Sunday, April 26, 2015

Green Hair For The Win!... Oh and HATS

Yes my hair is now an awesome green. Thanks again Carson. Loving it so much.  And my scalp doesn't look like Fun-Dip anymore. YAY!! Super glad my hair came out so well. It was dyed black with teal ends last (say mid December). So bleaching it out was interesting because not all the black went light. For a short time, until it was dried after washing the bleach out, my hair was a bit orange. Not an attractive color. And we decided that my hair is the spawn of Satan when it comes to becoming tangled. Most days I don't leave my hair down because the smallest movement/breeze will cause it to be tangled to hell. It sucks let me tell you. So I usually braid it or something. But after drying it, combing it,  and putting in the greens and blues, it came out AWESOME!! Couldn't be happier.

Along with my new due I got to hang out with some awesome pups the last few days. Stanley and Stella are a great pair. I hung out with them while their owners were on a little trip for a few days. Stanley is a big old goof that likes to play fetch and bite trees. Yes you read that right, he bites trees. And Stella is a big old sweetie pie who loves to cuddle. These guys are great on walks as well, which is good since they're apartment dogs. Walks are a must. We were fortunate enough to not have to walk in any of the heavy rain. Some sprinkles yes, but we missed most of the rain this weekend.
Stanley & Stella. We were glad it had stopped raining.

So down to the project of the week. I decided on the Rainbow Slouch. I was gonna add in the Tiny Cars too but allergies, or at least what I hope are allergies have been kicking my butt since Thursday. I've never suffered from allergies in the past with the exception of the last few years. Its weird but things change I guess. . . . Okay back to the hats. I managed to get out two if these. I did the gray one first and decided to follow the pattern exactly. Although I believe there was a typo on the last few rows. But since there are plenty of pictures on this one I figured out what they meant. I used my Red Heart Wool yarn for these, all but the green though. I oddly didn't have a green in that yarn. So from the top of the hat we have a deep purple, Tropical Blue, Green, Yellow, Orange, and Pink. I tried this one on and it was a bit tight for my head (which is why there are no pics of it on). But its a very cute hat none the less. The black one I kinda made for myself, again using the Red Heart Wool. I added an extra row and did a fun mix on the colors. I'm loving this hat right now. It made walking Stanley and Stella a little warmer, once I got it finished of course. With being under the weather I had low energy and everything was taking like twice as long to do it. 

T.A.R.D.I.S. Phone!!
This project is gonna get a big fat 5 Yarn Balls Rating. 

▪ Pattern Readability -  Well written if not redundant once the rounds become the same up the bulk of the hat.
 
▪ Ease of Pattern - Simple beginner stitches, and an explanation of how they even achieved an intermediate stitch.
 
▪ Adjustments - None needed other then a typo. Easy to change up to the colors you want. I changed the hook for the second one I made because I have tight stitches.
 
▪ Final Product - Fun and Awesome hat!
 
▪ Personal - Loving the look and ease of this pattern. Will be making these again.
 
▪Overall Score -  5 Fabulous Yarn Balls!! 



 



Thankfully this weeks project is all picked out. My eldest sister came to me with something. Her friend bought a Time Out stool for her little girls this past week and they asked if I could jazz it up for them. So I get to do some painting this week! I think I might even sketch something out for it first as well. Plus I might hammer out some Tiny cars as well. We'll see. 

Hopefully I'll feel better soon. Oooo and the kitchen is finally gonna get started this week. This last Wednesday mom and I got to see how the cabinets were coming. They looked great, only the shell of whats gonna be in the kitchen but its supper exciting to see it. Demo is supposed to start like Wednesday/Thursday and I'll probably be painting this weekend. WooooooHoooooo!!

See you all next Sunday. . . 

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Sunday, April 19, 2015

Tiny Turtles!

So this week after looking for patterns and finding a new batch, I landed on the Tiny Striped Turtles. And holy cow these guys are super adorable. I found this through Pintrest and after finding it I was seeing the pattern everywhere, it was crazy. These little guys work up supper fast and are crazy easy to make. I just love them so darn much. Everyone seems too actually. I did a few stripped ones and then a couple of them with multicolored yarn. and they aren't complicated in the least to put together, which is so nice. I want to make one with a top hat, monocle, and mustache. It would be too adorable for words I think.
RATING!. . . Super simple this week guys.


