A Lot Of Finished Projects... Finally :P...

See what happens when I don't blog in a while? (Well, sometimes) I actually have FOs to post about... Three were on my list of projects to finish, three weren't... (Sigh) But, they are all done now so no worries. The mouse ami is one I have had sitting in my drawer, undone. I had been looking for mouse/rat patterns to make on Ravelry. I still feel awful about the rat my husband killed that got in our house a while back... Well last night I went to get some grey yarn out of my yarn bin(s), in case I found a pattern to work on. (Since my husband goes to bed pretty early, has to get up at 3 am...) Well when I went to get the grey yarn, I found this project in there too. All I had left to finish was the ears, and stuff and sew it up. I was going to give it to Eon, but he said he didn't want it!! :0 (Brat) So, I am going to RAOK it to someone... Anyway, you can find the pattern at The Kansas Hookers blog: Mouse Ami. :D I don't know why I didn't finish it when I was so close to being done... Oh well, story of my life lately... :P

I crocheted a couple (three, actually--which makes it four projects that weren't on my list, actually, but...) of dishcloths. This one from a pattern book of dishcloths (ripple) that I have.

This one I just kinda made up. I started a different pattern and said "I just want something brain dead that I don't have to look at the pattern and try to remember what row I am on.." So since I had chained 31 already, I just did sc, ch 1, skip one, across. With two sc in last two stitches. And did that for the whole thing. I think there is a pattern on the Bernat site like this, but I am almost positive you chain more... I also did a second one just like it, different variegated color. They are all going into my charity pile...

Along with this. This is a project that has been sitting undone (cuz I didn't have yarn to finish it). Well I must have unconciously remembered I needed more of this color (somehow...). So I finished this one up. From a Crochet World issue. I also had another one started (that I still don't have the yarn for). And started another one (that I don't have enough yarn to finish...) :P

This was something I wanted to make a sample for, of the "Pressed Flowers" afghan I made. To "show" my husbands Aunt how it "looks". Then I thought, "Well what is she going to *do* with it, though?.... I know, turn it into a hotpad". So that's where that came from... It's a good idea to use up scraps for future hotpads for me, though; too.

Thought I would take a picture of my progress on the Shalom Cardigan. This one is slow going... I switched to circular needles since it was way too hard to do on straights. I found a pair that were the right size, and noticed there was a 'snag' on them. Grrr! So, I tried to cut it off with a pair of nail clippers (didn't work too well), then got my emery board out and filed it down. :P Where there's a will, there's a way!... LOL It worked pretty good.

And, I saved the biggest for last!! My Short Sleeved Bolero! I finished this shortly after my last post. The next day, actually; I think. This is another project I was so close to finishing, why did I stop working on it?.... I don't know. I must lose my steam or something... But now it is done. A project that that was on my list forever to finish. I took a few pictures. Well, my 7 year old took this one. :P Which accounts for the look on my face. (He takes pictures like his Dad... moves the camera before the picture is done being taken, turns out blurry... ) So this was like #4 try on him taking this...

This one I did (with a different top on), bathroom mirror...

And, on the bathroom door... :P

Well that is all for now. Got three million things to do today. But I wanted to get this blog post in. Shoulda started earlier... Oh well. Story of my life... :P Hope everyone has a great weekend.

WIPs...

Well I think I am doing pretty good about only working on things I already have going. The only problem is, I don't feel like working on any of them, cuz I'm bored with them all... (Sigh..) But today and yesterday I worked on some of them. These squares are going to be an afghan someday. :P My husbands Great Aunt sent me a diagram of an afghan she is making (her own design?); and instructions on how to do the 'plain square'. (The other squares are flowers) This is how many I have done so far. All the pink, all the yellow, and started on the blue... Have a soft green and off-white to go, plus the flowers, then bordering them all and sewing them together. This afghan is not going to be done any time soon. I figured; if I start it now, it might be done by next winter. (I am going to be sending it to Pine Ridge, to one of the elders I send things to....)

I should have taken a picture of the beautiful necklace I got from on of the other elders I send things to (the one who I made the two star afghans for--her grandsons [two of them, anyway]-- link is to one of the afghans...). I love it; it's so pretty. I'll try to remember to take a pic to post next time...

