Halloween 2013 - pic post

We had a very busy Halloween. Baking cookies, making decs and trick or treating.

Connor ready to carve his minecraft pumpkin

Kids costumes

Connor making a scary face

Kids snuggled up on the sofa

Esmai playing with flour

Esmai eating flour

Connor cutting out cookies

Esmai covered in flour

Window decs



For some reason I couldn't get a good pic of the windows :(

Finally a decent update-grab a cuppa

I have worked on the background and am loving the colours still they are starting to get darker then the top of the picture which is really nice. I have spent ages thinking the blob of red at the tip of her hair was wrong until my partner pointed it out on the finished design. Next up is to finish the wing eventually (I have run out of one colour). Then I will finish off the body and her boob and that will be this page finished leaving only 5 pages. The next page will go rather fast I think as its mainly large patches of colour. I am leaving all the white in the design till last so it doesn’t get too grubby. There is a lot of white on page 7 which is the bulk of her dress. So dare I say it I think the rest of the stocking should stitch up fairly quick? I am planning on taking a break in December and was considering working on some smaller designs from a magazine I brought.

In other news:

We are doing a home school trail run. With the aim (all being well) to take Connor out of school ASAP and home school him full time. I have started a blog on it so feel free to jump over to it to see what we have been up to *learning together*

We survived the storm with nothing more than a broken fence. One of my friends 2 roads down from us lost part of her roof so we were lucky but it wasn’t as bad as we thought it would be. I didn’t expect it to snow though! Only for a few minutes, Connor was very upset that he had missed it.

Esmai is such a cheeky little girl now. She’s walking most places and is finally in a brilliant routine which works very well for us. We have had a break from teething which has been needed. She now has 14 teeth!

In home school I didn’t want to teach anything he is likely to learn in school in case it doesn’t work out and he returns to school. So this week we have been focusing on Halloween. We have also made Halloween decs for the windows and picked up some pumpkins last night, we are also going to try pumpkin pie and soup-which none of us have ever had-so if you know any awesome recipes feel free to let me know!

We are working on getting Xmas sorted, so to avoid the rush we had last year. By the end of November we should be completely finished, present wise and then only have food shopping left to do in December. We have lots of craft bits planned for the children and me (I’m a big Xmas freak) and I have started stock piling and organising what we are going to make already!

 

 

Hetic half term,lots of pics-grab a cuppa :)

Hi 

I just thought I would mention that I have taken anonymous posting off as I was getting a lot of spam comments. I'm sorry it has gone on so long I was hoping it would go away on its own but now you have to have a Google account or similar to be able to post a comment. 

The half term is pretty much over, its been our first and its been a long one! I’m truly shattered. We have done lots of fun things including lots of messy play ,visiting people, and lazy days at home. 

We mixed shaving foam and food colouring and painted the bathroom. Most people who have seen the pictures thought I was mental but it was so easy to clean off , just showered over and all done! Connor loved it and I haven’t heard him giggle like that in a long time. 

We had glow stick baths which went down a treat. Something I would love to do but on a much bigger scale, maybe hiring out the local swimming pool would be a bit eccentric though. 

We went trickle treating for Halloween which Connor loved and he was even very brave and went to some houses by himself. We decorated the windows not anything as good as we did last year as we was running out of time. We carved pumpkins but they didn't turn out too great as the knife I use snapped. Connor was a mummy for Halloween all wrapped up in bandages, he looked so cute and it didn’t cost me anything!

We saw friends that we haven’t seen in years, a girl I used to go to school with, the last time she saw Connor he was newborn!

　

Somehow in all the madness and mayhem I even managed to stitch a little , not as much as I hoped but better then nothing. I restarted the snowman stocking for my daughter using the right fabric. The size difference is immense I don’t know why I didn’t question it before. Most of the scarf is done but I’m seriously going to have to work my arse off to get it finished in time for Xmas. 

I have chosen the fabric I am going to use to back it but think it may look a bit boy-ish as its going to be a lot of blue. But it will look great. 

Well I better get back and do some stitching!!

Have some cute pics!

The size difference

Shaving foam painting

Shaving foam painting

"Its on my glasses!"

Esmai is getting strong

Connor as a Mummy

Esmai as a cat thingy 

Our decs

Halloween :D

Sorry for not posting yesterday. I thought I would wait until today to save doing two posts. There’s been a fair amount of stitching going on, but no pic today. The progress made is hardly noticeable so I’ll wait till next Sunday and post. There is only 11 days till my dad’s birthday so hopefully I’ll be able to finish if not it will be his Xmas present.

So Halloween is not something that I normally go to town about. We go trick or treating but only a few houses of people we know well. Pumpkins are normally silly faces, I rarely dress up and haven’t since I have had Connor. This year I decided to make an effort now that Connor is a little bit older. We did some pumpkin carving, decorated the front windows and went trick or treating. I had so much fun.



Mr Oogie Boogie



Cute Spider

Connor was very shy while trick or treating. He said thank you but didn’t say trick or treat. When the doors were opened he insisted in giving the owners his sweets he had brought from home! He got a very good haul for only 6 houses.

Vampire Connor

Next year I plan on doing more Halloween wise. Decorate the house. Dress up. We’re talking about having a house party. Maybe even a little spooky stitching. Starting earlier will help i think. Its been too much of a rush to get everything done.



Decorations

Decorations at night