Happy Samhain!!!!

October Goals Wrapup:

1) Finish Long Leggz [YES!]
2) Stitch Marie's Spookie NRR and mail to Leslie [YES!]
3) Make Zombie Costume [YES!]
4) Make princess costume [YES!]
5) Make third cousin costume (jasmine) [YES!]
6) Block and piece baby shorts [YES!]
7) Attach elastic to baby shorts [Not yet]

Wow that was really good for the month. I've just been hesitating about putting the elastic in the baby shorts but it should be a quick thing to do! What a great month for sewing considering my sewing machine died on me!

Finished my halloween piece :)
This is Scary Carrie - Long Leggz - and she was so much fun to stitch this month! I started this in celebration of Fall and never thought I'd get it done before halloween!

Finally some pictures!

I finished (and mailed) Marie's Halloween NRR to Leslie last Friday. Here is the whole NRR to date:

And here is a close up of the house I stitched.

I stitched Halloween House Sampler by The Drawn Thread.
This was a real pleasure to stitch!

Wow this month is going fast.

I finished up stitching my halloween house on Marie's NRR and will mail that off to Leslie today. I'm hoping to finish Scary Carrie Long Leggz before Halloween and then finish Leslie's NRR to get it back home to her. Pictures are on the camera, just waiting for me to take them off!

That's my stitching world. In the sewing world it's been quite an adventure. I was sewing away on halloween costumes last week and friday night I was hoping to finish the princess dress - however my machine seized up and stopped working! I was up until 2am trying to figure out what was wrong. Alas - the costume is not yet done -but the Zombie one was at least completed.

The good news is that my uncle oiled my machine and it's working again - albeit very slowly but sewing at least! So I'm back to the princess dress and just have to finish the ruffle that goes around the shoulders and the hem of the skirt. My goal is to complete it tonight so I can run it over to them tomorrow night. That will leave just Jasmine for this weekend.

And that is my life lately (outside of work). I did play some Zelda last night - restarted it actually as I got so far and then stopped for so long that I forgot what I was doing so I figured it was safer to restart. I'll probably put about an hour and a half in a week if I have the time.

No camera this week :( I should have a lot of pictures next week to make up for it (hopefully).

Anyway - last night I finished the Zombie costume! With no iron! The seams are not laying as nicely as I would like but it's a costume and I had no iron :) So I'm calling it done.

I also worked on Marie's Halloween NRR last night - not only is the house complete but now I have the trick-or-treaters almost done and the pumpkin tree about halfway done! I should be able to finish this up and get it mailed to Leslie next week. I feel horrible being behind due to the wedding but I think I can then start on Leslie's right away and get that to her quickly too!

Oh yea - and one of my dragon eggs hatched!!!:

Back to my stitching...

Well things have been weird lately - getting a lot of migraines, so the stitching and sewing had pretty much come to a halt (I've been working on Marie's Halloween NRR whenever I could and the house part is almost done!).

Finally last night I started the first of 3 halloween costumes I'm doing for my cousins. The first is a Zombie - I finished the pants and shoe covers. Tonight I'm hoping to do the shirt and maybe get a start on the dress for number 2.

The second costume is the dress that the princess from Enchanted wears towards the end -made out of the rug - that was a fun one to figure out! And that's going to be a tough one to make for a 7 year old.

Lastly is a Jasmine costume - that should be easy - lots of elastic and the fabric was easy to find.

In the mean time - I have sewn the knitted baby shorts together and just need to add the elastic and then they are done. And as I mentioned with stitching - I am working on NRR's exclusively - poor Scarrie Carrie is not yet done :)

Dragon pets...

Sound i found this new website where you can gather dragon eggs and if they are visited by people they may hatch and grow. Unfortunately I don't do a lot online but I figured if I did a post on my website they might get a few views... if you feel so inclined and want to click on an egg or two, each click helps it to possibly hatch. We'll see how long this keeps my interest :)

Here are the eggs:

October Goals:

1) Finish Long Leggz
2) Stitch Marie's Spookie NRR and mail to Leslie
3) Make Zombie Costume
4) Make princess costume
5) Make third cousin costume (as yet unknown)
6) Block and piece baby shorts
7) Attach elastic to baby shorts

It's going to be a busy month - I think I need the busyness to keep me going, last month was relaxing - time to get stuff done again!