The Great Amazing Awesome FLUFFY!!!!

This is mama bragging time. My darling Fluffy finished the fourth grade with perfect attendance and all A's! She was also in the track team, garden club, chorus, and signed herself up for tutoring (I have no idea why). But she also one free tickets to a local theatre here. Her teacher sent in a fable she had written and she won out of all the entries i the area. So we went to the theatre and she got to read her fable on stage before the play. I am so proud of her!

She was so nervous!

And she was as tall as the theatre manager hehehe!

And for her teacher being so supportive of Fluffy I made her a tote and a water bottle carrier. She is very into bees :)

Love the little bee buttons I found!

And the water bottle carrier had a bee too!

I hope everyone has a great weekend!





A Sunday of my kids

So far it is 11:32 and everyone is still asleep but me. So I am playing with my blog and thought hmmmm wonder what pictures of my kids I can post. This way you get to see all my babies :) We will start with the oldest to the youngest.

Bubba from 2009 (he hides from the camera)

DIL ChatterBox

Brat from 2011

Fluffy

Noodle

Grandbaby (Don't have a nicname for her yet LOL)

Well that is my chickadees! I am so blessed to have them all in my life. Plus I have others who call me mama too. Right now it is time to take Fluffy and Noodle to the lake for a wonderful swim!



Odds and ends

I have a few little tid bits I wanted to share. A painting from my friend Mark Grossi. And Noodles new scrap doll to start.

Isn't this wonderful? It darkened a bit when dry but I still love it. Now to get a frame for it!

Not the best photo of Noodle but she had not been feeling well.

SO here is her new doll Berry! Yes I made it so don't laugh :)

Now other than a bit of crocheting here and there (because everyone knows I have a bunch of pojects going at the same time) I also taught myself to knit. Well I got the knit part down but purl is a pain and is now a bad word not to be said in this house LOL. I finished the afghan that was started 3 years ago. And another doily for the rainbow room. I will put more pics up when I get my lazy bum into gear to do it :) Hope everyone had a nice weekend.



Rainbows

Well back in March before my cord blew up on me we had a burst of rainbows. Of course this got me thinking about rainbows ALL THE TIME. It became a quest to see what I could make for the bedroom :)

And the next day...

So what did I make...or at least start?

A doily for starters.

Then the beginings of 2 mobiles.

Mobile 1...

 

Mobile 2...

Then flip and...

But of course I just had to make an afghan. This is my first attempt at a granny stripe. I used Lucy's pattern from her blog attic 24.

The purple looks blue in these pictures. I did finish this and did 2 rounds of red as a trim.

That was my rainbow phase...for now LOL! I am currently working on another afghan. I also made a few new animals and a new rag doll for Noodle (it was a sad day when Sally fell apart in the washer. She was a good doll for several years) So now Noodle has Berry hehehe. I also have a runner started. And hell has froze over....I learned how to knit. Purl is kicking my butt though. Everything is going slow since back in April I was diagnosed with tendonitis. But slow or not I do what I can. I will be posting more as soon as I can.



Been a long time

I am sorry for the delay. But my new powercord for my laptop came in today. Plus I have had some health issues. I am working on a new post now. Just be patient please :)

My weekend works!

Fluffy had an extra day off school this weekend so that gave me more time to be creative :) I finished my last owl (in orange) so I moved on.....

To fish....hahaha

All were done in regular worsted weaight yarn (red heart).

The bigger one was done holding 2 strands together and using a bigger hook.

 

And here is the pattern for the fish

http://suzies-yarnie-stuff.blogspot.com/2008/07/ Just scroll down till you see them.

The fish were way to fast to do so I looked for the next pattern

A PIG!!!

Piggy pattern ...

http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/70589AD.html?r=1;r=1&r=1

Last but not least I stayed up all night for various reasons so I went on the search for a slouchy hat pattern.

side view

If I was to make any changes to the pattern it would be to use a K hook for the brim so it would be a little looser.

here is the pattern

http://crazysockscrochet.blogspot.com/2011/10/crochet-pattern-super-slouch-hat.html

Well that was my weekend in a nutshell. Other than a new coffee mug cozy (one that actually fits LOL)

My owl craze is nearly at an end!

I have spent a bit of time making my little owl army. I have experimented with differant sized hooks, bulk yarn, and crochet thread. I now have nearly made all I was wanting. I have one orange owl left to make in worsted weight. And 2 or 3 in the cotton (colors will be sage green, baby blue and maybe black) unless I find more colored thread :)

Bulky made from Lion Brand's Hometown USA in Oklahoma City Green

And the cotton thread itty bitty's :)

Other than needing to find my orange yarn that is hiding somewhere. And finding the little buttons for the itty bitty's (the noses are just puffy paint for fabric) I am done. ext job is starting the pig army LOL.

The pattern for my army is

http://oceanofstitches.blogspot.com/search/label/owls

The crochet part is exact. I just changed the eyes and beaks a bit.