I got a new stamping magazine recently. Since I got my teddy bear stamp in the Tag & Silly Swap, I have been in the mood to make cards again. I didn't really get any ideas for the bear stamp in this magazine, but I liked some of the cards in there, so...

This is another (old, old, old) WIP I have had. I picked it up last night and worked on it. I didn't realize how close I was to being done. (Or else I forgot...) All I have to do now is sew it up and crochet the edging on it. It reminds me a lot of the 'LA Shrug' I did. Same stitch, anyway... I hope I will like this/it will cover my blub/ when it's done...

I forgot to post the 'bee' I made, too. I don't have a picture of it anymore (well, I do have one on my Ravelry page... if you really want to see it.. :P) My husband re-installed Windows on our computer, and I told him, 'All the pictures on there that I want I have saved to a website, so you don't have to worry about saving them to a CD (or whatever you save them to...)' He couldn't find the right kind of disc to put them on. Anyway, I don't know anything about computers-- except how to email, and blog, and post pictures... :P But I couldn't get on to Crochetville (this happened to me before, when we had AOL). I vaguely remember someone saying something about deleting my cookies? or something like that... (Back then, when we had AOL...) I tried and tried; and I don't know.... I must have finally done something right, because I was finally able to get on there today-- and didn't have to sign back in every time I tried to go to a different page, or post... Sheesh.

I get to have my very first mammogram done tomorrow. Having turned 40 last year, I guess it's one of those things I'm 'supposed' to do.... So I might as well get it over with, eh?... My hubby spoiled me this weekend and made dinner each night. Saturday he made Slim Jims. Yummy... (We met at Elias Brothers Big Boy Restaraunt~ He was the cook/manager, I was a waitress... :P) Well not having any Big Boys here (unless we drive to California...), we kind of miss it sometimes. There used to be a Big Boy somewhere in Las Vegas. We drove there once, like an hour away, and it was closed! I wonder if it ever opened back up, or not?... Have to check that out.

A Couple FO's...

None that were on my list, though... I actually started (and finished) this kleenex box cover after the next one... I got a new (used) book, "Crochet Private Collection" from Amazon. (For less than $7 including S & H!!) I love this book! I got it because someone at Crochetville posted a Strawberry Cow (from Farmville) that they had made using the cow pattern in this book. Well, I HAD to have it. (I'm going to make a strawberry cow for the kids.... someday....) Anyway, I was looking through the book and saw the kleenex box cover below. I thought it would be cute to send to someone (I send things to) on Pine Ridge... Well as I was making that one, I started thinking, "Whatever happened to that one 'ABC' kleenex box cover I was going to make when we lived in Michigan..." So, I finally found what I had written down, and re-did it... Not so great, but.... The pattern is on my pattern blog if you need a present for a teacher or something... :P Classroom Kleenex Box Cover

The hard thing on this kleenex box cover was the embroidery on the heart. I was going to make a 'matching' toilet paper cover, but decided not to.... (See how I get myself into trouble with too many WIPs?....)

I recently joined a "Tag~n~Silly Swap" at Crochetmania. You post your wishlist and then the first person to be "It" sends someone something but doesn't say who. The person they send it to, is "It", then they send someone else something, and so on.... Well I was the first one to get a package. An adorable teddy bear stamp. It's so cute!! Thanks Sue! (I don't know if she reads my blog at all or even knows I have a blog, but...) :P

Then there is my Spring Drew-Strings Purse, it's finished! Yay... I really like this one. But, I noticed (after I finished weaving in the chains for the 'drew' string) that I sewed the handles on wrong! GRRRR!!! I am pretty annoyed about that. But, I sewed them on too good to even attempt to undo them... :( I still like it, though. I just won't be able to put it on my shoulder. Will have to use it as a 'handbag'. :( I still need to line it. I still have fabric left over from my Chakra purse that I was thinking about using. We'll see...

We are 99.9% sure we are going to be moving again. (Yes, AGAIN!!!!!!!) UGH..... I cannot blame my husband for wanting to move. He has to drive 120 miles a day for work. I don't know how he has held out this long. We thought living out here (in the 'country'--desert style, I guess..) would be better. I do like the open space/no close neighbors here. But, there are other problems... (Besides the commute)... So, we are looking for a new place. We went this weekend to look at a couple. One I liked, but it was kind of expensive. It had a huge back yard (with grass). Well, stay tuned....