Finally! A week after the day, I finally get the chance to look through my camera, see what photos are allowed online (and that I can be bothered to put online, certainly not all 300 of them!) and write our account of the party. By some miracle we were actually all set and ready for […]

It’s that time of the year, it’s finally starting to cool down a little and the leaves are beginning to turn. So off we go to the Texas Renaissance Fair! I’m a little delayed in writing this, we went last weekend, alas this week has been full, of work, of building Halloween and of illness. […]

In the continuation of the theme of things and event exploding into the house, Halloween burst in this weekend making a nice big mess! We pulled all the decorations down and started getting lights up outside, plenty more to go. Monday we designed the invites for the party, making them Tuesday and doing a mass […]

Our back room/dining room looks like a seamstress exploded in it. Scraps of fabric, ends of threads, pins littering the floor like little landmines and in the centre of it all, overseeing the carnage, sits the sewing machine. Yes, we’ve been sewing. DmentD introduced me to the wonders of costume making, from a pattern! Crazy […]