Yesterday was sunny and warm and beautiful. Today? Rainy and dark. Guess which one I prefer.
And before you ask, I have yet to shred.
I’ve read about this happening but this is my first experience with it. Swarming ladybugs. I took Scout for a walk around the yard yesterday and I kept getting dive-bombed by ladybugs! They are everywhere right now.
They seem to congregate by the kitchen door and along the front porch posts and railings.
I love ladybugs so I was delighted and fascinated. Enter Google. Apparently they do this in the fall as they are looking for a warm place to park themselves for the winter. Time to hibernate, my little ladybugs. Go ahead, use my porch, you can stay for free. They get in the house, of course, and while I love seeing them, they will die if they stay here, so I try to rescue them and put them back outside.
And just when I thought my plants had stopped blooming, look what I discovered:
A lovely little Clematis flower. That was a delightful surprise.
Don was in NYC yesterday and I knew he would be near Lincoln Center. That means he was near a favorite place of mine.
Sorry for the quality. It was dark outside. Yes, he brought me 3 Magnolia Bakery Cupcakes!
I may have twisted his arm a little.
I ate number one last night as we watched baseball. By the way, congratulations to my hometown team, the Detroit Tigers! Couldn’t be happier. Well, if the Red Sox were going to the World Series, I would be happier, but I’m pretty happy about the Tigers.
I’ll be back at 8:00 pm EST for A Favorite Thing.
I’ve listed a new scarf in the Etsy Shop. For those of you who have a problem with wool, this one is made from Silk and Bamboo yarn and, believe me, it is incredibly soft and silky on your skin.
Update: Sold. I’m starting a new scarf as I write this!
Happy Friday.
Couldn’t think of a better way to start the weekend. Hope your weather holds out so you can get out and a bout to see some more Fall Colors and get a good walk in. Feels like winter is on it’s way here.
Yes, I think it’s on the way…Fall is fading fast!
Lady bugs and cupcakes, and that scarf….oh lovely.
And add in a sweet clematis life is good…did the cupcakes have buttercream icing?
Jen @ Muddy Boot Dreams
Yes! Oh, so yummy!
Interesting facts about lady bugs! Oh how I would love to be in such close proximity to NYC!
Love the new scarf. How do you like using Etsy and Paypal? I have both an Etsy and Paypal account, but I prefer to do my selling without it.
Have a great day!
xo Kris
I’ve had no problems with Paypal and Etsy. Makes my life much easier!
Those dear little lady bugs. So sweet and so helpful in our gardens. Yes, do let them use your porch! I just love the graphics on the Magnolia Bakery bags and boxes. Just perfect in my way of thinking. We have the same weather here. Yesterday sunny and beautiful. Today cool, dark and rainy. I am loving the weather today. I don’t have to work until later this afternoon and I am wearing my flannel jammies, drinking hot tea, reading lovely blogs and Bentley is curled up next to me. Heaven! See you at your party tonight!!
Hugs from Idaho,
Susan and Bentley
Well, what a coincidence, Susan – I’m in my flannel pajamas right now, too. And it’s 11:15 AM!
I snapped that scarf up, Claudia, for I am allergic to wool.
Brenda
That was a surprise! I’m so glad you like it, my friend!
I was just thinking, my that scarf looks beautiful and then I read, sold, really I should look here first thing in the morning!!! I love ladybugs when then gather, it’s so interesting to watch them, makes me want to paint them.
You are so lucky to be able to have Magnolia Bakery, I wonder if their cookbook is really the recipes they use?
Have a great day!
Hugs,
Mags
xx
I’ll be making some more, never fear, Mags! I’m not sure about the cookbook – but I think it is their recipes.
I don’t mind the lady bugs. Right now I am finding live wasps sometimes and those darn stink bugs! We think they are coming in from the chimney. My dogs are afraid of flies and gnats so you can imagine how they react to a wasp or a stink bug buzzing by! Everyone wants in before the weather turns cold! It’s sunny here right now but rain coming again later on. So sweet of Don to bring you some cupcakes!~Hugs, Patti
I saw some wasps right by the ladybugs and I read that they feed on ladybugs. Bad wasps! It’s raining really hard at the moment.
