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 :)