squirrels! okay squirrel as the case may be...

my oldest dd has an amigurumi book that she bought a couple  of

years ago with her b-day money. but she has yet to get past the basic chain

stitch in crochet. so while all the patterns use single crochet (sc) she has not

mastered it.

so she sat down next to me the other day with her book and asked nicely if i would

make the squirrel for her. so i agreed, she went and rummaged through my

yarn stash and came back with a fuzzy blue (that i have had for years, i once

made a bunny out of it as a baby shower gift), and some tan.

so i whipped up the pieces and she attached the eyes and nose, then stuffed it.

i put all the pieces together, which was a little more difficult than i had anticipated.

i am in no way new to crochet, but trying to attach those little arms, and then not

being entirely sure what to do about the tail, as the instructions gave no

instructions for that part, i finally got it all together.

i ended up tacking the tail to the mid back of the thing with a few stitches so that it would

stay in the full upright position. so without further ado here it is:

tada!

as a side note on the tan, she originally brought me some yarn that came

with a plant hanging kit i bought at a flea market close to 10 years ago.

it is in no way a soft type of yarn. the only other tan that i had

 i was/am making my first ever sweater out of, so i used that skein

starting with the other end that i wasn't working off of.

now i'm going to have to try and hunt down that color

if i ever want to finish the sweater.

 so now that i have made one amigurumi i'm already starting on another

one from the book. i'm using the same blue yarn to make a bird.

after of course i finish a baby blanket for a friend who is having a baby

tomorrow. the yarn that i am using for that i got 7 years ago to make a

blanket for my ds when he was born. but it just frustrated the heck out me

(being 8 months pregnant will do that) and i never used it. it is red heart

cloud. i'm not sure if they make it anymore or not. but i figured why go out and buy more

baby yarn when i have 5 skeins of it in my stash.

so when i finish it i will post picks of it as well. the blanket not the yarn.



CANDY CANES

at the grocery store today i bought candy canes for $.37! these ones to be exact

but but you say it is to early or to late for candy canes, did i mention that they were

$.37! the cashier asked if i was going to eat them and i assured her

that i was not, that i was in fact putting them away

for next year. she then wanted to know if they would

keep that long, and i assured her once again that indeed yes they

would, as long as they were not kept in an attic or somewhere

hot they would be fine.

so i got the bright colored ones to go on the family room tree which is white.

the pale red and green ones are for the tree in the

dining room. and the blue ones may go on the tree in the living

room, though i'm not sure about that one yet. not

totally sure how i feel about candy canes on that tree. that is the one tree

that i am kinda particular about. all the ornaments are white, silver, robins egg blue and

a few are a pale apple green. we shall see next year how i

feel about it.

speaking of xmas, i almost have all the xmas stuff put away. just a few more things

to pack away, and the totes need to be stored away and two trees need

to be taken down. that's it i swear, the ornaments are

already off the trees but the trees are still standing.

it is my husbands job to take those bad boys down and put them in their

bags.

project life

i'm anxiously awaiting the arrival of my project life kit. hoping that it will get here soon.

if you are not familiar with this it is ab fab. here is a link to the website.

www.beckyhiggens.com/products/

you can also read about it on ali edwards blog, she finished one this past year and is starting a new one this year.  2011 will be my first year attempting it.

in a nutshell it is a big 3 ring binder that comes with lots of notecards, clear pages with

pockets, and lots of other goodies. there is room for you to document each week

of the year. with traditional scrapbooks you are only capturing a moment here and a moment there usually. this captures all those little moments each week that normaly go undocumented. 

i've got lots of big plans for my family this year and i'm hoping that this well be a way for them to look back and remember all those little moments that we had together that made life what it is and special to us.

i encourage you to check out the website and get a taste of what it is all about.