Plants, Trucks, and Spider Gwen...

I feel like I can never catch up on everything I wanted to blog about...  I don't even know what that was right now. But I will blog about this for now. 😅 (If you can't tell my the title of my blog post, my brain is all over the place, all the time...)Yesterday we went to our sons' house (our old house) to work on our truck (long story---- he's borrowing our truck because his truck is having a bunch of problems--- well, now our truck is having problems, too. Sigh....) We went over there with a battery and some oil so my husband could change the battery and the oil. The battery was bad. But, there were also more problems with it-- a vacuum leak. So we went to Auto Zone (we all went, in our car) and got parts to fix that, too. Sigh....  Then my husband was looking at our son's truck, too. He has problems with the CV axle, it's not the CV axle it's something else to do with it. And spark plugs or something. I am not a mechanic, they said what it was but I keep forgetting...   Anyway, I went out back and played with Elsie. I didn't know his room mates were going to be gone (and their dogs were locked in their room upstairs, poor doggies- but the one fights with Elsie). We could have brought Jaxson and they could have played together. I think Jaxson misses having a fenced in back yard...   I also was looking at all the plants, to see if anything I planted last summer was up still. Look what came up. 👀 A Canna. Um......  Okay, all the ones I dug up and brought inside. And then planted here. None of those came up. But this one came up, from the ground. And over by the rocks. We planted three bulbs, up next to the house under the window. But this rogue one came up. Lived through two winters....   Ughhh....  I guess they don't want to live in this new house, either...   

And, my hydrangea that I planted. It's about done for fall. But it did come back. And Eon must have planted some more purple flowers there (where the cannas were..)  

The tree in the front yard.  That house was not perfect.... But I miss living there. No traffic up the yazoo, big open yard and fenced in back yard. It was not perfect. Old house, Michigan basement, we had mice sometimes... (Because it was an old house and a Michigan basement!) I hated that kitchen. And it's right next to the highway. So why do I want to just go back there. 😞 I miss our son. Now he has his own life and room mates there. (I won't tell you how dirty the house is.... I had to refrain from getting the broom or anything while we were there--- three dogs need I say more..)

While they were working on the truck(s), I was in the house for a while- I brought my poncho to work on. Elsie was helping me. She wouldn't hold still for a picture.

Our son was telling me how one of his friend group couples (?) was going to have a Halloween party at their house (I asked him if he was going to hand out candy or anything for Halloween, because they decorated the front door and front of the house a little..). But, their house is really tiny. And their yard is really tiny... So our son somewhow got volunteered to have a Halloween party at his house. Anyway (what does that have to do with turqoise, hot pink white and black yarn?)...  They have a little girl (she's two) and she is going to dress up like Spider Gwen. When I got home, naturally I googled it and if there were any crochet patterns.... And now I am crocheting one.👀  I didn't say I was going to. For the little girl...  but, I don't have any grand babies to crochet for. It must be instinct after years of the next movie coming out and looking up crochet patterns to crochet for the boys...  LoL  This is the pattern I am using: Spider Gwen Amigurumi

 

Catching Up

It's been a little while since I last blogged. I have a bunch of pictures but I need to upload them all..   

My husband got some furniture from a remodel job he did, they had it all in the garage with "donate" on everything...  This desk is one of the things. It's way better than what I had in there. I still need to reorganize everything down there. I am working on it, slowly. I've been getting so tired lately and I end up trying to take a nap and there goes the whole day. This is before I put anything on it.

I had a few things in my mind of what to make for our son and my husbands' birthday. My husband loves Star Trek... So I was searching for Star Trek cards on Pinterest...  I just free handed this part of the card...

The insignia...  

I got silver and gold glittery paper at Hobby Lobby. I used oval punch...  

The finished card, and I made a gift bag, too. I got the blue bags and tissue paper at Walmart.

I had so many ideas of a cake to make but my husband likes one thing and I wanted to do something different for our son..... I ended up just doing a basic rectangle cake. 

Eon brought his dog Elsie with him.   (She's eating Jaxson's food.)

This is a stencil I bought at Walmart for one of the card ideas I had for our son. But time crept up on me and I didn't have enough time to do everything.

Some pumpkin embellishments I did, using my oval and my circle punches. I inked around each oval and circle. And I just freehanded the stems... I want to make some cards with them.

And yesterday I made this tea bag from an existing cellophane bag I had. I cut a piece of card stock to fit the top part, and stamped "Tea Lover" on it. And stamped a tea cup, put some gems and a doily on it.... I am sending some of this tea to a pen pal of mine.

I have more pictures to blog about, but I will have to do it another day.

Happy First Day of Fall

Today is the first day of Fall already. I can't believe it. Where did summer go?

Since it's technically Fall now, that means soup season. I made some Pumpkin Gnocchi Soup today. It's really good. I made some kind of Pumkin soup, once a long long time ago when the boys were little. I don't have the recipe anymore. I've been into soups lately. I saw this one on Facebook, and I wanted to try it. At least I got one thing done today that I wanted to. 

One F.O.

