Fall Fun Fridays: Autumn Outdoors

Every year, one of my favorite Fall Fun series prompts involves getting outside and exploring the splendor autumn has to offer. I wish I had done more, a woodland walk, a haunted hayride, maybe even a backyard bonfire, but our weekends were spent on other obligations. I did sneak in a few outdoorsy excursions with...

Fall Fun Fridays: DIY-Cobbled keto pie, birch yarn art, fall branch decor

You know I must be serious about this low-carb lifestyle if I chose to bake a pie. My only previous attempts have been instant pudding pies with store-bought graham cracker crusts. Finding a low-carb, sugar alternative pie with an ingredient list I could actually obtain was no small challenge. For this version I cobbled together two...

Fall Fun Fridays: Autumn dreams

Summer is the season when I let my travel dreams run free. Or, while suffering cabin fever in the occasional blizzard situation, I've fantasized winter daydreams of escape, but I don't think I've ever properly imagined an autumn fantasy trip. Enter today's Fall Fun Fridays series prompt: If money and logistics were no problem, where...

Fall Fun Fridays: beauty, nails, scrubs, apples and hallows

Fall Fun Friday's prompt is to include fashion, beauty and accessories that are seasonal favorites or special autumn pieces.  In previous fall fashion posts, I've mentioned my plaid obsession and shared a wishlist for spooky inspired attire but the truth is, I don't have much to feature fashion-wise. My biggest seasonal change may be swapping...

Fall Fun Fridays: to-be read, to-be-watched list

Fall Fun Fridays are upon us and I hope you enjoy what the FFF bloggers are sharing today, a subject close to my heart: what we're reading, watching, bingeing and hoping will entertain us this Fall. My tbr stack for Autumn 2018 is strange...a mish-mash of reading challenge prompts to complete, one intriguing advanced reader's copy...

Fall Fun Series II: The Finale

It's time to put the Fall Fun Series to bed with a countdown of favorite products and moments of the season, and a sleepy sort of season it was. After the leaves settled I can say, I celebrated in every Autumnal moment save two (Seasonal movies/songs/reads and Fall craft or recipe) but I did combine those...

Fall Fun Series: To thine own self be thankful

Today's prompt idea was generated by Sandra, from Finger Candy, blogger from the Northern wilds (of cosmopolitan Ontario). Leave it to a Canadian to turn the established notion of gratitude upside down and challenge us FFSers to thank ourselves this Thanksgiving. Quite honestly, this one made me a little anxious. Not that I'm reluctant to...

Fall Fun: Thanksgiving

On Thursday, I'm gonna be: But never:This is a possibility:  However, this is definite: Accurate: This about sums it up too: If I seem to be avoiding an authentic Thanksgiving traditions and plans post, indeed, I am. Forgive me friends, dealing with the holidays, the grief, and how the gatherings have changed the last few...

Fall Fun Series: Craving Cranberry

Possible name change in order, from FALL Fun to WINTER Fun Series, at least here in the Midwest where record breaking cold temps moved in this weekend. Winter's frosty grip reached out a hand as flakes flew on Friday and our early Saturday morning Speech tournament commute started out at a balmy 13 degrees! Though...

Fall Fun Series: Into the Woods

Or to put it less poetically, what's Autumn good for if you don't wander outdoors and explore it's splendor? It was that thought that led to me talking my husband into accompanying my dog and I one September afternoon on an early Fall hike. We traveled to resplendent Rocky River Reservation, a woodland park about...