I made a trip to the post office today. Sent out the giveaway pack to Katrina, sent a little something to my friend Traci, and another little something to a little somebody I haven't met yet. Little Nola Kelso will be arriving next month and though I'm sure that she has a closet full of lovely things, I wanted to make her some Mini Mary Janes from Aunt Mary. So off they went, all boxed, wrapped and labeled. I took pictures but I'll wait until next week to show you so that Jessica won't see them here first.

The boys love going to the post office and I couldn't figure out why until Ivan ran straight to the counter shouting, "I want a sucker! I want a sucker!"

Yikes.

Yeah...I'm working on that.

I'd love to tell you that I was on top of that behavior, but I'll just keep it real and say, I was too mad at Ivan to respond at all. I just let the man give him a sucker and prompted a "thank you" out of him. I haven't let him eat the sucker yet. It's HUGE...what's wrong with people? When is that ever a good idea for a little kid? Anyway...

I don't have much else to talk about, so I'll leave you with pictures of my dining room centerpiece I worked on a few weeks ago. I've never done seasonal decorations other than Christmas. I don't know if I'll keep it up or not, but for now...I give you my table treasures for autumn:

Okay...I'm no florist. I was wishing my MIL could come and arrange it for me because I don't feel like it's great, but I like the components. I will probably play around a little more with it to try to make it all look more balanced. The bulk of this came from Hobby Lobby. I fell in love with the blue pumpkin first but there were very few other items for fall in blue so I added as much green in with the orange pieces as I could so that the blue at least looked related to the rest of it. Then I saw the bird...and I had to have him, but then it was too blue heavy on the bottom. I added the feather and the blue flowers in hopes of tying it all in and I think it works pretty well. Like I said, it needs a bit of tweaking yet. When I took these pictures I hadn't even taken the tags off of the flower and berry pieces because I'm very non-committal.

The question for winter is...where am I going to put this autumn stuff?