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Just by the monster spiders everywhere that we were already seeing in July, it was clear that this was going to be a banner year, but as we get further into the fall they continue to get more gruesome. Kevin thinks they’re amazing, and went out with the baby in the backpack to take pictures of this web strung across the path outside our kitchen window, right at face height. (ugh)

I will concede that the raindrops on the web are gorgeous, but given the number of webs I walked into today, I just can’t wait for the first frost. The massive fall spiders are one of the worst parts of the pacific northwest to me.

At least the house spiders so far seem to be at a minimum, fingers crossed.

I feel like I’ve barely been making a dent in any of my projects recently (craft, home, or garden) but there has been a small smidgeon of sewing. 7/8ths of these pant legs are hemmed:

Yay! We’re still cloth-diapering, and so our kiddo at 13 months is a solid 2T in pants now in width and still a good four inches shy in length. Our attempts to roll things only last for minutes, so now I’ve been hemming away. I can make it through about half a pant leg before he’s up, off and away and I have to drop everything to run after him. 🙂

On a similar vein, these strawberry pieces have been cut out for three weeks, and now one of them has seeds!

The list in my head still includes kitchen curtains (have the fabric, lining and hardware to make roman blinds), a tree skirt (have great fabrics and a vague idea), a Halloween costume (a bee? He loves saying brrrrrr, which could be cute as an action costume), baby pants, baby overalls, and new wet bags for daycare, since they keep losing the ones we purchased. Plus vague aspirations for quilts, wallhangings, etc. You can’t say that I ever lack for ideas. 🙂 I’ll let you know if I make any headway.