October, already?!...

 

 

...and I haven't written a single post yet...Yikes! It's not that I have nothing to say or show you (quite the contrary...), but lack of time and the feeling of being constantly rushed rule my daily life! I do like to have bigger blocks of time when I put together a post and somehow these seem to be fewer and far between as each month goes by.

Having said that, October so far has been a bit different than most months because I spent most of the first half of it anxiously following my 14-year-old daughter, Stefania, and her soccer team's exploits at the Canadian National Soccer Chamionships in Monton, New Brunswick. I have to confess that being in Vancouver, over 4000 km from all the soccer action in Moncton (my husband made the journey to Moncton), was a pretty nerve-wracking experience; because of the 4-hour time difference, I kept waking up in the middle of the night when they had early morning games (I am a mother, right?!) and when my husband phoned during the games, I always answered with my heart up my throat, wondering if we scored or got scored against...(One can really lose one's head when it comes to sports!) Nevertheless, I survived the ten days and practically jumped out of my pants when my husband called me to tell me that they had won the final and claimed the national title for their age group! Yay! Here's a shot of the team (Stefania with the arrow pointing down on her) -- what a bunch of healthy, happy smiles!

 

 

Despite all this trepidation and excitement, pillowcase-making has been on track this month as you can see from the first photo, and I'll hopefully be able to list some new ones in my Etsy shop in the near future. I've also been working on a woolly project which I want to show you and, with Halloween around the corner, costumes will have to get stitched up soon... I have a request from my 8-year-old for a Little Red Riding Hood costume -- have you seen any good Little Red Riding Hood ideas or patterns anywhere? I do plan on showing you what I've put together for Halloween, before Halloween... hopefully! See you then...

 

 

 

 

Comments

[Allison]

um, what's up with the non-English alphabet? The preview in my rss reader had English text, but the body is all Greek letters I think. Very confused!

[Penny Peberdy]

I had the cyrillic script in both the reader and the actual blog! Can't understand a word! :-)

[maggie]

Ditto the above....

[Jo Bleaden]

All fine reading from the UK.
Congratulations to your daughter, I'm not surprised your head was all over the place I hate separation from my children let alone over thousands of miles yikes! When my kids have made trips to Europe with school I haven't slept a wink.

Beautiful pillow cases as usual.

Jo

[Karen]

I can't read it and Im in London :(

[Allison]

I think it's something to do with firefox and the font rendering, because it's fine for me in Chrome. I dunno why I didn't think to try that earlier.

[Allison]

I was Little Red Riding hood last year! I've been meaning to write up a tutorial for the cape I made ever since. Maybe now is a good time. I just used a dress and basket that I already had and made a cape out of red kasha.

[Holly]

I use Firefox and everything is readable to me, lol! My daughter was little red riding hood last year http://www.flickr.com/photos/42641699@N04/4061896073/in/set-72157622970965867/ I used a Simplicity pattern http://www.simplicity.com/p-1530-costumes.aspx It turned out quite large for her so she might be wearing it again this halloween! ha, can't wait to see yours =)

[(lia)]

I'm using Chrome in the US and can't read a thing. Lovely pictures though! :)

[Krista - Poppyprint]

I just plunked it all into Google translator and got the message. Congratulations Stefania!!! Wow, that is just incredible and amazing and fabulous (you all look pretty chilly in the photo while your coaches luxuriate in their puffy down jackets!).

Nice to see you back and busy Beata. Pretty pillowcases!!! Did you get my emails?

[Clare Powell]

I couldnt read it but the pictures of your pillowcases were utterly lovely!

[Lisa]

i thought it was russian, oh well.

[Beata]

Thanks for the comments about the text... Typepad seems to have changed its fonts and do not seem to offer the one I used to use, so I had to use a new one which might be the reason for the problem -- I have since changed it to another one and I hope this one will be better??... If the text is still a problem, I would appreciate your comments...

Thanks so much for reading (or trying to read) my blog and have a great day!

Beata

[Jean C.]

I was Little Red Riding Hood when I was in kindergarten... my mom made mine too! Heavy
Sigh..... LoL... fond memories...
Most of the costumes I've seen of her have her wearing a cute little A-line dress with maybe a little square looking lace detail on the front of the chest area. If you know what I mean... and a cape/hood of red. Tights would be good too... cause if your weather is anything like ours (Utah, USA) it's typically cooler Halloween night!
Have fun... that's what it's all about right?

[Ana]

Reading fine with Firefox here.

Congratulations to Stefania and her team! How exciting!

[Allison]

Your font change seems to have fixed it for me at least. :)

I went hunting for my cape-making notes, but they don't seem to have survived my move overseas. I might try to re-create them from memory and the pictures I have.

[Tallulah Maggs]

ahh your photos never fail to make my mouth water <3

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