Harvest Heaven

I’ve decided that October is my favorite month in New England! I love the leaves & pumpkins & hot cider & all the fresh food from the gardens!!! Heaven! I’m in harvest heaven!

Not to mention that it’s fair season!!!… I just love a good country fair!!!

I Love Alpacas!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Those were pictures I took at the Fryeburg Fair in Maine. We also spent the weekend in New Hampshire with friends. Our drive over “the kank” (kancamagus highway) was sensational!!! The foliage was at it’s peak:

Of course we had to go to the Sandwich Fair too with family! It was a lot of fun! Lots of shows, lots of rides, lots of exhibits, lots of laughs, and lots of fair food! (the latter is why I’m doing lots of exercise today!)

All in all, that’s been my harvest time heaven… Next stop: home made Pumpkin Pie!!!!!!!!!!

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Early morning reading…and I mean Early!!!

I woke up at 3am and couldn’t fall back asleep. Yay for me! What have I been doing with my spare time? 

Of course now I’m welcoming in the day with Zoya here in the cockpit of the boat. The sky is slowly getting brighter and is the color of a strawberry daiquiri, the roosters are having a field day, halyards are chiming and waves are gently lapping. It’s very serene. 

But before this picture of serenity I was reading blogs! Some good ones too!!! Shall I share?

Ok! Here we go…. 

My dear friend over at Beyond Mediocre is doing something great, she is attempting to run a half marathon! What she doesn’t realize is that she is pretty inspirational to me for shooting for this goal! She is someone who sees a mountain-like goal and even tho never attempting something like it before thinks: 

“with hard work and determination, why not!? I can do that too!” 

and that is why I find her spectacular. Check out her latest post, which includes some real, in the moment vlogs:  

http://www.beyondmediocre.net/?p=389

If you’ve been here before you’ll know that I love knitting and I love yarn!!! Honestly I can see the bottom of my stash bag and it’s kinda freakin’ me out! Which is why I’m happy to see a yarn giveaway!!! I just discovered this company Mmm.. Maybe a month ago and ever since have been dying to order yarn from them! Beautiful! I’m in love with about 20 of their colorways, and honestly I’m sooo jealous of her wall of yarn! Check em out, especially this giveaway: 

http://tanisfiberarts.blogspot.com/2011/04/happy-spring-giveaway.html

And once again “momma kat” had me cracking up – ya know she had me all chuckle house…
We’ve all been here:

http://www.mamakatslosinit.com/2011/04/ocd/

And who doesn’t love laughing at stupid celebrities: 

http://www.mamakatslosinit.com/2011/04/ten-celebrity/

Who doesn’t want to be pampered at a spa retreat!?… Well I loved Casey Lorraine’s tips on creating your own “moments” at home! 

http://www.caseylorraine.com/2011/04/a-retreat-recap-and-creating-your-own-retreat-experience/

I think I’ll treat my hair to some coconut oil & my face to a clay mask after I give myself a mani & pedi!  

Alrighty, that’s it for now! I’m famished so I’m going to go find my vanilla chia pudding I made the other day and make some rooibos chai tea! Have a great weekend!!!!!

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Taco Tuesday & a Laugh!

Hola! Mi Amigos! I find myself happily at a real computer on land with free internet! We’re at our favorite mexican restaurant and today is two for one tacos! So for a whopping $3.50 you got lunch and free wi-fi! whoopee!!!

My mission today is to make you laugh! Beware!!!

My hubby had me cracking up yesterday with a video he found on YouTube! I love that about him, I can always count on him to make me laugh!

So thanks to him I have two videos to share with you today, watch them in order that I post them and you’ll understand:

Video #1: “An eccentric witness describes Robbery”

OK, that alone cracked me up, but this video takes the cake:

Video #2, someone turned her interview into a song:

Hubby says it’s his new favorite song! I think it’s brilliant! Hope you enjoyed it and smiled!

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My lack of sleep, coffee and productivity.

It’s 5 am and I am bored out of my mind. Really I need to be picking up a book or getting my tired should be sleeping tush out of bed to knit or to do something constructive. But I can’t seem to get past the fact that I want to be sleeping. I’ve been laying here for an hour “pretending” to be asleep. Have you ever done that? Like maybe if I lay here real still thinking about not thinking and breath like I think I do when I sleep maybe I’ll fall back asleep! 

NOT. All that happens is you get an hour of crappy half sleep where your almost dreaming but really your half asleep just being delusional because it’s 4:30 am and your trying to will your self to not be hungry and just sleep. 

