Nascar Book

Ed and I attended a Saturday Nascar race courtesy of Fastenal (a supplier that Ed's employer uses). We had a lot of fun. I finally took the time to create a mini scrapbook of our day.

Thanksgiving

What a wonderful Thanksgiving we had. All three of our children were home to share in a delicious dinner. It's amazing to think that just a short time ago they were all so young. They would all be anxious to go pick out a Christmas tree and decorate the house. I'm hoping that I'll at least be able to enlist a couple of them to help decorate the artificial tree.

First Altered Puzzle Pieces

So one of the ladies, Puff, from the MIABA Group invited everyone to join in on an altered puzzle piece swap. The theme was to be "Things with Wings". I've never altered a puzzle piece before and thought hey why not. I was given three preschool size (roughly 3"x4") puzzle pieces to work with. Okay so I was a little intimated by this task and have to admit that I let them set for a good 2 months. But finally this morning I took them out and before I knew it 3 hours had passed. Now it's evening and I'm happy to say that other then missing a set of googly eyes for the owl they are all finished. I'm thrilled with how they turned out. Below are pictures of the puzzle pieces. Because I had so many ideas, once I got started, I decided to do two different "Things with Wings" on each piece. My favorite is the penguin piece.

First Fabric Book

This was my first attempt at a fabric book. It turned out more like a fabric scrapbook (couldn't help myself) rather then an altered book, but I like it. I had a lot of fun choosing the pictures to use and building the book as I went along.

Knitted Hunting Bear

Look I finished my knitted hunter bear! He's 14 1/2" tall and has a removable sweater, bibs, and boots. Maybe someday I'll knit him another outfit or two.

Halloween Dishcloths

If you knit or crochet then you have to check out the website ravelry.com. You'll have to create a free account (which may take a couple of weeks for a response because yes they receive that many requests) but it will be oh so worth it. Besides being able to search for free or inexpensive patterns, you can check out other stitchers' work, go through their personal yarn stash for that hard to find skein you were looking for, shop for completed items, and chat with fellow stitchers. My most recent project was to make each of my three children a set of Halloween dishcloths. The patterns were created by Kristen Patay (just search for Creepy Cloths). They are so cute and the pattern (which contained all 6) was only $3.50, which was a down loadable file.

Halloween crafts

What is it about fall that I love so much? I guess it's a combination of everything from the leaves changing colors to the kids being back in school. Oh who am I kidding I love Halloween the most. Why as an adult with three grown children (and no grandchildren) I feel the need to decorate the house is beyond me. But every year I do... well except this year. It wasn't like I didn't want to I just couldn't seem to get to it. So while I was at a baby shower my husband dragged out the many orange totes from the basement and proceeded to hang, sit, and stand every single decoration we have. You can imagine my surprise when I pulled into the driveway and saw the 6 foot witch I'd made a few years ago sitting on the front porch with her black kettle before her. Little did I know that when I walked inside there would be a 9 foot skeleton pirate hanging in the hallway along with everything else. lol It was wonderful! Here are some pictures of the Halloween crafts I've made the last couple of years.