I finished a Q-tip holder for my husband's bathroom. I don't even know how many of these I have crocheted, now. Four or five, I think. Well, four or five of this pattern. I know I've crocheted other ones, too. I couldn't decide what color to make it. The light grey like the towel, or white, like the toothbrush holder and soap dish....  It doesn't really matter I guess. Nothing in that bathroom matches. The counter top is brown, the floor is a burnt coral (?) color. The shower curtain is navy blue and off white stripes...  I want to get a different shower curtain in there at least.  

Every day I wake up and think, "I just want to relax and crochet today", but I hardly ever get to crochet...  I thought once the kids moved out I would have so much time. But I don't.  (Sigh...)

Some FO's and Antique-ing

I have finished a couple of things... I was trying to find a "fake" cinnamon stick to use for the pumpkin stem on this pumpkin. But I couldn't find one anywhere. And I'm getting fed up with ordering things online and them taking forever to get here, and the shipping is ridiculous. So, I found a pattern with a crocheted stem. This is actually two different patterns. The pumpkin was a reel on Facebook, and she didn't write out or have typed how many chains or anything. So I stopped the video and counted a bunch of different times...   It looked like chain 20, with 2 sc in the beginning and end of each row, with hdc in every other chain. 32 rows total back loops only.  I will have to look if I saved the pattern I used for the stem. I am almost positive it was claireabellemakes.com pumpkin amigurumi. But my husband put a new antivirus thing on our computer and it won't let me go to that site... 

~Anyway~

I initially put it here but I have since moved it to a different location. 

I thought the way it worked up was really cool. But after I sewed it up you couldn't tell, it didn't look like that any more. I used some yarn in my stash, Bernat tan and brown or something. I think I used a G hook.

These are a Geocaching thing. They're supposed to be "Geocoins". For the pen pal who got me into Geocaching. I used this tutorial to get it started. I don't remember how many rows I did. (sigh.... I've been trying to keep track of things better, sorry.) I just did the "embroidery" by trying to copy the picture of the ones I saw on Pinterest.

My husband and I went to Frankenmuth (again???) over Labor Day weekend. We went "antique-ing". I had been saying (almost every time we went up), "I want to go to that antique store"...  So he drove there but it looks permanently closed. Then we went to "Thrifty Treasures (building one and two)".  I found these little snowmen. ⛄ Actually I think my husband found them (he likes snowmen). I don't even know how or where or when I even started collecting salt and pepper shakers. Now I have: Snowmen, 4th of July Gnomes, strawberries, Santa and Mrs. Claus, Easter Bunnies. That's it. I actually have two different snowmen sets. Maybe I should do a blog post on all my salt and pepper shakers. The antique stores had SO many of them. 

I've been working on my poncho. I was doing good. Just working on the poncho... Then my husband said (last night) "Can you crochet me a Q-tip holder for my bathroom?" Um..... Yeah. I couldn't decide what color to make it because the shower curtain is blue and white (like this one-). All the shower curtains were the same when we moved in, but I put my shower curtain in my bathroom.  Anyway~ The towels are light grey, and the soap dish and toothbrush holders are white. So, I decided to do it in white. I'm working on that right now. Realistically, we should just get a grey and white shower curtain in that bathroom. I want a new shower curtain in mine, too.   Anyway...   Last night I was watching a Facebook Reel. I keep seeing more reels about "Chaos Blankets". I thought "I don't know if I would want to do that". But, last night I saw one someone was doing a "CHRISTMAS Chaos Blanket" (She didn't put it in all caps, I did that just now... LoL) Because I love Christmas.... 🎄🎅🤶⛄I might have to do one now. (Sigh...)  Then, this morning when I was trying to find the pattern for the Q-tip holder, I was going through all my magazines and patterns, and now I want to crochet about 20 different things again. (sigh...)  I have things I need to do but all I want to do is crochet and drink tea!! 😭  Today IS International Crochet Day, though...  👀  That's like the #1 holiday for crocheters!! 

New Poncho Project

 

I should have rotated this picture before uploading it here.... Oh well. We went to Walmart for a few things yesterday and I went to see if they had anymore of the Bitty Stripes in the color I had gotten.....  (What a pain in the *ss)..  Well, they did. Thank the Yarn Gods. They actually had four skeins of it. So I now have enough to crochet the poncho. 

I started it last night. I am going to see how long it takes me to finish it. I have a lot to blog about but I need more time to do it...  I just wanted to post this real quick.

Hello September

We got a new virus software on our computer. And it wouldn't let me upload any pictures to my blog. Well I turned off the Anti-Tracker option, so I could upload these pictures. Everything is a pain...  Anyway Happy First Day of September.... I can't believe summer is going to be over. It's depressing. I don't want winter to be here...  

I did start a new crochet project yesterday. A little pumpkin. It's a reel on Facebook, and no written instructions. But I stopped the reel and tried to count how many she chained, and I think it's 20. And she did 2 sc in the beginning, hdc all alon until two are left then 2 sc in end. So, I chained 21 because I like to skip the first chain and sc in the next one. I never could sc in the first chain..  I don't know why I'm using brown variegated yarn for it. I do have some orange, I want to use the orange for a pumpkin bear though. Oh, and work in the back loops only and 32 rows total. I need to get some fake "cinnamon sticks" for it.