Makers Gonna Make...

 

I bought some stationery a while ago at Goodwill. I thought it was kind of "Fall" ish, and I have been using it to write letters recently. Well this morning I was thinking if I had any stickers or anything to make the envelope "matching". Then I thought, "What about that leaf/ivy stamp I've had FOREVER?"... And I made a "matching" envelope..

A close-up. I was thinking to just do the ivy, then I thought, "Oh yeah! I could color 'behind' the ivy a tannish color"..  I think it turned out cool. I'll probably do a few more of these.

This is the stamp. It's one of the very first stamps I ever got. I've only used it a few times, ever. Sometimes it pays to think. 😝

I've been wanting to stamp the cowboy boot stamp, since I got it. But then (because it's Pumpkin Spice season, maybe?) I thought, "What about a Pumpkin Spice Latte Coffee Cup card?"...  I got out my coffee cup stamps and pumpkin stamp, too. This stamp, on the wood part, is black and red. But, I thought, "What if I use a brown ink stamp, and colored it in orange?" 😁☕

I kind of wanted to put the pumpkin ON the coffee cup, where the band is. But, it looks too big...  Hmmm...  (UGH....)  I will try and figure something out. I wonder what ever happened to these napkins I had? (The pumpkin napkins, of course..) I wish I still had them, it would be perfect to make an envelope for the card I come up with for these stamps.. I highly doubt the dollar store where we live now has ANY good napkins. Either one. There's two. And I really highly doubt my husband wants to go to a bunch of dollar stores today. On his one day off....   😞

And my first stamp of the cowboy boots. I don't know what colors I will color it in. Probably red for the star, since the bandana paper is red. And probably brownish for the boots.

I'm glad I took a picture of my clean desk, because it's getting messed up again.... 😭

Did you know that today is National Coloring Day?  And National Rubber Stamp Day is September 26th. I will have to participate then. I did color the coffee cup stamp, and I am working on the pumpkin now...   For some reason, I am craving a Pumpkin Spice Latte...  😁 Pumpkin Spice Day is October 1st. I think it's whatever day you want it to be.. My son bought some Pumpkin Spice ground coffee, my husband found in the cabinet the other day. Maybe I will go make some and color some more. Here's a simple recipe for a homemade Pumpkin Spice Latte. I haven't tried it but maybe I will.

Yesterday was International Crochet Day. I didn't know, Thank God for Facebook... 😏  I wasn't really thinking about crocheting. But...

Then I saw a cute Halloween Ghost Heart Ornament pattern in the Halloween CAL I am in. Well, I guess I'm "in" it, now... Since I actually crocheted a thing from it. I don't really like any of the other patterns, though. But I thought this one was cute. I did the flower purple, because I don't have any "orange" crochet thread (unbelievably, with all the thread I got from my Aunt's Estate Sale). I have some "light coral"? I had to use to embroider the mouth. I don't have any ghost, or Halloween buttons. So.. This is what I have. I have NO idea what I'm going to do with this now, though.... (Sigh.)  I guess I'll have to find somewhere to hang it. So, I got two birds with one stone. International Crochet Day and a CAL. Hee hee..... 

My Purple People Eater is in Time Out for now. 

I also baked some muffins yesterday morning... Banana Chocolate Chip.  

This is my cowboy boots stamp I had ordered. 😁

It looks brand new! I was surprised. I got it off eBay. This is the card I saw on Pinterest, that I want to try and copy. But with "Happy Birthday" instead of "Hello Friend". I was thinking about trying to start the card yesterday, But I baked and crocheted instead. 

I mentioned in a previous post that I was working on my Purple People Eater....  After all it took to sit down and crochet, I did the second foot wrong. 😭 I do not understand the instructions. Maybe it would help if I only worked on one project at a time. 

See? The back of the foot is sticking out the front. Ughhhhhhhh....   I got disgusted and put it away for now.   

My cowboy boots stamp is scheduled for "early" delivery (even though I don't know why it would take almost a month to get here in the first place, it's not coming here from Australia or across the world..). It should be here in three days. Even though it originally said it would be here tomorrow, I got another email saying the 11th. Whatever. It's better than the 23rd. 

Yesterday, I was waiting for my husband to get ready (we were going to go to Walmart for a few things), and I was like, "I'm just going to clean the glass on the hutch"...  

Ewwwwwwwww.....  Can you see why I wanted to clean it? That's from years and years of smoking. I doubt it was ever cleaned (the glass, I mean). I don't know, maybe it was. I still need to do the inside of the glass, too. Which reminds me, we were going to get Murphy's Oil Soap.  I always forget something when I go to the store. LoL... 

Halloween Gnome Luminary

I went upstairs today and while I was up there, I thought "I should see if I can find some peach and grey yarn for that gnome..." After taking the whole yarn bin down and fixing it so it wasn't leaning and making the drawers impossible to close (ugghhhh..), I found the peach yarn in a bag somewhere else. I did find the grey yarn in the bottom bin, though. 😁 Then I thought I would work on it...  I made a cup of tea and tried to relax... 

Then I fnished it. Woo Hoo. I used the Gnome Luminary Crochet Pattern, but I did it in "Halloween" colors.

The side. That's the yarn I bought wanting to make something "Halloweeny" with. I still have almost the whole skein left, too. I don't know what else to make with it, except maybe a Gnome Scarf. Incidentally it is by the same person who created this gnome luminary.. I really like this one SewCraftyMom did.