▪ Pattern Readability - 5 Yarn Balls. Nothing confusing with these little guys.
 
▪ Ease of Pattern - 5 Yarn Balls. Simple stitches, great for the beginner.
 
▪ Adjustments - 5 Yarn Balls. Nothing needs to be changed. You can add a little something the the bottom of the shell though if you want to make it flair out though.
 
▪ Final Product - 5 Yarn Balls. Who doesn't love some Tiny Freaking Turtles!
 
▪ Personal - 5 Yarn Balls. LOVE!!!!
 
▪Overall Score -  5 Yarn Balls.Perfect score for these little ones.
In Pieces.... oh no!
My mom loved them so much she just had to have one for her desk at work. So she picked out the colors and this guy is gonna be her desk buddy starting tomorrow.
Tiny Turtle Tushies!!
Like I said I found a ton of patterns this week. I was kind of addicted to looking for new shit to make. So I pinned and bookmarked dozens on Pintrest and Ravelry. I printed just shy of 2 dozen of them. My printer is probably wondering what is wrong with me using it so much. But I found some pretty good stuff. Like lovey blankets with part of a stuffed animal on it, an awesome Rainbow slouch, Daleks!, other little monsters along with a cell phone case among other awesome geek things to boot. So many patterns, so little time. 

Along with pattern hunting I helped my dad replace our broken down double gate. That was fun. . . I guess. Needed to be done (like 10 years ago), but with the guys coming to do the kitchen soon it REALLY needed to get done. I also got a bee in my bonnet and washed both the cars yesterday, plus vacuumed out my own. Who knew doing all that could make you so darn tired. I was whipped but happy to get it done.
 
And then I got to watch the season opener of Orphan Black!!! Thats right the clone club is back in action. So freaking happy!! I can't wait to watch all of this season and so happy they brought it back. I love my BBC America shows.
 
I think the one of the best parts of my week would be today. I spent the day with my siblings. We went out to lunch, hung out around the mall all before going to see Furious 7. We've seen the last few Fast & Furious movies together. It was awesome! Tons of action, cars (obviously), some tears, and an ending we weren't expecting. But it was a great flic. If you haven't seen it I say spend the money and go. I won't spoil any of it for you but it is so great and fits all the pieces together with this franchise.

This week. . .  For starters I'm getting my hair dyed again on Thursday. My good friend Carson is awesome for doing it for me. She is a Rock Star! But as for project, now that I have all these new patterns I'm not totally sure. My first thought was to do this tiny car pattern I found. But now its between that, the rainbow slouch, and one of the two Ogie Boogie's I found. So come around next Sunday to find out what I choose. Or let me know in the comments which sounds better to you.

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This is the first little guy I made and I took this to share with Facebook. I could not contain the cute to myself on this one.

Sunday, April 12, 2015

Getting it done!

So this week with my massive To Do list I've made, I decided a little down time with my art journal and a pencil was the ticket. My free for all journal plays host to just about anything. I vent in it like any other journal along with story writing, doodling, really whatever I need to get out of my brain. And man did I have a fun doodle dump this week. I didn't realize how much I missed just letting my mind relax and let my hand do the talking. I need to start making time for this kind of thing again. Not sure how all this will come together in the end, but I think all of it will play into some story one way or the other. . .  The power of brain magic. . .  So prep for NaNoWriMo (national novel writing month) got started early I guess. November really sneaks up on you.
I had a few characters already semi mapped out in my head as you can see in the first picture (Note that the one on the right is not a vamp. I was going for werewolf teeth, just to be clear). At least some details about them at any rate. The second picture is a bunch of markings for different orders and then individuals as well. I had a lot of fun with those. They mostly started out as doodles and then i assigned them random off the wall names. Even gave them some contexts or direction too.
I recommend doodling to anyone that needs a stress reliever. It doesn't have to be anything specific, just let your hand wander across the page and see what happens. All it is is putting basic shapes together to form something new.
 
