Happy St. Patrick's Day!
Just wanted to tell you about a new book I have started reading. Casey bought it for me for Valentine's Day (don't let that fool you...the girls at Town Crier help him each holiday/birthday) and I finally started it this week.
The Pioneer Woman (Black Heels to Tractor Wheels, A Love Story) by Ree Drummond
It is fabulous and had me hooked the first 10 pages...I love the way she writes! It is going to be good and I am sucker for love stories!
She lives in OK with her hubby aka Marlboro Man and their 4 kiddos. She has a website... www.thepioneerwoman.com
I thought someone told me about her website, but I don't know who? She is on Facebook and today got a fab recipe post I can't wait to try!
Check it out and let me know what you think!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
My first LOOM!
Several of my knitting friends are multi-talented...not only do they sew, knit, crochet but also spin and weave!! I have been fascinated with weaving the past year and Casey totally surprised me with a LOOM for Christmas...actually 2! A little one and a larger table top loom! My weaving friends gave me suggestions and helped me get started...I won't bore you with all the details....and TA DA....the first scarf on my LOOM!
I choose 3 colors and decided to make stripes!
It took some getting use to, but is so fun!
My dad is going to help with some minor adjustments and repairs. (Casey bought the loom from a local guy who makes them or refurbishes them...so it wasn't new, new.)
I am super excited to start weaving more crazy fibers and textures and make cool scarves! I can also do runners, place mats, small rugs, etc. BUT I LOVE SCARVES!!!
I choose 3 colors and decided to make stripes!
It took some getting use to, but is so fun!
My dad is going to help with some minor adjustments and repairs. (Casey bought the loom from a local guy who makes them or refurbishes them...so it wasn't new, new.)
I am super excited to start weaving more crazy fibers and textures and make cool scarves! I can also do runners, place mats, small rugs, etc. BUT I LOVE SCARVES!!!
Baby Blanket
Now that Idol is over for the night....I can blog!!!
My friend Andra had her second girl on January 25th...Vivana Clara Baldwin! She is adorable and already a month old weighing 10lbs! I wanted to make something for her and started in December (I think) on this fun blanket pattern.
The pattern was in 2 pastel colors and I wanted to do something fun and bright! Andra originally planned the nursery in polka dot brights so, I thought this was perfect. She did change the nursery colors, but oh well...baby will never know! I used multi-colored sock yarn and Caron simply soft solids to make the stripes.
It was fun and crocheted along pretty fast, but the more rows added...the longer it took to complete one round! It was crazy! Only 36 rows and an easy pattern to follow, but it would take me an hour or more to do those last several rows!!!
I hope she likes it...I am going to give it to her tomorrow. :)Thursday, January 27, 2011
Saturday, January 22, 2011
Quilting Project
I have wanted to learn how to quilt for a long time. I am not really a "quilt" person in the traditional since. I have always wanted to make a T-shirt quilt, blue jean quilt or use scraps of fabric to make hodge podge quilts. Maybe even go back to my cross stitch days and make baby quilts!
Anyways, some of the ladies in my Tuesday Night Knitting group quilt also. There are 3 of us that wanted to learn so we got together in December and started a little quilting group. We decided to choose a pattern for one block. Each of us will work on our one block then pass it to the next person. They will add a border of some type and we will pass it again, and so on. When we are done, each of us will get our completed quilt back!
I am super excited and was a little nervous to start.
Last Sunday, we met and started on our blocks. I got a used sewing machine this summer (this is the first I have used it!), found a pattern, fabric and borrowed quilting supplies to get started.
Above is my work station and fabric!
Here is the pattern that I am editing with help to make it smaller. It is called Snowballs....I am using different colors and making a smaller block.
I found the swirly circle, red and black fat quarters at Joann's and realized I needed at least 2 more colors. So, I went to our local quilting store, Prairie Pieces, and picked out 2 more fat quarters..the check and yellow dot.
Today, I sat down and worked on my first part...the big squares with red triangles in the corners. Then I got adventurous and thought "why not just keep going"...so I did!!
I measured out the side strips and corner squares then pieced it all together!
I am so excited and happy that I finished my first block!!! Mind you, I have no idea if I did it all correctly and some of it measures off, but I think it is cute!!
