T Stands for This and That about Last Week

 Hi everyone. Happy Monday night/ Tuesday to everyone, especially to the lovely ladies who join in for T. It is already time for T once again over at Bleubeard's and Elizabeth's blog.

Last week was a good week for me. It was a nice mix of having some time to myself and  some social time too.  I also started  a cleaning project which maybe wasn't the smartest thing to do seeing my daughter announced she was coming home for part of the weekend and that meant I had to push the whole project into a corner so she would have a bed to sleep in.  Plus we even had a little bit of snow one day. I'm definitely not ready for winter, but Thursday's precipitation was a reminder it is coming at some point. 

Let me start this post with  2  T related views for this week. Last Wednesday I went out with a friend, and we had a sandwich with a cup of   tea  at a coffee shop in a nearby town. They had this hand-drawn poster on the wall that I thought you coffee lovers might enjoy.

Down the street from the coffee shop is a wine bar, and  at this wine bar there were these fun scarecrows at a table outside. They even had some wine-like substance in the glasses.  The pumpkin lady looks like she is enjoying the sun on her face, but I think the pumpkin man might have been the one to drink most of the bottle-hee-hee.

Of course I forgot to take a photo of my chai tea latte. 😞

And as I mentioned, last week we had our first snow too. Just a little over an inch (2.5 cm),  and it mostly melted the next day.

The day before it snowed we had a lot of wind, and that brought a lot of the leaves down off the trees.  Since there are mostly oak trees in the woods around my house, oak leaves are everywhere.

I read an interesting article about oak leaves recently too.  In order to use them as compost, they must be shredded. Otherwise the leaves stick together and form a thick mat that the plants underneath (i.e., those shooting up in the spring) can't easily  break though. (Yup, been there, know that.)  Other leaves decompose much easier than oaks. Here's the article if anyone is interested: Garden Myths-Oak Leaves.

I don't know if anyone remembers, but when I visited Iceland this past June I bought some yarn for a sweater. I think I showed you part of a sleeve I'd started knitting. Now that the weather has cooled off, I am cranking away on this project.

Icelandic pullover sweaters are knit in the round. I like to make the sleeves first, that way when I get up to the armpits on the body, I can then insert the sleeves and finish up the sweater. I will share more when more gets completed.

The other thing I worked on last week was the cleaning and purging project I mentioned at the beginning of my post.  My mess is an oddball collection of some books I cleaned out  quite  a while ago  as well  as some clothes.  I will donate these.  However, I also had 4 bins of craft supplies that I never emptied. These bins were packed up almost 2 years ago when my husband and I redid the spare bedroom (which is my craft space.)

I had piles all over in my daughter's old room, and then she called and said that since she had last Friday off for the Veterans Day holiday she was going to come home. I ended up pushing everything  into a corner so she'd have some room.  What a mess.

I did a great job purging lots of the old craft supplies. I figured that if they'd sat in a bin for 2 years, and I didn't miss them, then I didn't need them. I thought I would separate them into  big  lots (filling a box), and I would first try listing them online for sale. I may not get them listed until after the holidays, but I sorted and boxed them up. 

Oh  boy!  Hopefully this week I can take care of some if not all of that mess-😏

That's all for me this week. I'm wishing everyone a great T day and week ahead.