Howling at the Moon

The Kitchen Door

For Halloween I had lots of nice projects in mind that I wanted to make, but after discovering a great Etsy Pattern Store called The Velvet Acorn , knitting fever came over me and all planned projects had to give way.  The first thing I made, is this one for my youngest daughter, called the Azel Pullover. www.betweennapsontheporch.net Pattern to find here ~*~

Did you try the delicious Chestnut Soup recipe I shared last week? To serve beside I made Buttermilk Corn Bread , that went wonderfully well together with the soup because of the sweetness of the bread.   www.betweennapsontheporch.net ~*~ Next week I want to make what seems the most heavenly cake ever!  Pumpkin Cheese Cake !

My daughter had a birthday party of a class mate this week and asked me to make a card. The girl who was having her birthday is a horse girl (not entirely sure this is a word other languages recognize, but 'horse girl' is a Dutch word for girls with a life that's totally about horses), so the card, and the presents of course, had to do something with horses.  Years ago I made some paper cutting art (didn't blog back then, so I'm very sorry to say that the paper cut heart isn't recorded anywhere here on this blog) with a Martha Stewart pattern and just this weekend I found the little knife I used for for the cutting, so it seemed like a nice idea to pick up the paper cutting art to make a nice horse card.   www.betweennapsontheporch.net

A colleague of mine is totally into Japan and has traveled around there for three times now. The last time she was in Japan she shared a couple of pink children's chopsticks on Instagram to let everybody know she was expecting a little girl, so making a little kokeshi doll for the baby seemed logical.    www.betweennapsontheporch.net I found the free pattern for the doll here   ~*~ Frankenstein , Zombie Brian and Vlad were all featured by Strawberry Butterscotch ! Thank you very much, Anna!