Now that I have got use to my sewing machine. I am so excited to try out other projects. I have pants that need to be hemmed and curtains that I want to shorten and change with my new living room furniture....but that is another blog!
Anyways, some of the ladies in my Tuesday Night Knitting group quilt also. There are 3 of us that wanted to learn so we got together in December and started a little quilting group. We decided to choose a pattern for one block. Each of us will work on our one block then pass it to the next person. They will add a border of some type and we will pass it again, and so on. When we are done, each of us will get our completed quilt back!
I am super excited and was a little nervous to start.
Last Sunday, we met and started on our blocks. I got a used sewing machine this summer (this is the first I have used it!), found a pattern, fabric and borrowed quilting supplies to get started.
Above is my work station and fabric!
Here is the pattern that I am editing with help to make it smaller. It is called Snowballs....I am using different colors and making a smaller block.
I found the swirly circle, red and black fat quarters at Joann's and realized I needed at least 2 more colors. So, I went to our local quilting store, Prairie Pieces, and picked out 2 more fat quarters..the check and yellow dot.
Today, I sat down and worked on my first part...the big squares with red triangles in the corners. Then I got adventurous and thought "why not just keep going"...so I did!!
I measured out the side strips and corner squares then pieced it all together!
I am so excited and happy that I finished my first block!!! Mind you, I have no idea if I did it all correctly and some of it measures off, but I think it is cute!!
Now that I have got use to my sewing machine. I am so excited to try out other projects. I have pants that need to be hemmed and curtains that I want to shorten and change with my new living room furniture....but that is another blog!
Baby Cakes Update
I got a BABYCAKE machine for Christmas and if you remember my previous post about this...I was super excited to try it out!!!!
It comes complete with the babycake machine (much like a waffle maker), cutters, frosting bag and tips, plus book with instructions and recipes!
All I had to add was the cake mix! This time I chose a strawberry cake mix with cream cheese frosting!
You mix the cake as directed and pour into the small 8 cups in the babycake machine. Close the lid, and bake til done!
I had fun decorating them and they are super cute and quite tasty! If I was taking them somewhere, I would have done a better job on the frosting.
I am looking forward to trying it out with other cake mixes, muffin mixes, brownies, etc!!
It comes complete with the babycake machine (much like a waffle maker), cutters, frosting bag and tips, plus book with instructions and recipes!
All I had to add was the cake mix! This time I chose a strawberry cake mix with cream cheese frosting!
You mix the cake as directed and pour into the small 8 cups in the babycake machine. Close the lid, and bake til done!
I had fun decorating them and they are super cute and quite tasty! If I was taking them somewhere, I would have done a better job on the frosting.
I am looking forward to trying it out with other cake mixes, muffin mixes, brownies, etc!!
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Santa Hat
Hello All.....
I haven't been doing much lately.....still trying to un-pack and get settled. But a friend at work did ask me to make her hubby a Santa Hat. He works for Fed Ex and he wanted a Santa Hat to wear while he delivered his packages......but he couldn't find one in Fed Ex purple and orange without spending a lot of money......this is were I come in. (pic is not great, taken by my phone)
It was a fun little pattern....and did take me long either....Bonus!!!
I haven't been doing much lately.....still trying to un-pack and get settled. But a friend at work did ask me to make her hubby a Santa Hat. He works for Fed Ex and he wanted a Santa Hat to wear while he delivered his packages......but he couldn't find one in Fed Ex purple and orange without spending a lot of money......this is were I come in. (pic is not great, taken by my phone)
It was a fun little pattern....and did take me long either....Bonus!!!
Friday, December 10, 2010
Hats
I made a few baby hats for some new little ones. I made a hat for my niece*, Tessa, but mailed it off before I got a picture taken. I also didn't get one taken of Baby Grace's hat.
*All of these links go to the Ravelry website. You need to be a member of Ravelry to view but it is free to join. If you'd like to see these patterns and don't want to sign up w/ Ravelry, let me know and I'll try to send you a different link to the patterns.
The others I remembered to get some snaps of before giving away.
Baby Jonah's hat: (I can't remember where I found this hat pattern - if I find it in the future I'll come back to link to it.)
