Amigurumi Fun

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!

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! :)

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.

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!

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.

All of them were made out of Red heart Super Saver yarn. I love it. <3

Oh, what a rough couple of weeks it has been! The boyfriend had more teeth pulled on Monday - he's been having so many teeth problems from an issue he was born with, that the dentist recommended just having them all pulled and fitting dentures, said it would have him a lot of pain in the future. It looks like that's the path he may be taking, I don't blame him either, teeth pain is so terrible and he shouldn't have to keep going through it over and over again.

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. :)

Me, my mom & my younger sister in our last picture together. :) She was such a beautiful woman!

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!

I had a lot of fun making them! I think I like the red one best but I love them all! 

Clips, clips, clips!

So my newest obsession in crochet accessories has been clip making! I'm having such a good time making them and it has really brought out my inner designer I think. I was wanting some really cute Easter hair clips and couldn't really find much that I liked personally to use, so I decided to just take my hand at creating some of my own! Hats have been easy, how hard could making a few tiny Easter appliques for clips? I was glad to not hit any snags and made a few in the past couple of days.

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.

This little cutie was inspired by a cute felt bunny head that I saw.. I think this one is my favorite. :)

 This one seems to be my fiance's favorite, it was my first design of all the Easter cuties.

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. :)

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.

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.

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.

My little ones fishing, this is also my son's first time getting to fish.

Touching and getting a good look at his first fishie.

It'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.

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!

So I've been hard at work getting Skylay Designs 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.

The top one is from the original butterfly pattern ( Simple Butterfly @ KrochetLove ) and the bottom two are my smaller recreation. I can't wait to get these little babies in my daughter's hair. :)

Seafood 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. :)



Yet Another Market Bag [ pattern ]
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.

Octopus Pincushion [ pattern ]
So this morning while I was searching for my needle again.. 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. :)






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.

Mystery WIP Update

There hasn't really been anything exciting going on this week other then starting the kids on the Your Baby Can Read DVDs. I'm really interested to see if they will work! I know that thanks to Blue's Clues, Sky knows how to spell blue, so I'm hoping she'll be able to pick it up quickly. :)

Now for pictures of the mystery CAL project. So far there has been two clues and this is what I have so far:

I'm not sure if my flowers will match as well as I hope, if not I'll make those out of the main 'Bikini' yarn so they match perfectly. I was hoping my selection in colours would work though. :) I'm excited for tomorrow's new clue!

And on Monday I will be turning twenty-four! I can't believe where the time goes... I still remember playing games with my little sis when we were fourteen & sixteen. <3

red as a tomato..

Yes, that's right -- I'm sun burnt. Thankfully I was on top of my kid's sun screening more then I was my own .. it hurts, but I'll live. We had a blast at the lake yesterday, though! The kids got to swim and build sand castles for a while before we got onto the boat and took turns on the tube. It's been a while since I've done it, but it was so much fun and I only fell off once!

I found this pattern for the Cupcake Cake Purse and wanted to make something like it for my daughter. So, I managed to make something like it, only smaller. Here is the Cupcake Wrist Bag I made:

My three year old absolutely love it and takes it everywhere with her! I didn't write down how I did it though, and now my younger sister-in-law wants one too, so looks like I'll be writing it down this time.

W I P

So life has gotten in the way of my crocheting a bit, but I'm finally working on some new projects. :)

This star blanket I'm working on for my daughter, it's about 50% done. I want to find more skeins of the colour I used, if I can match it, cause of course I forgot to keep the label.. if not I'll have to figure out what colour to finish it in...

This is the head and body of a Percy the Elephant I am making for my sister. I have to sew on his legs, make his eyes and his little hat still. :)

I have no clue what this is going to be! It is the first clue in the Summer CAL at CrochetVille. Clue 2 comes out today and I am excited to get it started! :)

two bunnies!

So I have now finished both the bunnies for my kids! :) In addition to the yellow and white bunny, here is a green one for my son that I finished today. He is a little super hero bunny.

Two bunnies down, two baskets left to go!

On another note, you should go and sign up for AllFreeCrochet's giveaway for Westcott Titanium Bonded Scissors. :) I did.

one down!

So I have finished with my daughter's easter bunny! :) Here it is:

I am already half way through with my son's. Yay. Can't wait to get it finished!

bunnies, bunnies~

So, I am working on Easter things for the kids! :) I'm making them each a String Bean Bunny and I'm going possible make their baskets too.. depending on how much time and the amount of supplies I have.

I've almost finished with the first bunny, this one will be for my daughter..

Now I just have to attached the legs and tail. :) I'm proud of how it turned out!

dishcloth-scrubbie!

Well, I wore my store bought scrubbie out and decided I needed a new one.. even though I couldn't afford to go out and buy a new one. What is a girl to do? Well, crochet my own, of course! So I looked into dishclothes and scrubbies and found one combined that I wanted to try. This is also my first time making and using plarn. I now know what the hype about it is, because I really enjoyed using it and plan to make some bags with it to take to the beach. :) My dishcloth:

I used this pattern.

Scrunchies!

My first actual post on this blog, yay! My mother in law let me borrow a few hooks until I was able to find where mine were packed up at when we moved. I know I'll find them eventually. I don't have much yarn laying around anymore, waiting for extra cash to be able to buy some.. so with the little bit I do have, I made a few scrunchies! :)

This was the first one I made, last night.. no specific pattern, just went with it:

This one I made this morning, with this pattern:

I'm hoping I can find some more bands laying around to make more, I enjoy making them!