tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8749322619076151462024-03-04T22:23:24.282-08:00memoria cafeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger33125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-87827904255832721692013-10-06T08:49:00.003-07:002013-10-06T08:49:49.241-07:00New blog.All of the crochet patterns, blogs and anything having to do with Skylay Designs have been moved to their own blog. If you're here for those, please head on over <a href="http://skylaydesigns.blogspot.com/">here to the new blog</a>. :) Thanks!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-10351959138695795622013-03-14T08:06:00.002-07:002013-03-14T08:06:35.137-07:00Much needed update...Hey guys! It's been far too long since I've been able to update here! Life happened and I had no internet for a few months - which not only put a pause on my blogging but things over at my etsy shop, as well. However, I did have more time for crocheting and things around the house without the internet beckoning me over to the laptop. Even now it's speaking to me, <i>"Come Ashlei, come use me to blog and check facebook!" </i>Lol. Somehow it usually wins. :) <br />
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Having all that extra time was nice though, I was able to get some things more organized, I started working out again and I have totally changed the way I'm cooking now! I realized, it really doesn't take that much extra time for me to make things from scratch and the taste is so much better. Not to mention there isn't all the extra dyes, salt, etc. No more boxes of premade stuff around here, this Mommy is making it all now! And everyone is loving dinner so much more. I'm amazed at the cook I have become in these few years since having my daughter. When my mother died and I moved in with my now fiance, I couldn't cook to save my life - now I even have some of his friends asking him to bring plates of what's extra. And I love making desserts :) I just make some homemade strawberry shortcakes a few nights ago (it was just Strawberry Festival time around here). My favorites so far are these yummy soft pretzels I've been making!<br />
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What have I been up to crochet-wise? All kinds of things! Here a few of them, I'll get the rest up later.<br />
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The dino hat & green angry pig ball were for my nephew for his 4th birthday. :)<br />
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An adorable newborn crown that I'll be putting up at the Etsy store soon. :)</div>
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Fingerless gloves! Made this set for myself. Love purple. <3</div>
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My hard case I had for my hooks decided to finally break on me, so it was time to get a new case. I figured, why not make one instead? I absolutely love the marrakesh, it's one of my favorite multi coloured yarns. :)</div>
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Plus the new items I made that are up at <a href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/skylay" target="_blank">Skylay Designs</a>! New beanies and baby barefoot sandals!</div>
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Other than that, it's just been a great and fun time with my wonderful kids!</div>
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-11712458453585301522012-11-03T09:33:00.001-07:002012-11-03T09:33:30.906-07:00halloweenAfternoon! How was your Halloween? We had a fun time! At my daughter's request, we went to our church for Halloween for dinner and a fun time - they gave the kids candy and had some bounce houses for them all to play on. Safe candy and a great time, they sang and played and enjoyed dressing up. My daughter was a princess again this year, but she had a purple dressed she picked out to where. She got this dress for her birthday and she told me right then she wanted to wear it for Halloween and she kept it up safe in the closet just to wear it. My big girl definitely knows what she wants! My little man was a baby Frankenstein. I made him a crocheted Frankenstein hat and we -tried- the whole face paint thing... but it didn't work out as planned and he was happy with just the hat! I think he looks just adorable in it.<br />
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I just noticed how tired my Sky looks here after her long day at school! She was so very excited about Halloween though, that was for sure. :) I'm just glad they had a great time!</div>
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November already, I just can't believe it. In five days my little man is going to be a whole three years old! Time just keeps flying by faster and faster.. I don't know where it's all going! Soon he'll be off to school too and I won't know what to do with my time. Maybe more time for some crafts? It sounds so weird to have time to myself again, lol!</div>
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Now it's time to pull out the construction paper and get things ready for a Thanksgiving craft I'm going to do with the kids this afternoon before our community dinner at the church tonight. :) I found <a href="http://www.freekidscrafts.com/paper_loop_turkey-e1680.html" target="_blank">this one</a> on Pinterest last night and I think that they'll have fun making them.</div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-51251306270691264932012-10-15T12:03:00.001-07:002012-10-15T12:03:46.330-07:00Trying to play catch up..I'm always wondering how people find time to blog daily.. once a month seems to pull from me most times when I would like -atleast- twice a week.. even once would be good. I'm trying to make things more organized in my life though, including my entire house which I have been striving to be more organized forever now. I poked around on Pinterest and other blogs and am just amazed at home organized these ladies are. I want to get my life there! So with the may tips and some hard work, I'm slowly getting there. I've started throwing away the useless crap that no one in the house uses, instead of it just sitting there because someone 'might need it in the future'. I've already got stacks of boxes of clothes to donate to our local community center and I plan on going through the kids' toys this week. They don't use 90% of what they have sitting in their rooms! I could probably pull an entire box of toys out of my daughter's room and she would be like, "When did I get all of these toys?" and completely not remember them! Now if i could just afford to get some extra storage container sets. In time!<br />
