My Grandchild's Halloween Costume

Just in case you are not a reader of Katie's blog....here's Lucy Lou in her Princess Bea Fascinator and Royal Wedding Outfit we whipped up for her yesterday.  She is the world's most long-suffering dog, what with the ballerina-pig costume last year, the painted toenails, etc etc.  I am convinced our brills costume is going to win her a year's supply of dog food, so please VOTE here

B and L

I may have already posted this picture of The B and me, but it's so dang cute!  Pia is putting together a group of old photos and we added this one.  B, Allie looks EXACTLY like you!

Manito Blvd.

Manito Boulevard is one of the prettiest streets in Spokane, and I enjoy walking there.  The houses are mostly from the turn of the century to the 30s and there's a little park that runs right down the middle of the street.  Here's a pic I took today, it's looking like fall in Spokane!

A Couple of Finished Projects

Here's Carsie modeling the Peace Sign Baby Bib I made for him.  Maybe he won't suffer from chapped chest now.  Isn't he the cutest model EVER?

Here's my "Daybreak" Shawl contrasting/clashing nicely with the Viburnum bush in our backyard (plus the weeds and the leaves I haven't gotten around to raking yet)  I'm still in my mad love for orange phase, so this shawl is perfect!

Baba!

Susan gave me this envelope of old pictures.  I LOVE it, it's dated 1927.  I think we should all go back to having our photos developed at the drug store, and get a cool envelope like this to store them in:

Inside the envelope were lots of pictures of the Rosaias and the Giustis, in the Roaring 20s.  I have it on good authority that Fred and Frank were involved in some sort of shady bootlegging operation and somehow Baba got mixed up in it.  No pix of that little episode though :-(  Mostly group photos of people eating, mugging for the camera and posing in their fabulous 20s fashions.

Here are 2 of Baba, as Susan mentioned tomorrow is his birthday.  If he were still with us, he'd be 111 tomorrow right?  Miss that guy, he truly would have provided me with blog material every single day:

Sorry the pictures are not better, and I'm not sure who else is in the photos.  But it's fun to see Baba the "Steelhead Master" as Jon called him when I showed him the last batch of Baba pictures (and YES, Jon is the spitting image of our grandpa.)

I'm sure these were taken in the Seattle area, it would be fun to know where and how much has changed in 80 some years.

World's Laziest Halloween Costume Ideas

I love Real Simple magazine.  Even though I would probably never do any of the suggested projects etc.  Today's email from them was TERRIBLE, though.  It was "last minute costume ideas"  and they were SO BAD.  People if you are this lazy, just stay home with the lights off.

Here's a sample:

"Carry a picture frame in front of you and say you are a "self portrait".

God.

Randoms

The girls are nagging me for not blogging so here are some random observations:

1.  FINALLY!  Trader Joe's opens today!  Three Buck Chuck!  Lime-Chili Cashews!  90  Second Brown Rice That Doesn't Cost $3.00 A Bag!  And so much more.  Can you tell we are super-stoked to have our own TJ's?  Katie wanted to be there at 8:00 am for the Grand Opening.  It's 8:08 and she just got up, so I think that plan died a timely death.

2.  Cara, you can skip this one...Project Runway pulled another cray-cray result and Anya is this season's winner.  I love her and I can see where the judges were coming from in making her the winner, but still...it's a surprise.  I mean, the lady CAN'T SEW.  She's about at my skill level, and that is not a compliment.  But she doesn't have to sew now that she's the winner right? 

3.  Speaking of Cara, she is now less one gall bladder and a large gall stone.  I THINK she's going home from the hospital today.  Virginia hospitals evidently differ a bit from those in Spokane.  When Katie had her GB surgery, they spit her out the door as soon as she woke up in Recovery.  No namby-pamby nursing care in the hospital here!  You're awake, you're breathing (more or less),  you're out.  Get well quick, Carrie!

4.  We have a FANTASTIC costume to make for Lucy this weekend.  I won't spoil the surprise, but will just say it was my brills idea, which Katie refined to create the perfect get-up for our Miss Lucy Lou.  Since Katie spent about $40.00 on the materials to make said costume, we now HAVE to actually make it.  It's going to be awesome!

5. And here's a picture Pia took of Mikey and me at the XC meet.  I love this kid's perfectly round head so much:

Also loved his ghetto outfit of high water brown Sears Tuffskin jeans and some random fugly shirt.  You'd think I was still dressing him every day :-)  Actually, he always looked very spiffy when I handled the wardrobe.  The twins were known for their snappy  outfits (thanks to Cara and Katie mostly) and he got their hand me downs x 2.