I love Halloween

Dressing up has always been my thing. Ask anyone. I'm so good at costumes and can create a costume out of any household item. So of course my child is going to have a great costume for her first one. BUT due to one of my best friend's destination wedding Halloween weekend, I'm going to miss baby E's first Halloween!! She's staying with my mom so I've convinced mom to dress her up and take her trick or treating. I haven't quite gotten all of E's costume yet...but here are some pics of her trying on the best part...the hairy dress. HA! She's going to be Toto, mom's going to be Dorothy, Tweedy is the Tin man, my brother is the Scarecrow, Jayber is of course the Cowardly Lion and my dad is the Emerald City King or maybe the witch. HA! This idea stemmed from my mom's fierce desire since she was a child to be Dorothy. She loves that movie!





I knew I wanted to make E's costume...but didn't really want to find a pattern for a dog outfit. Instead, I used a simple A-line dress pattern. I think the hairy material is perfect and I laughed out loud when I found it at Hancocks. Any suggestions on how to do the ears? I'm not sure I can get a 9 month old to wear a headband. What if I knitted a brown hat and sewed the ears to it? Eureka!

Tweedy said she looked like a cavewoman. Once she gets the rest of her costume though: brown tights, brown shirt, ears and of course a painted nose...she'll look just like Toto! Pics of the finished product to come!

Our Porch Is Famous

I had to share this! We have a great screened-in porch on the back of our house that we spend a lot of time on watching football games, cooking out and just enjoying the Southern weather. A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine who works at Southern Living asked if they could come do a photo shoot using our porch as the background for one of their upcoming issues. We of course agreed and Tweedy and I spent a whole day getting ready. We cleaned, dusted, old englished the old church pew that's the focal point of the room and of course Tweedy put plants everywhere. The day finally came!! They got here with a moving crew and moved out every bit of our furniture. HA! Then they spent two days taking pictures and cooking tons of recipes all with these ingredients: corn, okra and tomatoes. (it comes out July 2010) Most of the shots are pretty tight on the food, but if you know what our porch looks like...you'd know it was shot on our porch....maybe. :)

I was just glad they let us have the leftovers!!