Argyle Boy.....or GIRL!

I was so excited when I saw this pattern because I had been wanting to make the girls matching argyle hats for some time. I did change the ribbing on the bottom from 3X1 to 2X2 because well...I prefer 2X2 but it is adorable none the less! I am still working on the second hat and will post pictures when I get it done but I just had to show it off!



And here is one with Bentley, our newest family member, who just had to model with his big sis!

Little Miss Piggy

Please DO NOT tell my daughter I called her Little Miss Piggy I don't want her having a complex, but a couple of weeks ago I tested an adorable new hat pattern by Tot Toppers and it is sow stinkin cute! It was such a quick knit and Ella Rae Latte is a squishy, soft, blissful yarn. And if any one asks I did not rub the skein all over my face several times during the knitting process, just sayin'!



The pattern can be purchased on Ravelry for just $5 and it is an instant download!

Dishcloths, Dishcloths and MORE Dishcloths...

TWENTY THREE would be the grand total of dishcloths I knit this holiday season and by the end of it I had the pattern memorized and could knit one up in less than 2 hrs. Although towards the end they were getting a tad bit boring there was so much love knit into each one of them. I am so glad I can finally share pictures with the bloggy world now that all of them have been received and opened. I am already thinking about what I can knit up for next Christmas! Since the dishcloths have been completed I have already knit up two new hats which I will be sharing in the next couple of days. Enjoy!

Long Time No Blog....

Wow it has been almost a month since I have last blogged and it definitely isn't because I haven't been crafty. I have been working hard on my Christmas knitting and because a lot of the recipients read my blog I can't post about what I am making. But what I made tonight I can post about because it is for Lynner and Lippy Lou's teachers! When I was reading my friend Mrs. Wright's blog and saw this link I KNEW I had to make these for teacher gifts this year and boy am I glad I did! I changed things up a little on mine but for the most part they are just the same. I did shadow boxes to prevent dust and I used my cricut to cut vinyl letters to prevent fading, hoping that these gifts keep on giving for many, many years.

Frame: $10 at Joann Fabrics with coupon

Crayons: $0.25 at pre school sales

Vinyl: $5.99 at Joann on sale and I have oodles left over

Total cost per frame $10.75!

This one is for my cousin who is also a teacher, I still need to get a frame for it, but it will be for his birthday as he is a January baby and we don't normally exchange gifts. I just felt I couldn't leave my favorite teacher out!

I can't wait to show off the knitted Christmas gifts but those will have to wait til December 26th, when I am sure everyone has opened them up!

And this my friends, WORKS FOR ME!

Layla Bug Showing off Her Sweater

Here is a picture of my cousin and her adorable daughter who I made this sweater for. It is pictures like this that make crafting so worth it!

Thanks cuz for sharing the adorable picture with me!

Meet Thomas the Turkey

I have this problem, I like to show my friend Jess all of the super cute knitting patterns I see. Well when I do, she happens to fall in love and beg me to knit them for her. So when I found this super cute Turkey Pattern by Susan B. Anderson, she fell in love and the begging commenced. So after a quick trip to WildFibers to get the yarn I didn't have I began knitting this cute little guy.



At first he was sad that his brother was stuck in the computer screen.



And then he was jealous that his brother hand wings and he didn't.



And then he was soon to realize that his brother was a 1 upper when he showed off his tail feathers when Tom just gotten his wings.



But Tom, he decided to show him....he got 5 tail feathers instead of 3!! I can't wait to knit up my own Thomas for my family this year, but I promised myself I had to knit 2 other items before I could start. Hope you enjoy Tom as much as I do!

Frame People No More!!

News flash, I, yes me, procrastinate, but shhhhhhhhh don't tell anyone. Mostly I only procrastinate when it comes to cleaning house or doing laundry or home work, or pretty much anything that doesn't involve crafts. So when I bought this frame 8 months ago because I instantly fell in love it didn't surprise me that it sat on the wall with picture people in it until today, yes TODAY, 8 months later.

Before

Now if you look really closely you will see that one of those pictures is me and my brother, so I started...but didn't quite get around to filling the other 11 spaces. You see I just didn't quite know what I wanted to do with it. Then about a month ago I finally purchased the digital images of our family photo shoot from 2007, yep that's right 2007. We met up with a wonderful photographer, Prisilla B. Varner, in Monterey, California. I found out about her via her cousin Jessyca. I happened to send Prisilla and email about her pictures and told her I wished she was closer so that she could take our family photos, she lived in Nevada at the time and we were in Cali. Well it turned out we weren't the only family in Monterey that wanted her to shoot our photos so she came to visit and below is the gorgeous result! I am so happy with each and every shot she took. The only problem, The Fish is not in these pictures, well technically he is...in my belly, but now we need new family pictures where he is present outside the womb! So here is the frame, with our family in it. No more Thing 1, Thing 2, Thing 3, Thing 4, Thing 5, etc (as Ky Guy callled them), just us in a beautiful place during a wonderful time for our family!

After

Here are just a couple of my favorites