I am already craving all things spooky so I made a few things this past week! A plague doctor and sweet little bat
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They look so soft and cute!
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Yes, they look great!
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Here’s my Summerween party pics!
I can highly recommend watermelon carving. It’s very easy, a watermelon is much easier to cut than a pumpkin.
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I thought this was the appropriate place to continue the conversatino from another thread …
Lol at first I thought I might point it out to them, but then I decided not to, just to see what would happen 
I just think it’s hilarious. They either have vision issues (which I hope is not the case as one of them drove here) jack-o’-melons are a regular thing in their lives, or they thought “there’s weird Imma again, let’s not encourage this madness, maybe one day she might still grow up”. I was still allowed to hold and feed my baby niece so at least they think I’m harmless lol.
I was just discussing this exact thing this morning over text with my oldest friend. We’ve known each other literally since we were babies.
This morning I had my sewing group and I brought cake, since it was my birthday. There’s one lady and she and I, we just don’t vibe.The birthday cake was a good excuse for her to ask my age, so I answered, and she was a bit shocked, she said “Oh, I thought you were much, much younger!”. Not sure whether compliment or insult but from her tone, probably the latter.
When my friend texted me for my birthday I told her, because I know this has happened to her many times as well. We both have younger sisters and in our hometown it was a thing way back when that people didn’t believe we were the older sisters rather than the younger.
It might help that both of us don’t have grey hair yet, but I guess it’s indeed mainly because we can be a bit … well, silly isn’t the right word, but looking for the fun angle of things? I have a serious job in which I sometimes have to give bad news to people, and I’m definitely not behaving silly or childish then. I’s not like I’m incapable of seriousness or something, but in my personal life I like not being beige? A carved melon cracks me up. Tea and cake from nice plates and cups rather than plain white make me happy. I love Halloween and there’s a Wednesday Lego kit displayed on my desk. I am just absolutely incapable of being as put together and proper and adult as my mum and sis. They still haven’t given up the hope that I might grow up one day.
In the mean time, now there’s finally another kid in my family (the first kid born in this century!) at least there’s going to be someone who is going to hopefully appreciate my party planning. I may or may not already have bought Halloween PJ’s to give to her 
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Time for Halloween!!!
I participated in the Summerween Swap Gallery and I received some great Halloween goodies and patterns. The weather turned last week, we had five heatwaves and severe drought this summer but we’ve been having non-stop rain and thunder for days now. Schools have started again and that’s when people without children, like us, usually take their annual leave. All my coworkers are coming back and I worked through summer and now it’s my turn to take PTO for two weeks. We’re going on a trip tomorrow, for a few days, after that I’m going to be home. I have some DIY planned but mostly I’m planning to organize, clean and decorate for Halloween properly this year. Last year I was really, really busy and working extra hours to organize an event for work in early November, so I didn’t really decorate the way I wanted to. This year there’ll be no excuses.
I’m taking a Halloween cross stitch project with me on the trip, cross stitch is really portable. I also need to dig out the Halloween PJ’s for my niece so I can give it next time I see her! It’s probably on the big side (I bought them last Halloween before she was even born so I picked a generous size just in case) so I need to measure it, maybe I can fold over and hand stitch the sleeves a bit shorter. When she grows the parents can just unpick the stitches and it can grow with her.
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