I think those are Asian Lady Bugs. I think they sting. If I remember right, anyway. For a couple years we had so many. I just saw the first one here this week.
Okay, Brenda beat me to the scarf. I would love on in pink if you could make one. No hurry…..they look so soft and I can’t do the wool.
Have a happy week-end.
I’ll look for pink, but this particular silk/bamboo doesn’t come in pink. What about cream?
That would be perfect. Probably even better than pink. Yeah.
Cool fact about the lady bugs. We had a bunch one year in one of the bedrooms and I was perplexed.
Love that scarf – so pretty and romantic!
Enjoy your weekend!
Leann
Thank you, Leann – have a great weekend!
We’ve had the ladybugs before, and you are right that they are everywhere.
Claudia, I love that scarf. I wish I had been the lucky buyer.
Beverly, I will be making more. Have to find some more of that yarn.
I love the color of the scarf I was all ready to head over to buy it and then saw your update. I do hope you plan on making more in this color. Do you take special orders?
I do. But first, let me see if I can get more of that color…unless you’re interested in a different color?
Love that color, thanks. I look forward to hearing from you.
Just bought some more yarn in that blue, are you still interested?
I’m so happy to hear you we’re able to get more yarn, I love the color. It will be perfect for Michigan winters. Please let me know to purchase. Do you still list it on Etsy or do I just send you send you a check?
Thank you
Kathleen
I will list it on Etsy as reserved for you. If you can message me at my contact email address (on my sidebar) I will email you when it’s ready to be listed. You can pay through Etsy.
The paper will wait. The cupcakes won’t… :-) Gorgeous scarf! I’ve made those and they are so fun to do. It was hard to figure out the first one, but the following ones were great. Have you checked out my dollhouse yet? I’m having lunch with 2 of my local blogger friends today! Fun! ((hugs)), Teresa :-)
Teresa, I’m on my way over to see your dollhouse.
They want to come in, but like you said they won’t survive in your house. Bamboo is amazingly soft. Very pretty.
Hugs,
Laura
Thanks, Laura.
Oh that scarf is so pretty! =]
Thanks!
I love ladybugs, Claudia, and am envious of yours. I didn’t see many this summer and they’re so jolly (not to mention useful!) in the garden. However I did see Mr. Mantis (or perhaps Mrs. …. not sure) and that was a happy day. I hope he/she ate his/her share of garden pests! Here in New England we are very, very sad for the Sox, but very, very glad for any team that eliminates the Yankees! It’s raining here, today, too, but they’re promising sun this weekend. I hope you have a lovely one!
Yes, indeed, I”m thrilled the Yankees are out of it all. And quite spectacularly, I might add.
Pretty scarf..love the color..
Gorgeous scarf… and love the ladybugs.
Ladybug Ladybug fly away home……
My brother and sister in law live in a fairly new home built on the slope of a mountain in Tenn. Every year they are invaded by ladybugs, millions and millions of them. He has to take his wet vac and vac. them out of the house a few times and he says they can sit on their screened in back porch and see them marching onto their property out of the
woods. Their land is beautiful and right next to the deep woods. They really love living there after having lived most
of their life here in Fla.
Hi Claudia,
Last year, my Daughter and I went to the city. Her on business.. I just tagged along. We passed the Bakery as we walked. The line was out the door being the weekend. I told my Daughter on the way to the car, we need to stop. Well, when it was time to go the line was even longer…. I was so bummed!!! Anyway, that was my very, very short experience with Magnolia Bakery. Enjoy a little slice of heaven. Lovely scarf :)
Have a great weekend,
xxx Liz
Woo hoo!!!! Go Tigers!!!!! Our hometown needs something to lift it’s spirits and the Tigers are hot right now! That is so cool to find the clematis bloom. You have ladybugs and we have the box elders. They’re all over the place! You and I love ladybugs but I’m not fond of box elder bugs but I do take them outside. There is a little country home store in Dixborro (near Ann Arbor) that has lady bugs and a few box elders that manage to live inside all winter. Nobody minds, because we’re used to them.