Right now in life, I am:

MAKING (finishing up) my second quilt, a value quilt full of fabrics from my stash (see photo below).
COOKING lots of tortilla soup and baking cookies – these everything cookies I hadn’t made in forever and classic no-bakes.
DRINKING a handmade (by me! see photo above) ceramic mug half full of boiling water with a heaping spoonful of honey and a couple drops of lemon essential oil. I drink this every morning!
READING Young House Love’s second book, Lovable Livable Home and stories from my grandpa’s first book. 
WANTING to enjoy some nice, cooler weather. October is usually a lovely month in New Orleans with near perfect weather, but this October has been a long extension of summer weather and full of rainy weekends.
PLAYING Adele’s Hello. Who isn’t playing this song right now?
SEWING the final bit of my value quilt top. Loving the way it is turning out! I’ve finally mastered getting those squares to line up correctly!
CROCHETING not much this month. I started working on my grey throw blanket again last month after forgetting about it for nearly a year, but I didn’t do much more on it this month. I’m sure as the holidays approach I will get back into a crocheting mood again. Happens every year! 
WISHING for a wonderful holiday season ahead. I’ve already started working on Christmas presents.

ENJOYING wheel throwing ceramics again! I started back up at the studio I went to this past spring. I’ve been perfecting my mug making! (see photo above)
WAITING for over a year before finally getting a haircut! (eek, I hate getting haircuts, it seems like I’ve had a lifetime of bad experiences with hairdressers.)
LIKING actually seeing people wear my designs! Check out the fabric I designed for my niece’s homecoming dress, here.
WONDERING why all the headaches I was getting the past few months suddenly went away. I’m definitely not complaining, but it is so odd! I wish I knew more about what was causing them.
LOVING all the time we’ve spent lately with our group of church friends — lunch after church, bowling, our bi-weekly PINTS group, and the annual pumpkin carving party. Also enjoyed spending time with the women of the church again at Simple Elegance this year.
HOPING that my attempts to do the quilting and binding on my next quilt turn out well!
MARVELING at how beautiful my first quilt turned out and how Violet loves to snuggle up under it!
NEEDING to get back into a routine of reading every night before bed.
LEARNING a lot about surface pattern design over the last year. October marks one year since I took my first online course on designing patterns!
SMELLING clean laundry! I have really sensitive skin and it has been bothering me a lot lately. In an attempt to help it, I bought Seventh Generation phosphate-free laundry detergent for sensitive skin and re-washed nearly my entire closet. It seems to have helped a little bit. 

WEARING my new leather booties that I’ve been admiring for a while. I’m still getting used to the whole “roll your pants up with them” thing, but they are comfy and will keep my feet warm as the weather gets cooler.
FOLLOWING my creative journey over the last few years as I talk about what quatrefoils mean to me, here.
NOTICING how nice it is to have my husband back home after all the trips he’s taken recently. He was in Austin for a work conference for a week in September and went back to San Diego to visit his brother for a week over his Fall break in October.
KNOWING that we have some exciting travel plans in the works for next year! So excited for new adventures!
THINKING about the changes I want to make in our living room on my Living Room Design Plan. We’ll have to wait a little longer on getting a new rug and sectional, but I did order a black and white buffalo check pillow!
BOOKMARKING this. It is how I feel about my closet, my life, and letting things go. “It will forever be therapeutic for me to give things away. I’m not sentimental in the way that I feel the loss as a great expanse, a missing piece. It feels instead like making space for something else, for something new, for something that closely resembles acceptance.”
CELEBRATING Drew and I’s 8 year dativersary this month! Also celebrating Violet being a part of our family for 1 year!
OPENING this new backpack for traveling, this new natural deodorant (that I love!), trying this out (not so well so far!), and finally caved and bought a new food processor (our old was was tiny and we were burning it up trying to make hummus) and a new rice maker (our old one was flaking the non-stick coating off into the rice, yuck!). 
LAUGHING at this cat, always, and Drew in his hand-painted avocado costume I made him for Halloween. 
FEELING grateful for how much I’ve progressed in my life, creativity, thoughts, ideas, mind-set, etc. over the last few years.

Past Life Right Now posts:

September 2015 | August 2015
 July 2015 | June 2015 | May 2015 | April 2015 | March 2015 | February 2015 | January 2015
December 2014 | November 2014  | October 2014 | September 2014 | August 2014 | July 2014 | June 2014