Our Halloween

I spent the day running around trying to get the last bits together for Fluffy's costume and to find something for Noodle since she had no idea what to be. But I think at least Fluffy's Gypsy was a success. I did crochet a quick headscarf and a chain for her Hand of Fatima necklace. But it looked really good if I do say so myself hehehe.

In total it cost me $2! I bought the blouse for $2 at Salvation army. The skirt makes me smile (I wore it on my honeymoon to her daddy) The scarf on her hips is a headscarf of mine. The bracelets are a combo of mine and hers. 

And then their is little Noodle who gave me a bazillion  ideas of what she wanted to be and none of them could be found. So here I am fighting the crowds and what do I come up with? A ghost!

She was excited to get her face painted!

My feet are killing me (we walked forever). The girls both came home, got into jammies and fell asleep before 9! Hope everyone else had a great evening. (And did not get sick from eating to much candy).

Hats galore!

I have been hat making lately. And seems that everyone wants one now. I went to Ben Franklin to buy yarn and I was wearing this hat (ignore the fat aging chick wearing the hat) And the cashier ordered 2 from me. Same pattern I have used before just single crochet band instead of slip stitch.

Then I made hats for Fluffy and Noodle and their friends at school are going bananas for some. Seems I am going to be doing a lot more hats!

Here is Noodle in hers. 

Here is the pattern http://www.redheart.com/files/patterns/pdf/LW3558.pdf but let me give a bit of advise.

Instead of 16 rows before the ear flap I did 18 for Noodle. 16 makes it super short and not workable at all.

Hope everyone is staying warm and enjoying some yarn time. I am making hats and matching fingerless gloves for my kids and grandkids. And slipping in a few for me too :)

Am I the only one?

Well between a injured neck and shoulder I have been in bed most of the week. With laptop in lap of course. But I was wondering...does anyone else sit and follow a pattern on the screen and NOT print it? Just wondering.
My latest creations...

 Fingerless gloves. Pattern is here

http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/victorian-texting-gloves

(notice they are on the KEYBOARD)

And a new army of butterflies. Not finished yet but here are a few.

Pattern http://www.freecraftunlimited.com/crochet-butterfly.html

(again with the KEYBOARD)

And I just have to post a beautiful picture of Brat! She is now modeling for a local photographer.

And here is her Halloween pic.

I hope everyone has a wonderful day and I am going to be in bed, crocheting, and watching PBS tonight :)

I'm back! :)

Wow it has been forever since I last posted. So much has happened but let me try and fill you in. First Brat got married AND look what they did hehehe.

Yes they had baby Milo! He spent 6 weeks in NICU and honestly the doctors did not think he would make it. But we all knew he would. Oh Brat's hubby is Gopher! Yes I have to give everyone nicnames. Milo does not have one yet but neither does my other grandbaby.

Now onto crocheting... Corner to corner (c2c) from redheart has been very popular with the crochet craze group on facebook.

Here is Milo's

 Here is one I made for Old One (my mom) and Spring Fling pillow also from Red Heart.

My set!

Noodles!

 

Fluffy's!

C2C in the new neon colors for Fluffy 

Brat and her C2C!

I used scrap yarn from all my projects to create a hexagon blanket (my own pattern)

And the scraps from that are going into this C2C. WIP!

The latest craze is boot cuffs. So I made a pair (goddess size for my calves) But I don't even have boots!

So everyone is bootcuff crazy and I am doing fingerless gloves.

Even mini goddess sized for Noodle.

 This is one days worth....I have been doing them for many days now.

It's not all C2C's and mitts. My first granny ripple. 

Baby blankets for cousins.

Skull searching for my dad. (he is not happy with any I have found yet)

Still working on the wall!

And sucking at taking pictures LOL!

Gained a lot of weight, cut hair and dyed it purple!

Spent everyday this summer in the gym. I am strong as a tank but still the same size as one too :( 

 Spending rare moments with my family (left to right...Old One, Fluffy, Noodle, Gopher, Brat, Bubba, and Chatterbox holding my grandbaby Amethyst)

And that leaves me crocheting and battling the morning glory's that have taken over my little corner of the world.