Baby Caleb's hat:
Baby Maddox's hat:
I also participated in a gift exchange last night with my Bunco group. We were to give a mug and fill it with whatever we chose. I thought it would be fun to put a nice winter hat in there. I got started and the pattern worked up very nicely. Easy to understand, pretty design, all that good stuff. The only problem was my gauge was off. But see, I didn't check my gauge at the start - I usually don't - so when I got towards the end, I realized it was going to be way too big to give. I didn't have time to fix it so I scrapped the hat idea and went with some nice froo-froo lotion (and Sixlettes, Andes mints, a hot chocolate packet and a winter-y pencil - blue w/ snowflakes - and it matched the mug I gave)!
This is the hat, the Divine Hat, and there are still two rows for FDPC (front post double crochet) to go!! You can see the attached yarn trailing off over my right shoulder ... since it isn't finished and I haven't clipped the yarn I think I'll end up frogging it. I'll try again because it really is a cute hat pattern - I'll just move down a hook size and see what that does for me.
*All of these links go to the Ravelry website. You need to be a member of Ravelry to view but it is free to join. If you'd like to see these patterns and don't want to sign up w/ Ravelry, let me know and I'll try to send you a different link to the patterns.
The others I remembered to get some snaps of before giving away.
Baby Jonah's hat: (I can't remember where I found this hat pattern - if I find it in the future I'll come back to link to it.)
Baby Caleb's hat:
Baby Maddox's hat:
I also participated in a gift exchange last night with my Bunco group. We were to give a mug and fill it with whatever we chose. I thought it would be fun to put a nice winter hat in there. I got started and the pattern worked up very nicely. Easy to understand, pretty design, all that good stuff. The only problem was my gauge was off. But see, I didn't check my gauge at the start - I usually don't - so when I got towards the end, I realized it was going to be way too big to give. I didn't have time to fix it so I scrapped the hat idea and went with some nice froo-froo lotion (and Sixlettes, Andes mints, a hot chocolate packet and a winter-y pencil - blue w/ snowflakes - and it matched the mug I gave)!
This is the hat, the Divine Hat, and there are still two rows for FDPC (front post double crochet) to go!! You can see the attached yarn trailing off over my right shoulder ... since it isn't finished and I haven't clipped the yarn I think I'll end up frogging it. I'll try again because it really is a cute hat pattern - I'll just move down a hook size and see what that does for me.
Saturday, December 4, 2010
Anything new?
Hi.
Just wondering if anyone has made anything new recently?
I've taken a little break from crocheting. I started some squares for a baby blanket but other than that there isn't anything I'm working on. I have done a teeny bit of holiday stuff - the easy peasy chocolate covered pretzels and the ritz crackers/peanut butter dipped in chocolate. Nothing to take pics of and post, though :)
What do you ladies have on your hooks/needles/sewing machines/drawing pads??
Just wondering if anyone has made anything new recently?
I've taken a little break from crocheting. I started some squares for a baby blanket but other than that there isn't anything I'm working on. I have done a teeny bit of holiday stuff - the easy peasy chocolate covered pretzels and the ritz crackers/peanut butter dipped in chocolate. Nothing to take pics of and post, though :)
What do you ladies have on your hooks/needles/sewing machines/drawing pads??
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Homemade Millionaire on TLC
Hey girls, check out the show Homemade Millionaire on TLC. Stumbled upon it yesterday on the web and it premiers this Friday night at 9pm our time. I have my DVR set!
http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/homemade-millionaire/
This is what we need to do!! Come up with a product or idea and you compete to sell it on HSN. There are 3 inventors each week and one is chosen to put on HSN.
Or, we could just come up with a brilliant idea and take it directly to HSN/QVC.
Then we would have money to buy our compound!!!!!!
Oh, a girl can dream.....
http://tlc.discovery.com/tv/homemade-millionaire/
This is what we need to do!! Come up with a product or idea and you compete to sell it on HSN. There are 3 inventors each week and one is chosen to put on HSN.
Or, we could just come up with a brilliant idea and take it directly to HSN/QVC.
Then we would have money to buy our compound!!!!!!
Oh, a girl can dream.....
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