And yesterday, I finished the yellow hat. These will go in the chemo hat pile for next time I go up to the hospital. The one on the left is the Basic Turban Crochet Pattern. The yellow one is the Delaney Hat. Which is no longer available online. 😞 That's one of those times where I was glad I printed the pattern out. (We usually don't have any printer ink-story of our lives..)   I was trying to work on my Purple People Eater doll, the other day. Well, I got the heel part done. Then I sat down to work on it some more a couple days ago, and I noticed the heel is on backwards. 😕  Uggghhh... (That was when I decided to do the Halloween Gnome Luminary.)  

I did decorate a little, for autumn. (See my autumn table runner? 😁I got a napkin holder last year, too. I'll have to take pictures of more things..)   

Well my husband got home from work early and I think we are going to go grocery shopping in a bit so I better go get ready. I want to get some Halloween candy to put in the Halloween Gnome jar. 😁

Bathroom Stuff...

Uggghhh..... Where do I even begin? (And I did not have to do any of this work-thank God, or I would be back in the hospital..) My husband tore the shower out of the basement bathroom. We have a "Michigan Basement", in case you couldn't tell... One of those rocks fell out of the wall and the side of the shower was bulging out. My husband fixed it, and went and got a shop vac and vacuumed behind the rock wall and the retaining wall? (The cement wall that makes up the basement.) The people who lived in this house before us had cats (we do, too, but..) and they would come down in the basement (to catch mice, no doubt- we have had a mouse problem here since we moved in-although it is getting a lot better). Well there was a hole up on the drywall (I don't even know...) The cats would get in there, in the crawl space, and go back there and pee. There was dirt I don't even know how high up. My husband vacuumed out I don't know how much of it, and mixed up some cement and put it on top of the remaining dirt. 🤷 We had used the shop vac (which broke since) and vacuumed, and mopped with ZEP. Well my husband poured the last of it on the remaining dirt in there, and it doesn't smell any more. There was just a whiff of it when it was humid, or once in a while..

What a mess... Then he had to put the shower back in. This is the lovely shower. 🙄 There isn't even a shower head. This shower was soooo dirty when we moved in. Dirt, leaves... I don't even know. We never use it, but I still cleaned it because... Ewww

I took this picture a while ago-you can see the different colored dry wall. That top piece wasn't even there, and that's where the cats were getting in. It's all unfinished and I hate it.

So, don't ask me why I crocheted a toilet paper cover for this bathroom... 😂 This is my Victorian Rose TP Cover pattern. I used a G hook, and I actually had to rip it all out and use an H hook, and it worked perfect. 

I texted my husband, "Now we really need to finish the basement bathroom, I decorated". 😂 I think I've lost my mind..  I forgot about this one I made!  The one here, would go better with the very first bathroom shower curtain/reason I made one to begin with. (? I don't know what I just said..?) I am going to try and find a picture of that bathroom, and the original one...

This is another thing I crocheted for the basement bathroom, when our middle son and his (now) wife came out two summers ago. I didn't know if we would have to use the downstairs bathroom, or not.... It's a Q-tip holder.  Maybe I will just go get some paint and start painting in there. I hate it so much. I don't even know what to do with this under the staircase.. Maybe my husband could put some drywall up there at least.  This house is 125 years old. I guess I should be "happy" there's an extra bathroom downstairs. 

Birthday Card Paper

This is the bandana paper I got at Hobby Lobby. And I got some "flannel" paper, too.  I have some ideas pinned on Pinterest, but I don't think I can share them here because of copyright issues...  I'm still waiting for my cowboy boots stamp. I only ordered it two days ago.  But it says it won't get here until the middle of September. I got the flannel paper to make a "shirt" card for my husband. And some tape runner refills. I'm stuck in between "I want to buy a bunch of stuff", and "I have too much crap!"  I walk around with things in the store and talk myself out of buying them and then go put them back. LoL...  

I am still not feeling great and think today will be another crochet day. I tried to do that yesterday. But, I had to go to the store and get milk. I said "I'm going to get a coffee"... 

So I did. I was going to get milk there, too. (The Dunkin Donuts is in a gas station.) But, they didn't have whole milk! Ughhh... So I had to go to Dollar General.  I finally got back home. Have to let the dogs out. Made something to eat because I was hungry! Finally get all my stuff to sit down and crochet (it's like 1 pm at this point..?) Eri starts meowing upstairs. UGGGHHHHH... She is so weird and such a diva. She won't come downstairs after Elsie is out of her kennel. She has not liked Elsie from day one when we brought her home. She likes Jaxson okay. I don't know...  And, it's weird. Because I have let Elsie upstairs and they will both lay on the bed together. (But, if Elsie gets too close, Eri will start growling and run away sometimes.) Anyway, she starts meowing because she wants someone up there with her. "Well come downstairs, then!".... So I go upstairs (I took my crocheting and I was going to do it up there...) and there's cat puke on my bed. UGGGGGGHHHHHHHH. So I have to strip the bed and take everything downstairs and wash it. Take the clothes out of the washer and hang up what I don't want put in the dryer....   Can anything just be simple around here? Then I finally sat down and crocheted my Purple People Eater for a while.  I finished the big toe and one leg is completely done. And I started the second leg. I'm just going to lock myself away, and crochet today. (All the animals would be outside my door whining or meowing or scratching at the door, though.)  

Today is one of my Grandma's birthdays (in heaven). She would have been 103 today! She used to call me on my birthday and sing the whole happy birthday song to me. I wish I could call her in heaven and sing happy birthday to her. Even though I can't sing. 😂