Thought I would do some man sewing. I downloaded a beautiful .pdf pattern from Thread Theory called the Finlayson Sweater. I really like their selection of men’s patterns. The site, especially the photography, is just beautiful. The products and packaging…
Christmas Dogs! As I believe I might have mentioned, I’m beginning to enjoy sewing. Christmas and dogs are both very close to my heart so when I “happened” to be walking through the local fabric store, Hub pointed out this…
This is the third year that a group of us will attend the “Violette Femmes – Girls Night Out” charity event in Almonte, Ontario. All funds raised go to assist Lanark County Interval House in establishing and delivering programs to…
I can sew! Well, sort of. Things are coming back to me. Well, not coming back exactly since I never really knew them, but it is all vaguely familiar. Such as they are, I have decided to wield my new…
In early October, I actually started thinking about our Halloween costumes ahead of schedule! After placing so many little gnomes in the garden this summer, I thought, hey, why not? We could be gnomes! And since I seemed to have…
In past years, our adult costume ideas have become somewhat elaborate and often ended in something that is not very comfortable. But, because I was so comfortable last year, and enjoyed myself so much more, I decided that from now…
This year for the Annual Halloween Bash™ I made our Halloween costumes from a rather random selection of items from the Value Village Halloween costumes section of the store. I found these really long, Victorian type jackets that were really,…
So the Annual Halloween Bash™ costume party is still a thing at my brother and sister-in-law’s house. For past few years, we shopped around looking for ready made adult couple Halloween costumes with limited success. My complaint is mostly because…
UPDATE 2022: I was looking at this older post, and I noticed that our halloween costumes in 2013 were not only exceedingly ill-fitting and uncomfortable, they were also troublesome in terms of cultural appropriation. Therefore, I made the decision to…
So this is the time for me to review our adult couple Halloween costumes that we purchased from buycostumes.com. Every year, my brother and sister-in-law host a Halloween costume party for grownups. Before I started attending these events, I was…
This year is the first time that we went all in and dressed up for Halloween as grown-ups (allegedly). This is the first year we attended a Halloween party hosted by my brother and is wife (devil & angel). We…