  I fell into a serious depression after the heart attack and losing my beloved Peewee last fall. This summer Macy (Peewee's love) passed away. She never recovered from losing him and she slowly died from a broken heart. But they are together again and someday I will see them again. I still have my Shiner! 15 years of meaness and Cat-titude. And 5 turtles (lost 2 rescues).
  I am trying to get my life back into shape as well as my body. Neither are happening fast. But I am blessed with the ability to crochet and craft. That is my therapy (well tea and lots of Pride and Prejudice DVD watching) oh and I am counting down till the new season of Downton Abby on PBS but has anyone been watching The Paradise on PBS? I really like it :)
  Well I am happy to be back. I hope no one forgot me LOL. I promise to post more now and try and get back into a routine. I hope everyone has had a better year than I have had. I am looking forward to the coming year.

An update.

Ok I am soooo sorry I have been MIA.

Life has gotten a bit wild but I do manage to crochet A LOT even in the chaos. 

The latest works...

Granny ripple for the old one. In white and 3 different yellows.

A scrap ripple for Brat! I love this so much might need to make me one.

A new obsession called the spring fling pillow by red heart.

One for Fluffy.

One for Noodle.

One for me (with another new obsession the corner to corner also by red heart)

And one for mom (with her c2c afghan)

 Every icky thing you can think of has been passed through the little ones school. And of course they bring it home and share it with me. But we have new news.....Brat is expecting. She is 20 weeks and we found out the baby is going to be a boy. So of course...

A c2c afghan for the grandbelly

I am on facebook everyday in a group called Crochet Craze. We are a goofy but close group. You are welcome to come join us. I will try and keep up with my blog too. I hope everyone has had a good year so far. And if I don't post before hand...Happy Easter!

A quick update!

Christmas is finally over! I admit I have not been a very merry person for the last few months. So Bah Humbug was my theme and a sign saying "Carolers will be shot on sight" was an option for the yard. But I survived it and managed to not kill anyone. It was a minimal year though.

Gifts from Santa!

Gifts for the kids!

After opening up the gifts here. I made dinner and the lil ones and I took food and gifts over to Brat's apartment. Fluffy stayed the night so it was just Noodle and I here.

And she played till she dropped

Trust me it gets cuter! She fell asleep sitting next to her Christmas stash and....look at that belly peaking out!!  Hahahahaha!

   Now since I have not posted in a bit let me tell you what has been going on. Besides losing my darling PeeWee we also lost 3 of our cats. I have a feeling the neighbors stole Kitty and Kitty Kitty. But Tiny disappeared about a week after Kitty Kitty. So we have had quite a bit of sadness here. 

   Last month the older kids (including Brats new fiance) and I took the lil ones to the zoo. As we were walking from the cars to the front gate I knew something was wrong. I honestly thought I was not even going to make it inside, I was sure an ambulance would need to be called. Anyway we went through the whole zoo without me telling the kids anything was wrong and I came home to take a bunch of pain pills and all my blood pressure and heart meds...and I slept the rest of the day! I had a minor heart attack while we were at the zoo. I have been having chest pain off and on since then. So I have been trying to take it easy and recover. Of course the whole "Do not get stressed or over emotional" crap does not work in my life. 

  Anyway that is life in a nutshell! Oh that and Brat is expecting her first baby. YAY I am going to have 2 grandbabies now! 

  I will be back soon I promise! I have so much to show you!

Having a horrid week!

No pictures but just a quick post.
This week has been hell. I have been just so depressed and of course fate has to mess me up even more. My laptop's hard drive may be dead. There goes hundreds of pictures from a span of 4 years that can not be replaced (hoping that they can be saved). Then this week my darling Peewee has started to show signs that he is ready to leave us. Peewee is my very old yet loving mini brindle pit. He is beyond fugly yet I just love him so much. He has stopped eating and just lays around now. He is not sick or hurting he is just realy realy old. He is my afghan lover and gets at least 2 new ones a year. He is like Linus from The Peanuts cartoon. He will drag his "Blankie" all over the yard and into his house. He will pile it up into a heap and slide under it to sleep. It really is funny how he loves his afghans. But sadly I don't think he will be here by next weekend. I am trying to keep Fluffy from thinking about it to much. She is my nature loving, animal loving, flower child. She used to practice reading by climbing into the dog house with the dogs and reading to them.
So this week has sucked and I am afraid it will be worse this week. I will keep you updated and insha Allah *God Willing* I will be posting my usual happy colorful posts soon.