Halloween! Super Why!

Yeah, for Halloween!!

So excited as my son can actually GO OUT trick-or-treating this year!!! Poor thing, his costume screams "mommy-made"!! ;) Luckily, it's strong enough to hold up one night & he's too young to know & the big one, at least I choose a costume for him of something he truly LOVES instead of just picking a random one off the rack!!

So I picked out Super Why! for him this year. He LOVES the show, from the very get-go when he first saw a television! Also, I did think how easy it would be... alternating lime green/blue short/long sleeve shirts & pants/shorts. I originally thought I'd cheat & buy a blank lime green T-shirt, but couldn't find one. So I bought a pattern for pajamas (bonus-I can actually make him pajamas too!) made lime green pants & a shirt. The shirt didn't turn out as great as I would have wanted & then my husband DID find a lime-green T-shirt at the craft store, so I did end up cheating later. Drew the logo on the shirt & back of the cape (made from remant, just like the lime green I found) & painted with fabric paint-blue, green, gold, glow-in-the-dark & glitter. Nice thing about the little ones is their small size; sometimes it is a pain making small things, but also you can grab a yard remnant at the store & it's so cheap!

Oh, I also forgot a picture of his Why-Writer plush that I made to go with it!! At least it's more of a "clothes-costume" so he won't get agitated & rip it off. the belt I made with a scrap I already had that velcros together & the cape velcros to the shirt.. nice & easy!! I skipped out on the Super-Duper Computer... oh well. The mask was crocheted (forgot that in the picture too!), but I don't think he'll wear it. If I just got it on for 1 second to hope for a picture, I'll be VERY lucky!

Happy Halloween to all!!

Fall??

Is it fall? The summer was a terrible 90-100 degree top of humidity wasteland inbetween the freezing air conditioning. I think we went 3-4 weeks of no rain until everything around died... now it's raining for days, I have socks & pants on & haven't suffered the freezing air conditioning for days!!!!! Did I mention I HATE air conditioning.. eventhough it is a necessity. Well, I know it is not really fall yet (the one week we get before a rapid turnover to snow), but it is SO nice to get a break. I feel like I have some energy now!!! Good, because I have so much to do.. with my father, husband, son, nephew & two neighbours (father & son on the SAME day) all have birthday's in the same two-week timespan in September. I am working on making a toddler chair for my son's FIRST birthday & it would be nice to finish my husband's afghan as he reminds me of it ALL the time, plus figure out what/if to design the cake. He would be so surprised as he says I never finish any of my projects (HE does NOT either, I would like to add)... but I have finished squares for my Ravelry group... 12" is a good size project... LOL!

It is so nice to have all these birthdays coming up... Sunday was the anniverary of my mother's death, I can't believe it has been 22 years. Sometimes it feels like 1 week, others 100 years. She has missed everything important in my life. For some reason it is always a day my sister & I never get around to calling/writing each other.

Forever Bath Mat

I've been trying to work on this bath mat... I've been wanting to make a bath mat for quite awhile now, but my original pattern stitch just wasn't working. I never had the time to focus on making it work & would get pulled away mid-row, mid-stitch.. so by the time I came back I'd be lost. I gave up on that & now trying a new method. Which, I really like how it's going to turn out... but I'm making my own pattern as I go (which I've never done), on a project I have never done anything like before... so yeah, I'm ripping it out for the second time. It's really not too bad each time, but I'm being picky & making it more somewhat more difficult than it has to be.. I WILL GET A BATH MAT!!! *sigh* As long as I don't get bored with it & fall head first into a new project in the meantime!! Hahaha.

WIP

Been going through all the random bags & boxes.... I remember some of my wips, but others I had forgotten about. This was just a sampling of what was readily at hand. Yikes. And I have so many mental notes of new projects & saved patterns that I want to work on. Just wish I could work faster & have a day or two with no interruptions & then tie up all these loose ends. Who am I kidding... if no one interrupts me, I will find my own interruptions!! LOL

Harry Chapin quote

My grandfather was a painter. He died at age 88. He illustrated Robert Frost's first two books of poetry.

He was looking at me one day and he said, `Harry, there's two kinds of tired. There's good tired and there's bad tired. Ironically enough, bad tired can be a day in which you won, but you won other people's battles, you lived other people's days, other people's agendas and dreams, and when it's all over, there's very litte you in there, and when you hit the hay at night, you toss and turn, you don't settle easy....

Good tired can be a day in which you lost, but you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days. And when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy, you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say, "Take me away."

Harry, all my life I wanted to be a painter. So I painted. God, I would have loved to have been more successful. But I painted and painted. And I am good tired, and they can take me away.

-Harry Chapin

Brand New

Brand new, first post!!

I am first mother & then wife, maid, pet caretaker, maintenance, gardener, mender, dreamer, doctor, crafter, researcher, blunderer, financial advisor, peace keeper, fury, loner, cook, unforgiving, academic, etiquette teacher, florist, dedicated...

aahhh.... and usually tired.

Working hard lately trying to get the gardening plants in & finishing up the massive crochet projects lying around! Someday I will have to organize that "spare" room into the basement.

As usual, duty calls, my five minutes are up!!