Sin in Linen Apron

I seem to be finding a lot of clothing and accessories lately . Only $5.99 on clearance. Found here. Its hard to see the pattern but you can get a closer look at the sheet set made from the same fabric.

Grandinroad Outlet $19 Skirt

Cute skirt that gets good reviews can be found here.

Fashion

Modcloth just got this cute Rad to the Bone dress back in stock. The bones glow in the dark! Its a cute dress but I like my spooky with a bit more coverage so I plan to make an over skirt for an 1880's bustle walking dress with the same fabric available here. Fabric.com has 94 just arrived new Halloween prints.

Pumpkin Patch Planning 2013

Pumpkin Progress, a photo by dragonflydesignstudio on Flickr.

In the photo you can see some of the dreaded powdery mildew spots on last years upper pumpkin patch. A big problem here in Oregon so I tried the powdery mildew resistant seeds last year. For the most part it worked until we had some damp weather set in and then it was still hard to fight. Still less mildew than regular seed planted in 2011. A pretty good haul from two 4X4 raised beds with 14 larger pumpkins and several smaller pumpkins. I had to hand pollinate the upper bed as the bees were few.

Ordered my seeds from Johnny's Selected Seeds. They just arrived and I'm excited about trying new baby white ghost pumpkins in the mix. New Racer will be planted for a second year and along with Charisma. They are similar in size and yielded nice 8-12 pound larger pumpkins and the smaller ones were around 3-5 pounds. This year I'm using only drip lines in the beds and made sure the second bed was up wind from the sprayers used in the lower part of the garden. That might have been an issue last year with over spray on the lower patch.

Costume Research

And then, in the quiet darkness, my thoughts turned to potential Halloween costumes for the dog this year., a photo by Verdell on Flickr.

The things I find that have nothing to do with my historical research. Yet, flickr does not disappoint. At -At Dog...yes please.

Plans

Halloween Lights, a photo by JKG II on Flickr.

Found this lovely image and it filled me with a yearning for Halloween. The year is moving quickly and I need to get working on costumes. Theme for Steamcon this year is Around the World not as much fun as last years Victorian monsters. Hard to top that one. No firm plans for this Halloween yet so I haven't settled on what to wear Halloween night.

Back and Forth

My 92 year old grandfather passed last month. My life is flying back and forth between Oregon and California right now to help my grandmother. They were married for 70 years. There is always so much paperwork when someone passes. Heading back down for round 2 of forms to fill out next month and to hire some help for grandma.

Hopefully I will return with more Halloween content this summer.