Happy Halloween!!

Good Morning! Happy Halloween!!

We are almost ready for the big day here at our house. We get over 150 little trick or treaters, so the goodie bags are packed, the yard is almost done, just a few lights need to be adjusted and a few pumpkins need to be decorated.

Lucky for us - the next town over has a HUGE Pumpkin Fest - I think it is over 40 years old this festival and it was an awesome day yesterday to go and check things out.....

Here is a house about a block from the festival.... awesome!

Here is another house just 2 doors down from the house above. Really neat decorations!

And now on to the pumpkin show..... folks from all over enter their pumpkins -decorated to win prizes. Each school kid in the area decorates a pumpkin, the courthouse lawn is filled with hundreds of pumpkins..it is an awesome event.

These are my top picks...

Strawberry milkshake and a burger (click on any picture to enlarge)

Pumpkin Horror house...see the libbeys can on the bottom YIKES!!!

This years theme was pumpkins across America this flag is awesome!

This is really neat a giraffe eating, some people have such great imagination.

This is the Pumkin Beauty contest, like Miss America only Miss Pumkin.. too cute!

A cow, since we do live in farm country!

Speaking of dairy, you need your 3 dairys a day, chocolate, strawbery and vanilla - what a yummy banana split.

And now for the favorite pumpkin picked by me........

A sewing girl pumpkin! Such creativity.. I just love it.

Well off to finish my pumpkins and I will post a few pictures of that tomorrow.

Happy Stitches!

Dorothy

A Little of this and a Little of That

Good Morning

How are you today?

I worked most of yesterday in the Creation Station and only accomplished this simple little bid for my neices baby.

I hope to have more pictures soon of things I am working on, I got alot done but like the title says a little of this project and then a little of that project. And I cleaned up my sewing table so that is always a bonus to free up some space.

It has been so windy here the last few days -- today not so windy but only 45 degrees and I have to dig up my geraniums today....Brrrr.. But I don't want them to freeze tonight and a hard freeze is headed our way.

Well back to the Creation Station for me....hope you are having a great day!

Happy Stitches!

Dorothy

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Wind Wind and more Wind!

Good Morning!

How have you been? Hope your weekend was good. Mine did not go as planned I wanted to do the farmers market / flea market with my crafts and some other stuff I wanted to sell, but it rained! So I ended up sewing a little bit and then helped Hubby on a project. Then for dinner we went to a German Octoberfest. MMMM...very good food.

I did do a craft show on Sunday but it was very windy and rainy part of the day so attendance was down and so were sales :( But I did the show with a good friend so it was good to catch up and I stitched the entire day. So it was a fun day anyways.

Monday I ran errands for dear hubby all day - except for when I went to the garden center and loaded up on pumpkins! I did a bit of outside decorating on Monday but the wind has arrived and I need to redo some things tomorrow when this wind passes!

Yesterday I did manage to actually accomplish something.....here it is..... I have more cut out but this is all I got totally completed. Turned out cute I think, it is a potholder/oven mitt. Fun to make and pretty easy.

I am off to sew today and hopefully this windy weather will end tonight and we can get back to normal on Thursday.

Happy Stitches
Dorothy

Late Friday Night

Hello

It is late Friday night and I have been sewing away. I just let the dogs out and I thought I would give you a sneek peak at my Pagini quilt top. I have limited charm packs and am really trying to use what I have so I had a package of Thimbleberrie fat quarters, so I made my own charms and this is how it turned out. I really like it. I still need to quilt it by Nov 1 for Le Petite Projects.

What have you got planned this weekend. I think if it does not rain tomorrow I am heading to the flea market/farmers market and sell some of my crafts and then I am in a craft show on Sunday. Busy weekend but hopefully profitable.

Work for me ended this week, tomorrow is the last day the garden center will be open and the owner is going to work. That is really ok, I have a few craft shows I need to get more things made for and I have a cold so being outside when it has been a little cooler this not something I was looking forward to.

