I traded some of my photos for a bunch of skeins of cotton and rayon handpainted yarn from http://yarntopiatreasures.etsy.com and just had my cousin-in-law and aunt-in-law teach me how to crochet! I really love it and this is the first piece that I made. It is a double wrap button closure scarf in my favorite autumn colors mix. Heaven. My next venture is a super soft cowl neck scarf in greys and pink/purples. It shall be awesome. I'm not sure that I needed to learn another craft but I'm very happy that I did!

By the way, I've just separated my flickr accounts so that we now have one just for Sweetland Retreat to show the progress of our renovations. We will set up a new blog and website after Christmas and I'll post it here. For now the photos of the move in have been transfered, I'll make a new post in a few minutes.

These are some of the crab apples that grow in our yard. This was taken the first time we came to visit the house and they sold me! We can't wait for them to grow again so that we can love them and use them as garnishes. I may try to make a crab apple butter or jam...we shall see.