Under there is a dining room table.
It’s been in this state for about a week now.
I had the brilliant idea that I could handle pull off making two out of three costumes for my kids this year.
And little by little I did.
Of course, every great (or mediocre) Halloween costume has some story to tell behind it, right?
Like, hey, let’s add a bird’s nest to the already questionable bird costume that I’m making up as I go along (Martha’s instructions weren’t clear enough for me to follow along).
With a sewing maching that doesn’t flippin’ work.
No seriously, it does not work. The end.
Something about thread, bobbins and tension. All verbage not in my limited sewing vocabulary apparently.
Thank you, God, for the invention of hot glue and embroidery floss, and friends that let me borrow their machine because you saved the little bit of sanity I hold onto.
The dining room will be moonlighting as a studio tomorrow, she should be back to her normal state by Tuesday.
Here’s hopin’.
9. I have made absolutely zero progress on everyone’s Halloween costumes. Usually by this time of the year… they have all arrived. I get like this- I stall because one thing I think I can’t do holds me up. Which currently is one very easy thing- sewing ribbon on elastic. I think I can, I think I can…
The good news is that Andy’s magic cleaner took out this lovely artwork. The bad news is… the stray marker caused a handful of markers to be trashed. It’s just not fair.
It has this really cool whirly, twirly thingamajig that makes everyone dizzy. The. Girls. LOVE. it.
I followed Sarah and Lauren to the swings, as we passed Ashleigh– who was sitting on the slide watching the skateboarders next door. I better get ready for the “Stay away from those skateboarders” talk. Shoot.
I did put the camera away so we could enjoy the other 40 minutes we played at the park on this fine fall day. We like to pretend the wood chips are ice cream and we set up an ice cream shop under one of the larger slides. Lauren scooped me up some mud pie and charged me $2 for each one. I think I was out $64.
Come on by October 22nd if you’re interested in joining the “fun!”
2. On Friday, we went outside for a quick family walk around the block before bedtime and we didn’t get but three houses down across the street when Ashleigh decided to run and catch up with the other girls. Unfortunately, she took a face dive into the sidewalk that resulted in a pretty bad scrape right near her eye. I felt so bad, I can easily replay the entire incident happening again in slow motion and when I told her so, she asked, “How come you didn’t catch me?”
5. We enjoyed our 2nd annual Oktoberfest (Sincock style) last night with our neighbors that live on our block. Sincock style simply means, Andy wants to eat some good German food. And oh, boy, did we! He made a wonderful schnitzel and since it was a potluck, our neighbor friends brought more amazing goodness like s
