BLOG CANDY!!!

Happy Wednesday! Today I will show you some pictures from our trip to museum and one sewing project for Halloween. But first I would like to announce about BLOG CANDY!

Hooray! My first give away! What you will need to do is to leave a comment on this post and I will randomly pick a winner! I will run the Blog candy through the next Wednesday! One week! You can post your comment once each day and I will take the names each day and put them in a bucket for my son to pick the winner from at the end of the week, so you will have more chances to be a WINNER!
The winner will receive all the items in this picture:
–    3 clear stamps;
–    Mini-album kit;
–    Russian wooden doll fridge magnet;
–    Russian Chocolate bar with vanilla flavor;
–    Witch Boot, that I made

As for me I never had luck with give aways. Oh, no, I am lying! Once I won a pack of TOILET PAPER at the local grocery store! It was a sign up thing, where if you win they send you a coupon for free stuff, so I was very excited to get 4 free toilet paper rolls, but this store never had it in stock… Eventually they told me that they don’t have it in store anymore, discontinued item. I just threw that coupon away and was crying all evening, I am joking I wasn’t crying, but was very frustrated!

And now to the pictures from our trip! Since the exhibition was in the public museum, we took some pictures of their exhibits. We couldn’t take pictures from The Tsar and The President exhibition… the most interesting thing for me was the 8’ tall Apostles Clock. We got there just in time so we saw how it was working! It was spectacular! The Apostles pass before Christ as the clock strikes the hour and a melody plays. This clock was build by German immigrant Mathias Kitz in 1895.

Sergei was amazed of the size of the Mammoth’s bone! He is as tall as Mammoth’s leg bone to the knee!

Of course I was paying lots of attention to shoes and fashion. I love beautiful classic shoes. I think I would wear these one from the 19th century. But I don’t think I would be very comfortable in these hoops for the dress especially sitting at my desk and making cards! I liked the manikin for sewing. Looks like it is still in good shape! It is adjustable to different sizes!

As for my husband, he liked the Harley Motorcycle from 1914. But he said that it is probably would not so comfortable to ride… Even though, it is very neat!

When we went to the last room I took a picture of this broom or vacuum cleaner maybe. It was very heavy! Can you imagine bringing it to the second floor of your house, if you have it of course? I am having a hard time to bring our Eureka upstairs. Always thinking who will roll down first the vacuum cleaner or me? Our house is old and the stairs flight is very low, we need to bend our heads always when we go upstairs. I remember days when I almost saw my head rolling down the stairs!

I hope you liked my little trip report!

And the last is about this Witch Boot. My son thinks it is very cool! It is very easy to do also. There is a pattern for this. I made a little border by sewing several pieces of different fabrics. You can find the full instructions for this in the Sew News magazine from the October 2006 issue. I found this magazine in the library last year. I worked at Jo-Ann’s store and when one customer was buying a very cute Halloween fabric I asked what she was going to do. That’s how I found it! Do you think if it looks like a treat bag? I don’t know but I think it will looks great from Christmas fabric great also. May be for a fashion diva, or teenager girl?

I wish everybody good luck and have a nice evening!!!

Hugs,

The Red Haired Girl