if you have 15 minutes...

then you may want to give this a go.



please do let me know if you do.

the downloadable pdf is right there, yes...right over there in the upper right corner, under "download tutorials here". hopefully, i will get some more unfinished tutorials done soon and add them to the sidebar also. um, i still haven't completed the ones from last year's forest party. yikes.

moving on...



i have finally (finally!) actually come through on a tutorial for you. of course, i say that it only takes 15 minutes, and that, my crafty, fabric-stash-loving friends, is true. i whipped up this little number this morning before eme's halloween party. cate couldn't keep her hands off of it, so i'd say that it was a hit (it mesmirizes babies and it's sturdy, too!). now, making the tutorial on the other hand...way more than 15 minutes.



and right now, i have no clue where to put the pdf so that you can download it! wade is sleeping (it is after midnight), so i can't ask him. edited to add: i'm using scribd...it seemed like an easy one to go with. if there is a better option for blogger, please fill me in, my blogging friends. i hope that it is okay. these sort of affairs always make me nervous which could be why it has taken me so long to complete a tutorial to share.

oh, one more thing...because no halloween post would be complete without a bat. the cutest, teeniest little baby batty bat, at that!

we discovered this sweet thing late one night after arriving back home from a weekend at mimi + pops'. he was hiding in the leaves on our carport.

thankfully, he didn't appear to be injured, just a bit unhappy to be all alone, i think. or maybe he wasn't overjoyed at the paparazzi treatment i was giving him.

at any rate, he scuttled away under the deck.

some evenings at dusk, we see bats dipping + diving (not nearly as many here though as there are at m+p's house on "da bayou"). we like to think that he is one of those guys.

amazing.

i am more than a little bit in awe of bats.

the girls were a bit sad that they didn't get to see him, but wade + i have long ago learned not, under any circumstances, to awaken sleeping kiddos.

since it is officially the 31st now, happy halloween from us and our wee batty bat...and also from lily's one-eyed screaming alien lolly!

(and now back to the trying to pull together this year's birthday party post.)