Oh Nuts

I know that the Advent season doesn't start until Sunday, but I wanted to share a photography Advent calendar that I put together a while back. I made it because I had done a photography Advent calendar two years ago and I enjoyed doing it and I wanted to do it again this year. When I created the calendar there weren't any Advent photo a day calendars for 2017 yet, so I pulled ideas from several different photo a day calendars that I found from previous years and created my own. So here is the list for the calendar and I will be posting the pictures I take like I have been with the 40 Week challenge photos. Day 1: Preparation Day 2: Journey Day 3: Tradition Day 4: Faith Day 5: Home Day 6: Love Day 7: New Day 8: Memory Day 9: Season Day 10: Ponder Day 11: Foretold Day 12: Family Day 13: Warm Day 14: Mystery Day 15: Red Day 16: Illuminate Day 17: Music Day 18: Angels Day 19: Lights Day 20: Tree Day 21: Star Day 22: Community ...

It's seven days into NaNoWriMo and I currently have 10,042 words (and counting). Last year was the first time that I had ever heard of or attempted word crawls to help me get further along in my writing. I did a Hamilton themed and Lord of the Rings themed word crawl, though I didn't finish either of them. This year I decided to try writing one. The book that I did a word crawl for is "Anne of Green Gables." Crawls:  These are usually long, game-like challenges that follow a specific theme, and vary wildly based on the person creating the challenge. These are less competitive, more about challenging yourself.  So without further ado here is the crawl that I put together.  Chapter I .  Mrs. Rachel Lynde is Surprised . As Matthew Cuthbert drives to the train station and goes past the Lynde residents, surprising Mrs. Rachel Lynde, write 300 words. As Rachel Lynde and Marilla converse about the Cuthbert’s getting help from an orphanage sprint for 3 mins. Ch...

Back at the beginning of summer, I learned that another cousin was expecting her first. So I started coming up with color ideas to use, other than green and yellow since I had just used those colors for baby blankets. Since I didn't know the gender at the time I decided to go with gray and purple. The colors that I picked out were Lion's Brand Vanna's Choice: Silver Heather, Eggplant, and Dusty Purple. I picked these three colors because I was originally going to make a mitered square blanket (there is a pattern online for this blanket). But as I started working on it one of the squares was larger than the rest and I knew it would look bad if I kept it that way. So I looked for a different blanket pattern that I could make quickly and easily. And in my searching, I came across the Corner to Corner Blanket (C2C) and I went with it because I knew that I could make it quickly. When I made the blanket I used the Silver Heather and Dusty purple for the blanket. Original...

I couldn't decide which picture I liked better so I decided to use both.