Random Thursday

You guys really surprised me in the comments on that last post about bees. I thought I was probably weird for wanting to use my own fabrics in bee blocks, but many of you agreed! Sounds like we may need to start planning a stash bee! Who's in?

On to the random...

I started sewing Halloween costumes this week. This is part of Carson's. He decided on an orange caterpillar after changing his mind from a butterfly, worm, superman, and a Suburban. Wyatt has settled on being a scary tree and requested that Jill be a Black Swallowtail butterfly. I'm hoping Max will wear Carson's chicken costume from a few years ago.

Remember how I said we were going to the zoo this weekend? Well, that didn't happen. This did:

Roger determined that we had a water leak so he spent Sunday afternoon on the backhoe digging trenches between the house and his shop trying to find it. He eventually found it and capped it off, believing it would hold until he could go to the hardware store after work on Monday. Spoiler alert: It didn't.
Around 9 Monday morning I noticed that we no longer had any water at the house, so I went outside and saw this trench filling with the water that should have been flowing to my house. I got the main water line turned off and then spent the rest of the day at home with no water and 3 kids that couldn't go outside to play because of the massive holes in the yard. Fun times.

Do you read How About Orange, the blog of designer Jessica Jones? She always has the most fun links to share. This week she had a link to download a free font that looks like cross-stitching, and another that links to a custom box template generator. Make your own little gift boxes, so fun!

We are closing on our new house next week, so I decided it was about time to start packing. 

It was a little sad packing up my stash cabinet, but it was fun looking at all the prints and getting a few ideas. Of course now that it is packed away all I really want to do is sew! I've already filled up all the boxes I've been able to get and all I've packed are my cookbooks, other books, and a small portion of my fabric. This is going to take a while!

And here is the latest installment of Jill sitting in a chair screaming...

2 months!

I promise she doesn't cry all the time. Just most of it.