I really should have gotten up and ate a cookie before hen pecking this out on my iPhone. I thought the 5 almonds I ate would have done it (because I cleverly put a dish of them next to my bed because this is not the first time this week that this has happened). 

Now I’ve completely lost my train of thought because I thought about cookies again. Memo to me to never bake cookies again. I obviously have a problem! 

And no I can’t scroll back through my text to see what I wrote because I’m typing this into my wordpress dashboard through “safari” because I deleted the wordpress app because it deleted it’s last post of mine. 

Ok, yes I’m still furious. I need to tell you that I had a lovely post all planned out and published to go live yesterday. I get up, go to land, log onto a computer to type up a big blog post for Thursdays writers workshop to find that the app deleted my post and replaced it with another post from a different blog of mine. 

Gone. Hours of my life gone. 

I’m traumatized can ya tell. I still can’t believe it. 

So I deleted the app because at this rate it looked like it was capable of anything and that scared me. So moral of the story, DO NOT download the wordpress application to your device… It is an evil and vile thing out to drive people mad!!! 

Ok, moving on. I still want a cookie and I wish I was asleep. But you knew that already. 

So I have now discovered that I can type this in my notebook on my iPhone and paste it into my wordpress page! Ahh, see who needs coffee to get your brain working! Not that I need coffee when I should be sleeping. 

Did I mention that I gave up coffee drinking? I think I’ve been meaning to mention that. Yup, gave it up back in December and haven’t looked back. I’m drinking fabulous morning teas from Teavana instead! Love it. 

What brought this on was I was getting anxiety attacks! I couldn’t figure out why I was getting anxiety attacks in paradise!? “We moved finally, we reduced our stresses, dream come true, so why am I still freaking out?” (insert lightbulb here)… It was the caffeine!!! 

Been good ever since I’ve laid it off. Now that was a sad decision to make because Captain makes a gooooooood brew! Smooth, and strong!!! But alas, I am just as happy with tea, so I guess I am not so substance dependent as I thought. 

Ok, I think it really is time to get up. I can grab a snack and sneak in some knitting. 

I wish you sweet dreams and a lovely day! 

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Too many cookies but a step closer

I’m only human dang it!!!

Ok, let me back up…

I don’t think it is completely a good thing that I’ve already eaten 5 chocolate chip cookies today! Homemade or not. I think my only redeeming action was that I also had a tall glass of green smoothie! So, therefore, I’m not going to beat myself up for it. I’ll just have another glass of green smoothie, probably another cookie and go for a swim!

Moving on.

I have gotta say how excited I am that
Mama Kat mentioned my music post in her weekly news letter… I’m famish! LoL… Thanks Mama Kat!!!

Today so far has been well spent in my opinion… With a handful of writing already under my belt today, organizing my knitting/crocheting supplies & cataloging my supplies, editing websites, dishes done… I’m on a roll!

But do you know what this means, all this “progress”!?…

I’m just a step closer to my new project! My Letters of Love!

My status on the new site & blog is this: I’m finishing the site so it’s pretty & ready to go (need a wordpress for dummies book! LoL) and I need yarn sponsors, so I can start the project!

More to come on that soon!!! I’m thinking the official site “launch” is about a month out at this rate (being I don’t have Internet unless I go to a cafe! Ug!)

What else is new? Well it’s officially off-season here in the Caribbean. Which means the weather is even more perfect! So if your looking for a late winter Caribbean vacation then contact us at Friends Charters mention my “Artsea Blog” for the best price in the Virgin islands!!! I mean it, we are practically giving the boat away this time!!! Now – May!!!

On that note, I’m going swimming!!!

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Turning down a different road…

I want to start this post with a very important announcement =)

Happy Anniversary Mom & Dad!!! I’ll be with you in spirit as you celebrate, wishing you a glorious evening!!! **big hugs**

Also I am convinced that I have the worlds cutest dog! Sorry fellow dog owners, you understand, there is no way that this sweetheart could possibly take second place… She’s just too sweet & cute!

So if you’ve read my blog before your probably scratching your head by now wondering what’s going on. No this post is not topic oriented, no I’m not going to edit the life out of it, I’m just going to post it. And I’m going to try to do just that more often.

My plans are to post more often about whatever runs through my quirky head. So get ready to understand just how obsessed I am with “chocolate avocado pudding” and hot sauce! Although not together, that would be gross. Although I do put cayenne pepper in my pudding, but I think that’s different.

See what I mean! I am naturally very random, and this blog is after all titled “naturally Artsea”… Might as well just start being myself and keep in uncensored =)

Are you ready for this? I’m feeling crazy!!! Who knows whats going to pop up here next!

See ya!

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