(Or what I did in October, 2022)
Fall is my very favorite. Just a little cold, a lot of color, and the days start counting down to my two favorite holidays – the start of the NHL season (that already happened!) and Thanksgiving.
This month I:
- Made English Muffins. Really. It’s way easier than you think, and the part where all the recipes say you can’t use 100% whole flour? WRONG. Yes, they are dense. And delicious.
- Made Wheat Thins. “Susan, why are you baking all these things?” you may ask. Well, it started out by necessity (forgot to add them to the weekly grocery delivery) but now that I’ve tried making my own, I’m never going back. This particular recipe calls for vanilla and butter, but I skip the vanilla, use light olive oil and add salt-free seasoning blends to make my own spicy versions.
- Cleaned my sewing machine. Do you sew? Then stop right now, watch this video and go clean your sewing machine. Even if you don’t have oil (but get some), you’ll be stunned and grossed out by what all the fuzz, and your machine will sound so much better for it.
- Continued my every day drawing practice. That cutie up at the top is my quick colored pencil sketch of one of my favorite Halloween decorations for the house. Instead of just using small squares of watercolor paper, I’ve
*graduated* to using scrap paper from the recycle bin at work that I had a friendly co-worker punch and bind into a little notebook for me.
Hope your Fall has been Fabulous!
