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First, an item of business: yesterday, my humble little blog surpassed 20,000 visits! That means, in the past two-and-a-half years, people have clicked over here twenty THOUSAND times. Wow. Thanks, everybody! If I had my act together, I’d have thought of a giveaway. Maybe for 25,000. Any ideas?
Now, onto the fun stuff:
Have I mentioned how much I love Halloween?
Oh, I have?
Thrice even?
So, yeah. I love Halloween.
Jason took Nicolas out for some guy time today, so Kalen and I took the chance to spookify the yard.
I suppose introductions are in order. That fellow on the right is Spot. We acquired him years ago, when Nicolas was a toddler. He was named (by Nicolas) after Rolie Polie Olie‘s dog.
The pirate on the left is a new addition to our graveyard family. I found him at the thrift store last November. I’m not sure who that extra skull belongs to, but we do have his twin brother up on the deck.
He’s keeping all the dead flowers from Garden Week!™ company. Now that I’ve gotten the cobwebs up, I feel much less guilty about my lack of green thumb. The dead plants fit the mood perfectly.
Kalen’s creativity added the perfect touch:
Nice spider placement, kiddo. He’s got this creepy thing down. Mostly.
Hey, Spot. Are you glad to be out of that box?
An update on my Halloween curtains:
Ten of twenty webs crocheted. Five happy, fuzzy spiders crocheted and awaiting fuzzy pipecleaner legs. All yarn is left over from previous projects, and the buttons are from an irreparably stained shirt of Jason’s.
My hand still isn’t at 100%, but I’m working on things a bit here and there. In an effort to do something crafty this week, I decided to try my hand at these gift bows, made of magazine pages. Easy peasy! Not that gift bows are expensive…you can get a bag of dozens for just a couple of dollars, but I love the reused quality of these, and they’re so colorful. Each one is completely unique. And they look great with my favorite models.
A close-up of the bows themselves:
This first batch was made from an educational software catalog and one of those coupon magazines that come in the mail. Apparently, Mom’s been busy over at their place and has knocked out quite a few as well!
I’m easing myself back into crochet, too. I followed a link from one of my favorite blogs to a newish group on Ravlery, devoted to devotees of Lisa Gentry’s crochet and knit designs. I wasn’t previously aware of Lisa’s designs, but she has some cute things, as well as the distinction of holding the world record for fastest crochet! They hold a monthly contest in the group, and October’s contest is for Lisa’s design of a spiderweb and spider. I adore Halloween. I love decorating for Halloween. I decided to use Lisa’s design as inspiration for a set of spiderweb curtains for our sidelight windows. I’ll need to do about twenty of these small webs, soak them in fabric stiffener, then put them together. (Still not sure how that’s going to happen. I want them to be able to fold up, accordian-style, for storage.) Of course, there will also be spiders. But here’s what’s done so far.
I’m using Bernat Baby Coordinates. Because I had it. 😉 And because I like the bit of shimmer the yarn has. Thread would have been ideal, but I’m trying very hard not to buy anything new unless we need it. Reminds me of a verse I read a couple of years ago:
Use it up,
Wear it out,
Make it do, or
Do without.
I’m not going to go too far, but “making do” seems particularly appropriate these days.
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