Well off to cut a few more pieces of batting and then off to bed.

Happy Stitches

Dorothy

New Toy for our House

Good Morning

Well Hubby loves popcorn, I mean LOVES POPCORN and has it almost every night. So when the Farm and Fleet flyer came out this past week there was no doubt in my mind we were getting a new toy.

He saw this small commercial looking popcorn popper in the ad, he just about counted the minutes til the sale started. He went to the first store and they were SOLD OUT! OH MY GOSH! So he flew over to the other Farm and Fleet - I am sure he made it in record time and got the last one! He was thrilled! Much like we are when we finally find the perfect peice of fabric :)

Now he was sick with a cold and just could not muster up the energy to give it a try, but luckily for everyone his cold is getting better and last night was the big night!

So here is our new toy - that was just turned on and hubby waiting with great anticipation for the first kernel to pop!



AWWW We have success!!




And here it is all popped in about 4 minutes! Doesn't look like much but then we made another batch and we really had too much, so 1 batch is plenty. What do they say about Boys and their toys :)





I did make some progress on my Schnibbles Pagini - I have almost all the blocks done, in fact that is what I am going to finish today, so look for some quilty show and tell tomorrow.

Happy Stitches
Dorothy

Happy Wednesday!

Hello

How are you today?

After I worked the weekend and Monday I have had Tuesday and today off. So I should have sewed up a storm, right? Well this is all I have a photo of, it is an apron for the Garden Club District meeting on Thursday, it is for the lady who will be selling the raffle tickets. That is all I have completed!!


Well I guess that is not true, I have made 7 dog beds for the animal shelter, back in July when we had my family come in -- I cleaned out our closet -- all the shirts that no longer fit hubby or were mustard stained or had asphalt stains on them I tossed into a HUGE BLACK GARBAGE Bag -- It was stuffed!! So that was back in July! So yesterday I managed to use 1/2 of what was in the bag to stuff the dog beds, I shred the shirts with my rotary cutter down to 1 -2 inch wide strips. I still have 1/2 of the HUGE garbage bag left to use, so hopefully I can complete this by Friday and run over to the shelter. It is a great way to use up scraps etc. I also have a pet bed on my ironing board (I attach it with a safety pin) and then as I trim up blocks etc, I toss it in the bed and in no time I have a bed stuffed and ready. I usually wait til I have about 20 beds and then make me run over there. It really helps out the shelter and what they don't use for pets there they sell at different festivals for money for dog food. I also think people who adopt can pick a bed if they like.

I am also working on my Pagini Schnibbles quilt, I am just squaring up my 1/2 square triangles to 4 inches.

Other than that just doing a bit of straightening and tidying up in the Creation Station too.

Off to get back to sewing!
Happy Stitches
Dorothy

Friday Night Sew In - Here is what I worked on

Good Morning!

Did you get alot done at the Friday night sew in last night? I sure feel like I did. First I completed another little Halloween treat bag. Cute little Frankenstein on the front of it. I keep making these from scraps in my fall/halloween fabric tote. Earlier this week I even made a larger one to hold a gift for garden club. They are so easy, you gotta try them. I am going to start making some for Christmas for gift cards.




Then I had gotten an email regarding the Little Dresses for Africa program - where you use a pillowcase to make little girls dresses, I thought it sounded interesting and I would give it a try.
Thursday I was off and had to run some errands, while out I found a fabulous garage sale! And they had some king size pillowcases in perfect condition for 25 cents each, so I purchased 3. And I already had the bias tape that you need for the arms, so for 75 cents I made 3 little dresses that just turned out so cute. Oh and I did have the rick rack in my stash too.

This one is yellow with pink ties and pink rick rack, they wear them like little sundresses.


And here are the 2 blue ones I completed!

You can also make them from fabric too, but these took under an hour each to complete. Wanna try it.. go to www.littledressesforafrica.org/blog and get the pattern.

Off to work today!

Happy Stitches!

Dorothy