Indian Summer

It was such a nice day yesterday! Sunny and in the mid-50's. Today is going to be even better - in the mid-60's! But I'm at work so I can't enjoy it. On Sunday I planted 100 spring bulbs in my new garden. Then I put all the gardens to bed for the year, cutting all the spent stems and leaves and covering the whole lot with hay. I managed to cut the grass and trim the yard, hopefully for the last time this season. Because of all this work, I did miss one of the Halloween parties I was planning on taking the pugs to. But I did make Saturday's party and have posted a couple of pictures. Katrina asked what we do at a pug Halloween party. Mostly it's for us people, we chat about our pugs and laugh at their costumes and antics and we get to enjoy hot drinks and donuts. The pugs love to play together and it really is fun to watch them run around and wrestle each other. Here are a couple of pictures (Molly is the sunflower and Clancy is the cowboy). I'll try to get better photos of my two tomorrow in their costumes. Clancy is really cute in his cowboy costume. I even made him faux-suede chaps!
I had major plans to stitch most of the weekend but I didn't get much done at all, I've been in such a funk lately. I wanted to finish up block 10 of the Village and as of last night I was about 75% there. The barn just needs it's chimney's and it's done and I have to do the little motif at the top. There is a chance I might have it completed by tomorrow night. And that's about it! Below is my progress on Quaker Meetinghouse, I did work on it on the way to work - I finished one of the smaller motifs to the left. I won't be finished by Tuesday that is for sure so I'm off my October goals a bit. I'm not that concerned however, because I added a couple of ornaments that weren't on my list. I need to think about what my goals are for November. I only have two projects other than my WIP's ready to go - Quaker Samplers I and II by With My Needle and Autumn Silhouette from Blackbird Designs. I'm not sure if I feel like doing another autumn piece right now. I might wait to see what the new loose feather design is and do that instead - it should be out any time now.

Whatever I didn't finish in October I will finish up for sure in November. I have a week off at the end of the month around Thanksgiving and will probably spend a lot of it stitching. I also need to get going on a small Christmas quilted wall hanging. Every year with my family we have a white elephant game and I always quilt something that goes with the theme we have chosen for the year. This year our theme is a sleigh. I found a really cute quilt of Santa in his sleigh.

This is a lot of work however, and I'm not really sure I want to go through that much trouble right now. I'm sure I could find a cute little ornament with a sleigh on it to cross-stitch. If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.