so i show up at my brother’s, today (after two hours packed full of sister hazel and starbucks peppermint mocha), and i am showered with treats!!
ok, maybe not showered, but two really great ones…  see, i was supposed to show up two weeks ago, but i was sick and a couple of folks in this [...]

when your grown child calls you up to ask if she can borrow anything you still have from your army days…  for a Halloween costume.
love that the fuzziness of this pic makes it almost look like the pic was from the 70s (the theme of the Halloween party i attended).

more photos of some of the far [...]

here’s one of my favorites of all my costumes, ever:

you can tell i get my craftiness from my mom, eh?  she’s the brains behind that whole thing.  check out the afghans behind me!!  hilarious…
another from my mother’s sewing machine (my sister went as an angel, that year):

and the costume that everyone in my family has [...]

so i grabbed up some lovely yarns last week, at the suggestion of lime & violet’s daily chum…
Stashup Yarns came to me in three colorways (none sock yarn – – i have a three and a quarter socks to make before i can buy any more sock yarn!!), and a couple different bases:

there’s French Marigold [...]

i know that there’s technically two and 3/4 days of the month left, but when you’re a knitter, that’s not really much in terms of how much more you can do to show your productivity for the month…  i might finish one more thing, but we’ll see…
here is my crowning glory for the month, though, [...]

so our halloween theme this year for the party of our usual crew was bad guys/villains…
i was originally trying to decide between harley quinn and poison ivy, but it wasn’t really that much of a competition ’cause harley’s just so much more fun!  for those of you unfamiliar with this batman villainess, here’s some links [...]

stories, accessories, face paint and more pictures yet to come!!