It's the Kids Clothes Week Challenge this week at Elsie Marley, and what am I up to? Procrasting. When I should be making costumes, or some clothing for a tall, skinny, 6 year old with apparently freakishly long arms (nothing fits her!!), I'm making trick or treat bags. There was more glue gun than sewing machine involved too. I am working on one clothing sewing project and hoping I can get the boy to let me take his picture.
Stay tuned!
The day before Halloween, we woke up to almost a foot of snow and no power. In 9 years in our house, we've never lost power. We knew this wasn't good. But, we had no idea just how bad it was until we tried to leave.
Snow is nothing new in Massachusetts, but the combination of wet snow and leaves on trees was disastrous.
The main road in town was barely passable with tons of trees and power lines down.
Almost 48 hours later, there were still crushed cars in the road and few people had power back.
In all the destruction and loss, there is still some beauty.
We were fortunate and our power was restored relatively quickly, but we still have family and friends patiently waiting.
It's amazing how a community can come together and how loosing power for a few days can make you really appreciate everything you have.
A friend of mine made these with her kids....so of course we had to try it. Very easy and fun. There are a lot of tutorials out there, we followed the instructions here.
So fun at night. We light ours with some battery operated candles.
The kids were so excited to wake to snow on the ground. Unusually early for Massachusetts.
They are predicting more for tomorrow night. Looks like we'll have to put on our snow boots this Halloween.
I made these cute owl cupcakes for an annual Halloween bash at a good friend's house. There are a lot of owl cupcake ideas out there, but these were by far the easiest. I followed these instructions.
I can't help but smile every time I look at them. Easy, cute and delicious.
The boy asked to be a rocket ship and I think I pulled it off. This came out so much better than I expected. The silvery fabric was pretty tough to work with, much like oil cloth but my usual tricks didn't work. Still puckered. Oh well...
I didn't get a chance to take a picture of the hat I made to go with it. I used my friend Roselee, aka Jane of All Trades' cute party hat tutorial.
Now off to work on the elephant princess costume. The girl gets points for originality.
How are your costumes coming?
