#8. Finished My Hat! and #11. Coconut Apricot Icebox Cookies

Things here are pretty busy these days, with the store's busiest season coming up and us going out of town for a few days for Thanksgiving. I did have time to get a lot done this weekend, though, including these two projects:

1. I finished the hat I've been working on! I made my maiden voyage to Windsor Button on Saturday, and found a cute button to go with it, so I sewed it on last night.

I actually think this hat is really cute, so I'll have to make another one sometime for myself! Next up, though, I'm going to tackle a multi-color project: a cute take on a basic striped scarf. Knowing me, it'll be about down about mid-April....

2. Greg surprised me by bringing home a food processor earlier this week (it's no dozen roses, but almost as good!), so I had to try it out this weekend. I'd been wanting to try the Coconut Apricot Icebox Cookies out of Great Cookies for a while now, but didn't have the patience to chop either the coconut or the apricots by hand. The food processor worked miracles! The cookies were still a little labor intensive, but they're delicious (like little apricot-studded macaroons), and remind me a little of these little apricot bites I used to get when my mom ordered from Sweet Energy.

I'm not baking for Thanksgiving (thanks so a Groupon for Petsi Pies, our Thanksgiving pie commitment is taken care of), but I'll be making more cookies for book club next week. More pictures then!