Another October has come to an end, and so has NaCraMaMo for 2016. I hope you all had a good time getting your craft on ( Read more... )

Day 30


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I made a third cake (chocolate, chocolate, chocolate!) plus a dozen cupcakes for today's birthday party, and this is what was left (of this cake, and all the cupcakes were consumed):


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I've not had a lot of time these past couple of days, so I DID work on the Sorceress as a take-along.


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I got some stitching time while the kids were playing at the playground, and I FINISHED all the crosses!


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I've had a profound spoon deficit lately, and it's been really late by the time I get around to doing any crafting. Oh so slowly, I am nearing the completion of the crosses!


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I literally fell asleep trying to post this last night!

2 days of work on The Sorceress. Not much; I've been doing a lot of cleaning work in preparation of my girls' birthday party next Saturday. It also took me a while to decide on the skin color. (I decided to do something different than the pattern specified).


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Today, I pulled out some of the cream that I put in wrong. Then I stitched white. White-on-white really doesn't show up well in pictures.


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Day 18

I prodded the girls into finishing the Halloween ornaments, and I sat down and sewed 18 goodie bags from a sheet in my stash; it's almost the school colors.


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It's a custom of my kids' class that non-food goodies are given to one's classmates on one's birthday. (Some of the goodie bags have been truly fantastic.) My girls have their birthday this week. My mom gave me a bunch of wooden Halloween ornaments recently, and I thought the girls might like to decorate those to give to their classmates. Grandma ( Read more... )