We had a kids' Halloween party yesterday (school was out for Columbus day). We had cupcakes, and a little costume contest, and we played Nightmare Before Christmas, though all the kids had seen it a million times before. They mostly drifted through and watched bits and pieces in between playing in the kids' rooms. It was sort of like just a bigger ( Read more... )

Today and yesterday I went over to help Jess move her stuff out of the house. I told Josh that if he wants, at some time in the future he can use chocolate to bribe me to come over and help him organize his upstairs office. For reasons I cannot fully explain, I much prefer helping someone else clean / organize their stuff, over doing the same for ( Read more... )

We had a kids' tea party. It was fun!
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Last night I went up to Deidra and Ed's house and we did a photo shoot of the newly finished corset and its associated skirt / shirt / hair. Unfortunately, I had a setting on the camera wrong, and it was on time priority mode, ensuring that every shot was taken at 1/4 second, hand held. There was so much motion blur and camera shake that of the 98 ( Read more... )

More about the corset. But it's now pretty much done, so I'll soon have something different to clutter up your f-list with :)

The only remaining things to do are to finish hand-sewing the inside bottom seam of the binding on one side (it's currently only basted), and track down a 108" brown lace. I've got the black lace from my underbust in it now ( Read more... )

Today (Saturday) the kids and I went up to the Youngs' house for lunch, a playdate, and some Campfire planning. It went mostly well (they made some awesome bacon cheeseburgers, and really good sweet potato fries), up until Rachel got tired and grumpy. It was past Kaitlyn's naptime anyway, so we tried to let them take a nap together, but Rachel gets ( Read more... )

I met Lynne and the kids for breakfast at the IHOP near Zilker, then we went to the park for a while. The weather was great, and it was nice (until we had to leave because Rachel bit my leg hard enough to draw blood ( Read more... )

An old friend over for dinner last night, salad from the garden with accidentally-grown radishes, ice cream cake in the continuing celebration of the week of birthdays ( Read more... )

I got a call this morning. I had been sleeping, and suddenly the phone was ringing. There was a recorded voice on the other end ( Read more... )

Lots of my friends have moved in the recent handful of months. Some of them are still in transit. Some of them will be moving soon. Sandra, Nick, Austin, Miguel, Hannah, Skippy, Evan, possibly Morgan... And now my Mom is talking about maybe selling her house in the next couple of years, and moving somewhere further out in the country (the city ( Read more... )