Last night we had our church’s harvest party. Many kudos to Kjerste and Derek for heading up booths and stuff. There were lots of fun games, lots of little kids in red. As Little Red Riding hood, I wasn’t very original, but that’s ok, there were lots of adorable lady bugs and check out Kaylynn as a football (the most adorable thing). My mom, Heather, Mrs. Allison and I did face paintings, and I did a ridiculous number of “Elmo’s”, but I think that was mostly because of Heidi’s influence. Check her out:

Like that’s not creepy!

My mom is stylin’.

Erika worked a ridiculous amount on this, but it looked amazing!

Little Red Riding Hood (one of the many that showed up)

Heidi is frighteningly Elmo like

The amazing spandex’d couple, Aaron and Jess!

Adam was the Kool-Aid man, Oh Yeah!

Effie and Hilary

Since I was face painting I didn’t get too many pictures of other people, but there was a talent show and everything. We had everything from opera to standup comedy. From Celtic Dancing to jazz singers. Oh, and in case you didn’t gather from the pictures above, the theme was “Red”.

Some pumpkins I’ve carved in the last few years:

Good Ol’ Yoda (2008)

Where The Wild Things Are (2007)

An Owl with a mouse? (2006)

Owl and Charissa’s Celtic Cross (2005)

Turtle (2008 yeah I did two pumpkins this year…)

So you guys know that once I learn how to make something I just make like a million of them until I have it perfected? (How much easier would life be if I just figured out how to read a pattern?!) So, I think I finally got it right with Wesley’s first birthday present! Here is his awesome little hat. So I actually made two, one for Autumn’s happiest 22nd birthday and one for Wesley. Here they are:

Autumn’s hat (as modeled by me)

The side of Autumn’s hat

Wesley’s hat

The top of Wesley’s hat

Wesley modeling his hat for me

Wesley telling Kaiya how awesome his birthday party is

Happy birthday, Wes!

Sorry for long absences! I’ve been crafting, I promise. The crocheted Trinity Blanket is growing! I stupidly forgot which brand of yarn I bought and I’m almost out of the dark blue border, so I have to go find some more and hope it’s the same brand. Oops. Also, a picture of the earrings that I made on the Wild West Women’s Rodeo Roundup this weekend. (I also got some sun. Yay)

(I kind of think that the pink ones look like gum, but maybe that’s just me.)

I now have seven of the circles

A close up of the Trinity blanket now that the triangles are attached to the circles and the circles are attached together.

Seven down, 14 to go!

Charissa, Courtney and I went down to Point Defiance and had a little photo shoot with my lovely camera.

Charissa

Courtney (isn’t the gorgeous?)

Charissa

Trying to get Courtney onto the rock

Somehow the camera got out of my hands

Charissa

Courtney

Sorry for not posting any interesting craft related stuff recently. I’ve started another project making a blanket for a friend whose birthday was a few weeks ago (happy belated…) but it’s not quite in a good stage yet, so I will post pictures of it later once it gets a little bigger and more interesting.

This however, was my first adventure in cable knitting. It’s a nice pretty blue scarf that I was able to enjoy all winter long. I finished this over the fall and despite a few weird kinks it turned out pretty nice. The first picture you can see the details.

The top is more like the real color, it’s actually kind of a mix between the two. More of a baby blue. Flash kills me everytime.

Well I suppose it had to happen sometime.

Tell me that I do not look 16 again.

I have some new house guests.

I know that this doesn’t have anything to do with crafting, but they’re awfully fun to wake up to in the morning. They make very pretty music. It’s nice to have some other noises in the house besides my own besides the garage door in the morning.