One more…

Not Halloween, but another embroidered tee we did over the weekend:

Yes, I am alive!

To commemorate the one-month anniversary of my bloggy absence, I’m making a comeback. Or rather a return, since I’m not sure this is exciting enough to call it a comeback.

We were on vacation for two weeks, and since we’ve been back everyone has been sick (most of us more than once), and I’ve been busy! I promise to do a proper catch up and trip report soon – maybe starting tomorrow.

For now though I wanted to show off something that Annie and I have been working on. Halloween customs! We’ve done several different ones and had a lot of fun. Annie loves to run the embroidery machine for me. My little helper – I’d be lost without that girl.

Here are the complete sets:

And some close-ups of the appliques on the tees:

Pumpkin Polly

Cat and pumpkin

Hocus Pocus girl

Haunted House

I have a tendency to make girly things since I have built-in models here, but I’ve got some really adorable boy designs too – mummies, vampires, frankenstein…the cute kind, not the creepy-icky kind. (Is it just me or is Halloween over-the-top gore these days?)

I’ve posted them for sale on my ebay and design forums, and will be listing on ebay shortly, if anyone is interested! There is an upscale children’s boutique here that I would love to sell them in, but I can’t get up the nerve to go in. I have zero self-confidence, and I might actually cry if they rejected me. (Yes, I am that much of a dip) I think they’d go well there, but I haven’t been able to work up the nerve – or a sales pitch. I have been contemplating this since we’ve lived here – almost 2 years. I’m such a goob.