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I complain about the weather for all but two months out of the year – November is one of the good ones here in Kansas City.

It’s cold, but usually sunny, and the first snowfall is exciting (as opposed to the thirteenth one in February when I’m “enough already!”).

Daylight Saving ending is a hit and a miss – I like the early morning light, but hate the drive home in the dark. Why do people feel like they need to take their evening run at rush hour, on the darkest streets with no sidewalks AND dress in all black to do it?

But the best part of November, by far, is Thanksgiving. It’s our favorite holiday at SuzerSpace, and I have a Pinterest Board (actually two) to prove it.

This month I’m also working on my Etsy shop – this is my first holiday season so I’m not sure what to expect.

I’ve also been practicing my lettering, and my embroidering skills – a craft that combines both is coming up on the blog soon, and it’s perfect for hand made gift giving, so be sure to check in!

Airplane is my very favorite movie. There’s a series of scenes in it where the Lloyd Bridges character says “Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit _____” He fills in that last bit with “smoking” “amphetamines” and “drinking” – it goes on throughout the movie. It’s funny, I swear. And if you don’t like that movie, I’m not really sure we can be friends 🙂 .

At the risk of sharing too much personal information, September here in Kansas City was the wrong month to pick for quitting Aluminum deodorant. I’ve been bombarded with information proving and disproving the health risks of Aluminum, and I’m still not sure it’s a real thing. But I figured it’d be safer to quit it, and I decided September would be a good one to make the switch to a lower chemical based beauty product.

It’s normally a month where the weather is perfect – no need for air conditioning or heating. Not so much this year. Several days were over 90 degrees. We had severe weather from high humidity and high heat – hail and thunderstorms in September! The trees are dropping their leaves because of the change in daylight hours, but I’m wearing shorts to rake them up.

Besides being hot and sweaty, September was Mr. SuzerSpace’s birthday, and we celebrated with our normal monthlong activities.

Hopefully, October will bring us a little heat relief. I’m already crafting up a storm of Halloween items for my Etsy store, and working on my Thanksgiving menu.

Apparently, I say this just about every year, but August went by in a blur. I know I was busy and happy, but when I try and conjure up the highlights, two things stand out – 1) we hired someone to clean the gutters, and it was glorious; and 2) we bought a new toaster, and it is red.

Neither of those two things really sound amazing, but that’s just #reallife.

September is always big around here because so many things happen – college football (On Wisconsin!), NFL football (Chiefs/Packers/Cowboys divided house here), cooler temperatures, and most of all – it’s Mr. SuzerSpace’s birthday month and we celebrate that all month long.

Right now I don’t have big craft projects planned, but I bet I find something fun to paint/sew/letter/glue together.

How about you? Big plans for the start of the new season?