Happy New Year

I Just want to wish you a wonderful New Year !
I'm very blessed to have "met"all of you and I'm looking forward to a great new year!

New Friends... A Great Christmas Present.

It's Christmas time...the most wonderful time of the year...

I have been planning and hoping to meet two new friends which I have met "blogging" and today it was the day... 

Yes, today I feel so blessed and happy that I have met Teresa from www.teresakasner.blogspot.com and 

Gracie from www.grayseasailor.blogspot.com...

Two lovely ladies who I'm so happy I met and who I know now we will be friends for a long time.

We have so many things in common and I'm looking forward to this great friendship we just started.

 

We had such a great time together...great conversation... and exchanging gifts... 

 I got this gorgeous

patriotic earings, which Teresa made and the beautiful card with a picture of her farm.

and this beautiful star with the wonderful card from Gracie.

Here is Gracie showing her gifts...

And here is Teresa...

You see now why I feel so blessed?? ?It is Christmas season and I got the most precious Christmas gift...new friends:)

My heart is happy today.

THANK YOU TERESA AND GRACIE!

Just a little note before I go...

I have been busy, getting ready for Christmas, which is just around the corner, but this last Tuesday i got a little bit of a winter wonderland around my house and it inspired me ...

So I got a some snow flakes inside ...

sooo much fun!!! I think I'll leave them in a little longer after Christmas is over...

I also wanted to thank all my new followers and all of you who come to visit...I'm so happy you stopped by to see me today.

I hope you are enjoying your holiday season and that the spirit of Christmas brightens your day...

A Little bit of Christmas

Yes, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...and we are so busy. A good busy though.

Decorating... Spending time with the kids, shopping and more shopping ( which s not one of my favorite things to do) and a little bit of knitting and crochet.

I still have lots of projects to finish...but now things should slow down a little and I'll have a little bit more time to work on my Christmas gifts. 

So, today I just want to show you a little bit of Christmas in my house ...

Now, I'm working on some projects but cannot show many of them as they are going to be Christmas presents...

I'll show them later after I give them to the proper owner...

My husband and I just had our 22nd anniversary yesterday and last week we celebrated going to a Yulefest party at our kids school...
we got dressed up ... and had a really fun evening...
22 years and I'm so lucky to have this man by my side...
God is truly good to me!

Happy Anniversary Honey.
Thank you for such great 22 year!

I'm so glad you came to visit me and I'm sorry I have been so busy and not here often...

Thanks for visiting me and hope you come back soon!
I hope you are enjoying your holiday festivities!
:)

Belated Happy Thanksgiving

Hi there friends and belated HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO YOU.

I have been away this week because it has been a very busy week with my family. We had a great weekend and I have been off work for 5 great days. Very busy days, but I'm happy and very grateful for these times we spend together.

Now that thanksgiving is over I'm full force with my Christmas projects. Most of them are for my family, friends and my kids teachers. However, I do have a few things I have been making throught the year either for orders I've been commissioned to or for a craft show I' m still deciding if Im going to participate on... I get so busy this time of year it's hard to also sale some of the things I make...

I have been working on this really cute Christmas ornament ...

I have been selling them so much I don't know if I'll have any for the Christmas Craft Show. 

I'm also making kits to make the ornaments....

So ... I sale the ornaments already ready or the kit to crochet them...

The idea started because every year I make an ornament for a craft show, but this year I wanted to decorate my tree all white and icecles and snow ... So this cute little bird was born...

Now, I also make it in 5 other different colors and will show you later...

Isn't he cute ????

I'm getting ready for Christmas and so happy as this is my favorite time of the year. Just wish I could also ... Be home for Christmas ...

Before I go just wanted to show you these cute placemats I made for my mom for Christmas....

I thought about her when I saw this fabric as she loves birds ...

Hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and that you are getting ready for the " most wonderful time of the year " ...

I'm so glad and so grateful for YOU all my blog friends and I'm so glad you stopped to visit me.

Hope you will come back soon. 

Christmas little gifts and more hats

Hi there Friends...

I'm starting to feel like the Holiday is approaching too fast and I'm already starting to have this feeling that I won't have enough time to get everything done...

I tried to start really early this year so I feel very good because I already finished and sent everything to my family in Brazil. 

I also started and have almost finished with teacher's little gifts..

We are doing it very simple as my kids have 7 teachers each.

We made this magnets with very cute pictures on them. 

They were fun to make and I hope their teachers will like it. We made sets of 3 for each teacher...They can use in their classroom or refrigerator to hold notes and photographs...

We are almost all done with those and will start to package them this next weekend... I'll show you when the sets are all separated and done...

I also have been making lots of little hats. As I mentioned before my mom and sister help supports an orphanage/Center to help needy children in Brazil. They help pregnant moms by making a whole layette for the new baby and I have been trying to make some hats to send so they can add to it. 

It's so fun and such a great feeling to see how happy the mom's are when they get their bag... the happiness in their eyes is worth any of the effort and for me it's fun to make these hats thinking about the end result.

So here are some of the hats...

some are my own pattern like these ones ...

And some I saw at Shari's blog www.lauren'scloset.blogspot.com

And some at www.tangledmehappy.com

   

Sorry the pictures look side ways... I'm too tired to figure it out how to change them...I did have lots of fun making each one of them.

