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Harvest Party 2008

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Last night we had our church’s harvest party. Many kudos to Kjerste and Derek for heading up booths and stuff. There were lots of fun games, lots of little kids in red. As Little Red Riding hood, I wasn’t very original, but that’s ok, there were lots of adorable lady bugs and check out Kaylynn as a football (the most adorable thing). My mom, Heather, Mrs. Allison and I did face paintings, and I did a ridiculous number of “Elmo’s”, but I think that was mostly because of Heidi’s influence. Check her out:

Like that’s not creepy!

My mom is stylin’.

Erika worked a ridiculous amount on this, but it looked amazing!

Little Red Riding Hood (one of the many that showed up)

Heidi is frighteningly Elmo like

The amazing spandex’d couple, Aaron and Jess!

Adam was the Kool-Aid man, Oh Yeah!

Effie and Hilary

Since I was face painting I didn’t get too many pictures of other people, but there was a talent show and everything. We had everything from opera to standup comedy. From Celtic Dancing to jazz singers. Oh, and in case you didn’t gather from the pictures above, the theme was “Red”.

I like to carve

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Some pumpkins I’ve carved in the last few years:

Good Ol’ Yoda (2008)

Where The Wild Things Are (2007)

An Owl with a mouse? (2006)

Owl and Charissa’s Celtic Cross (2005)

Turtle (2008 yeah I did two pumpkins this year…)

The Sweater Blanket – Part Tres

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So maybe you’re actually really sick of looking at this brightly colored blanket, but here it is in FINISHED form. Sheesh, took me long enough to get the pictures up, but it’s actually been done for a bit.

Toasty warm with some piggies

Eh, pay no attention to the dirty floor background.

Hooray, one more project done!!

The Sweater Blanket – Part Duex

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Sewn into strips:

The ugly backside which kind of looks a little cool:

And the top:

I actually already have the middle blanket and the bottom blanket attached, but I am not by my camera right now, so you’ll just have to wait to see the finished product, but it’s so very warm and cozy and stretchy and snuggly.  And Derek, it’s not scratchy! They’re all nice comfy fabrics, not itchy wool.

Thrifty revamped

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So I know that sometimes people think that I go a bit overboard with my thirft store finds, but I swear this will be cool.

So I went to Bargain World and found an assortment of used sweaters, all of the cashmere type variety. (I say cashmere type because they’re not really nice sweaters, but just the comfy, soft fabrics) So I bought a bunch of old sweaters in lots of colors and they were all 50% off the already ridiculously low prices, so I bought lots of them.

Here they are in their original state:

I just spent all morning cutting them up (and my knuckles are bruised from the scissors I was using) and now I have this:

what didn’t make the cut:

And the good pieces:

Piecing it together:

Now the sewing begins!

More Hats.

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So you guys know that once I learn how to make something I just make like a million of them until I have it perfected? (How much easier would life be if I just figured out how to read a pattern?!) So, I think I finally got it right with Wesley’s first birthday present! Here is his awesome little hat. So I actually made two, one for Autumn’s happiest 22nd birthday and one for Wesley. Here they are:

Autumn’s hat (as modeled by me)

The side of Autumn’s hat

Wesley’s hat

The top of Wesley’s hat

Wesley modeling his hat for me

Wesley telling Kaiya how awesome his birthday party is

Happy birthday, Wes!

Baby Hat

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So I got home from work on Thursday and hat the itching to make a baby hat for a certain young lady who’s having a baby girl here in the near future.

A funny little hat. I think I need to learn how to read a pattern, though, I really have no idea how. It might make hats a little less wonky, but after I added the earflaps and the ball on top it seemed to calm down a bit.

A good Saturday

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So today I sat on the lake for two and a half hours, figured out how to knit an argyle, then went to the pool for another two hours. Got a little heatstricken, but sometimes that’s what Saturdays are for.

I promise I’ve been busy

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So here’s a bit of what I’ve been working on for this ‘craft sale’ that is this weekend. I’m not actually thinking I’ll sell anything, but it’s worth a shot and it will be fun hanging out with the girls for a Saturday. I haven’t done really much knitting or anything like that (time constraints, you know) because it’s slow and sewing is just a lot faster, but not nearly as much fun. So this week I’ve really been stretching those sewing muscles of mine, well, actually I’ve just been finding out that I HAVE no sewing muscles, or skills. Oh well, practice makes perfect.

The first of the purses.


A few of the finished purses.


The first demented apron, I didn’t have a pattern or anything and just sort of went to town… I know… I know…


Second apron, turned out better, has cute buttons and I love the cheery yellow fabric. It’s a little less stiff of a fabric which is kind of annoying, but it’s very ‘worn in’ feeling. I can’t make up my mind about it yet.

The yellow apron on- no, the pocket isn’t crooked, it’s me. I’m crooked.


Another apron, I like this one ok. I mostly just like the floral pink fabric… it used to be a shirt that I wore maybe once, and it just wasn’t the best on me. So, now it’s an apron! The pocket is a little low on it, but I figure not everyone is as short as me, so it won’t REALLY matter… or something.


A close up of the fabrics I used


But I still have a lot left to make stuff out of! But only two more days to go, so we’ll see if anything more gets completed, but I want to try to make some more purses (quick and easy!!)