October Roundup

The crown turned out great.

Crepe paper crown from Alterknits, by Leigh Radford. One "skein" crepe paper in light pink.

I must have demonstrated my aptitude with a glue gun, because at one point during trick or treating, my daughter was getting frustrated with her crown being tied too loose and falling down into her face and she said "Mom! You need to glue-gun this thing to my head!"

So my baby is two years old and I do not have a single picture of the three of them together looking at the camera and smiling. Feeling determined, I set off for the park on Monday, our last day of nice weather, to get pictures of them in their pumpkin hats. (The older one won't wear his anymore--I had to bribe him.)

This is the best of the bunch.

I must've taken 100 pictures. Most of them looked like this:


or this:


or even this:


Can you tell that knitting has taken a back seat this month? If you want a Socktoberfest update, this is all I have to offer: