Yarn Along {Made With Love}

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My current books!

Made with Love by Tricia Goyer and Sherry Gore.

Planted with Hope by Tricia Goyer and Sherry Gore.

These two books are part of The Pinecraft Pie Shop Series, an Amish series.

Now, doesn’t that draw you in?!! BECAUSE………..Pie!!!

My mother had brought me several books of hers earlier this year. Made With Love was one of them. It was in a stack with some other books. Planted With Hope caught my eye at the library and after I realized what it was, I went and sorted through the stack of books for Made With Love.

Sherry Gore has a cookbook that I love called Me, Myself and Pie. The name is so perfect! That’s also the name of the pie shop in Made with Love.

These novels are stories about community and good food, relationships and God’s care and guidance. And they have recipes!

Come to the Family Table  by Ted and Amy Cunningham.

This is an easy-to-read book.

The tagline is “Slow down to enjoy food, each other and Jesus.”

If you’re looking for inspiration to gather around your table and questions to spark conversations or ideas for time spent together as a family, I think you’d enjoy this book.

KID PICK

It’s Winnie-the-Pooh!

Winnie-the-Pooh….chubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff….

I love Winnie-the-Pooh and all his pals, too!

I had lots of Winnie-the-Pooh decor when my kiddos were babies.

Both of their baby books feature Winnie-the-Pooh.

There are so many fun Winnie-the-Pooh books.

I love the life lessons contained in Winnie-the-Pooh stories and I love quotes from Winnie-the-Pooh.

Listen, Love, Repeat: Other-Centered Living in a Self-Centered World

This book releases next week! I’m on the Launch Team to help spread the word.

You can pre-order now. Find it on Amazon here.

There are some great ideas and inspiration in Listen, Love Repeat. I can always use a reminder to think about and care for others.

I’m going to talk about it more next week. I have a post about Hoodwinked over here. Karen Ehman co-authored it with Ruth Schwenk.

I wrote down three goals for this week. I made them attainable, not outlandish.

One of them is to finish this fingerless mitt. Getting there!!

{And yes! I’m glad it doesn’t have to be perfect to be beautiful. Because it is not perfect. I have mistakes.}

The other two are to pack our shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child {click through if you’d like to learn about Operation Christmas Child} and to drop some happy mail in the mail to brighten someone’s day.

I worked on my cross stitch! Yay!!

A couple of pictures featuring my Acorn Autumn Burlap Banner as well as the sweater pumpkins a friend and I made.

I posted about the Burlap Banner on Monday. Go here if you want to read it!

It was fun to make. It’s added a fun dimension and texture to my wheat wreath.

This is another pumpkin I made. I wanted very much to incorporate a pom-pom into one and I managed to! Ha!

Fun pumpkin lineup! Some of these come from The Little Green Bean and the velvet ones were from a local shop.

More close-ups of the pumpkins I crafted.

Fun and simple!

This was my son’s craft over the weekend. Renae was working on some scrapbook pages from her trip to Haiti and Tuck decided he wanted to make something.

This was his creation.

It’s a Gatling gun.

While I’m not that familiar with firearms, I completely got a giggle out of his creativity and use of pink paper straws.

Renae also started reading Don Quixote.

She read somewhere that next to the Bible it is the most translated book. It’s also generally recognized as the first modern novel. Interesting!

I stuck this basket and pillow under the piano bench this week and I really like them there.

The basket contains toys for when our baby nieces or small people visit. Most of the toys stay in the basement, but I like to have a few handy in the living room. Since we don’t use them ourselves anymore, this basket keeps them close and tucked away when we don’t have them out.

A floor covered with toys and daily pick-up used to be part of our routine every single day! 🙂

I had to run out and snap this photo of my roses. We have had very warm weather all through October. We had a shower of rain Sunday evening and we’re so thankful! We need it. Our wheat is THIRSTY!

I planted this rosebush this spring and it has grown over the summer. I think it has bloomed more in the last month than it did all year!

Whew!!! LONG post.

Yay, YOU, if you made it to the end! 😉

Share your goals or projects for the week with me, if you’d like. I should go knit furiously on my mitt…………………………

 

Linking up with Ginny and Frontier Dreams ~

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