Andrew Acomb

Jennifer finished her very first quilt last week. The quilt was a gift for my mother. Great timing too. My mother just had some major back surgery and will be recovering from it for the next year. The day she came home from the hospital, the quilt of there waiting for her!

I took a few pictures over the weeks as Jennifer was working on the quilt. I though it would be nice for my mother to see some of the process.

Jennifer bought most of the fabric for the quilt at a store in Poulsbo, Washington called Heirloom Quilts & Fabrics. Everyone at the shop is so very friendly and helpful. The first time we went there, we arrived about 15 minutes before they were going to close. A couple of the ladies ended up staying about half an hour after they closed just to help Jennifer out with some of her questions about quilting. Great service and a great selection of products.

Spotted Cat was always willing to help Jennifer out with her quilt. I’m not sure if she would have finished without him!

I finally figured out what I’m going to be for Halloween. Check out my super video that I made!

Kodak Gallery set up a site called Make Me Super where you can make a video of you as a Super Hero. You can use any of your existing photos in your Kodak Gallery or upload a photo to use as your face. Since I don’t have an account, I uploaded a photo.

Really easy to use. I like the little dots around the face that you can move so you can crop the face perfectly. If you make a video, send me a link.

Last night I carved another pumkin. This time I was inspired by Jack from the movie A Nightmare Before Christmas.

Last Saturday we had a few friends and family members over for a Halloween party to decorate cookies and carve pumpkins. To get ready for it I made yellow, orange, white and black icing. Jennifer also made over 50 cookies of all shapes and sizes. There were pumpkins, cats, Frankenstein faces, owls, leaves, and other Autumn or Halloween shapes. We had all sorts of sprinkles, stencils, and other things to decorate the cookies with. Whatever anyone made, they got to take home.

Kurt made only one cookie, but he spent a lot of time on it. He got pretty creative with it. Beginner’s luck I think. If he could have repeated it, then I might call it skill.

Tim made a bunch of cookies. Each seemed to get better than the last one. Probably because he ate all of the ones he messed up.

After decorating cookies for awhile, everyone went outside to carve pumpkins. For my first Jack-O-Lantern, I just drew on the pumpkin with a dry erase marker. I used this so I could easily wipe off any excess marker after I finished. I think my first one came out okay.

Yesterday I went down to the New Hope site in Bremerton, Washington. It’s a Habitat for Humanity project that is nearly complete. I still can’t do much because of my recent surgery, but I figured I could get some photos of the work being done. Nearly all the volunteers in the pictures I took are in the Navy and stationed in Bangor, Washington. Despite their busy schedules, they still find some time to help out the community.

You can see more photos of the Habitat for Humanity project on my Flickr site.