The major pains on my To Do list for the week are happily done. My taxes, plus my dad's (his was an add I didn't expect), my car passed DEQ and it was a super quick trip down there too. And the guy that was running the test was super duper sweet. He was kinda explaining what was going on in the test as it was happening. It was nice to have such a friendly interaction so early in the day (It was just before 9 am when I was in there. No grumps that morning). Then I also helped one of my sisters move this week. YAY a pretty house for her and her man (plus some of his family that live with them). Went through all or most of my email, which I didn't like doing. But it needed to be done badly. I cleaned out a bunch of junk, now I just gotta stay on top of it. I also finished tagging up the last bits of merch to go in my box, which is full. It feels crazy that I have a full tote of merch.
I also looked over my inventory and took some new pictures. And I'm happy to say that I've made my inventory goal for Woodburn, and a lot earlier then I thought too. So now I can have free rain over my pattern binder for projects. Woo!
So here is a picture of my inventory. . . all but my Dream Catchers any way.  Some of this you guys have see here on the blog. Some of it you haven't. Down at the bottom is a couple of scarves on the left and hats on the right, along with a bundle of my Poppies. My Hippos are on the ends buddied against the Little Lambs. Down in the center are my Octopi, recently changed their eyes from buttons to yarn. I think they look cuter this way. I have a bunch of Sy-Clopies scattered around and a Dust Bunny wedged in there just north of the Team Rocket Poke Balls. And to the right of Woodstock are my Petite PopTarts. They're all ready to find new homes.

As for next weeks project. . . Not sure yet. I'm tempted to make a blanket, I have several cool patterns and tons of granny square patterns I could make a blanket out of. But I don't know if I want to under take that just yet. Blankets are a ton of work, not to mention yarn. I have made one before that I love, even if it isn't perfect looking it was my first HUGE project just for myself, and am afraid my pups might kill because they dig at blankets so I don't have it out. I'll have to scour the net and look through the binder again to find something I guess. Please send me any suggestions you guys have for new projects. What do y'all want to see me make?

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Sunday, April 5, 2015

Its Easter and the Yoshi is back

Happy Zombie Jesus Day Everyone!!
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Found this on the net and I just love it to death!

I think this week went pretty well. Made a few of the adjustments I talked about in my last Yoshi post.
Like: -Using the bubble stitch for his thumbs was so much easier, and it worked out great too. That is now a permanent change to this pattern for the future. It really just looks a lot better for the final product and is easier to work up rather then follow what they tried to do.
-His boots were another story all together. I probably spent the better part of 5 hours figuring out the best way to make these boots work for me (no joke, 5-ish hours. I think I tried half a dozen ways before finding the modification). And the way I did the pattern could probably be done more eloquently, but I was working it how I best could. Not sure if I've mentioned this before but I'm not a huge fan of making my own patterns or a HUGE modification of someone elses. Did that last summer when I made a big black widow for someone (Pictures on my Facebook page. Link for that down below). I couldn't find a pattern so I wrote one up. Its a really big pain. That could change in the future but at this point, not the biggest fan of pattern writing. And to make things more frustrating when I went to use the pattern I made (maybe two days later?), I had issues following it because I seemed to have left a bit out (it was a comma, but it was important in the placement of that row. I was also tired at the time). Grrrrr! After a few boots I figured out what my problem was. But damn it was annoying. But I think I'm gonna keep my janky boot pattern anyway. The size is much bigger than the original patterns and I think the bigger boot suits Yoshi. Its better balance on the doll, plus after looking at reference pictures online it is kinda his thing. Let me know what you guys think, I can always use the input.
But I have a Yellow and Green Yoshi at the end of the week. YAY!! Thanks again to a few of my Facebook friends who helped me decided on the green Yoshi's boot color. Couldn't pick between the red or brown. We went with brown as you can see from the pictures (which is more burnt orange but it was the best I had in the weight I needed. I think they work well). 

You can see in this last picture with all three of the Yoshi's I've made, that the boots are better on the new Yellow and Green ones as apposed to the purple ones. Or at least I think so. 

Rating-
▪ Pattern Readability - 3 Yarn Balls. Very well written pattern for the pieces of the doll. Not so easy to follow the assembly instructions though.
 
▪ Ease of Pattern - 5 Yarn Balls. Pattern pieces work up great, there are a lot of them (21).
 
▪ Adjustments - 3 Yarn Balls. The boot thing knocked this down two points for me. The original pattern for them is just so. . . Blarg
 
▪ Final Product - 5 Yarn Balls. After getting through all the 'growing pains' he works out great.
 
