thanksgiving

As the holiday season is under way, I think of those less fortunate than myself and include them in my thoughts, prayers, and giving. May we all have enough to eat this Thanksgiving day and days to come.

Each of you should give what you have decided in your heart to give, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver.

2 Corinthians 9:7

Hope you all had a wonderful Happy Thanksgiving!

xo,

estela

captains and butterfly

Halloween almost came and went while I was blinking...haha! This was  L's first year to trick or treat and she had a lot of fun which makes all the trouble worth while when the kids have a great time.

Okay, so the spiders webs don't look that great, but we had strong winds a couple of weeks before Halloween and they got all messed up. I had to redo them they didn't look like they had at first.

Here are the boys right before they went trick or treating with the pumpkins they carved!

L getting ready to head out.

Here they are...Airline Captain (Ram), Butterfly (L) and Captain Nemo (Rem).

Just a note I did not make the butterfly costume my mother in law bought it and L has been wearing it quite a bit since she got it.

Next holiday...

xo,
estela

in training

Looks like she is working really hard! She is actually playing a Dora game...haha! She came to work with me the other day and she was pretty well behaved. 

They are growing up so fast! sigh!

xo,

estela

spooky

We are almost ready for Halloween, we just need candy and costumes...haha!

I did manage to put up some decorations this year (with Ram's help), hopefully they don't blow away in the next couple of days.

The fireplace.

Front of the house

Ram's room and there's mistletoe (paper) from last year. He found the decorations and hung them up himself!

xo,

estela

wordless wednesday

xo,

estela

halloween runner

I finally got my Halloween runner finished, it's from Alexander Henry's Ghastlies fabrics. The 2009 collection, but I think I bought it in 2010...haha, how time flies! I'm pretty happy with how it turned out and you can see some of my green pumpkins from the pumpkin patch trip. I wish I had bought more of the fabric it's very cute! Got some practice with swirls on the quilting, curves are a bit of a challenge for me, I tend to get bigger and I managed to keep the proportions even.  Yea one WIP off my list!

xo,

estela

pumpkin patch visit

We did our annual run to the pumpkin patch early this year. We are all excited about Halloween!!

Rem was getting hungry so he was looking to happy at the end...haha!

The piggies were sooo cute!

of course I didn't get a picture of the pumpkins we bought!!

xo, estela