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In an effort to save money I’ve decided it’s time to learn to sew.  First of all, repairing clothes is much cheaper than buying new clothes.  Secondly if I can sew well I can make us clothes that are Neiman Marcus fit and quality for Walmart prices.  That’s a pretty good deal.  I’ve been doing some tshirt surgeries and other things by hand, but that gets tedious.

Then my wonderful Grandma Bonnie gave me one of her two sewing machines.  These pictures were from her birthday.  She wanted to go the Sewing Guild’s Annual luncheon/fashion show for her birthday, so we made it a ladies’ day.  She brought her sewing machine and gave it to me there, I was so touched.  She loves to sew and is incredibly good, but her eyesight has made it so difficult for her.  She made her beautiful dress and suit jacket she’s wearing, and showed them in the fashion show.

We have three generations in this photo!  Maybe one day in the next couple years we can have a four generation photo!  Speaking of little ones…

This beautiful boy Daniel and his mother were at our table.  He was only 10 days old!  We all got to hold him and it was wonderful.  Such a treat!

Another treat of the day is the raffle they have.  As soon as I saw this basket I wanted it.  I am a sucker for gift baskets.  They have a theme that everything in the matches, it’s a bunch of little gifts wrapped up so prettily together.  I can’t go to Sam’s Club by myself around the holidays because I want all the gift baskets!  But I’ve been wanting some fall decorations and so knew I wanted to win this.  I entered 16 tickets ($4) and won!  I was ecstatic.

The other cool sewing thing I’ve done is take a pattern fitting class taught by Connie Crawford.  My mom was kind enough to pay for me to take it with her and Heather came too!  It was really good, although a little over Heather and my heads.  Connie was a lot of fun and very talented.  I’m excited to put her teaching to good use.

So far the only thing I’ve sewn on my machine is the apron I wore for Halloween.

That’s right, this Halloween my family hung out with the McCains.  Eric and I thought that since my parents are so into politics (dad especially) it would be fun to dress up as John and Cindy McCain.

The funniest part was that Eric’s mask was so scary!  The first time he put it on I wasn’t looking at him, then looked up and screamed because of the scary old man standing in my living room.  A lot of kids had the same reaction.  One little boy screamed bloody murder, turned and ran down the driveway to his parents!

Another boy (about 10 years old) started screaming and backing up with arms spread and almost clotheslined his little sister down the steps!  We had so much fun at my parents house scaring the kids and interacting with them.  Some kids asked if he was George Bush or Biden.  That was pretty funny.  Parents really loved it.

Jason also took a turn at playing McCain.  Then a little while later cracked us up by proclaiming that his spleen hurt!  No, he doesn’t know where his spleen is.

We took a nice picture too because Eric looks so handsome in his suit, I couldn’t resist!  And the two things you need to have a great Halloween get together with family?…..

A Cheese Mummy

and Coke!

Thanks mom and dad for a super fun evening!