On Saturday we had quite a busy day.   We had some visitors as well as my sister and her husband who came up for the night.

We worked a bit on the deck and used up the rest of the decking, we didn’t quite close up the gap but it’s down to about 12 inches.

Some new supports to help get rid of the sag.

New decking down!

stained

We had our night visitor again so we have little critter foot prints across the wet stain AGAIN.  Next time I’m putting up barbed wire for the night!

Aimee and I spent the evening up in the sewing room after dinner working on halloween costumes.  I got Georgia’s Gypsy costume finished up with Aimee’s help on the belt.  I was quite happy with this one, it was fun.  The only problem was that the belt is made of a plastic-y material that can’t be ironed which  was a pain.  It looks like fake leather though so it’s a nice affect.

Gypsy costume finished.

Sunday was the girls’ birthday party so after breakfast we headed over to Uncle Pete’s house for lunch, presents and cake.  Georgia got her costume – the other two will get theirs on Friday…

Georgia the Gypsy for 2010

I’ll post pictures of Maia and Chloe when they try their costumes on later in the week.

When we got home I started right back on the costumes.  Chloe’s black cat is just about finished after some planned hand sewing.  I wanted to get it ready to bring with me to Becca’s house tomorrow night (I’m staying the night) so I can finish it there.

Black Cat costume - ears and collar left to finish by hand.

Then I started on Maia’s dress.  I decided to just cut and sew the bodice, leaving the skirt for Tuesday and Wednesday night.

Pink princess dress top done

So the costumes are on track to be finished by friday at least.  It’s a little late this year but they’ll get to do trick-or-treating friday and sunday in them.  Then the real question is if I’ll get to working on my costume at all 🙂

Well time to call it a night, I have to get in to work at a decent time since I’m leaving early to watch the nieces – I can’t wait!