Red Beaded Necklace

Happy Birthday Sandra!

I made this for my dear friend Sandra, she loves all things big and sparkly. I got everything from Michaels, the large red beads are stones by Bead Gallery Natural Beads. The medium size are a resin bead and the small ones are Crystazzi beads. I am still learning to tie knots so I hope it stays together.
I now have a new appreciation for jewelry makers. From designing it, to pulling it all together, takes a lot more thought than I anticipated.

Blue Striped Baby Blanket

I made this baby blanket with some left over yarn. I will probably give it to charity. I just love to crochet.

The colored stripes are slip stitched on as you go and the blue is crocheted behind it.

Hearts Baby Blanket

I've been working on this baby blanket for the last three weeks and I think it turned out really pretty. 

The original blanket called for every other panel to be pink with white stripes. But the yarn picked for the pink was to bulky, and it would have made it difficult to see the heart shapes, so we decided to just have the stripes pink.

The little heart details just makes this blanket so sweet.

 I love the border, it looks like rope.

It is just a simple reverse single stitch, really easy to do but time consuming compared to a regular single stitch.

I got the pattern online from e-patternscentral.com it was designed by Delores Spagnuolo.

Ying and Yang Kitties

Ying and Yang Kitties

My kitties could not be more opposite. (Unless one was female.)

 The dark one, Rocket loves to be outside, killing squirrels, birds and lizards.

The orange one, Frisky loves to be inside curled up at your feet, purring his heart out and would run and hide if a lizard jumped out at him.


Rocket is very vocal and Frisky rarely has anything to say.

Rocket loves my husband and Frisky loves everybody.

Rocket thinks you have to put fresh food in his bowl every time he walks in the door and Frisky will eat whatever is in the bowl.

Rocket is the mighty hunter but will run like a scared cat (ha ha) if you wad up a plastic bag any where in his vicinity.
Frisky will not hunt anything, he's a lover not a fighter, and plastic mashtic.

So there's my kitty babies in a nut shell.

Merry Christmas Stockings

Merry Christmas Everyone!

I made these stockings this week for my Mom and StepDad.

This one is for my Mom. I made them out of materials that I had on hand and they only took a couple of hours each. That is after I figured out how to make them. The pattern is copied from a stocking we use every year.

This one is for my StepDad. He's a real joker so....  Actually he's a really sweet man and I love him dearly.
I just used the same pattern and added a curly toe.

I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year.

Deer

I went to let my little girl dog Bonnet out to do her business

and this little lady was having her dinner.

 She stayed out there for quite a while, always cautious but enjoying her feast. As she was leaving I saw her buddy in the trees. I think they pretty much always travel in groups. At least around here.

Kitchen Remodel before and after

My friend wanted a before and after from the same position.
Before

After from the same position

Big difference!