Still Sidetracked

3 days to Halloween and I am still doing Other Stuff. 

A friend is going through a difficult time now with some family 

changes, including a challenging baby situation, so I thought I'd 

stop working on Emily's costume midway and put together a 

package of stuff for her. Mostly food - tea, hot chocolate, chocolate 

and other hopefully healthy snacks. 

But also a crystal necklace for her

and one or two of these fleece blankets for her little one. 

This stack of blankets would have been twice as high had I not 

run out of woolly nylon. It was just as well, since I shouldn't have 

been serging fleece blankets by the tens when Emily's sad outfit 

was being pointedly ignored. 

Making the jewellery was also a nice diversion because I hadn't 

indulged in that particular pastime for about 5 years. But it was 

slow going, since I was so rusty. That, and I'm still using the 

old pliers from the home fix-it kit lying around the house.

I did work a bit on the costume today, though. 

Its pinkness might be getting to me, I think.