Now... I have been working on some ornaments that I

will sale in a holiday bazaar or on my etsy store... I'm getting ready to post them there and will let you know when I am done so you can check it out...

I try to do one bazaar a year and part of the proceeds goes again to help the children in Brazil.

Well friends it's Monday (Oh wait ) it's Tuesday ...but it feels like Monday because it was a holiday for me yesterday and I'm so very tired...

I'm going upstairs drink my tea and knit for a little bit before I go night-night...

Next time I will show you my ornaments...

Thanks for coming to visit me and I hope to see you again soon.

Have a wonderful week!

:)

New hat and beautiful flowers

Hi there friends

Hope you are having a wonderful Sunday

I started this hat this week for my neighbor who I first met when he was 5 years old...

He is now in college (at OSU) which is the same college my husband went to and my daughter will probably go...

It was a fun project and now I'm going to make the same one for my husband...

I was very happy with the result as I had to make the chart myself. 

 I went to one of my favorite knitting stores here in Portland...Twisted www.twistedpdx.com. I got a black and an orange Malabrigo pure merino superwash ...

Worked on it for a couple of evenings while watching tv...

And voila...

The hat was done...

My neighbor's son wore it last night for the game ...

and YEAH...we won! GO BEAVERS !

I had so much fun I'm going to start another one right after dinner :)

A friend just brought me some flower today... she is so kind and so nice...

I just love it it's so pretty I want to share with you before I go.

Have a wonderful end of your Sunday and I hope you have a lovely week.

Thanks for coming to visit me :)

Grey Scarf & Pink Cowl

Hi Friends ...

Hope you had a wonderful weekend...

I have been very busy as always. My daughter had homecoming dance this weekend and we went shopping fro dress...we had 6 girls getting ready at our house on Saturday...

very busy, very loud...but lots of fun! They were all so very beautiful and enjoyed their time together and we enjoyed watching them growing up and becoming young women...

Where does the time goes ???

In the meantime I have been working on the grey scarf I got inspired by Kirsten at cozymadethings.blogspot.com.

This was a fun and quick project and it brought memories of when I first learned how to knit...fun, enjoyable memories that I keep close to my heart.

I decided to make it a short scarf and I'm going to bind off and sew it together, put 3 pretty buttons (I haven't found the right ones yet) and make it into an infinity scarf/cowl...

I'll probably post the final project next week, but here you go ...that is what it looks like now...

pure...simple, meditative knitting ...

 

Sometimes that is just what we need...

I have been working on some hats to send to my mom which then adds to a complete layette and give to a needy family that is having a brand new baby...

It's such a great and rewarding feeling ...

I have not taken any pictures yet, but promise I'll show it to you before I send them off to Brazil.

Last I just wanted to show you this cowl I made last year...Again...

 

Very simple (just knitting on the round) but the yarn makes a great statement...

I don't remember the name of the yarn, I got it at a friend's store and she just moved ...

I just thought it is so pretty and so pink ...It makes me happy :)

Hope you enjoy your week and come back to visit me again soon.

:)

I am back... Look what I have been doing...

Hi there my Dear Friends...

I have not been missing in action... I just have been very busy and having computer trouble...

You see I use my kids computer to post my blogs as I only have an Ipad and cannot post pictures from it (if anyone knows how I could download the pictures and post with the Ipad i would love to learn :). I have not forgotten you and It feels like an eternity since last time I wrote here... 

I have been busy working on a few projects this last couple of weeks.

I found two great blogs: www.outstandingcrochet.blogspot.com and the other is www.crochetemoda.blogspot.com . The last one is in Brazil so most posts are in portuguese, but they both have great, wonderful fashion designs. I showed my daughter, who is now 15, some of the dresses and next thing I knew I'm making a dress for her with only a picture to guide me...

She is lucky that I can do that with crochet...if it was knitted it would be a whole different story...

This is the inspiration:

And this is where I'm at...since last Sunday ...

I think it will look pretty close and she will look so beautiful when she dresses up with this dress...I still have a long ways to go, but just wanted to share with you. I'll post a picture again when it's completed...

While I was working on the dress I had to take a break once in a while and I got these ones done...

much bigger yarn...much quicker ...

I found this one at www.yvestown.com I just love this simple pattern and the colors make the cowl... simple, but elegant.

And this one was inspired on another cowl a friend was making, but I gave it my own spin with the way I twist around the neck with a pretty broach...

what do you think???

Simple and quick ...but keeps me pretty warm :)

Yes... I know ...I am a little crazy...But these are the things that keep me sane and how I relax... even though some of my friends say they think I don't sleep ...yes I do... but every time I have a little bit of time I am with my family and knitting or crocheting...

So... I'll show you one last thing so you don't think that I don't do anything else other than knitting and crochetting...

we picked our grapes last week and we got so much this year...we had a great harvest and they were so pretty don't you think?

 Yes, right on our back yard...now I just had to stop knitting and off to make grape juice...grape jelly...we had so much my husband even thought about making some wine...that would've been fun! :) but we decided to stay with just making juice for now. 

Hope you know that I did miss you ...

I have been trying to keep up reading all of your blogs (just couldn't post here till today)

Hope you all have a great Sunday and enjoy the rest of your weekend...

I'm so very glad you stopped by to see me :)