▪ Personal -  4.5 Yarn Balls. If it wasn't for the fact that I had a hell of a time with the boot pattern mod, it would be a 5. They come out so darn cute!
 
▪Overall Score - 4.1 Yarn Balls
 
Dang I think he hit one of my lowest scores to date. But still an awesome pattern I think.
I hope everyone had a happy holiday weekend. We just had a simple family dinner around here. 

So for this week I'm not sure what I'm gonna work on for the blog here, but I don't think it will be crocheted whatever I end up working on. I do have a long To Do list to accomplish this week and most of it isn't all that fun.
  • Go through emails
  • Get those pesky taxes done
  • Take the car to DEQ
  • Work on shop listings
General house keeping type stuff. But it must be done. So I'll find something fun to craft up and talk about next Sunday. Until then. . .

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Sunday, March 29, 2015

Poké Ball & Mario Mushroom revisited

This week has been fun. In addition to the crochet geekdom, I also had a great baking day. I know I seem to be baking a lot, but I do love it and I was making muffins to freeze. Plus it makes everyone happy to have yummy baked goodness. Its a feel good activity for me. So I made Apple Pie Muffins along with more Oatmeal Chocolate Chip. The dozen I didn't freeze (out of about 5 dozen total) were gone in less than two days. I also made Chocolate Chip Loaf. LOVE IT!! It was a Pintrest find. I don't do the frosting on this, because I think its amazing by itself. But click the link to make it yourself and just see how tasty this this. I make two smaller loafs instead of one big one because I find it to cook better that way in our old oven (made the big loaf the first time I tried this recipe and the middle fell out the bottom. Hence I make two smaller loafs). I ended up freezing one loaf, but I really want to take it out now. . .  This kind of stuff never lasts long around here.

There was also a Walmart trip where I bought a 10 lb box of poli-fil, among a few other things. I didn't realize it came this big. The box is huge and opening it up was amusing, talk about a lot of poli-fil in one box. It doubled in size. This should last me a while and is cheaper than getting 20 oz bags at a time like I was. I really do love that I found this, even if it is so big and I have to figure out where to store this. 
DVD For a reference to how huge this box is. (Dragons are also super awesome)
POOF it grew crazy big.

On to the crocheted things. I finished stuffing last weeks Little Lambs. They're all cute and fluffed with little faces now. Super cute!!

I started out with making Poké Balls (although I wish I had started with the mushrooms because they take a tiny bit longer. But they all got done so who cares right?). I made a pair of Team Rocket balls along with the classic and a green Poké Ball. 
I've said it before this is a great pattern and as long as you do your slip stitch at the end of your color change rounds this comes out great. You can make your Pokémon friends super happy and catchin 'em all with these babies. I do want to find some sort of container to put in these to make them hallow and add little Pokémon in them at some point. Something to look for in the future. . .  Rating Time!!

 




 ▪ Pattern Readability - 5 Yarn Balls. This pattern reads Great! Nothing confusing in this one.
 
▪ Ease of Pattern - 5 Yarn Balls. This is a great pattern for a beginner.
 
▪ Adjustments - 5 Yarn Balls. No adjustments needed.
 
▪ Final Product - 5 Yarn Balls. Your Geek Will Be Ecstatic!
 
▪ Personal - LOVE!!! 5 Yarn Balls
 
▪Overall Score - 5 AMAZING Yarn Balls

Now to the Mario Mushrooms. Like I mentioned I wish I had started these first because even though they work up easy they take a bit more time. Doing the spots alone are a bit time consuming with 5 of them. 
So I made the two everyone knows, Grow Up and Get a Life mushrooms. I also made a purple poison mushroom. In the end on this one I went with just spots instead of the skulls you see sometimes because 1) I've seen them both ways when I was searching on the interweb, and 2) I haven't found a skull pattern I really like yet to put on this one. I know I could get dinged from hard core fans out there, but they do come both ways.
Like I said in the first post I made adjustments to this pattern when I had made it the first time and I still stand by those. . .  So time to get Rating!

▪ Pattern Readability - 5 Yarn Balls. They did a great job on making this easy to read and follow.
 

