Handmade

How grateful I am that my mom NEVER bought us a Halloween costume- she made them every single year. And for the many, many times the words "we can make it" came out of her mouth while we were out shopping for clothes. Ooh, how it irked me then! Yet, now I find myself saying the same thing to my daughter. I'm constantly reminding her that if we buy everything, then we'll never know how to make anything! -A topic which has been on my mind a lot lately. The wheels in my head have been turning- but that's a topic for another post.

Happy Halloween! And thanks mom, for teaching me how to sew :)

Our daily visit from the flock of quails coming to eat the grass seeds, during our pumpkin carving. I think I saw 2 quails in my whole 28 years of living in California, and that was in Joshua Tree National Forest. Yet here in Tucson, we see them all the time! Isn't the state bird of California the Quail?

Little Miss Anne's dress was actually her older sisters fairy dress from a few years ago.

I used wooden buttons from my grandmother's stash because "gnomes like wooden things", and I crocheted the ties of the aprons.

Spooky, doily style

Being the resourceful girls that we are, Daphne and I noticed that doilies had an awfully close resemblance to spiderwebs. So once that thought was in our heads, we ran with it! I am a sucker for doilies and have quite a stash accumulating.

And then...dun, Dun, DUN... JAVELINAS! 6 to be exact- a WHOLE FAMILY of them! On OUR porch!!! They were witnessed in the destructive act by one of our neighbors at 5 am. Apparently the management sent out an email warning the residents that pumpkins would attract Javelinas. We didn't get the email. Hence, tears, this face, and a promise to get more at the farm. Just this morning the last pumpkin, the biggest, was carted off. Oh, Tucson...