The Pumpkin Pledge

I hereby pledge to never use anything other than a real pie pumpkin in any of my baking.

I just tried the pumpkin muffins made from the halloween pumpkin Amy gave me. I love my pumpkin muffin recipe. I tweaked the spices and quantity of pumpkin until I had it exactly right for my tastes. I made these with my usual 3.5 cups of pumpkin, but I can't taste the pumpkin in these at all. They might as well be spice muffins. At least the pumpkin-cranberry bread recipe in the oven isn't so pumpkin dependent for taste. Bleh.

I must get a new digital postal scale. I've been relying on the large utility postage scale Luis brought me ever since my last digital died. That's great for 99% of orders, but I realized today that I had no way to specifically weigh out an 8 oz order of wool batting. This is the first time someone hasn't ordered 2# plus. I'm sure I gave her more like 3/4 of a pound, but I'd rather be over than under.

Isabella cut her hair. *sob* Right in the front. She is not a bangs child, and the front of her hair was finally long enough to curve around her jawline in the cutest way. Now it lands around the bridge of her nose. It's too short to pull back into a hair elastic like she likes, and I don't want to give her bangs. It looks like we'll be stuck with months of barrettes. Argh! We've talked about it, and I hope she doesn't do it again.

The stripes on the back of Vincent's sweater are all done, now to just finish the upper lime green part. If I can get this done by 11-24 (yeah, I can dream, right?) maybe he can wear it when we get all three kids' picture taken. I swatched out the Skyline. It's 15.75 stitches/4" on size 10s. This stuff is supposed to be 3.25 sts/inch, but I don't see it. I wouldn't want it much looser than it is now. I'm going to make the Craving to Knit cardigan from The Yarn Girls'. That needs a guage of 16 sts/4", so I'm a little looser, but that shouldn't be a problem. It seems like their patterns run a little small anyways imo.