Laurel picked out her Halloween costume from the Simplicity website (she'd point, I'd click) and we bought the pattern on Saturday. She's going to be Jessie from Toy Story 2 (Simplicity 4869) and we already have most of the materials, I just need to pick up a few notions, a skein of rug yarn for her braid, a couple of paint pens and a cowboy hat. If anyone knows where to find a child size red cowboy hat offhand, I'd appreciate it.

I figured out today why she insists on having water in her water table before she'll play with chalk -- wet chalk appears more intensely colored. I'm amazed I didn't figure this out earlier.

Sale cloth keeps calling my name; today I gave in to two yards of kelly green vinyl that I thought of clown props upon seeing it. It's going in the next package to my folks.

At some point, I would really like to have a desk or similar-height workstation to hold my computer again. I don't really miss the clearance-find desk I left at my parents', but the table I'm using now is so low I sit on a stepstool to use it and Laurel frequently pilfers the stool to use elsewhere. I suspect any change will have to wait until after we've seriously boogied the dining room, which I'd like to use for all the sewing stuff currently spread across a couple of rooms. I still don't know where I'd put my computer, though.