Category Archives: Crafty

Christmas Feasting

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Guess what I got for Christmas!

A Martha Stewart Cast Iron Enamel Casserole dish! In RED! Does my husband know me or what!

And seeing as how I decided to do Christmas dinner for everyone, I got to put it to work that very morning, cooking a delicious roast

Hmm Dinner. Although I forgot to put the stuffing out. Yeesh. (Oh well, more for left overs!!)

Also, one of Paul’s stepmother’s friends made us a quilt! I think technically it was a wedding gift, but we just recieved it yesterday, take a look, it’s amazing. I can’t keep staring at it.

Is that gorgeous or WHAT! I love it!

Christmas Cheer

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It’s very Christmasy over at the Tong residence these days.

I realized that I never really took many pictures of the rest of the decorations, shame on me, for our first Christmas together, too! I’m a terrible wife. At least terrible about documenting anyway, at least it got decorated!

Our teensy tree. It’s super tiny, but we loaded it down with ornaments. We actually spent this evening with P’s parents looking through old boxes or ornaments and trying to figure out which ones were his. We came home with a pretty cute assortment of random old ornaments (Including a glass Energizer Bunny?)

Some Christmassy lighting

I also made another set of snowflakes for an ornament exchange at work

*** Don’t forget, there are still 2 more days to enter into the giveaway if you haven’t still!***

It’s snowing!

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Well, not outside, but it is in my house! Remember those snowflakes I was making last week? Well, I made a few more and decided to do something with them. You can look up crocheted snowflake patterns online, but I thought it might be more fun to just make one up. They were a little too… soft? looking, in my opinion.

Eh, who likes soggy snowflakes?

So I went to the store and picked up some Heavy Duty Laundry Starch and pinned them just so, and really laid it on thick.

Seriously, I doused these suckers with starch. And they are the better for it. Trust me.

A view from the living room into the kitchen

From the kitchen into the living room (don’t mind the pine needles on the carpet, or the pillows/blankets stacked high in the chair… it’s COLD here, we need those blankets it we stop moving!)

I don’t really have any decorations in any other rooms but the living room, so it kind of makes it feel like more of the house is decorated this way.

And by the way, the Shalom Sweater is coming along very nicely.

The hard part is done, now it’s just knitting straight rows and purling straight rows. I am glad that the triple yoke is done.

Tomorrow is our six month anniversary and I can’t even believe it! SIX months we’ve been together here in Moscow.

It’s been an awesome six months, and I can’t wait for the next sixty years.

Merry Christmas!

The First Tong Christmas

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I wasn’t about to let some stupid shoulder injury keep me from decorating for Christmas, so today Paul and I went all out and got the house decorated (and kind of torn apart in the process. We’re purging some of our bigger items and made room for a Christmas tree (although it’s a tiny one)

Even the wheel got some Christmas Lovin’

Our very first Christmas tree!

A few of my favorite ornaments

I also made a few crochet snowflakes, and I’m planning on making a garland to hang between the kitchen and the living room.

I think I am going to block them and starch them so that they hang a bit nicer and not as bunchy. But we’ll see if I get around to it. I only have 3 done so far, but they are pretty quick and easy.

Merry Christmas!

Knitty Button, now complete with labels!

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This morning as I perused the shelves of Michael’s I was still really unsure about how I wanted my tags to look, for the stuff that’s now in the Storm Cellar, and I initally was thinking about printing something off, maybe in a cool font, but the more I looked at the stamps I thought it might be a cool idea. So I bought some stamps and here’s what I came up with!

It’s windy out.

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Remember all. those. blueberries? They’ve been taking up room in our freezer, and so Saturday night I got the urge to bake. I love baking, it’s so relaxing and comforting, and I’ve never made a blueberry pie before, so I thought I would be adventurous.

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mixin’ it up

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I’m aware that blueberries in this state don’t look too appetizing.

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Mmm, prior to baking I (of course) forgot to get an afterbaking picture, but there’s nothing to be done about it now, since it’s all eaten up. Yum yum, and boy, it was tasty, we brought it to lunch with the Stevensons and Penney’s.

So, it’s been SO windy out, leaves flying everywhere, and there’s talk of some snow showers tomorrow. (Oh dear.) But it’s not supposed to stick, as the rain will supposedly come right after to wash it all away for us. I’m not ready for the snow yet! We’re hoping it holds off for at least another month.

So, that Christmas knitting I was working on is almost finished, and oh boy, I don’t think it can wait until Christmas to get to it’s recipient. It may be a “Happy Thanksgiving” gift at this point, because I am just too excited about it. I think it’s just about the coolest thing I’ve ever made, and it wasn’t nearly as hard as I thought! I will link to the pattern as soon as I give it to it’s handsome little owner, but until then, you will just have to wait in suspense! (In case you haven’t guessed, it’s handsome little owner is going to be Baby Ez, but he probably won’t care about it anyway, but I know his momma will!)

Well, my lunch break is nearly over, so back to work! Happy Monday, everyone.