We had a fun time saying fairwell to October here in Little Rock. Intially we were hoping to be moving down to Corpus during Halloween weekend, but after the cloudy and stormy weather all last week, Dereck couldn't get all his flights in so we got to prepare for Halloween night! We carved a Jack-o-latern and set it out to entice some trick-or-treaters. We bought our big bag of candy and sat and waited.... and waited....and waited... between 5:30pm and 8:30pm we had only one trick-or-treater! We were bummed that more didn't come, but at least we made the little Power Rangers night by giving him a giant handfull of candy :-)
After we shut off the porch light, we got ready to go out for Halloween. Our costumes this year were from the movie Shaun of the Dead. For those of you who haven't seen the movie, its a dark brittish comedy about killing Zombies. Not everybody knew who we were, but for those who are familiar with the movie, they said we did a great job with our costumes! I posted pictures of Dereck and I all dressed up, a well as pictures from the movie so you can see how we measured up!
We met up with our friends and went downtown to a Halloween party, and then to a piano bar. Our friends won the costume contest at the bar dressed as the Sesame Street characters. There were a lot of fun costumes everywhere and it seemed like everybody got dressed up! It was a great Halloween!
I was also pretty busy this week starting and finishing up some more sewing projects. I finished this purse a while ago but finally got around to taking pictures of it. I took apart an old purse I had that had some stains on it and followed the cuts and seams to make this new purse out of scraps of fabric. I think it turned out really well!
I also started working on some aprons my mother asked me to make for her to give as gifts. I know that neither recipient will be on my blog so I'm safe posting pictures! I only got one done so far, the other is about 75% finished. This one is going to a lady who used to be a music teacher so I went with some cute music note fabric and found this great purple floral that matched really well!
I'll post pictures of the other apron when it's finished. I just have to attach the straps and wasteband to it. I wish I could post some pictures of the other holiday projects I've been working on (since they are some of my favorites!) but I'll have to wait til after my recipients open them up!
I hope to get a few more things finished before we pack up and head out of Little Rock. The forecast this week is clear and sunny so hopefully Dereck will be able to get his flights in so we can leave this weekend/early next week. I'll keep everybody posted :-)
Jane
