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Happy Autumnal Equinox Eve!  I'm celebrating early.  It actually takes place on Wednesday the 22nd at 11:09pm but I'll probably be asleep by then so I thought I'd better bring it up now.

I am so very ready.  I want sweaters and Honey Crisp apples and pumpkin spiced candles and hot mugs of milky tea and yellow and orange leaves blanketing the lawn.  Ooh and crackling fires in the fireplace.

Yep.  I'm ready.

I am irrationally thrilled by anything that comes via Royal Mail.  Just sounds better than regular, old, for the unwashed masses, mail.  

I have this really bad habit of finding fun things to share with you on my Friday Favorites then I have to have it myself.  It could prove to be an expensive habit.  And probably totally annoying when it's a one of a kind item.  Sort of like "Here you go, isn't it fabulous?  Well too bad, it's mine now."

I'm trying to be better about it and I've really only done it twice.

Anyway – enough guilt – here's what came via Royal Mail.  And honestly, can you blame me for needing to own it?

 

 

I have started working on the prototype of the annual Halloween Party invitation.  I feel each year that I need to top myself.  Kind of like Ryan and his Halloween costumes. 

I did do a mock-up but will withhold clear pictures until I receive some rubberstamps I've ordered for the final product. 

I discovered this online rubberstamp purveyor and I love them!  Stamp Francisco   You would think they would be local to me but turns out they are based out of Washington.  They only do online orders so it doesn't really matter where they are located. 

Can I just say how hard it is to find grey paper?  Why is that?  I went to my local stamp shop in Roseville (The Stamp Art Shoppe – fabulous artsy stamps.  Not too much of the cutesy which I abhor) and they didn't have any grey.  Went to Michael's (who has an abysmal stamp selection – why even bother?) – nothing.  I ended up with some silvery paper for my prototype and will try to a couple of shops local to my dad before I give up and try ordering online.  

Now I just need to figure out my costume….

We are in full-on egg production mode here.  We have at least two layers at this point.  They lay different shaped eggs.  One makes rounder eggs than the other. 

On Sunday when we got home from the wedding festivities we had a grand total of eight eggs for the week.  So I made an omelet.

I admit to being a bit weirded out by eating the first egg.  I don't know why.  I guess I like my food to come packaged in styrofoam even though I talk a good game about eating locally and organic. 

But I took out all the eggs and started cracking them in a bowl.  First observation – the shells of freshly picked from the coop eggs are thicker and harder than store-bought eggs.  At one point I just handed one to Rick and told him there was something wrong with it. 

But they were all fine.  Looked like normal eggs when they were cracked open. 

I figured simple was the way to go.  So I just made an omelet with a bit of cheddar cheese and some herbs.  And you know what?  It tasted like……eggs!  Nothing weird.  Nothing super amazing (but I've been buying Eggland's Best eggs for a couple of years now and they taste way better than normal store bought eggs). 

I went out this afternoon and there were two eggs in the nesting boxes.  At least they have gotten the hang of that.  Prior to that they were just laying them willy nilly all over the run.  Mostly in the most inaccessible corner under the coop.

So – I'm thinking a souffle next.  Or maybe egg custard.