being crafty to bring in the fall

I think it's finally time to give up the assertion that I'm not crafty.  Sure, my crafts might have clearly defined patterns and might seem "repetitive" to some people.  But I think they're cute nonetheless.  

Last winter, I had a bow on my door at work.  When Christmas was over, I removed the bow but left the hook intending to figure out something else.  Well I had an idea!  Much like my seasonal decorations on my Christmas tree (currently I have fake leaves on the tree), I could create a seasonal wreath, but cute!

So I made this:

The center is chalkboard beads that read "Happy Fall Y'all" :D

I'm super pleased with it and already planning the one I'm going to hang in the winter instead of the store-bought bow.  

I'll go enjoy my pumpkin spice latte now and dangit I'm going to summon fall if it has to come kicking and screaming!

Happy October y'all!

-adaline :)

questions from a napkin #1

Yes, the title does indeed infer that a napkin is asking questions.  So recently I "splurged" on napkins and bought these conversation starter napkins from Marti Gras at Walmart (that link is not an affiliate link btw.....).  

Today's napkin:

Oh hey lookie I was right about napkins asking questions! ;)

If I owned a food truck, today's special would be pumpkin muffins with cream cheese frosting.   

I recently made pumpkin muffins from a recipe I was sent on facebook.  The ingredients are a box of yellow cake mix and a 15oz can of pumpkin (bake @350 for 20-25 min).  That's. It.  

I took them to work and they were so well received which made me so happy!  That made me realize something about myself: I LOVE to bake and I really, really love to share what I bake because it's something I really enjoy that allows me to show the people I love I care about them and I'm not always the best at that.  


have a tasty day!

-adaline :)

separation limbo

It seems like no matter what your circumstances are or what age you are, there’s always a sense of limbo that becomes the center of small talk.  When you’re single it’s “who are you dating”, when you get married, it’s “when will you have kids”, when you get older it’s “when will you retire”.  I guess after you retire it stops because it actually is rude to ask someone when they’re going to die.  ok well that took a morbid turn -.-

Anyways, there’s another version of limbo no one really talks about: the period after you separate from your spouse and are deciding on reconciliation or the dun-dun-DUN....D word (divorce). When you’re not single but 

Earlier this year, I separated from my husband, moved myself and my cat to a small town I had only ever *been* to a handful of times, and started completely over.  My experience will fill a whole other post so in this one I’ll concentrate (haha) on the limbo part. 

I haven’t been super-public about the separation but I haven’t been private about it either if that makes sense.  Basically if it comes up in conversation I’ll tell people but I don’t just go around “hey-o lookie at me and what I did...”.  The first thing people ask is whether we’re going to get divorced.  Like......wat?  I don’t freaking know!  I just turned my entire life upside down and am trying to let the emotions work themselves out and stabilize before I make any more life altering decisions OK??? 

For a bit I questioned my decision. Shouldn’t I have known what the outcome was going to be?  Does not knowing mean I made the wrong decision?  Was I supposed to “just know” just like when you fall in love?  *snort*  WELL let me just tell you.  If there’s anything I learned is that “love” (or maybe what I thought was love) is BLIND.  B-L-I-N-D.  Put a blindfold on in the pitch black blind.  (again, another post)

So how about we focus less on asking people “what’s next” and more of “how ARE you”.  

Also, please do not regale me with stories of your sister’s in-law’s cousin’s horror story of divorce and how it went on forever.  That shit is just depressing. 

That’s all I got for now. Chat atcha later :)
-A

street signs

Ok I know what you’re thinking: how could there be anything interesting about street signs?  Well bear with me.  

I had a revelation recently.  I’ve been driving for more than half my life and I just figured what the “UNEVEN LANES” sign means.  I had always thought it meant the lanes were different widths while they were getting everything re-paved and may not have measured the lane widths exactly.  No no no.  What it means is one or more lanes is higher off the ground than another.  You can probably guess *how* I came to this realization: while I was changing lanes and had to navigate an approximate 1 inch difference in road height.  

Said sign also prompted a question: why make a sign a diamond?  It’s not a fancy shape, it’s just a square sign that got a bit tipsy.  So I looked it up.  Click Here to read it yourself, but basically the shapes/colors are different to be a quick indicator to drivers to make processing the information easier.  Makes sense right?  Pfft, I didn’t need some article to explain it. ;)

-adaline :)

a little about me

Hi there!

I'm Adaline and I started this blog to share my adventures in this thing called life.  I don’t have any specific theme or center my posts...well at all.  I just write what is going on or what random thoughts pop into my head.  

I live in a small town in the southern United States with my cat. 

I like to watch warm and fuzzy movies and occasionally I get inspired to get crafty.  

And every once in a while I screw with my brain and sleep on the wrong end of the bed. Luckily I have clean feet ;)

I want this to be more in-depth than the about me section on the sidebar, but I also want it to be the first post and I'm feeling inspired, so I'll come back and edit it later.  :)

-A