Canary is not baby poop green

I just finished crocheting an outfit for bleuette. It was for a Candlewick Thread Challenge. One gal got a whole lot of Candlewick Thread in a color called 'Canary'. Now, I've owned canaries. I have NEVER owned a canary this color. LOL. Mine were beautiful yellow, yellow with brown, and red. Never "Baby Shit Green". honestly. How did someone name this thread Canary???? Anyway, We each got one card of Canary Candlewick thread to create an outfit. the outfit had to be 90% of this Canary. oh dear. what on earth do you do with babyshit green?????? the gal was kind enough to send along 3 other colors that 'complimented' the canary-harvest gold, olive green and navy blue. Compliment huh? LOL. ok. let's make this work. I grabbed my hook and went to work. no pattern-just crochet by the seat of my pants. Well, after ripping the top apart three times it started to finally work out so I kept going. I made a drop-waist dress, beret, purse and socks. I made a slip and sewed it right into the dress. I made a lining for the little purse and sewed that right in. it closes with a little bead. I put navy ribbon through the beading that I crocheted into the beret and the dress. After all is said and done I guess it's not too bad. It's got a nice "Old Timey" look to it and that goes well with this doll.

Just who rules the roost???

Doesn't he look comfy???

How often do you see a dog flat on his back, spread eagle out cold? It would appear that we've lost our reign....sigh....our bouncing bundle of Joey has taken over. I wanted him to stay on the floor. Daddy says Joey can be on the couch. Joey loves his daddy! LOL!!! We even got him a new cage for night-time. a nice HUGE cage so he's not all squished anymore. I mean, geesh. you could fit a small elephant in this cage! We had the largest airline kennel that they made but with his long legs he would bang around all night trying to get comfy because he likes to stretch out. he doesn't curl up like most dogs do. Noooo, he doesn't even know he's a dog-I'm pretty sure of that. We're still not letting him have free reign all night because he's at that naughty teenage age. Always looking for something to ....um....entertain himself with. LOL....and he loves to sample the trash still so he goes night-night in his cage. Maybe when he's a little older, after all, he's only 15 months old. He's still a baby....a BIG baby.....sigh.....

Free Countdown

Lisa's doing it again over at Ten Two Studios. She's doing her fabulous countdown of a free page of ephemera each day until Christmas. It's always really lovely stuff that can be used in countless ways. So take a look and enjoy and be sure to post a link to it.

A new Chef in town

Gosh, where on earth did last month go?? It whizzed on by and I missed it. LOL. so, daughter had a birthday request for a chef hat and apron for our little grand daughter to wear with her new kitchen set. Since they live so far away I was sort of guessing at her size. She's just turning 2. One of her nicknames is 'Baby Cupcake'. I found the perfect fabric. I figured since Junior's the same age (they're only 7 days apart) I'd use him for the model to see how close I am on the size. it's perfect!!!

More Animal Costumes

I found a scrap of fabric with a fur print on it and made that into a cute little Kitty costume. I had a charm that said Kitty in my stash along with the cute orange chain and it made a darling necklace to go along with the outfit. I'm still tweaking this pattern and it's getting so close to finally being exactly what I want as far as fit goes. I also wanted to make a skunk. After pestering my BFF for help to figure out how to make a skunk tail I pulled out my piece of black fur only to find out that it was not big enough for the costume....sigh....sadness.....then I spotted a piece of pink fur.

It was big enough for a costume so I instantly saw pink fuzzy bunny. My daughter says it reminds her of the awful pink bunny costume from the movie "A Christmas Story". I think this is much more darling. Now I have two more dollies all ready to go out for Halloween.

More Love

Found a great deal on pumpkins-five for $5. Hubby and I picked out 5 lovely pie pumpkins and went on our merry way. I started to wash the pumkins to bake them and one was just shaped kind of funny. I turned it and took another look and wouldn't ya know it-we had picked out a heart.

see, I find love in all kinds of places. This year, I put some extra love into each pumpkin roll and pumpkin pie I made! hehehehehehehehe......

Darla gets a new costume

This evening I made a new costume for Darla Bleuette. I just love those cute little kids costumes that look like animals so Darla is now a sweet little bear. The jumpsuit went together really easy from the pattern I drew. the hood took three tries to get what I wanted. I hit the ears on the first try! yeah! Now, does it get any cuter than this?? no, I don't think so. She's ready to go to the Halloween Party this weekend.