it’s fall! the favorite season around these parts. we are all settled into the routine of school. football season is in full swing. it’s cooling off (but it’s still north carolina, so sort of stupidly warm). and we are ready for the gauntlet of holidays. so, here’s how we spent our october…. first things first. […]
halloween
halloween cookie bake off.
it is becoming a bit of a halloween tradition to make a batch of halloween themed sugar cookies. we almost didn’t get to it this year, but thanks to a four day school break before halloween, we managed to eek out this last little bit of holiday spirit. i made the dough while the kids […]
a very haunted halloween spooky village quilt.
i recently completed construction on my spooky village neighborhood and all thirty dwellings are inhabited by a myriad of various halloween citizens. i absolutely could not be more pleased with how this one turned out, from the bright happy colors, to the quilting, to the scrappiness, and mostly to all of the fussy cuts. now […]
october twenty twenty two.
and now. for the general happenings in october post. the non travel, non cake, non quilt, non adventure happenings. to kick things off, i’ll begin with a little campfire cookout smores type party we had for the kiddos. there was chili too. but i have no photographic evidence. just these pics of the smore’s table […]
mobile halloween cookie decorating
as we were preparing for our long weekend in blowing rock, i had the bright idea that it might be fun to decorate cookies, as an alternative activity to staring at our phones at all weekend. hazel helped me bake up a bunch of sugar cookies in a variety of halloween shapes and i carefully […]
halloween class party cupcakes
now that i have a kid in elementary school again, my opportunities to bring in class snacks and treats has increased dramatically. fortunately, hazel’s school still allows homemade items, so when the signupgenius email was sent out for the halloween party, i snagged the sweet treat spot, and got to work on the cutest assortment […]
ghost party quilt.
after making the ghost town quilt two years ago, and a spooky scrappy economy block quilt last year, i really had no plans to make another halloween quilt this year. then i saw woolly petals ghost party quilt and i quickly abandoned said lack of plans and pulled out my stupidly large halloween fabric stash […]
the random happenings of october ’21
let me kick things off with the two big lidkids official school photos. it’s been quite a few years since our last school photos (anna was in kindergarten and isaac still rocked a bowtie in third grade). of course this is the year that mullets made a comeback. football season is also in full swing, […]
spooky sewing.
whilst traveling about the country, i picked up a lot of fabric, including quite a bounty of halloween themed fabric. i also might have ordered a bundle of the cutest halloween line ever and had it shipped home. basically, i now own considerably more fabric that i can ever use in my lifetime. so, when […]
october 2020 happenings around home.
initially, our travel plans for october took up the entire month, so we weren’t planning on much halloween decorating. but we came home a week early, so the obvious choice was to go all out decorating for halloween and/or fall. the girls and i went to a little farm stand in lewisville (rogers nursery) where […]