thankful for the holidays?

So after the husle and busle of the thanks giving holiday me and my family of girls (oh and jay) decided to go have some fun at the craft store. So ne who i got a new talent... kniting! so yeah i bought me some new yarn called blankie omg so soft i love it! and a teach your self to knit book. and thus started to knit i got the basics but with all the distractions of my world I find it is much harder to knit then it is to crochet so how do i split my time to do both? crochet while the kidos are up and driving every one crazy and knit when they are quietly asleep in their beds. and if your wondering why i decided to pick up knitting??? thanksgiving night to our delight and surprise we find out there is to be a new addition yay :) so i want to make something extra special that i havent done for the others yet. we wont know the sex til later in december and that gives me some time to master the basics. AND to top off all that my little baby will be one next week how the time flies. and shes starting to walk and talk and its overwhelmingly happiness for me with a touch of sadnees for they grow up so fast :/

my cute little hats

OK so this is a cute ear flap hat made for baby james's momma. I just love the colors kinda want to make me one just like it lol.



And a cute little Trick Hat that takes about 20 mins to make, it was sized to fit a bigger child but a quick change of the size hook and walla its new born sized :) made for baby James.you can find the pattern for this hat at raverly or on lion brand here's the link
http://www.lionbrand.com/patterns/70501AD.html?r=1

a blanket for grandma

So I'm taking a small break from crochet for a few days after this project! I had only a few days to make this blanket for my grandma's 70Th birthday. The whole thing was a surprise. My aunt decided to have a last minute surprise party for her and it was a HUGE surprise. To top it off I gave her this blanket made in her favorite color YELLOW! She was so happy to see it :) and a bonus I got to meet my cousin's wife Jo Jo and her new bundle of joy. Good thing I brought baby James's blanket too :)

All and all a good day for us all, hugs all around. Only down fall is hubby got in a pretty bad wreck on the way home from work and his fave car didn't make it out alive so I'll be surprising him with a blanket with the "Mits" emblem and colors on it. hope he likes it <3

Venting just isnt gonna help...

so yeah like the title says venting just isn't gonna help :( but oh well things were so good and now yet again i just cant trust any one i hate that helpless alone feeling i get when my world gets all scrambled up and i have to slowly let people back in i hate the uncertainty of trust and all to do with it. needless to say in venting on my house and my crochet stash and they are hurting from my anger. soon the clothes will feel my pain as well. my f***ing chest hurts like a mother f***er and i don't have any thing to calm my self. just trapped inside my head thinking thinking thinking i cant stand it! i hate not being able to shut off my thoughts and i just feel like I'm shutting down. what can i do?... like i said venting just isn't gonna help :(

what to do...

Well I scraped the hat idea for my nef's xmas gift and decided to make a spiderman blanket for him. Only problem is Im broke and quickly depleating my stash! heaven help us all if i get down to nothing! well any ways im dying to go to the craft store, im needing to get 2 rolls for my mom's shawl, 2 to finish this afghan and 4 to make gma a blanket. :( what am i to do.

one gift down many more to go

this is just one of the gifts to make before christmas. baby james's blanket is now done and on to a few hats. the blanket was made with the crazy stitch.

A simple list of things to make

Coming up soon:

• Another baby ripple afghan for Baby James (chocolate & blue or green idky)
• Cool camo ear flap hat for my nef. Benjamin (camo and black)
• Crazy stich shawl for my mom <3>
• Camo army afghan for my friend about to be shipped out to Korea :( (jungle camo and black)
• 3 really cool hats for myself, my brother and my brother-in-law.( 1 hat green and orange, 1 hat black and varied color and 1 in turquoise and idky)

and I believe that's it for now.