▪ Ease of Pattern -  5 Yarn Balls. Super simple, another great pattern for the beginner.
 

▪ Adjustments - 3 Yarn Balls. The two adjustments I made to the steam/face and spots really made the biggest difference in this pattern looking like it's supposed to.
 

▪ Final Product - 4 Yarn Balls. After the adjustments were made these came out great.
 

▪ Personal - 5 Yarn Balls. I love these guys and plan to make more if they are a good seller.
 

▪Overall Score - 4.4 Yarn Balls. Still an awesome pattern.

You can see the adjustments I made to this pattern in the first post on these guys. To see my first Poké Balls and Mario Mushrooms, click the Week Geek! link.

This week I'm not totally sure what I really want to work on. I was originally thinking of revisiting Yoshi, but I might want to do something different. I guess it will be a surprise next Sunday what I've been working on all week. So tune in!!


Oh oh we have a start date on the kitchen reno. We'll be getting things rolling mid April. WoooooHoooo!! Hopefully it will be wrapped up before I head to Arizona at the end of May. *fingers crossed*. We also settled on a back splash. We had the plan to do white subway tile with dark grout around the whole kitchen and do something behind the stove. Well we found this awesome stainless steal mosaic that we're gonna put back there. Should be awesome!!
 
This is one of our dogs, Nascar (parents love Nascar, the sport. I tried to get her named something else but since I was out of town at the time we got her, I didn't have much sway in the name debate. Her full name is Nascar 3, because she has a big white mark on her chest and my Dads favorite car was Dale Earnhardt Sr.'s 3 at the time. Still is actually. She is the first and probably only Nascar we will have). She was chilling with me as I was writing today so I thought she should make the blog. She's our 14lb Chi-weenie (Chihuahua-Dachshund) and about 5 years old I think now. She is such the lovable pup. Our other dog is Lugnut the 9lb Terrier-Chihuahau who will be 3 this year I believe. We had a small dog moment these past several years. Before them we had an American Eskimo named Paddy. Our big fluff ball. He passed in 2011 at the age 15.

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Sunday, March 22, 2015

Sheep Week


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Started early on this weeks project, and as result I may have gotten a little over zealous with the Little Lamb pattern. I tried to make 5 and am now scrambling to get them all stuffed and finished. But YAY for a new flock. They are quite cute in their colorfulness. I managed to complete one and get all the others put together up to the legs, before I decided this blog post had to be written. So here are some progress pictures. . . .
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Pre-stuffed


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Stuffed and pieced together, still needing the legs.


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The whole thing done now.


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playing with the face a bit.
 I really do love this pattern, Anita did a fantastic job making this pattern. If you'd like to see more from Anita please visit her blog, link below.

Pattern By Anita Elmore
ASE Knits 'n' Crochets
http://aseknc.blogspot.com/
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Another 5 Yarn Ball overall week. This pattern is easy to follow, you don't have to make any adjustments, these Lambs are just so adorable, and I could make dozens of these. And a bonus is that Anita offers the free pattern on her blog for crocheters and knitters alike. AMAZING!!

In other news this week. . . .  Been having some back issues this last half of the week. Not sure how I tweaked my back, but I did. The heating pad I made earlier in the year was a god send. Helped me get comfortable so I could focus on the crocheting (as much as I could). Slowly getting better, but I wish it wouldn't have happened. I should probably go take some more Bayer Back & Body now that I think of it. Finally feeling better, but still a bit soar. Here's hoping I don't screw it up anymore anytime soon.

Our dining room is now home to our new kitchen appliances for the time being. So exciting! Another reason for my back to stop hurting is once the kitchen gets going I'm gonna be doing the painting of the room and I kinda need my back not to hurt for that. Shouldn't be too hard since the kitchen will be gutted when I get around to that. Still need to pick out the exact colors for things now that I think of it. Must get on that.

