My Newest Craft Obsession

Coasters!

I totally stole this idea from a boutique in Athens. I saw some coasters there and thought they were really cute until I turned them over and saw the $39 price tag. That's when I decided that I could definitely make those for myself at home. Watch out family and friends - you may just find some in a Christmas package near you...

Furman Fall

This past week, I headed out of the city to spend some time in the mountains. While I was driving through Greenville, I decided to make a visit to Furman. I walked around the campus for a while and enjoyed the beauty of the fall colors. I also stopped in the coffee shop to get a Tower Freeze before I headed out. I was pleasantly surprised to find the same lady still working there that used to make my drinks 8 years ago! She said that she recognized me, too, which is probably a statement about how much time I used to spend in there filling myself with caffeine...

While I was there, I also stopped into to the bookstore, where they were having a big 75% off sale. I decided to bring something home for my adopted puppy, Cali. She's really a Clemson girl, but she looks good in purple, too!

A Fall Recipe

Picking some of these:

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Playing in a patch of these:

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A great fall Saturday!!

Just because...

Go Clemson!! (Well, almost...)

This past weekend, I headed up to South Carolina with two of my favorite people, AJ and Lauren. We were doing a belated birthday celebration for Lauren, since she was out of town being a 72-mile-bike-riding-rockstar on her actual birthday. The plan was to head up to Greenville, spend the night, and then go to the Clemson game on Saturday afternoon. The plan hit a slight detour, though, when we weren't able to get tickets to the game. Turns out that a lot of people shared our plan to just buy tickets outside the stadium. Oops. A lesson learned. But that didn't stop us from having a fun day. Instead of heading into the stadium, we headed downtown to do a little shopping, then listened to the game on the radio while eating ice cream and driving with the windows down on a perfect fall day. When the game was over, we did a little bit of hiking to Issaqueena Falls, and finished the day with a quick stop at the outlet mall on our way back to Atlanta. Not what we had planned, but a fun trip nonetheless!

the sad "we need 3" fingers

"we're gonna have fun anyways" faces

underneath Issaqueena Falls

some sisterly love

a few of my favorite [fall] things

1. colorful leaves

2. college football

3. cooler weather - yay for temps this week in the 50-70s!!!

4. hiking - it's the perfect time of the year to enjoy mountains and waterfalls!

5. pumpkin flavored things - like pumpkin spice lattes and pumpkin pie!

6. fall activities - like corn mazes and pumpkin carving

7. candy corn pumpkins

What are YOUR favorites??