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attempts at favorite aunt status.
thanksgiving cookie edition.

Posted on November 21, 2022January 22, 2023by sarah

in a desperate bid to win the designation as holden’s favorite aunt, i packed an arsenal of cookie decorating supplies for our trip to batavia for thanksgiving. my mom babysits him every monday, so i hyped him up for a full day of baking and decorating and he was all in. my diabolical plan for […]

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october twenty twenty two.

Posted on October 31, 2022January 21, 2023by sarah

and now. for the general happenings in october post. the non travel, non cake, non quilt, non adventure happenings. to kick things off, i’ll begin with a little campfire cookout smores type party we had for the kiddos. there was chili too. but i have no photographic evidence. just these pics of the smore’s table […]

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mobile halloween cookie decorating

Posted on October 30, 2022January 21, 2023by sarah

as we were preparing for our long weekend in blowing rock, i had the bright idea that it might be fun to decorate cookies, as an alternative activity to staring at our phones at all weekend. hazel helped me bake up a bunch of sugar cookies in a variety of halloween shapes and i carefully […]

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camping in the great smokies, sans family.

Posted on October 16, 2022January 20, 2023by sarah

a long long time ago, derek booked us a long weekend at a campground in the smokies. during prime autumn leaf color season. it was to be our very first family tent camping trip since selling the rv. but then. isaac wanted to go to a homecoming football game. and anna had some sort of […]

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autumn themed mom and pop quilt.

Posted on September 28, 2022January 19, 2023by sarah

as with all other aspects of my life, i really hit a big wall with quilting last summer. i had no inspiration. no motivation. i was just blah. (it’s january as i type this and i’m still in the same boat). anyways. to try to jumpstart my quilty-life, i strolled into sewingly yours for ideas. […]

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autumn apple picking in the sweltering heat.

Posted on September 4, 2022January 19, 2023by sarah

firstly. i do realize that i’m like five months behind in my blogging. again. so, my recollection of the happenings for some of the next dozen or so posts is a little foggy. bear with me. every year, at the end of summer, i am often found lamenting the scorching heat in north carolina, during […]

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november, randomness.

Posted on February 10, 2020February 10, 2020by sarah

after a month filled with exciting travel in october, november was pretty chill. even though it’s not quite the same as fall in western new york, it’s still my favorite season in north carolina. cooler temps. pumpkin themed foods. upcoming holidays. falling leaves. fewer bugs. you get the idea. here’s how our november went. we […]

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shenendoah national park.
part one.

Posted on February 7, 2020February 7, 2020by sarah

we didn’t have much time after our giant acadia adventure before we would head back out into the wild. our second trip in october was to shenendoah national park, which isn’t all that far from our house (4-5 hours), but we have actually never been. we arrived in the afternoon, scoped the visitor center, checked […]

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new england apple picking detour.

Posted on February 7, 2020February 7, 2020by sarah

the ride home from acadia is somewhere in the 17 hour range, so we broke it up strategically across four travel days, finding stopping points along the way where we could do something fun in the morning and then load up and drive to the next spot in the afternoon and evening. our first such […]

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capitol reef.
fruita historic district.

Posted on October 22, 2017by sarah

after our LOOOONG stay in moab, we finally made our way to the next stop on our epic stretch through the utah national parks – capitol reef. we got in late friday night, so we had all day saturday to explore. we decided to check out the fruita historic district part of the park. back […]

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