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My Sky had a few rough first weeks in school, but is doing beautifully now. She's bringing me in blues daily now, which the teacher confirmed is better then getting a green. She's early got all of her sight words for this nine weeks memorized too. When did kindergarten get so different? No more naps. I guess it's easier to just not fight with kids about a nap they don't want to take in the first place? My three year old gives me a hard time about naps, I couldn't imagine a room full of five and six year olds who don't want to nap! Haha! Speaking of these sight words she's learning, I'm amazed that my son has even started picking up on some of the words. We made flash cards with all of her words and they sit down together while she says the words. A few days ago, he got a few of the words before she did - "girl", "dog" - talk about a proud mama! :)<br />
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While big sister has been at school, we have done a few projects to keep the little man busy while she's gone. He especially loved the lacing boards I made from cutting & hole punching a cereal box into some shapes and a box out of the bottom of it.<br />
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For a boy who is constantly going, going, going - this keeps him busy for up to 30-60 minutes straight sometimes! Just enough time to get a few dishes washed and maybe a load of laundry swapped into the dryer. ;) That dryer that I just recently completely cleaned all traces of lint from and now is running sooo much better!<br />
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And I leave you with my current WIP! It is going to be a dinosaur blanket for my son for his birthday next month.<br />
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Look at all those ends I get to weave in... doesn't it look like fun?Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-25825339773983926262012-08-20T09:46:00.001-07:002012-08-20T09:46:28.330-07:00moved and all settled!I'm back! Our move took about a week and a half to get things cleaned here, all our things packed, loaded and moved over. And since my DF works long hours, the unpacking has fallen to me. Which is fine, I'm glad to be mostly finished with it all, I just have some shelves that need to be put up! :) I was able to get the internet switched over last week but with my daughter's 5th birthday party and her starting kindergarten today there was so much to get done! Atleast that meant a lot of crafty stuff too! With all the moving I was missing my creative side.<div>
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For my princess's party we made these sponge bombs that I saw on Pinterest!</div>
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I did them I little differently then they said, like using Sky's tiny hair elastic to hold them together and using different amounts of sponge strips. It was very easy. :) I bought two packs of sponges and cut them all into fourths.. grabbed random strips (5 or 6 a piece), twisted them together and wrapped the elastic around to hold it. Water fun!</div>
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I made some clips and hand bands for her to wear for school and also these yarn wrapped letters - again I saw the idea on pinterest - to hang over her bed in her room.</div>
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Quick, easy and cute! Not to mention that she loves them! They are just cardboard cut letters, wrapped in acrylic yarn and held together with hot glue. Love my hot glue gun! :)</div>
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Miss Sky was also VERY clear on what she wanted food wise. Daddy was to get a pig to grill, and he did, and she wanted Mommy to make her a barbie cake. Not buy one, no, Mommy had to make this one! Okay then! Luckily, my mother in law had a barbie shaped cake pan that she let me borrow. I made her a marble cake and spent many hours on the decoration. First time on something like this, but she loved it! :)</div>
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So yesterday's party was a hit, lots of water fun, tons of food and the kids had a great time! What a awesome way to end the summer and get ready for school the next day! That's right, my little miss started her very first day of school today. She has been begging to go for years and today she finally started Kindergarten. She was soooo excited to ride the bus today!</div>
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Here we are waiting for the bus to come this morning! And when it finally came she ran so fast onto the bus I madely even got to say goodbye to her. So excited and happy to finally be going to school and she is my oldest.. I worry so much when my babies aren't with me and I miss her a lot. I just hope she is having a great first day and enjoys school! :) I thought it would be hard on little brother with his sissy not here all day, but he has taken it so good all day long. We even did a craft before nap time today!</div>
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We made home made moon sand! "Cloud Dough" as it was called on pinterest! Can you tell how addicted to Pinterest crafts I am? I absolutely love them! And a bit obsessed with Pinterest on it's own too. All this stuff is is flour and baby oil. It's so soft and we had a blast playing with it. It kept little man here busy for over an hour! After that we took a bath and used the water to paint on the walls with a paint brush. He thought that was just awesome. :)</div>
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So I haven't gotten to get any crocheting done, sadly.. I have a bunch of amigurumi ideas sketched out however and I can't wait to get started now that I'm all settled in!</div>
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So my first project was another amigurumi. This one was for my little sister who begged me for a doll when she saw me doing them. I ordered some <b>saftey eyes</b> from <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/6060">6060</a> on Etsy, because I figured they would look much cuter then the buttons I've been using. So here is Edward from <b>FMA</b>. I did him with my bigger doll template and his jacket is removable. I hand stitched the symbol on the back of the jacket by hand and it was my first attempt at doing some kind of embroidery like this. I'm extremely happy with the outcome and she loves it! :)<br />
