At our house, Halloween can be translated into Mommy-I-want-you-to-make-me-a-(insert crazy thing here). This year, the Big Girl wanted to be a 50’s girl. Easy enough. Little Man requested a pteranadon. Yeah, I know. Go look that one up! And before you ask, no, there isn’t a pattern that I could find! To see their costumes from years past, click here.
The BG received her birthday gift a little early from Momo and Popo. This little Janome Sew Mini is a pretty decent little machine. She whipped up her first pillowcase this afternoon. (Check out those personalized labels Momo bought her. Perfect for gifts for her friends!)
I make kids’ clothes. That’s my job. Well, my job when I’m not being mom, wife, teaching swimming, teaching sewing, or watching friends’ children. The best part of all these jobs is that they allow me time to explore my creativity and have fun with my hobby-sewing. And nothing is more fun than children’s clothes. I’ve shown you many of these pictures before, but as part of Kelly’s party, I’m going to feature Personality Children’s Clothes once again. 
PS. I love blogs. I discovered Kelly’s blog by reading Chrissie Grace’s blog—only to discover that Kelly and I went to school together. What a small world!
October is a big month for us. Our Big Girl turns 8 toward the end of the month and we’re getting ready. Since BG loves all things arts and crafts, we’re planning a crafts circus. I made these tickets invites in Illustrator and mailed them to her friends!
Meet Thomas. He’s the sweet little boy of a friend and I get to spoil him rotten on an almost daily basis. I snapped these pictures when the cat snuck up close to Thomas and plopped on the floor. Stupid cat. She’ll regret staying so close one day!
Look what the thread makers have for us…
Coats and Clark Threads Advisor
How handy to have all this info at hand when you are preparing a new project!
And a winning season means customers are asking for jumpers and jon-jons in black and gold. Do you know how hard it is to make something cute in those colors???
Stay tuned and I’ll show you what I come up with.
My blog has been hijacked!!! My almost 8-year old has taken over. Here’s her post:
Today I made a pumpkin for the table. This is how you do it.
| 1. Get your supplies. You will need: hot glue pipe cleaners orange fabric Timtex iron pencil scissors |  |
| 2. Draw 2 pumpkin shapes on the Timtex. I used a stencil. |  |
| 3. Cut them out. |  |
| 4. Put 1 pumpkin shape in the fabric like this: pretty side down, Timtex, pretty side up. |  |
| 5. Press it to make it all stick together. |  |
| 6. Cut out the shape. |  |
| 7. Do it again for the other one. | |
| 8. Make a cut in one from the bottom to the middle. Make a cut in the other one from the top to the middle. |  |
| 10. Slide them together to make a pumpkin. |  |
| 11. Twist the pipe cleaner on the pencil to make a stem. |  |
| 12. Have Momma hot glue it on your pumpkin. | |
| 13. All done! |  |
It’s October! So, it’s time to pull out the pumpkin pan…
and whip up some pumpkin loaves…
for the perfect teacher gift!
(I found the recipe at www.allrecipes.com.)
