!  I wish I could recreate this at home to enjoy.  It was wonderful getting to see Casey Saturday night as well!

This past weekend was one of the busiest I have had in a long time.  Saturday morning we hosted a Fall brunch.  Brian and I have been thinking about hosting a brunch for a while.  We both love brunches, but no one seems to give them anymore.  Megan and Cole mentioned they would like to help host as well . I really do wish I had taken some pictures (I honestly meant to) of the brunch but I completely forgot.  We had a lovely turnout and everyone seemed to enjoy it!  Like us, everyone seems to love brunches, but never have an opportunity go to one.  This might start being an annual event at the Herndon household!

After the brunch we headed over to The Lost Pizza Co.for the grand opening.  If you are ever in Tupelo stop in; some of the best pizza.  Personally I think it’s better than OVPC.

Saturday night, we went to a Engagement/Wedding shower for Kim and Shane.  Needless to say, Saturday was a very long and tiring day.

Sunday, I help host a baby shower for a friend.  I made a cute diaper cake for the table decoration.  To be a first timer in making one, I found they were super easy to make and quiet fun.  I wish I had embellished it some, but there is always the next one next month I’m helping give. We had cupcakes from one of my new favorite bakers, Sugar Rush. I made her a swaddling blanket and I just realized I didn’t take a picture of it!!!  This the first gift I made that I forgot to document it. :(  I’ll have to get Courtney to take one for me and send it to me. 

The swaddling blankets have been fun and easy to whip up for gifts.  I have 3 more I need to make in the next week.  I’ll make sure to take pictures of them. I wish I had a running stitch on my machine, but I have plenty of decorative stitches to choose from which speeds up the process.

I thought it turned out cute!

Clockwise: Strawberry, French Toast with bacon, and White Chocolate Mocha

I finally took a picture of the simple fall table runner I made.  It’s nothing fancy, but it is long enough for the length of my table. 

I need to really press it, but I’m sure you won’t notice. :)  I’m thinking about being brave and doing a Christmas and Halloween one from “scratch”.  I found a great tutorial on how to turn and hem napkins (which I can just apply to this).   

Tonight is the 11th Annual Tupelo Chili Fest!!  I love being able to taste all the chili and get ideas for my own chili!  Last year we tried out adding mashed up peaches and strawberry preserves to it for a little sweet and spicy kick.  Maybe I can snap a few pictures from the event tonight. 

The weekend should be a little low key.  My parents are coming for the weekend tomorrow.  It’s been awhile since they have been here.  I’m looking forward to taking my Mom the the quilt show in town and a few other places.  Not sure what Brian and Dad will be doing, but I’m sure they can fend for themselves.  I really need to get cracking on Christmas gifts I’m planning on making so I won’t be like my Mom and wait till the last minute or the night before!  I can’t wait to share what I’m making.  

This & That

Not much been going on over in my neck of the woods.

Last weekend we went to my parents’ to celebrate my birthday. It was good spending time with them and the nieces. This time it was a short visit since Brian was in Memphis Friday night with the guys to see Dark Star, but an enjoyable one.

For my birthday, I asked for money to put toward a new sewing machine. My poor “loaner” machine finally bit the dust a month ago. I guess after almost 45 years, it was time. Not sure how long before she got married Mom had it, but she did make her wedding dress with it. I put her in charge of looking around for a new one for me. She found one, Janome DC2010, she thought would be a good machine for me. Then we saw Hancock was having a huge sale and they had a Janome 8050 on sale for half the price of the DC2010. Last weekend we checked out both and from what we could tell, the 8050 had the features as the DC2010, just designed differently. I had to order it due to they did not have any in stock, so Mom and Dad are meeting us for dinner to delivery it to me! I’m so happy I did laundry yesterday, we decided not to go to the game (early games with no tickets makes it hard to hang out with the fam), and plan to clean house tonight so I can spend all day tomorrow playing and learning about my new toy! I’m not used to an electric machine like this one. It will be a learning curve I’m sure. All I need now is for mom to teach me how to really sew so I can start making more interesting things. I really want to learn how to appliqué so I can make more flags for the holidays (my yard flag) and those cute little kids shirts as gifts. I need to get back into my quilts as well. Sigh, too many projects and not enough time. :)

Here are a couple of fun stories about Ole Miss and football.

Oh, have a mentioned how I'm SOOOO ready for fall! I'm actually ready for it to start getting dark earlier; which is so unlike me.

Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!