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I've got some new headbands made! I found this <a href="http://youseriouslymadethat.blogspot.com/2010/11/sweet-little-headband-tutorial.html">headband pattern</a> over at <b>You Seriously Made That?!</b> and decided I wanted to make a few. I've been wanting to make these cool 3-strand headbands for a while now and just never got around to it. But when <b>Pinterest</b> kept reminding me about it, I knew it was time to finally make atleast one.<br />
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Now, since I'm about to be moving and I have absolutely no ribbon in the house, I wasn't about to run out to buy some. So I did the ties in yarn with a slst row and wrapped where the tie and band connected together in the tail of the yarn and used the hot glue to hold it. If someone wants to know how I did it, I'd be willing to make a tutorial for you after my move. :)<br />
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Close up of where I wrapped the yarn.</div>
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My little princess modeling the first headband for me. She asked me for a purple one for her after this.</div>
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And here it is! I haven't gotten her to stop long enough to get a picture of her in it yet, but while we were out and about over the weekend she got a lot of nice comments about her pretty headband. :)</div>
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I've only done one hat however, since I haven't had very many orders lately. Though I had one request to try out a kitty cat hat to see what I might be able to come up with. Here is the first attempt at a cat beanie:<br />
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A baby orange tabby hat cat. I'm really happy with how it came out and have a few other ideas I want to try out now too.</div>
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My last thing crochet-wise today is that I did put my pattern up for the Sweet Pony Applique on my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/102780238/crochet-pattern-sweet-pony-applique" target="_blank">Etsy Store</a> and at <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sweet-pony-applique" target="_blank">Ravelry</a>. For another look at my Sweet Pony Applique:</div>
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Anyone else addicted to <a href="http://pinterest.com/" target="_blank">Pinterest</a> as badly as I am? I will literally spend hours on this site looking at all these amazingly cool ideas! Since I can't really do home improvements until we actually move into our new place, I decided I would do a few simple ones to keep me busy until I get boxes for packing tomorrow. This tutorial for <a href="http://www.crafterhoursblog.com/2011/08/tee-to-tank-tutorial-by-jen-from.html" target="_blank">turning your T-shirt into a tank</a> caught my eye a few times before I finally decided to try it out. I have so many T-shirt.. but I really just don't like them. I hate the way the collars are so close to my neck and it just makes me feel sick. So any T-shirts I have don't really get worn ever. I did this with a normal fitting one, and one that is a bit snug on me just to see if it would be worth trying on smaller shirts too. </div>
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This is the outcome of the first one! Yes, I love using my webcam since my personal camera is on the touchy and close to dying side. Lol. I will be saving up for a new one very, very soon, that's for sure! I hand sewed it all and just hot glued the strips from the sleeves together to make the strap because I didn't want to cut the bottom of the shirt like this person had. It was really simple and even with hand sewing it, only took about an hour to transform this from a T-shirt to a tank. It is so comfortable and I really love it. I plan on doing this with every T-shirt I own probably. Lol! Over all, as you can tell, I'm proud proud of my learning to hand sew and how this shirt came out!</div>
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Here's one perfect for daddy's little couch sidekick while watching the game! I am in the process of makes my little monkey a 3t sized one for when he's watching with daddy.<br><br><br />
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These two are actually for most of the same pieces. All it took was some imagination and rearranging for these two cuties to come to life. First we have an adorable pink puppy dog with short ears and an eye patch!<br><br><br />
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Next is the little piglet, curly tail and all!<br><br><br />
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I'm going to be working on some amigurumi patterns this week. I promised my dear little sister an Edward, from Full Metal Alchemist, doll.. I will most likely be starting that tonight. I can't wait to see how it will turn out! :) These dolls I've been doing are about 12inches tall too.. I want to make another versio about half the size, so I will be working on this over the weekend too, I think.<br><br><br />
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I've written out a new pattern though! My daughter is a complete My Little Pony lover and I wanted to make a colorful pony to remind her of it to put on her purse I made for her a few weeks ago. I came up with these:<br><br><br />
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Now she's asking me to put them on clips for her hair instead! I'm working on getting it up on my Etsy & Ravelry now. It's got loads of pictures, definitely gave me some time with my PhotoShop. ;)<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-5376052007636771942012-06-12T06:07:00.001-07:002012-06-12T07:55:57.872-07:00Amigurumi Fun<div><p>So, I finally decided to try out some Amigurumi dolls. My last two attempts were easter bunnies from the past two years for the kids. They went over great and the kids still love them - my son even has to have his camo bunny from this year at bed time some nights. :) Dolls for some reason always seemed tougher to me? I think it was all that hair and making the clothes! Lol. Finally I sucked it up and tried!</p><p><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjMx19hBYjnTkwbYMaBoPmlVZ0cL348yBQ-W3bFj4e3p31rhdfRLsdrbNpMHBJYAYV1nV82ZJpnvjSk0pQaKTvmnZH34XFhuDxv3KNosZJjtxj3fR-IxalwoNSG_aGDFUqhJ42VQqBJAg/' /><br />
