Tuesday Things.
1. Love this post on a year of transformation. It’s so true that “easy” is not where we grow.
2. Does anyone know what the little pumpkin stem plants are that you can put in vases – like the ones above? Trader Joes usually has them but I find that when I buy them, they rot fairly quickly. Can one grow them?
3. How stunning is this one bowl pumpkin zucchini cake?! Wowza.
4. This past weekend I had dreams that I gave birth to both a girl and then a boy! Two separate nights. Whaaaaat does this mean.
5. As I’m in crazy full nesting mode, I’ve kind of been finishing up furnishing our dining room and I want to be one of those people who has a pretty SET dining room table year round, especially since it’s not the one we eat on daily. This is an impossible thing to do though, right? Is it even realistic?
6. Super excited that today Elin Hilderbrand’s new book comes out (the last in the series!) and while I’m dying to read it and normally would read it by tomorrow, I think I might save it until the baby comes. Not sure I can wait!
7. OMG, new TV is back! Wahoo! I feel like there has been nothing on for five months. So, first, This Is Us. Ahhhh it broke me! The ending… oh man. I just cannot handle it. Also, I really loved the Grey’s Anatomy episode. How is this show even still on? I tend to loathe the show until the season finale but I was into it last Thursday. Perhaps I’m preparing for my hibernation period once the baby comes. When Max was born I binged on Parenthood, so I definitely need something new.
8. Speaking of, I love this list of 92 things to see, hear and read this October.
9. If we must use the Target self checkout, how about they stop standing over my shoulder and asking me about a credit card then? #thanks
21 Comments on “Tuesday Things.”
My dining room is set with 8 full place settings…it’s one of the first things I did when we moved because I was so excited to have a formal dining room 💖
Wait, you still don’t have a Target redcard then?! I am disappointed in you! haha It’s 5% instant savings on every purchase. You’re literally throwing your money away if you don’t have one, especially if you do shop there a lot.
Forgot to say, I was really disappointed in Greys last season, but I thought they knocked it out of the park last week. Hoping the quality stays!
Those plants are called Chinese lanterns. But I hear they’re invasive and poisonous so maybe not a great choice.
Oh wait–I was thinking of another fall offering from TJs. Those “pumpkin on a stick” plants are ornamental eggplant (Solanum Integrifolium).
I keep my table fully set and change seasonally and it gives me so much pleasure. I can enjoy my silverware, pretty glasses, etc.
Do your dishes/settings get super dusty though?
I’m a daily reader, never commenter but had to say hello after seeing that you binged on Parenthood when you had Max. My daughter is a few weeks older than he is (and my son just turned one! Eek!) and I binged ALL of Patenthood in her first six weeks! It was the perfect show for that time… the catharsis of crying during every. single. episode. I tell all my expecting friends it is a must watch during those first few emotional weeks (months?).
You could totally set the table you don’t eat at daily. I have a few friends that have theirs set, it makes the room really pretty. Did you say pumpkin zucchini cake?! Yum!
OMG, I LOVE THE NEW SITE!!! Such a fun spruce up!!!
My day was made when I saw that my preordered copy of EH’s book was in my kindle!!! Can’t wait to read it….and also super sad it’s the end of the series!!! Good luck with baby!!!
Those mini pumpkins are petite ornamental peppers…I know because I want to grow them too for next year…they can be dried easily, but also do rot fast if kept on water 😩 Chinese lanterns are pretty and festive as well and dry beautifully! Very invasive in your garden though. Hope this helps! Good luck and be well this month, mama!!!
Very excited for the newest Winter Street Inn novel!!! I am trying to wait until Christmas time to read this…but it will be hard!
Oh my gosh that’s so annoying about Target! The people at mine never ask.
As some other replies have noted, these are ornamental eggplants. How fun is that?
You can buy seeds at a number of different places. Here’s just one:
http://parkseed.com/pumpkin-on-a-stick-eggplant-seeds/p/51648-pk-p1/?gclid=Cj0KCQjwjdLOBRCkARIsAFj5-GBTv7dlOlf8wKwHsoc4qHOHc_6wTt0rORMsZgfHstATFd_cWtu3zoQaAmL1EALw_wcB&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=ppc_google_pla&gdffi=27670f48671f48e7ac7c1fdef54a4fce&gdfms=5FF79802E0A149DC92EB9DE1515197A5&ef_id=WGKUzQAAAD-lWyVz:20171004144121:s
Have you had a look for a fake version baby pumpkin plants at HomeGoods? Michaels? Last forever and wouldn’t over take your garden.
I just found out about the 4th book in the EH Winter series. I thought last year was the last one. I definitely can’t bring myself to request it from the library just quite yet though since it’ll be 33C this afternoon. Where is fall?
I’ve had multiple friends tell me to watch Schitt’s Creek on Netflix and I’ve resisted…I think I thought it would be like Best in Show and all those other movies that pair Catherine O’Hara and Eugene Levy and I just wasn’t in the mood. ANYWAY I started it yesterday out of desperation for something to watch and it only took one episode to hook me. I LOVE it, think you will too…it’s pretty hilarious, very well casted and I just love scenarios where out of touch rich people have to come down to the level of regular people (or lower)… and there are 2 seasons available for your viewing pleasure :)
PS I’m 9 months pregs as well, due any day. I know the need to have some good binge-watching queued up!
Have you watched Blue Bloods? That’s my new thing. While I was on maternity leave the second time, I re-watched West Wing
SET dining table year-round is possible. If I do it, so can you. What’s more fun is that I change decor as the various Holidays unfold. So much fun and so not boring! Creativity Plus at it’s best. And a way to use china and glasses and table decorations in a breat way!
Roxanne’s Dried Flowers in the strip might have dried ornamental eggplant, in case you make it down there before baby comes!