Jack and Elanor on Thursday, October 15. Jack wanted his photo taken and sat still long enough to pose! I think he wanted to show off his new sweatshirt.

Jack, in the box…

…he climbed in all by himself and stayed there awhile. The blocks (in the basket and all over the floor) and the wooden truck belonged to our boys when they were Jack's age! Glad we kept them.

He really wanted to make a pipe cleaner into a headband. Didn't exactly work as you can tell by his expression.

Elanor joined in!

Temptation, thy name is marshmallow…

Oh, The Temptation from Steve V on Vimeo.

The first time I heard about this experiment was on Radiolab. The segment Mischel's Marshmallow aired March 9, 2009. You'll hear from Walter Mischel and Jonah Lehrer. The New Yorker ran a recent article by Jonah Lehrer on the same topic. I have to say, though, that a movie is worth a thousand words!

As half of “piece o’ cake”, I feel compelled to share the Cake Wrecks blog with you. Their byline, “When professional cakes go horribly, hilariously wrong” says it all.

Also seen at market were the fabric jewels made by Meg Hannan of Rag Sky Art Studio. She asked me to post this after November 1 after she got home from Festival.

OH MY! This posted before it was supposed to! Meg won't be back home and ready for you to order until November 1 so please check our her site then. Meg, I'm sorry to have jumped the gun!

I managed to resist enough to only buy one pair, but it was hard!

There is a park covering an underground parking garage in front of the George R. Brown Convention Center (home of market and festival). There was a series of art globes with an ecological theme in the park. They reminded me of the art cows from a few years ago. I walked in the mornings and saw most of the globes – but I didn't have my camera! I did manage to take these on one of the trips back and forth between the hotel and market.

I didn't get out much so took these photos on the run.

Nifty Thrifty Dry Goods, owned by Susan Gower, vends at both Market and Festival. You may have found her at a quilt show. This booth is always beautiful. Ribbons, trims, buttons, beads and more are arranged by color – it's a lovely rainbow of a booth.

The Nifty Thrifty Dry Goods website is wonderful too!