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This was my first attempt at an amigurumi doll: Rapunzel from Disney's Tangled. She came out okay, and I will be much more happy with her when I redo her hair. I definitely love the button eye look for these dolls though! :)<br />
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Here is Aerith, from Final Fantasy VII. My daughter claimed Rapunzel and I decided I wanted to have one of these for myself. So I altered my last design from the Rapunzel doll to make this small doll. I found a hair method that I like much, much better then how I did Rapunzel's hair by do the individual yarn strands around and inside the hair line. I did have a difficult time trying to make the longer bangs in the front curl. The dress and jacket are both removeable too.<br />
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</p><p>After patting myself on the back for getting it, I decided that the stitches were too big and I needed to go down some hook sizes. Out came my D hook for ami doll #3. I created a mermaid!</p><p><img src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzEqFC97zU4KMyI8TwOQCm_yTBkbZYGgibyK8k7IhECQzCY1YSzpsYjuHZY8o-XtEHHjOrWxvjHFIqd8K5txu7s4bcGeZkmtx6W4-7CVZEFAkvhU-gT_aTLYn3CQ84e3lHnNbEABckK_8/' /><br />
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She is definitely my favorite so far and I am sooo happy with how she came out. I'm thinking about writing out the pattern for her later on and getting it tested. :) Also debating on selling this little beauty at my Etsy store, I just don't know if I can part with it though! Hehe.<br />
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<b>Round 1</b>: Chain 26 (Or longer if you want your bag longer, just make sure to keep the 3SC in the last sts.). 1 SC in each st across. 3 SC in last st. 1 SC in next 24 on opposite side. 3 SC in last st. Slst to first SC. (54)<br />
<b>Round 2</b>: Ch 1. 1 SC in next 24, 2 SC in next, 1 SC in next, 2 SC in next, 1 SC in next 24, 2 SC, 1 SC, 2 SC, slst to first SC. (58)<br />
<b>Round 3-14</b>: Ch 2, DC in first ST and in each ST around. (58)<br />
<b>Round 15</b>: Ch1, SC in first ST and in each ST around. FO and weave in ends. (58)<br />
<b>Round 16</b>: With your CC**IN FLO TO CREATE THE RUFFLE AROUND THE BAG** <br />
Slst CC into first loop, *[slst in next, slst in next, sc in same, 2 hdc in same, dc in same, tc in same, dc in sane, 2 hdc in same, sc in sme, slst in same, slst in next.]* repeat around, join, FO and weave in ends.<br />
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Make 2. Leave long end for sewing onto the bag. <br />
<b>Row 1:</b> Ch 31, sc in 2nd ch from hook and in each ch across.<br />
<b>Row 2:</b> Ch1, turn, sc in first st and in each across. FO, leave long end for sewing.<br />
Sew ends of handles to the bag on each side so they are in the center. Use the picture for reference.<br />
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Hook Size: Doesn't matter, depends on how big you want it. I used an F hook for this one.<br />
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<b>Round 1:</b> Leaving a decent sized tail, Ch 2, sc 4 in 2nd chain from hook. </div>
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Wrap each end of the tail around the middle twice and then knot at the top. Cut to make antenna.</div>
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Here is a purse that I made for my oldest niece's birthday. I didn't use a particular pattern, just used DCs and SCs around in the colors that she picked out and braided chained strands of black, purple and white to make the handle. She also got some bracelets I made and a purple genius headband. :)</div>
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My step-mother-in-law's mom asked for a hand full of solid headbands.. I gave her one a few weeks ago to have and she liked it so much she decided she needed to order a bunch for me. :)</div>
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I was lucky enough to get to test a basket out for Tiffany (Tiffer93 @ <a href="http://www.crochetville.com/" target="_blank">CrochetVille</a> )! I absolutely love it and it holds up so well. It's currently holding all of my made appliques and headbands.</div>
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My monkey got himself a monkey hat. :) He loves it and is constantly wearing it. I need to get a good picture of him in it.</div>
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This is not crocheted, but it is definitely full of lots of yarn! I saw this adorable <a href="http://bugaboominimrme.blogspot.com/2012/03/this-ones-for-girl.html" target="_blank">Pixie Tutu</a> on Pinterest and just had to make it for my little girl. It was really fun to make and it came out so cuuute. I may make a few more in some other colors for her. Here is a picture of it on her. </div>
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That's all for now but I will have some small free patterns up soon.. nothing huge, just a flower and a butterfly. I also have my <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/zebra-tote-bag-purse" target="_blank">Zebra Tote Bag</a> pattern up for sale on Ravelry! And I have one fully made and ready for shipping at my <a href="https://www.etsy.com/listing/100143438/zebra-tote-bagpurse-ready-to-ship?ref=pr_shop" target="_blank">Etsy Store</a>.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-34799776918270278672012-05-14T06:29:00.000-07:002012-05-14T06:29:29.710-07:00So, its that time for me to catch up on the projects I've done seen my last update. :)<div>
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I made some <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/headband-pattern-the-genius-headband" target="_blank">Genius Headbands</a>! I was looking for something that would be nice and stretchy, but not stretch out and be unusable and these are so perfect. It's all one piece and my four-year old has no problem putting them on by herself since there are no ties. :) I made some for her and me, they are awesome.</div>
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My daughter wearing her blue headband.</div>
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My black one and a newborn sized yellow one.</div>
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My son loooves dogs and puppies, so I needed to come up some</div>
