Finally I have a little break in my schedule....I am looking forward to decorating my house for the Fall season. I visited my parents yesterday and was inspired by my mother's decorations. I remember when I was a child coming home from school and having our house transformed to reflect the current season or holiday. What fun!!!

If you live in the Portland/Vancouver area I would encourage you to visit a new store. My friend Beth is having her Grand Opening this weekend. Her store name is Lizzabeth A and it is a wonderful place to find holiday decorations, home furnishings, linens, ceramics....etc. The address for her store is 415 NE Birch Street, Camas, WA.

Beth has invited me to her store for a book signing on Friday, October 21st. Hope to see you there!!

Watch the Creative Home segment on AM Northwest tomorrow morning at 9:00Am. I will be showing how to make Trick or Treat Bags for Halloween. If you miss the show go to the projects page on my web site and click on Trick or Treat Bags for step by step instructions.

Just back from Las Vegas. What a strange place....I saw Elvis.....twice!! Who knew he was short and tall and lived at the airport.

Memory Trends was very busy the first two days. I did not have much time to walk around the show.....but....when I did walk around I saw....paper, paper, paper....embellishments, embellishments, embellishments. It appears that the trends are more contemporary, sleek, clean, and colorful.

I will be attending Memory Trends next week in Las Vegas. I hope to see lots of wondeful new products. I know that Fiskars will be introducing several new tools. I can't wait to tell you about them.

I was the lucky receipient of two new sewing machines this summer. Both are from Brother Sewing Machine Company. I spent several weeks learning how to use them. My other machine was almost 26 years old. It was a wedding present. It was hard to give up the familar old machine but what a difference 26 years makes. I love the new sleek quiet do everything machines!!

The air is very crisp this morning and it rained very hard yesterday. I guess Fall has arrived. I noticed the changing color of leaves this morning when I took my daughter to school. Very beautiful!!

I have been suffering from what I have named PTTYFCTCS. This stands for Post Tramatic Take Your First Child to College Syndrome. This was a very big event at our house a couple of weeks ago. Our son is doing great...it's just his parents that are having a tough time!