Done and done

Monday the 30th, I finished 7 angel gowns for Little A's rehearsal later that day (or I thought it was supposed to be that day).  Altogether, 15 gowns were needed but another mom was sewing the other 8 gowns.  I did manage to get an earlier start on costumes this year and all that was needed was to serge the sleeves and hems and give them a final press.  Usually I put it off so long that I'm a frantic basketcase. 

Here they are, all nice and pressed:

No matter how much I sew, I always learn something new with each project.  With the angel gowns  I learned that assembly line sewing really is faster and how to squeeze every last inch out of fabric.

While I worked on angel gowns, Little A was sewing her own project:

A Kitty Nativity!     Isn't it cute?!   She cut out their costumes from scraps and sewed them on my sewing machine.

Nippy is the Angel (see her wing peeking out on the left),

Sad Kitty is the Shephard (notice the real stick for a staff),

and Tigress is the Baby Jesus (with barnyard backdrop, lol).

On the first day of crazy week...

Crazy week is the week of final drama rehearsals before the big production.  It has become a tradition for us since joining the White County Homeschool Theater when we started homeschooling.  During crazy week, we have extra long rehearsals, last minute costume sewing, stage and sound tweaking, sack lunches and fast food dinners, tired siblings, props that have gone awol, and cast pizza parties. Great fun!

Usually it is the first week of December, but this year crazy week actually began on November 30th since that was Monday.  That was the morning Little A woke me bright and early,
"It snowed mama! It snowed! LOOK out the window!" 
"Oh, that's frost sweetie."
"No, mama! It's snow! I know it is because I prayed for snow!"

Well, it was a pretty hard frost (our first this season)....and in Arkansas it might as well be snow, LOL!

The "snow" had all gone by chore time, but there were some lovely ice circles from the kitties food bowls.



More of crazy week to be posted soon....

....And now back to our regularly scheduled program...

Wow, I really dropped off there didn't I !  Well, about the middle of October our activity schedule started to pick up the pace and in November it went into overdrive.  Now that crazy week (drama rehearsal week) is finished I will have some time to catch up on blogging. 

 Where, oh where, to start? Geocaching? Our trip to Branson? Projects? Thanksgiving?  Drama?  Maybe I'll just start with crazy week and work back from there.

Stay tuned!