Confessions and Projects

CONFESSION:  I'm a Slob

                                                                           This is our office. My goal is to make it into a working studio were I can paint and work on my illustrations. I've had lots of ideas for children's books. And one of my goals this year is to complete one of the stories and put together a portfolio to start sending to publishers. I have a couple of extra days of this week, so i'm going to clean out the office and set it up into a working space. Next week AFTER photos...so stay tuned.

Projects

Project #1. Skinny Scarf

All confession aside...I finished my first project of the new year. This lovely scarf for my dear friend Maria. I like it so much i'm going to make another one for myself.

  With the new year in full swing and one project done. I've decided that i'm going to complete 52 projects this year. Maybe not do one whole one a week, but make enough progresses of each project that by 2013 I have made 52 different projects ( knitting, crochet, painting, sewing, photography etc.).

HAPPY 2012

My Goal for 2012 is to be more creative and productive. I'm going to use this blog to track and to keep on top of all my projects. SO my New Year's Resolution is to post at least once a week.  I will post anything I like because it is my blog after all. I will knit, bake, paint, photography, and make things all year. I also plan to post things that inspire me, people, books, music and places. For everyone who may read this, in 2012:

Be happy, Be creative, Be true, Be your best and most important Be yourself. 
Supper cheesy, hard to live up to, but i'm gonna try.

Sissy blanket with Pruta the cat is enjoying.

 

Baby love .

Happy almost 2012! So it's been a very busy month. I finished 2 scarves, one blanket and three baby hats. My favorite would have to be the roll up pixie hat i mad for my nephew walnut (walter). My favorite thing about completing projects is planning new ones. I try to stick to doing only three yarn projects at once (big, medium, small). SO for starting the new year...

The small....  A popcorn pom pom scarf for a friend, in red wool mohair blend and knitted with cables.

The Medium......The Christmas stocking crochet project (which is going to be a year long project of making a new design each month, but each stocking is a medium project)

The Large.... Sampler granny square blanket, its going to be flower garden them, with lots of green and pinks.

ALSO, a two of my friends have asked me to teach them to knit and crochet. so were going to start a  yarn group. Hopefully we'll pick up some others along the year.

Very very busy

So i haven't posted anything in the last two weeks. Thanksgiving took over my kitchen and time. So i didn't have time to get much done in the way of knitting of crocheting. But I did bake a perfect pecan pie.

Also baked these great pumpkin cupcakes with cream cheese frosting, the picture doesn't do them justice. 

And then there was this past weekend me and my husband flew to Florida to drive back our new to us 2001 beetle, that was giving to us by a family member. SO from Sarasota to CT, which is a 22 hour drive. We broke it up and stop along the way. I was great to go to Waffle house (which there are none north of new jersey.  but we made it. Now were home with Lady and I'm back to work on all my Christmas presents. 

SO back to the Yarn. 

I've got blister's on my hand

Christmas is coming so quickly here. So i'm working on finishing up some of my gifts. SOO close, but i have  blisters from crocheting and knitting so i'm forced to take a break. But making progress.

This is one of 80 of the granny square blanket. I'm not that good crocheting......YET. That's part of the reason I started this blog. It's to keep me on track of finishing projects and to share projects i'm working on and to hopeful get better (i've only be crocheting for about a year). I've also be so inspired by all the other crocheting, knitting and crafting bogs out there. I hope this will inspire others. Besides crocheting i also knit. 

These are some the baby hats for my nephew Walnut (it's my nick name for walter) Still have got to put a pom pom on the orange and yellow one. I still have a few more hats to do, i'm going to make 6 for part of his christmas presents. I haven't even finished my holiday gifts but i've already started constructing my next afghan in my head. I've going to make . I'm going do a sampler afghan out of Jan Eaton's 200 Blocks to crochet. I plan to do 100 different squares. in a rainbow and cream. 

Well happy crafting.