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So, my three Angry Bird hats were for my nephews' birthdays.</div>
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This purse was for one of my hubby's co-worker's step-daughter.</div>
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She recently went through a lung transplant and was sick in the hospital</div>
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Wednesday was also the six year anniversary of my mom's death. She passed away from a long and hard fight with lung cancer, she was such a strong woman to go through all the treatments that those doctors put her through one after another. My sister and I stayed up late all night talking and keeping each other company online. Keeping her and our dad and all the good times we had. My mother was such an amazing crafter and I used to watch in awe at the stuff she made .. and she could do everything! Sewing, crochet, knitting, etc.. there was just so much much she did! She always tried to teach me things then, but back then I would just rather watch then want to do it, and I got so easily aggravated as a kid I did want to bother with it. So now that I I'm doing all this crafting and crocheting myself now as an adult, while it's not something we can physically do together, I feel like she's there with me when I'm working away on my projects. :)<br />
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On a happier note, I had nephews birthdays to make presents for! And since they all love Angry Birds so much, they each got a hat from me! The smiles I got when they got them made all the work worth while and my niece tells me the baby goes to sleep with his on every night because he refuses to take it off! How cute!<br />
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I had a lot of fun making them! I think I like the red one best but I love them all! </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">It didn't take long and I was finished with the body of the bag! Here is where I started getting scared<br />about what would happen next. I started with pink lining, but I messed it up pretty quick after an hour<br />or so of trying. I got aggravated and spent some time looking through materials I had in my stash. I<br />found a nice velvety black shirt that is way too large for me and been sitting for years. I measured it up<br />and things seemed to flow much better this try.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">I got the sides and top sewed together and sewed it to the bag. I managed to not poke my<br />own fingers the entire time I hand sewed this on! I sat for a long while admiring my work and<br />being proud of my sewing attempt.</span></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: small;">Since I've been using what I'd had laying around the house, I found some extra<br />keyrings I had laying around the house, SCed around on side on each to hold<br />it to the bag and then made 3 long chains that I braided and attached to the other<br />side of the keyring for the handle. I got the idea for this from the way Crochetbug </span><br />
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And there is the completely finished bag! I am so proud of myself for finally learning to sew.. even if it was just simple sewing but still. It so pretty, I want to line all my bags now, even if I don't like sewing much. This is definitely my new purse to tote around. It holds everything and still has some room for anything else I need in there. :)</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-81467570657106456582012-04-09T08:13:00.001-07:002012-04-09T08:13:43.299-07:00Another busy week of kids, crocheting and life! My boyfriend has been dealing with major teeth pain and ended up having to have a whole seven teeth removed. It's been quite a time, but I am ready for him to be feeling better and I know he is too. Thankfully, he has another appointment this afternoon so hopefully they can tell him why he's still in so much pain that he can't even keep his food down. I have also finally started with potty training with my little monkey. He is two and we are having issues with him keeping his clothes and diaper on, so I decided it was time start. He <b>hates</b> having to stop what he's doing to sit down on the potty but he has done what he needed to do three times now. :) I'm proud of him!<br />
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Whew, that's as far as I got for this week. :) Way more then I thought I would get done in this busy week that's for sure! Not to mention I was up until very late last night starting a <a href="http://shortylamcrochet.blogspot.com/2006/11/nordstrom-hobo-bag.html" target="_blank">Crochet Hobo Bag</a>.. the crochet part of the bag was the easy part for me. I do not sew... at all.... unless you count sewing my crochet projects together.. but as for lining? Ahahaha. My next post will be about that fun adventure!<br />
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This one could be a baby chick or duck. I did find one similar to this one... but the pattern was in Dutch, and I certainly don't speak Dutch.. ahaha. So, I picked up my hook and yarn and went to town.</div>
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This little cutie was inspired by a cute felt bunny head that I saw.. I think this one is my favorite. :)</div>
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This one seems to be my fiance's favorite, it was my first design of all the Easter cuties.<br />
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And another baby chick! I love her little feet, makes this little chickie so cute. I have one more that I made, I will get a picture of here soon. :)<br />
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I'll probably write the patterns for them out here soon, I have a few Easter orders I'm working on for this weekend - plus a toy net for a friend's little girl's birthday this weekend. They asked for one is one of my favorite colors I have on hand to match her newly painted room. I recently made the daughter a drawstring bag (which I am kicking myself over not taking a pic of before sending it off to her!!) in RHSS's Bikini & in Black and she loves it so much and uses it for everything. Really puts a smile on my face to see my work being used. :) The girl also LOVES manatees, so I'm going to see what I can come up with for her too.<br />
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I just realized with all my work, I still have a unfinished cupcake hat I was making for my own daughter -- that's one WIP I would like to finish up this week.<br />
