Fall Challenge 2024

[hana]

2024 is moving very fast. Sorry it took so long to make this post, work has been busy.

The leaves are turning in my area, and the pollen count is really high. Parts of the harvest are coming in and soon is Halloween.

Here's my Fall list
Fall trip
Finish scarf 60% done
Finish trunk quilt 4 of 5 done, need to assemble the last one
Start cardigan
Organize hats and mittens for donations
Pull out and air out duvet
Out away Summer clothes and pull out Winter clothes?
Start patch quilts for nieces
Halloween haunted house

Going to be a busy fall. Some of these will be longer projects. The patch quilts are going to the nieces. Mom bought a patch as a cheap souvenir for her travels, so she has 60+ years of patches. Due to illness and other reasons my parents decided to stop most traveling other than trips to see offspring or the odd trip to Las Vegas. I took her collection of patches and said I would do something with it, and it's a surprise. Going to make 3 quilts and use the patches to decorate them. Currently trying to match each sister to the school trip mom chaperoned. Have the family trips and my mom chaperoned field trips separated. Hoping to give them at Christmas next year.

[rosarugosa]

Hana: those patch quilts sound like they will be such wonderful, meaningful gifts! Would love to see pics when they are done, if you are inclined to share.

[rosarugosa]

My list for the fall isn't going to be too extensive, because making and preparing for two craft fairs is pretty time consuming. I think other more interesting home projects will have to wait until winter.

• Prepare/participate in craft fair on 10/19
• Prepare/participate in craft fair on 12/7
• Semi-annual closet cleanout/rotation
• Seasonal miscellany: hammock, container plants, hoses, storm door panels, fountain, put up indoor fairy lights, clean/store fans
• Review and cull book collection

Yesterday, we spent a few hours pulling out all the pottery from the cellar, looking it over, pricing it, and packing it in a more organized manner. We are pricing things pretty cheap because we're really eager to get a lot of this stuff out of the house. There's no way we'll sell it all at this little fair, so the work helps to better position us for the December fair as well.

[rosarugosa]

Closet is done, hammock is stored, and I'm slowly working on container plants. I've brought a couple indoors, but that isn't an option for many of them because they're toxic to cats, plus I have limited space indoors (with already a lot of houseplants). I did take a bunch of cuttings from some of my "must have" annuals, some of which I went to lengths to acquire. I won't know until next spring if that's a viable strategy, but it's worth a shot.
We did the 10/19/24 craft fair. It wasn't much of a fair (which we knew going in), but it was close to home, convenient, with a low table fee, and we sold about $320. worth of pottery. So it was worth our while and we had a good enough time doing it. After the fair, I decided to throw away our collection of "seconds." That hurt a little bit, but the relief of unloading the excess pottery outweighed it, and I'm sure we'll be able to produce more seconds in the future, lol.

[nswef]

Congratulations, Rosa on the clearing out of seconds and sales!! I find throwing away art I've done is very difficult...so I admire you tackling that! Our success yesterday was clearing the grass from a flowerbed in front of the house. It didn't take nearly as long as expected and it was a perfect day! one big job done!!!

[iris lilies]

That is a tidy sum, rosa.

we brought plants in eaely in the week. Imdomhave some toxic to cats but our cats do not bother the plants. After the i itial,i troduction to ijr house, they leave them alone.i keep super toxic ones in a basement sunny room out of their way.

[happystuff]

Very nice, rr. I actually attended a pottery sale in conjunction with a food pantry fundraiser yesterday. Ended up with a couple of small, potential Christmas gifts and a new coffee mug. I thought of you while perusing the pieces.