I received a package in the mail from my mom yesterday. It was one of my coats that i left at home, for when it gets cold… a knitting book, and two AMAZING mugs. I absolutely love the cupcake mugs (& my mom!). Mom packages are always the best ♥

and other exciting news, today vic & I went out looking for places to live in hagerstown! we’re moving back to hagerstown within the next month (by the end of Nov)! i also picked up that sweet fall donut while we were out… mmm. I’m so excited, because this will save us money on gas, plus i wont have to drive to work in the snow when it gets cold. this also means we can have a more spacious house (our current house is pretty much a sardine can). We found a few places we like, and we’re going to go look at the insides this week (hopefully)…! hopefully we’ll find a place we can stay for a few years.

ps; my hat is starting to look like a hat! :D

first of all, look what i did a few days ago!

i got my septum pierced! i was kind of itching to do something new, and theres only a few different piercings i can do right now, with work (i have to be able to hide them), so i decided to do this. Vic did it for me, and wonderfully, might i add. :) It really didnt hurt at all; i was so nervous because i had heard that this particular piercing hurts a lot… but it was so easy! yay! I love it, and i just flip it up for work :)

in other news, i got my business cards in the mail! I’m mainly just going to use them to tell people about my blog for now. i love them, though.

i had knitting class thursday night, and i learned to “knit in the round” or circular knit. now i can make socks and hats, and tons of other things! i find this style of knitting to be more satisfying than knitting in rows. it feels like i’m accomplishing more for some reason. I’ve already done half a hat! the needles are cool, too. they have a plastic piece that connects the two at the ends, so your knitting basically never stops until you decrease stiches to finish it off. :)

and now, for some pictures of cute things, because that is what makes me happy.

and this one is for you, mom:

the leaves are finally changing colors, which is something that is pretty much non-existant in texas… so i promised some pictures for my mom & dad! :)

last sunday, we took a trip to catoctin mountain orchard, because I was in search of a real pumpkin patch (like, “pick your own” style)… it was about an hour away, and sadly they didnt really have a patch, but it was still way worth the trip. I had a lot of fun. We got a few big pumpkins, 4 smaller ones, and about 8 little gourds to decorate our dinner table with. they also had fresh apples, and something that i’d never heard of… pear cider! the apples were SO delicious, it almost makes me not want to buy them from the grocery store anymore. haha.
on the way home, we saw another place that looked a bit more promising as to what i was originally looking for (crumland), but it was too late to stop by that day. maybe another trip is in order. :) and last, but not least, here is the final product:

sadly, they molded over about two days later… resulting in flies in our kitchen… so we had to chunk them in the trash. :( atleast it was fun carving them!