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Outside of crocheting & work it's been a wonderful weekend. We've gone for lots of walking, went fishing and hit the pool yesterday to let the kids swim and they've had a blast! Today was time for daddy to go back to work, he gets 3 days off work and 4 on and his days off are different since they are during the week... we are used to them being just the weekend but it is so nice having him home for a few days during the week. :) Today its back to relaxing time around the house for me & the kids.. but I think maybe this mommy will be filling up their little pool here at home so they can get in some water play after nap time. And now with my two year old waking up and ready for mommy's attention.. I leave you with a few images.<br />
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My little ones fishing, this is also my son's first time getting to fish.</div>
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Touching and getting a good look at his first fishie.</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-55788343663107056142012-03-15T11:11:00.000-07:002012-03-15T11:11:46.472-07:00It's amazing how quickly a month can fly! Life has been extra busy around our house. My little princess is has been working hard learning her letters & how to write everyone's name. She's doing a great job and this mom is definitely proud! We've also gotten a new addition to our family! Meet Zoey, whose made a bed out of the empty side area of the tv stand.<br />
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She and our 50 lb Dixie our best friends already and play non-stop all day. Zoey seems to favor our little girl - considering my monster chases her around roaring at her - which is okay since Dixie and Logie already have a strong bond. I absolutely love her ears!<br />
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So I've been hard at work getting <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/skylay" target="_blank">Skylay Designs</a> going. I've had a few orders through Etsy and a good amount of sales locally. Yesterday I started making hair clips and it has been soooo much fun! So far I have bows and butterflies and some flowers. I found a butterfly pattern I liked to use.. but they were just coming out too big so I ended up recreating it and making it a good 1" smaller. I'm very happy with it.<br />
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The top one is from the original butterfly pattern ( <a href="http://krochetlove.blogspot.com/2011/06/simple-butterfly-motif.html" target="_blank">Simple Butterfly @ KrochetLove</a> ) and the bottom two are my smaller recreation. I can't wait to get these little babies in my daughter's hair. :)</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-18585968838076108632012-02-18T08:03:00.000-08:002012-02-18T08:03:39.312-08:00What a busy week it's been! I meant to do sooo much with the blog but I was just so busy. I started doing homeschool Pre-K with my daughter since we were unable to get her enrolled, but it is working out extremely well and I think she'll be nice a ready when it's time to start kindergarten in the Fall. She loves doing it so much too and even when we're done with her work for the day she keeps asking for more and more. I'm really glad she enjoys learning so much!<br />
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During the week I was also working on my Cupcake Beanie pattern at a few peoples requests. After getting it tested and retesting it myself as well, I finally have the pattern available at my etsy store: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/listing/93224046/crochet-pattern-cupcake-beanie-in-3" target="_blank">The Cupcake Beanie Pattern</a>. I'm working on getting the Strawberry Beanie pattern done and writing a few more that were asked for. :)<br />
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Here are a few more items I completed this past week:<br />
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We needed some new dishcloths and my man requested a large one to go with them. So I made two 8x8 squares and a 8x14 larger towel for him. </div>
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My daughter asked me to make her a strawberry shortcake hat since she loves her so very much, I should be finished with it today. I hope she loves it! And I just finished an earflap hat for my little sister. I'll have to get some pictures posted up this weekend. </div>
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My good friend's oldest girl got straight A's on her last report card. So for a gift, I made her a black & yellow striped beanie she had hinted at wanting a few weeks prior. :)</div>
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I loved all the cupcake hats I saw and just had to make one for my daughter! All the ones I saw were band first and then work on the icing part and I wanted to have one from the top to the bottom so I managed to write my own pattern. :) I may post it up for those who are interested.</div>
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After seeing my daughter's cupcake hat, another good friend of mine ordered one for herself!</div>
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I wanted to take a try at an ear flap beanie and being too lazy to look up a pattern I just winged it. This one is for my son and I wanted to make it extra cute so it ended up with froggie eyes!</div>
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A newborn lady bug beanie.</div>
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Newborn bright pink minnie mouse beanie. The bow is from a video tutorial I saw, but I for the life of me at the moment can't find the link. I'll keep trying to find it though!</div>
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The friend who ordered the teal cupped cupcake beanie also ordered this panda bear beanie as a present for her hunny. :)</div>
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3-6 Month Mickey Mouse beanie! My boyfriend's cousin bought this one for her daughter.</div>
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A 6-9 Month Valentines day shell stitch beanie.</div>
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A strawberry beanie! I created this one because around where I live we have a Strawberry Festival and it's getting close to that time! Again, the only "berry" beanie I could find were from the bottom up, and since I like to go from the top to the bottom, I decided to create this one as well.</div>
