What a week!

My all-consuming project was to sew the Narnia costumes for Emily's upcoming photoshoot with Noah, Lucy, Quinn and Larkin (as mentioned in my last blog) and I finished Friday evening!  I was also asked to make an underskirt for Lucy's outfit. The dress that Emily found online was too short but it was super cheap so she bought two and I took the spare and cut it to just a skirt and added a fabric extension at the top for Lucy to wear underneath her dress. Here they are:

The boy's tunic fabric was two curtain panels that Emily found at Savers and it was perfect but quite messy with raveling threads. All week I had threads all over the house!

We watched two movies while I did this sewing - The Wizard of Oz on Wednesday evening and Coco on Friday night. 

On Halloween night, Steve and I drove to Ballwin to see the grandkids in their amazing costumes that Emily created (actually, Noah made his own and Larkin's came from a costume store). Noah was a character from a book he is writing - her name is Tabitha, Lucy was an octopus, Quinn a cicada and Larkin was the Phantom of the Opera. Lucy's little stuffed wolf was a shark!

After taking photos, Steve and I drove to the nearby Culver's and had dinner before driving home to watch Simpson's Halloween specials. As usual, no trick-or-treaters came down Bates Street. 

Saturday night, we invited a family from the ward over to make s'mores. They have two adorable little girls - Juniper (she is in my Primary class) and Hazel. Sally was pretty leery of them for most of the time, choosing to stay inside rather than to go out and socialize. But, by the end, she eased up to the girls and let them pet her and she gave each a little doggie kiss. 

When I was not sewing, I was teaching music lessons, attending civic orchestra to work on new December music, helping at the Monday morning women's group, getting an oil change while shopping for groceries, going to the doctor, switching out October knic-knacs for November ones. We had a lovely rain Thursday morning. Steve and I got a bike ride in Monday afternoon. We visited a lady in the hospital Monday night. We attended the temple Friday afternoon and worked there Saturday morning. It was a busy week, as usual! I am weary of busy weeks....