A Peach of a Show

Well, it’s finished… stage has been painted back to black, props have been dismantled, and all the costumes put away.Here I gave you a couple sneak peeks of the costumes I worked on. (The glow worm project is a separate post, here.)My absolute favorite image was Aunt Sponge.
Totally ridiculous! Here’s Old Green Grasshopper with his dyed hat & corduroy trousers I fashioned to look like jodhpurs.Inchworm was such a truly adorable character!
Centipede carried the show with her singing!Ladybug’s poses (& incredible accent!) kept me giggling all night.All I did for Spider was to sew her legs.Oh, and I did hem James’ shortsand consult on the sharks’ fins…
Here are the pictures taken by the school; and if you wish to see some highlights video-recorded by the school, you can look here.
(If you think you might have seen the narrators’ butterfly outfits before, you have! They are part of the fairy outfits I stitched last year for the “Midsummer Night’s Dream” production.)

Tea Party Fare with Flair

The high school girls at our church have a discipleship group called “Ladies In Waiting" which meets weekly. Various moms provide the goodies for the tea-party-themed refreshments. Because I have no girls, I feel a “frou-frou” deficit quite often. So I volunteered to be responsible for goodies for a meeting. I finally got the call!Bad news was they only needed savories; another mother was delivering fruit & someone else was making the sweets. heavy sigh…Ah well, all is not lost! I got to make the puffs I’d been planning – I just decided to make bacon Swiss gougères and fill them with a light pesto cream cheese.I also tried my hand at some fiesta pinwheels.Oh, yeah… I ended up making turkey sammies… just in case…spread them with a lovely smoked paprika compounded butter

 

topped that with spinach

then sliced oven-roasted turkey…

spread the top with cranberry cream cheese

and cut into triangles -- YUM!