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I've made some wash cloths and flowers and other embellishments as well, but I think I will leave those for tomorrow's update! I'm so excited to be crocheting and hard at work. I've made it my own little job now and have been selling some locally and just started an Etsy site: <a href="http://www.etsy.com/shop/skylay" target="_blank">Skylay Designs</a>! I will be working hard to get more up on it and try to make this work! I am enjoying it so much right now.</div>
<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-23049984050132151942012-01-16T12:56:00.000-08:002012-01-16T12:56:23.576-08:00aahh..Been so long since I've been able to sit down and make a post. I've been in and out of internet and money has been to short for me to even crochet too. :( But thankfully with the wonderful tax money we will be receiving soon, I'll be back to crocheting with loads of new yarn! All week I've been digging through scraps that I forgot about during our move in November. Didn't know I had as much as I did! I was able to make both kids new beanies, a plastic bag holder, a handle cover for the skillet and a load of flowers to make some clips out of! Yay!!<br />
I would <b>love </b>to post some pictures up but sadly my camera is out of batteries until Wednesday. I may be able to steal hubby's phone to get some until then though.. I just wish it took better pictures.<br />
I'll definitely be getting back into posting regularly now that I have some stable internet and the hectic holidays are over. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-78302680846717507802011-09-19T11:38:00.000-07:002011-09-19T11:38:53.755-07:00where does the time go.So, I have definitely not updated in quite a while.I'm going through a no internet issue for a bit and random free signals are iffy most times. Life has been quite busy lately, too. We got the truck fixed and on the road, finally! My daughter's fourth birthday was last month, she had a birthday party with her cousin who turned 5 at my brother's house. They all got to play, eat cake and swim. We also finally made it to the beach for the first time this year! The kids had a blast and I can't wait to take them again.<br />
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I haven't had much money for yarn so I can start on new projects.. but I did managed to push myself into frogging a blanket I haven't touched in a year and began making a giant butterfly garden for my little girl. She loves it already and I enjoy working on it. All I need now I one last skein to finish it and it will be finished! I will try to get some pictures up of it soon though.<br />
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So I am still around, sort of.. just not as much and busy life. Hopefully I can get some extra cash to start some new projects. :)Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-33668340710893968432011-06-30T16:52:00.000-07:002011-06-30T16:52:45.253-07:00Seafood Soup!So post two for today.. maybe it will make up for my 2 weeks of not posting, haha. I have two finished projects this week so far. :)<br />
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<b>Yet Another Market Bag</b> [ <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/yet-another-market-bag">pattern</a> ]<br />
My DF's little sister asked me to make her a purse. She picked out the main multi color and I picked out the green .. because it was the only thing I had in my stash that half way matched. I hope she'll like it, hoping I get to see her this weekend to give it to her.<br />
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<b>Octopus Pincushion</b> [ <a href="http://whimtasticalcreations.blogspot.com/2011/06/octopus-pincushion.html">pattern</a> ]<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqg8BFb-LOnadmeNOAh8qJGjMPnaiSHLpMilSyM9UkfC6lLebXGQvJuFQrDN0ZYz8P5ZKrvX_dGwjb30unDYcEfx-BBsFMY1nlRdbL1xt6r86omq4U4jGvrn5S_xUkfh_ReLVhCjMDFM8/s1600/SANY2606.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqg8BFb-LOnadmeNOAh8qJGjMPnaiSHLpMilSyM9UkfC6lLebXGQvJuFQrDN0ZYz8P5ZKrvX_dGwjb30unDYcEfx-BBsFMY1nlRdbL1xt6r86omq4U4jGvrn5S_xUkfh_ReLVhCjMDFM8/s200/SANY2606.JPG" width="200" /></a>So this morning while I was searching for my needle <i>again</i>.. for the eight hundredth time, I decided I needed to make myself a pin cushion. I found this pattern and had an idea instantly for it. As in reference to my Seafood Soup title, I give you my Ultros pin cushion. :)<br />
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I'm totally in love with him. <3 I was going to make his teeth too, but I just couldn't find a way to make them look right.. so for now there are none. But I still love him.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-13300503772947160632011-06-30T07:23:00.000-07:002011-06-30T16:53:28.293-07:00Busy, Busy, BusySo, it's been a few weeks of total busyness.. I haven't had the time to blog and updated until today. Last week, DF went out of town for work and I stayed with his mother with my princess and little monkey and we brought our dog, Dixie, along. :) The kids enjoyed spending time with their Grammy and Aunt Gabi.<br />
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Then with in the past few days, DF got very sick.. he was sent home from work, really out of it and vomiting. :( When he blacked out on me, I called the ambulance and he was taken to the ER. They told me it was a good thing I did and didn't wait. Turns out from the motorcycle wreck, when TGH stitched up the now scar on his left eye, they didn't clean a thing of it -- I know this because I had to clean what I could myself after he got home.. there was gravel stuck under the stitches.. but it gave him an infection behind his eye now which started it. Then he got hit with heat exhaustion and dehydration on top of that. He's feeling better now though, on some medication to clear the infection up and went back to work this morning.<br />
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While I haven't had time to update, I do have lots of stuff going on with my hook! I'm gonna start with my WIP this morning and perhaps get to my finished stuff later today.<br />
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<b>Summer Mystery CAL </b>@ <a href="http://www.crochetville.org/">The 'Ville</a><br />
