Thursday, August 25, 2011

Wedding Shower and Paper Flowers.

My best friend is getting married in 2 days! I'm so excited!!

I helped throw a wedding shower for her back on the 13th. It was so fun. My favorite craft that I tried out was these crepe paper flowers that we added to the cake that Angela (my sister-in-law) made...it was a GORGEOUS cake!




I made these flowers with help from the crepe paper flower tutorials from The bride's Cafe and Country Living

The inside of the cake was just as pretty as the outside!



Here are some fun images from the party (I love a good party!)


This is Laila, the bride to be! 

Awesome Friends!




more food....
Angela made these awesome rainbow fruit skewers too...inspired by this post on Quick Dish

Weddings, friends, parties, babies....it's a great month, this August!!

Tuesday, August 23, 2011

My Mama

My mama with her newest Grandbaby. 

Does everybody think they have the best mother in the whole world? Cause I do. 

This morning my mama sent me an e-mail just to see how I was doing and also sent a quote that I had to share...cause it's such a great one! 

"Knowing how to communicate with others - is the road to a happy life, knowing how to communicate with yourself - is the road to Bliss!" Ellie Walsh

So true!

Love you mama and thank you for everything!




Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Re-visint old Patterns - Flower Hats

Love this pattern! I love the rolled brim look on the kids (so cute!) I updated this pattern, added some helpful photo's, explained some potentially confusing parts better and took/added better photo's. If you have previously purchased this pattern, please feel free to write me and ask about the updated pattern, I'll be more than happy to send you the update.

Here are a couple of the old photo (pattern designed and written up back in 08)



Sweet little baby Galilee was the model


Here are the new pictures. I still need to get some more but...for now




The Rose Hat.

The Daffodil Hat.

The Exotic Flower Hat.


The hat is made and the flowers are crocheted onto the hat so there isn't any sewing the flower onto the hat later. But....if you wanted to make these flowers and add them somewhere else on the hat (or another hat), there are directions on how to do that as well.
Basic needs for this crochet pattern are I hook and Worsted Weight Yarn. 
Pattern also comes with directions on how to make a simple rolled brim hat (with no flower) in every size, so this pattern can be used for your boys too ( : 
Pattern comes in every size from Newborn to Adult (0-3 mo, 3-6 mo, 6-12 mo, Toddler, Child and Teen/Adult)

Pattern can be purchase for instant download from the blog crochet shop here or at the etsy crochet shop (where i'll e-mail the pattern to you within 24 hrs.)  here

 Another grumpster face from little Summer  ( : 

My next mission is to start making little newborn hats for little Sammy to model....I have a hard time photographing newborns though so we'll see how this goes. 






New Baby Smell!

This is my new little love...Samantha (Sammy)
I can't believe she is here!! I love her SO much!

Sammy's Birth Story: 
My first child was a hospital birth, my second was a home birth and my third was a birth center/water birth.
For baby #4 we decided to have a home birth again and everything went very smooth. I finally went into labor after being 10 days past my due date (not fun...time doubles after you pass the due date...so 20 days late! haha) 
It was the weirdest labor I've had, it's so true that every baby is different.  My contractions were getting very strong but they were never getting regular, I had a couple that were still 30 minutes apart. I finally called the midwives after i had some really strong contraction that was 6 minutes from the last one. Josh was on the phone with the midwives when I went to the bathroom to go pee and my water broke. After my water broke, there was very uncomfortable pressure but the contractions seemed to stop. I knelt down, pushed three times and out came our sweet 9 lb. baby girl. The midwives missed this birth. My sweet husband had already cleaned everything up and had me and the baby tucked into bed when the midwife got to our house. They checked over the baby and I, gave hugs and headed back to the birth center. Easy Peasy...haha, that's an exaggeration but still pretty true ( :

Sammy just a couple hours old...she was so cute and chubby already ( :


She's really excited to start modeling for me too ( :

Saturday, August 6, 2011

Re-visiting old Patterns - Angela hat

The Angela Hat - two of the original photo's from 2009 (this is Galilee when she was a bitty baby!)


I wrote up this pattern back in 2009 and it has been a favorite of mine ever since but I was never thrilled with the photo's. I'm not too happy with a lot of the original pattern photos and I've always wanted to go back and fix/pretty them up. Today I finished prettifying the Angela Hat Pattern and I added a flower to the pattern as well. (So please, if you have previously purchased the Angela Hat feel free to e-mail me and I'll be more than happy to send you the revised version!)

Here are the new photo's 
This is Galilee now (still my pretty baby!)

I made one for me too...I should have slapped some make-up on ( : 

and here's little baby Summer's hat

On to the next old pattern!



Friday, August 5, 2011

Thursday, August 4, 2011

Lil'Pumpkin Patch Hat Crochet Pattern

My little grumper model ( :

my favorite thing about this pattern is the leaf, I've been working on and off on a leaf like this for a while and I finally came up with something that made me happy.


Pattern comes in all sizes: Newborn, 3-6mo, 6-12mo, Toddler, Child, and Teen/Adult

Basic needs for the pattern is H hook and Worsted weight Yarn. Pattern is available for purchase here and here just in time for Fall/Harvest/Halloween/Thanksgiving.



Kinies on Etsy

veryKIKI on Etsy

From BLSoaps on Etsy

From FairyFolk on Etsy


Candy Corn Child Dress by LittleTicket on Etsy

Earrings from Sarahhickey10 on Etsy

Wednesday, August 3, 2011

New-ish Crochet Pattern....

Remember the Chloe Slippers?

Now they come in Adult Sizes too (size 3-12)!!
Pattern is available in my etsy shop or on the blog crochet shop. This is the first pair of slippers that I've worked this way and they are a lot more fun to crochet than most styles.

Basic needs for pattern are J hook and Vanna's Choice Yarn.

Pattern comes with a pattern for a little 5 petal flower as well.


Sneak Peak on what's coming soon (Pattern Testers are testing now)
Lil' Pumpkin Patch Hat in all sizes