As usual, life got away from me and so did the Fall. We had a very long warm Fall here, which is unusual but was generally welcome. Ryan has been starting the chicken building by pouring a concrete pad, I believe more on that can be found on his blog. He brought me in for some of the two-person work, like leveling out the top of the wet concrete.
I hadn't ever done that before, it was interesting to do! Just add it to my list of "Skills I never thought I would have."
The 6-month-old calves tend to come investigate every time we're out there, they're very curious what we're doing in the hay lot. There was another one in the following picture as well, but I couldn't capture them all in the same shot.
In September we went to the Apple Festival at Penoach Winery and tended a booth for the business. It was an OK day, but I'm not sure if we will do it again.
With Thanksgiving over recently, I was proud to get my turkey boiled down for stock already! I took a picture, primarily for posterity.
In sewing/quilting news, I went to upload pictures and discovered I've completed more than I thought I had in the last few months. I sewed myself a new laptop bag for work because the one I had was worn out and the one I could get from my company was just less interesting to me.
I lined it with some pretty pink fabric and edgestitched it in pink as well to add a personal and feminine touch.
I also finished a quilt from the scraps of my lone star Christmas quilt that is serving as a seasonal throw on my couch.
Also in quilting, I replaced the placemats that I made 6 years ago, and this time I made 16 of them!
They're a bit of a modern aesthetic and I also made matching napkins and a table runner.
Lastly, it was Halloween season and for the first year I really did it justice (in my opinion). H wanted to be Tinkerbell, which means she needed wings in addition to her costume. Here is the picture I found online that I used to base the wings on:
I did some work with a couple of wire coat hangers to get the basic shape:
Then I got some white tights and stretched them over the frame:
Then I tightened them up and sewed it in place, and attached some elastic:
The last step was to draw the swirly patterns on the back with silver puff paint that I had on hand.
I also made some shoe covers out of fleece and big white pom-poms.
I picked fleece because I don't have to hem it and it has a bit of stretch to it. I also made both kids' costumes out of fleece.
Z wanted to be Mario (the kid loves Mariokart if I haven't already mentioned it) so we bought the hat and the red sweatshirt and I made the overalls out of--you guessed it--more fleece. His mustache is a piece of felt taped on.
Ryan decided to also get into the fun with his blue Carhartts and a hat of his own.
H has shown an interest in sewing, so she is sewing an Elsa dress from the movie Frozen for one of her dolls (with heavy help). I'm trying to get her to do as much on her own as she can, so here she is cutting out the pattern.
I also finished the hearth project that was mentioned a couple of blog posts back, and it looks awesome. I'm not sure when it will get a wood stove, but it will at some point.
I've been working a lot more than previously and took this mirror selfie on a business trip, so I thought I'd include it on this blog since I usually post about Ryan's work and not my own! ;-)
The kids are doing well in school, Z is enjoying Montessori. His spatial reasoning is especially good.
I also failed to post first-day-of-school pictures, so here are some:
We all hope you have a happy early winter season, perhaps I'll get another post in before Christmas!
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