Fashioning My Cyber Microcosm: Scary Spooky Numbers.

I don't know how other sewists keep track of all the numbers we deal with, but I surely cannot. Even when they belong to me.

I can't ever seem to remember my own measurements, no matter how often I use them; numbers never had sticking power in my head, unlike interesting tidbits and catchy jingles...

It was with this in mind, and the fact I go through plenty of notepads losing the notes I make, I bopped around the internet in search of a good spooky template to use. In doing so I discovered a really cute blog that offered a printable template that exemplifies the awesomeness all over this blog; I speak of Tea and Craft. Her template is cute, really damn cute-- much like her!
However, as cute as the template was it didn't perfectly fit the need I was looking for; I needed it to be a little more basic and bold since my eyes play funky tricks with small text. So I took to the internet again, but not for another template. I wanted to build on her awesome idea and add more Halloween kitsch to it!

Click to be directed to google docs for printing

After visiting the Graphics Fairy, with nothing but Pixlr and Paint at my disposal...the result is a printable that has lines for all the basic measurements one has to remember for sewing patterns, and a little room for the real specific ones, just in case-- all large enough to hang and glance at quickly. With Tea and Crafts blessing, this template is available for you all to use at your leisure!

Go ahead, print and be merry knowing you won't have to remember all those bloody numbers!
Be very sure to visit and thank Tea and Crafts for inspiring us all.

Spooky Basket: October? More like Stocktober

Woo hoo!
The blogosphere has already begun counting down, and as usual, I am fashionably late (I see it that way, at least)
Yes! It's October, and all of us are scrambling to finish up those finishing touches to whatever it is we may be planning or making.

It's around this time of year when I wish I won the lottery.
My October started as all October's start for me: lot's of temptation.
As the goods started invading the shelves of every retail store, so did my basket become a little heavier at the checkout.
This is the best and worst time of year for me because there is very little to hold back my impulse from the awesome-overload, yet it's a time when I feel most at peace-- and no, it isn't because I can indulge my material obsession with skulls and bats easily... but that particular story is for another time.

For now I will oblige my insatiable desire for Halloween kitsch, and offer up my latest Halloween haul.

 The Items:

• Bath & Body Works Halloween Bat pocketpac with 5 bottles of Halloween themed sanitizers
• Scentsy 'Fright Night' wall plug in wax burner
• Solar dancing skeleton
• Sugar skull keychain
• Skeleton tights

I bought the tights and pocketbac along with the bottles off ebay; as you'll notice they're not the newer versions... but the bath and body works is too far for me to visit, and the deal was exponentially better on ebay than if I went there, spent the gas and then bought this set. Plus I ran the risk of not finding the bat, since it seems it is the most sought after.

2011 bottles-- bat eyes light up!

The tights people have told me are sold at wal-mart, but I couldn't find them-- however someone on ebay was selling them for $2 with free shipping so that also out weighed the retail cost + travel gas.

I bought this burner from my friend who is a scentsy consultant; here is her personal scentsy page.
I use these quite a bit-- maybe more than I use incense sticks, and I love this one so much more than the others I have-- the white moon is highlighted when it's turned on. This one is a wall plug in, so I use it in my bathroom... which will one day sport a halloween theme.

I found this solar dancing skeleton at the local dollar store-- Poe loves to watch it dance almost as much as I do!

Not really Halloween, but Day of the Dead; my awesome neighbors gave me this keychain-- it matches the magnet skull I bought a few months back.

And if you haven't already guess from one of the pictures... I have a new fur baby!

His name is Poe, and he's just as charming as he looks.

What are necessary things you must own around Halloween?