October 2013 Adventures

I spent all summer training for my 4th Portland Marathon and I did it! I made it through Portland Marathon number four and again I fell in love with the event. Here's a video of the National Anthem before the race started. Wow! It was an awesome way to start the race, all 15,000 participants singing together.

Then a couple weeks later I completed another marathon... a marathon of pumpkin related events all in one weekend. Below is my mini-movie created in iMovie of the fun.

What A Ghastlie Bag!

I just LOVE Alexander Henry's Ghastlies Fabrics. So I decided to make myself a lovely new purse out of the collection. The more I look at the illustrations the more details I notice. LOVE.

My favorite is this sweet little girl with the ballerina dress and if you look closely she's holding a hammer. Yikes! And of course I love those big, round, pink cheeks. There's another print where all of these characters are sitting at the dinner table together and this girl has her hammer sitting in front of her on the table. They put the whole story together on the fabric... I just love those little details. 

I used the Mail Sack Pattern by Pink Chalk Studios. This is the second time I've made this pattern and I really like it. The bag has a long handle that's meant to cross your body for hands-free carrying. I'm really tall and I'm usually packing a ton of odds and ends because everybody hands me their stuff to hang on to, so this BIG bag is perfect for me. And I think it's quite stylish too. There's also a "mini"version of the bag that I might make one of these days when I'm not packing so much stuff. 

Here's Sparky posing with the Mail Sack Pattern. She likes to help.

And I can't resist sharing my my spooky witch finger cookies from this weekend. So creepy looking, one little girl refused to eat one at our pumpkin carving party.

Eww! Look at the broken fingers nails!! I used the Witch Fingers recipe from Allrecipes.com and added some green food coloring for that "witchy" effect.

WIP Wednesday: Halloween Table Runner

Here's my WIP for Wednesday — a Halloween Table Runner. I'm feeling a little behind since it's already October and I'm just now finally getting around to sewing this baby together. I've had the Halloween fabric kicking around since July. It seems like I work best with a looming deadline.

My other WIP would be this blog (I'm still figuring out all the bells and whistles of how to make this thing look how I want it to, for now it's a basic template). I've wanted to blog for a while now.... but I didn't really know what to say, or if what I had to say would be remotely interesting to anybody out there. This posting seems so lack-luster with the amount of time I've spend pondering a blog, but here I am... finally. Hello everybody! Or hello anybody that might just stop by and read my random ramblings.

Stay tuned for all of my creative endeavors!