So there is only one clue left to go! So far, here is what I have:<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b>Textured Ballet Style Slippers</b> [ <a href="http://www.crochetville.org/forum/showthread.php?t=57273">pattern</a> ]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I was originally making these for myself.. but I learned after finishing this first one that it's about a half a size too big. So, I'm now making them for my DF's little sister since she is the same size as me.. but she's only 11 so still growing. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix8ulE_Zrf5YC0_ziqGi8gjYpAaR7iCV6Ezv8KWZ0kOM9jBjWtRYdOfoBQ6jIhrqrYFxT1pBZwVRaUllUIF4tTWoHTgV1oeFlaLRRjYP8lXCE0zBHS12JN0Wui-3_7CJ7x8RtDg_jkBOY/s1600/SANY2588.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEix8ulE_Zrf5YC0_ziqGi8gjYpAaR7iCV6Ezv8KWZ0kOM9jBjWtRYdOfoBQ6jIhrqrYFxT1pBZwVRaUllUIF4tTWoHTgV1oeFlaLRRjYP8lXCE0zBHS12JN0Wui-3_7CJ7x8RtDg_jkBOY/s320/SANY2588.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">I can't wait to get the other one done to give to her with the bag I finished.. which will be in a post a little bit later today. :)</div><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Now, I don't know how, but I found time to crochet through all the mess going on! I completely finished a few small projects. First is a <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/scrubbie-dots">Scrubbie Dot</a> that I also crocheted the red netting from a popcicle bag into the middle red area. I've already gotten to use it and it definitely did it's job. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2cPrkJC2MsNafwEE-Mq6OwYz4C5xxs2euXH-uraK27auIlTDXB2UsyUk6D9RV5Iy3WXw5H9yt1wGsnVuz6BDsqr2KL-zOOKdYHAyJTPK_CbDYBseT2a9vt6FUd4fMZwexOfeJY8Y-3o/s1600/SANY2482.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjJ2cPrkJC2MsNafwEE-Mq6OwYz4C5xxs2euXH-uraK27auIlTDXB2UsyUk6D9RV5Iy3WXw5H9yt1wGsnVuz6BDsqr2KL-zOOKdYHAyJTPK_CbDYBseT2a9vt6FUd4fMZwexOfeJY8Y-3o/s320/SANY2482.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Then I made a matching <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/spiral-dishcloth-2">Spiral Dishcloth</a> to match it. =]</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxY0luOfNdvdeB90vTR9mNIUwYMNzCkfwBDFwIgOMOj9YmnsGjOWZb6_pbFsCikgHwYCYvi040_W-kwBdiF9zsJqzaypRd8WrAXk8qGUtNgDg97X6e0XZi42WWVeGjmmXhjnpxCam3XMw/s1600/SANY2486.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxY0luOfNdvdeB90vTR9mNIUwYMNzCkfwBDFwIgOMOj9YmnsGjOWZb6_pbFsCikgHwYCYvi040_W-kwBdiF9zsJqzaypRd8WrAXk8qGUtNgDg97X6e0XZi42WWVeGjmmXhjnpxCam3XMw/s320/SANY2486.JPG" width="320" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Ms4TAiAEmeCQy3SbiVvxdF-e3C94LCs9v0fTAcs0dQbTle70jozP3npyrjI-iprP1_smJAOIXO2clAHbq1zYlkd9iWJVyv24WPxWGPRiyvGls3_2Ew9Twg0HW6PP5SLLHNueAUY4bzM/s1600/SANY2487.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj6Ms4TAiAEmeCQy3SbiVvxdF-e3C94LCs9v0fTAcs0dQbTle70jozP3npyrjI-iprP1_smJAOIXO2clAHbq1zYlkd9iWJVyv24WPxWGPRiyvGls3_2Ew9Twg0HW6PP5SLLHNueAUY4bzM/s320/SANY2487.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div>Last night it poured down rain for the first time in weeks! While I loved the rain, while I was next door, we had a new leak pop up and it got on my poor unprotected laptop. :( Luckily, the worst it did was get water in the screen.. it took up almost half the screen last night, but now it has dried up to a small strip.. I'm hoping it will dry up too.. it almost looks like it didn't happen at all. So while I was grumpy about my laptop and the internet was out because of the rainy weather, I decided to take a stab at free handing a circle spiral dishcloth. It didn't come out perfect, but I'm still happy with it. :)</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBOaNQquKO-l0PI45pQiYVtoKv_1F-2W8qKkg4yGcDVIR1E1x-TFuQ1SxHe0f2UZdEREryyTR7pWdTnkkWOzDBZUBpaKYwjJPPnfffxnIk8wQ7pb2N2DfBVU4XB4_GauZI5FLr8Af0ZY/s1600/SANY2495.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkBOaNQquKO-l0PI45pQiYVtoKv_1F-2W8qKkg4yGcDVIR1E1x-TFuQ1SxHe0f2UZdEREryyTR7pWdTnkkWOzDBZUBpaKYwjJPPnfffxnIk8wQ7pb2N2DfBVU4XB4_GauZI5FLr8Af0ZY/s320/SANY2495.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div><br />
</div><div>Then this morning I decided to work on a hat for my daughter, because she was so upset about the summer mystery cal not being a hat for her. Lol. So I let her pick out a colour from my stash and I worked on it all day on and off as I could... the hat is <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/josie-posy">Josie Posie</a> and here is my little princess posing with her new hat.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrFbhoE1WFIjTDyky8FVAi-kfOHDQYfp9ukbhR9iCG4T-w5_DPbqYT1ijgjK2Nb82qrQc2pRETrcV6cKjrYwWSMC5aM33WxGJeIfeZ0eJRbH5ZwC1QmXAwXPCpKhmJV5CoeYfps9c8cY/s1600/SANY2493.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgrrFbhoE1WFIjTDyky8FVAi-kfOHDQYfp9ukbhR9iCG4T-w5_DPbqYT1ijgjK2Nb82qrQc2pRETrcV6cKjrYwWSMC5aM33WxGJeIfeZ0eJRbH5ZwC1QmXAwXPCpKhmJV5CoeYfps9c8cY/s320/SANY2493.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div>And last not but not least for tonight's update: my progress on the Summer Mystery CAL. :) Last week's clue left me with this and I'm very excited to get to the next clue tomorrow.</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0GMuGtmWAbjmKc0r7zoJfV5Q7h3fPE_bauHqdEjF-hqZjvqSvcnTkDFGzCbEiLMhScbagIwB_R7n7DiaQJAWDddMJ0LD3xU5SaenveE-B1EOOjTDCNebgKs1nfRi6oVGhyphenhyphens7fSUIZLI/s1600/SANY2496.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEir0GMuGtmWAbjmKc0r7zoJfV5Q7h3fPE_bauHqdEjF-hqZjvqSvcnTkDFGzCbEiLMhScbagIwB_R7n7DiaQJAWDddMJ0LD3xU5SaenveE-B1EOOjTDCNebgKs1nfRi6oVGhyphenhyphens7fSUIZLI/s320/SANY2496.JPG" width="320" /></a></div><br />
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</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-874932261907615146.post-72231676065551465402011-06-10T15:59:00.000-07:002011-06-10T15:59:27.525-07:00early birthday for me!So while my birthday isn't until Monday, my two older brothers and my little sister gave me my birthday present a few days early! They bought me WotLK and Cata for WoW! Woot! Now I can finally get full and level fly everywhere, yaaay. Kal showed me some fun flying in StormWind.<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">In other <b>great</b> news, our truck loan is finally paid off and we will be getting it back this weekend!!! I'm so excited to finally have my truck back. <3 Now I just need to get the transmission fixed and it will be perfect again. Everything is slowly falling into place!</div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0