Finished all of Farscape last week. So happy they did the 3 hour or so movie thing of The Peacekeeper Wars to wrap it up. I couldn't handle how the show ended on that cliffhanger and then they got canceled. Speaking of canceled, I'm coming up on the end of Merlin. Started it this week after watching the first season of The 100 (good show, can't wait to see season 2). I really am liking Merlin and am sad that there was only 5 seasons, and super curious how its gonna end. I know it wasn't a planed end and am prepared for a big cliffhanger. It was nice to see Anthony Head in something else. I can't really call him Uther after him being Giles for so long to me, but it was nice that he wasn't like evil in this (a mean bastard at times, yes, evil he was not. Hell the poor man married a troll at one point), although the man can play evil. Since Buffy  I've seen him in an episode of Doctor Who and he gave us his music stylings in Repo! The Genetic Opera (and he sure as hell can sing). Not sure what I'll be watching next on Netflix, any suggestions??

Holy T.A.R.D.I.S. of Galifrey its already week #12. Well I'm gonna do a a re-post this week and work on some more Poke Balls and Mario Mushrooms. Of course I'm gonna finish putting the poor Lambs together first, probably while I cry over the end of another show. Just kidding (no I probably will cry and curse and in general be angry and even a bit depressed about it. Its how these things go, Fandom Life Forever!). Return of the Geek Week! If you have any ideas or suggestions for this weeks project or a pattern/project you'd like me to do in the weeks to come, please leave a comment. I'd love to hear from you guys.

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Sunday, March 15, 2015

Off Week

As you all might know, I took the week off from projects. And you know what, I missed them terribly. I'm glad it was only for the week, and it will be a long while before I do this again. Its no fun marathon t.v. watching without something to do, I'm always working on something with my hands these days when I'm watching stuff on my computer. I did finally start this coming weeks project because I was starting to go a little looney without having something to work on. My brain kept passively arguing with itself. "How about we do . . . . no. What about . . . . no. We could . . . . No. Well what about this . . . . are you kidding?" And so it went. Too many things I could come up with to do required more attention than what a project would require. It was maddening. But I did get a few things done that were quite helpful.
Small, Medium, & Large tags.
Since I make my own merch tags, I took a portion of a few days to make up new tags. I needed a smaller tag to put on things like the Poké Balls and Mario Mushrooms. The two kinds of tags that I already have are a bit bulky for something so small. So I had bought a narrower ribbon a few weeks back on one of my Michael's trips and just never got to finishing the idea out. (heres how I learned to make my own merch tags). So simple to make, the biggest thing there is to do is make your design on the computer and flip it to the mirror image of it to print out and iron on your ribbon. So nice to have these now.
All I need for making tags. . . . Don't mind the Pocahontas sheet I iron on. It works for my needs.
1 of 2 Pizzas I made on Pi Day!
I also had a baking day. I just really, really wanted to bake a ton of stuff Thursday. So I made an apple walnut coffee cake and oatmeal chocolate chip muffins. So tasty! I planned on more but I actually ran out of some items and then I ran out of time to make them anyway. Maybe more muffins before the kitchen gets started (freeze a batch of them maybe so they will last longer?) But I got to make pizza dough Friday for pizza pi yesterday. It was a happy coincidence that it happened to be Pi Day. YAY nerds/geeks! So good pizza and baked goods for the end of this week. Its all gone now. The stuff never lasts long around here.
Apple Walnut Coffee Cake and Oatmeal Chocolate Chip Muffins. I need to make more of these (mostly the muffins, but really both.) YUMMM!!
I got stuff done this week that needed to happen. And I still have some of it to work on like Etsy listings. Really I kinda need to over hall my shop, but I want to have the prep work done for that before I shut it down for like a day. I was working mostly on things that need to be done before I leave for Arizona so my sister can work Woodburn for me. It was good to have the time for it.

This weekend we also moved the fridge out of the kitchen and down to the basement. Makes it harder to get food and prepare stuff but its gonna be worth it in the long run. Getting ready for the kitchen to get stated. The sink came in this week as well and this Friday we'll be getting the appliances delivered too. Can't wait to start!!!

.:Project Time:.
This week I'm going to be working on the Little Lamb pattern. Click the link to see the pattern or go to Anita's blog below:

Pattern By Anita Elmore
ASE Knits 'n' Crochets
http://aseknc.blogspot.com/
aseknc@gmail.com


I've made several of these before, but its been a little bit since I've made one. So new pattern to the blog, old to me. Here are two out of the ones I've made before.
Like I said I already started on this weeks Little Lambs. I have a white one waiting to be stuffed and more colorful creations to come. Might try some yarn eyes on a few of these instead of my button eyes to see how it looks.

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