Costuming difficulties...

I have a problem.  Besides being a terrible procrastinator, I also no longer have anyone close enough to me to help me with sewing problems now that mom has passed.  My younger son's costume will take next to no time once I get it started (see where I'm going with that?  ONCE it's started?  lol), but my daughter's costume is giving me FITS!  I'm nearly in a panic over it, to be quite honest.  And what's worse, I have just 5 days to get it done.  The problem, of course, is that I have an exact idea of what I want to do with it, and I have a pattern, but will have to modify the pattern considerably to make it work, and I'm just not entirely certain if modifying it the way I want to is going to work or not.  Honestly, I suppose the only way to find out is to just make the thing, but I'm a chicken and don't want to mess it up.  lol  But really, I should just DO IT, shouldn't I, and get it done.  So tomorrow that is what I'm going to do.  I'm going to clear the table, set UP my other crafting table that _FINALLY_ came home from my dad's house (we had used it for birthday parties, as well as for mom's funeral) tonight, so I can really get my craft area all set up and working for me.  But I'll still need the dining room table for cutting the fabric.  lol  If I remember to take pictures as I go, I'll try to remember to post them as well.  Wish me luck, all you nonexistent readers!  :D

Apples

Things have been rather crazy since mom passed, but they're finally starting to settle down.  My father is having some problems coping, likely because my mom did so much for him that without her here to do it for him, he has no idea what's going on.  So now I've stepped in and have been doing my best to help him.  Unfortunately, he tends to hide things, then forgets where he puts them, and accuses people of stealing them, which of course no one does, but he doesn't think that.  So it's been stressful on all of us kids, who are mainly the ones being accused of stealing he things he loses.

Well, a little over a week ago, dad left to go out of town for a while (every time I ask when he's coming back, the date changes, lol) and I'm staying at his house to keep him from worrying about it.  Anyway, I realized the other day that he has a LOT of apples here.  And by a lot, I mean like over 10 pounds of apples in various different forms.  So a couple nights ago, I decided to make apple pie.  I really wish I had taken pictures while I was working on it, but I do have a before and an after shot of it.  lol

Today I decided to use the 3 pounds of Gala apples I found in the fridge to make apple sauce.  I halved the recipe I found on the Pioneer Woman website, substituting a teaspoon of apple pie spice for the 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon and 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg.  And letmetellyou, the smell in my house is _STILL_ amazing!!! And it tastes SOOO good!  I'm going to put it in a jar and just eat it with everything whenever I'm feeling like I want some.  lol

I still have a bunch of apples left, though.  Now just to find something to do with them.  Anyone have any thoughts?  😊