For the Love of Pumpkin

Ah, 'tis the season!!  

All hail the mighty pumpkin!!  

That gorgeous gourd of gastronomic gratification!!  

I love you!!  

And I know I am not alone in this love affair.  Trader Joe's, my favorite grocery store has a seasonal offering of 63 (63!!!) pumpkin related items.  Jillian and I went in there the other day and bought 9 of them:

• Pumpkin Cereal
• Pumpkin Oatmeal
• Pumpkin Cinnamon Rolls
• Pumpkin Cereal Bars
• Pumpkin Macarons
• Pumpkin Scone Cookies
• A Harvest Salad kit with Pumpkin Seeds, Pumpkin Croutons, and Pumpkin Dressing
• Pumpkin Croutons (the sample offered was so yummy we knew we needed more)
• Pumpkin Body Butter (not for eating, but I smell delicious wearing it, and it is divinely light and creamy)

I commemorated our haul with a scrapbook layout.   It's a Design Team project for Craft Envy, my local scrapbook store, using Simple Stories "Sweater Weather" collection, and some bits of packaging from a couple of the pumpkin products. 

There are so many pretty papers in this collection!  I made this card taking inspiration from one of the cute Fall motifs included on the coordinating sticker sheet, sketching out a large acorn.  By stitching around the outline, the paper piecing is "instantly" unified.  A perfect project while watching an episode of The Walking Dead, counting my blessings that we are not having to deal with the zombie apocolypse at this time.  ;)

And, the inside:

Love that little squirrel.  The line also features an adorable hedgehog and fox.
But the papers are not "cutesy" and have a lot of versatility. ;)

So, excuse me now, darling as I go off to graze on some of the pumpkin-wonderfulness we've got in the kitchen.  Then it's back to the store, because this will be me come late December: 

Borrowed from the Trader Joe's Fearless Flyer Advertising Circular.

Thank you for visiting!