Ornament Month! Cute Crocheted Baubles

If you know how to crochet this is a super simple, super fun, super cute ornament you can make.  In fact, I made mine while I was lying on the couch, sick with some sort of horrible cold, and I made it in like twenty minutes.  While I was on my sick day I came across this great tutorial on Craft blog.  I thought "Hey, I have everything I need to make this right now!"  So I did.  And it came out great - better than I thought it would. For mine I used purple sugar n' cream yarn and a size G hook. I think I'm going to try it again with some thinner yarn, I think it will look a little more delicate that way.  The directions were really easy to understand,  I think anyone with a little crochet experience could pull it off, so go ahead and give it a whirl! I think you'll be happy with the results.

What did you do this weekend?

I cut up a purple garbage bag...

It seems weird right?  I have come across a few patterns lately for crocheting things out of recycled plastic bags that I wanted to try.  I was kind of bummed out that every store in Waco has white bags with red printing so everything I made would come out the same boring colors.  Lucky for me I had a beautiful garbage bag sized sack from one of my birthday presents. So I sliced it up and ended with this lovely pile!

You said we were going to sleep in a REAL PILE!

Anyways, all in all I ended up with about 70 yards of plastic "yarn" for a future project!  Hooray!  It wrapped up into a ball a little bigger than a softball.  Of course when I finished cutting it up I dropped the end into my pile and couldn't find it and had to sift through the whole darn thing to find an end to work from.  Hopefully we'll see some results from this soon - if not, at least the destruction was fun and satisfying!  I'm so totally GREEN!

Little Ladybug

I think it is appropriate that I start off this blog with the project that got me started crafting again!
Back in August we celebrated the second birthday of one of my favorite little girls, and I made this little ladybug wristlet for her.  I used a free crochet pattern I found at Erin Olivia Designs.  I love crocheting but I hadn't done anything for quite a while.  This pattern worked up so quick and easy!  I think I did it in two nights.  As far as I know the gift was a big hit!  I wish I had a need for some more crocheted afghans or scarves, so I could start on another project.  Unfortunately I already have 2 or 3 of each that aren't getting used, so with limited space in the house I'll have to put crochet on hold for a while!