It's the most wonderful tiiiime of the year!

Hey y'all I'm home! Keegan and I got in late Friday night, 11 and a half hours of driving, didn't hit a lot of traffic, ate a lot of snacks, not bad all around. 

I read two books last week:

Dreamer's Pool by Juliet Marillier is a YA book about a young woman who is thrown in prison (time period unknown, but they ride horses so... Medieval?) and gets offered a deal that she can escape if she spends the next 7 years helping anyone who asks for help instead of seeking revenge on the guy who got her thrown in jail. There's some royalty, some magic, some forests involved. The book was a nice diversion from worrying about Christmas presents or lack there of! 

I then read Trapeze by Simon Mawer which I loved and I reccomend to all. It's a fictionalized story of the real women in WWII who were sent undercover into Nazi occupied France to help with the Resistance.  I love reading and learning about the world wars, so this novel was right up my alley. 

Not a book but still awesome, Serial, a spin-off of The American Life by NPR, just ended. It's a podcast, so only online, but you can download them to your device or comp through iTunes or listen online at serialpodcast.org/

A reporter reexamines a 15 year old murder case of a teenager girl in Baltimore. Her ex-boyfriend is currently serving life. The story is compelling and exciting and really made me think about the criminal justice system in America. 

In other news, I crafted so much this week!

I painted a moon phases design onto the back of a over shirt I bought at Salvation Army last month:

First I cut out some templates and chose my colors of fabric paint. I used an old cereal box for the cardboard, draw a circle using a bowl, and then decided how many moon phases I wanted to do. Tulip is my favorite brand of fabric paint.

Happy October!

Wowo I feel like I was just saying Happy Sepetember! Rabbit rabbit!

I've read two books in the past couple days:
Dreams and Shadows by C. Robert Cargill - the first book in the series that I started last week with Queen of Dark Things. Super good if you like YA fantasy which not tons of people I hang out with do.  Dad, this is not your thing.

The Book of Fate by Brad Meltzer might be more up your alley pops! This is a political thriller and mystery. It starts off with the Vice President getting shot and the President's top aide getting seriously injured. It then starts up again 8 years later following that same aide trying to figure out what really happened that day and who orchestrated the whole debacle. Very exciting, not really my thing, I have a chapter left which I don't think I am going to read because the plot twist has been revealed.

I want to make two suggestions to everyone for great reads: Gone Girl and Night Film are both thrillers that I read last spring and loved. Gone Girl is going to be made into a movie soon so it is all in the news. They're both scary in a psychological way, although there are some classic scary bits in there too.

I am now read a CLASSIC, Outlander, by Dianna Gabaldon which is a historical romance that is SO well written and exciting, lots of fight scenes and awesome history about Scotland during the Risings in the late 1700s. As I just googled how to spell the authors last name I discovered that it is a TV MINI SERIES! Do we think I can skip work tomorrow to watch TV all day?!?!?

I am obviously now watching season one episode one while I write this.

Keegan and I have not been up to much this past week, I have been working a lot per usual and Keegan is always stressing about homework or something.

Last Saturday we went to the farmers's market and then stopped at Para for coffee. Low and behold there was a football game and so the store next door was giving out free mimosas!

beautiful and sunny

The nice weather kept up and on Sunday we went hiking! Mint Springs park out in Crozet has lots of trails through the forest. In the summer you can swim in these ponds!

still pretty green out there!

fall colors are showing up!!

then we went to Mudhouse in Crozet and had some italian sodas while I beat him at chess :)

Not much exciting in food news but I did have southern poutine for the first time, so killer - literally

And finally, I've been crafting! I took the construction paper out of the two care packages my mom has sent me and made paper flowers.

Whoo whoo! Well, my show is calling. Luckily I am going to NYC this weekend so I have a really long train ride to watch this!
xoxoxooooo