a FANTASTIC week!!!

Well last week was a pretty good week. I am pretty surprised at the amount I got done as far as housework AND projects!  Isn't this a great pile? 

I finished an afghan for S2. He picked out all the crayola colored yarn out the big box I had received last month. I can feel my retinas burning when I look at it, but he LOVES it!  It's the perfect size for when he is doing reading homework on the couch.  He asled me to "not finish" it so we can make it bigger when he gets taller.  By "not finish" he means the row or two of single crochet for a nice edge.  He's the child that can roll with anything, and he forgets that the rest of us don't work that way here!  :)

I also finished a table runner and one of four placemats.  I guess that's what happens when you finish on a Sunday evening.  The other three should be done this week, but honestly, I don't love them as much as I though I would.  So if something comes up I like better, they may be put off for a while.

And of course I worked up some dishcloths.   As many of those as I've made this year, I know some the other ladies that send items to bazaar make hundreds of dishcloths. And hats, and scarves, and all kinds of other goodies.  DH and S1 are usually the "unloaders of cars" during bazaar set up.  It amazing how much the ladies get done. 

And my favorite finishes are the hot-pads and Halloween coaster in the middle. I pieced the coaster back in September, to have by the 'puter during the week of Halloween.  Somewhere in the chaos of Carnival I lost it, but I have it now!!  And the hot pads were made out of scraps of fabric I loved, but weren't really big enough for anything.  DH is afraid to use them since they might get dirty.  I am positive as soon as I get them dirty, his concern will disappear, LOL!  I will be making some up for my BLS, since new kitchen stuff is always nice.  At least, with kids, mine never look good for long! 


 This week started out pretty awesome as well. After church and breakfast yesterday, I hopped online  after D2 did some research for  report.  I'm blog hopping, and as I go through the OPAM blogs, I find out they did a January drawing, not something that was scheduled, and I forget about the drawing anyways when they are.  I discovered OPAM through  Kris at Tag Along Teddies, and her co-hostess is Peg at Happy in Quilting.  They both make such beautiful projects, and when I can't sew, I just visit them to look at the eye candy!  As I am reading and scrolling at Peg's blog, I see the  announcements for the winners of the Jaunary drawing, and so of course, visit their blogs to see what works of beauty they've finished up.....and one of them is ME. It took me awhile to figure that out.  DH and D2 got quite a hearty laugh out of that!

Now if only S1 would finish high school, life would be moving along quite well. But I guess we can't have it all.

A slow week for crafting

Well, besides the TARDIS I finished last week, I only finished 3 dishcloths.  Since I spent about 2 hours a day on the TARDIS, I don't feel to bad about it. 

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I should never again have to buy dishcloths again though!!  This week I am making some potholders to get ready for Christmas.  It's never too early for Christmas prep!  I'm also cutting out blue, pink, green, and brown thimbles for a scrap quilt.  With the winter we've had, we can't have too many cozy blankets are!  Any water in the shade is frozen right now, and the bad winter weather is half the continent away!  Now I just need to get all the right fabrics dug out!

January BLS

My January Birthday Love Stash actually got finished! After telling S2 that I really didn't want to buy another pattern or book right now, he looked at me with his big brown eyes and said "Mom, you don't need a pattern.  You just need the yarn."  Now really, who can say no to that?! So of course I didn't. One handmade, stuffed TARDIS coming up. When D2 found it, it looked like this:

Now, it looks like this:

I didn't want to add too much detail, since we are talking about little big boy, almost to his double digits, who has a cat that loves to pick apart yarn.  The less for the cat to pick apart, the better.  And I think we got the "important" details, the ones that say "THIS IS A TARDIS!"

Now it is all wrapped up and packed away until S2's birthday. I am really excited about him receiving this, as it is something he has specifically asked for. He even picked out the shade of blue, he just didn't know what it was for!

Now I am thinking about March, and the birthday then.  DH is already going to a comic show for his birthday, but it is nice to have something to unwrap!