Old Project In My Memories

 This picture was in my Facebook memories today. With a hashtag cobblestonecap. I looked on my blog, it wasn't there. I couldn't find it anywhere. So I went on Ravelry and typed it in the search engine and found the pattern. So I must have made this (or, finished it on Septmeber 12th, 2017.)  I don't know what I had going on then, why I didn't post about it. But if it was when we lived in Oregon, that in itself would explain why. Also I was about 20 lbs thinner there (Oregon)...  Most depressing place I've lived in.  ~Anyway!!~ Someone had asked on FB if I still had this hat, and I went and looked in my closet and I do!! I was so happy. With all the times we've moved..  

After I found the hat, it made me want to crochet another one, in a different color. 😀 Of course, purple!! I had a hard time with round 3. But I read through the pattern and watched the video about that stitch, and I figured it out. I almost forgot, this is the link for the pattern.

I was craving salt today. We don't have any junk food in the house. But I have some crackers, and have some flavored cream cheese leftover, from when we got bagels a while ago. It was pretty good!  if you don't have any ready-made junk food/snacks, and you have crackers and flavored cream cheese, you could try it. Another idea is if you don't have any chocolate milk or syrup, you could try maple syrup in milk. An old friend of our family used to make this for her youngest in a bottle. Have to get creative to make snacks, with the price of groceries now.

A Birthday Crochet Project And A Christmas One

 I don't know if I mentioned the sunflower towel topper I was thinking about crocheting? I have a pen pal I was going to send her a little gift for her birthday. I made this card (Pinterest inspired), and I was trying to think what to crochet that's "sunflower". And I remembered my old (one of my first pattern books ever that I bought) Annie's Attic sunflower kitchen booklet I have. And I wanted to tweak it to make it hold a towel. (Not have to sew it onto the towel).

This is what I came up with... Sigh... She says she loves it. I don't. I have another idea though. LoL....

And I got a new pattern to make a Christmas present... Can you guess what it is? 😝

How about now? Just kidding... It's a Stitch doll! (<-- Pattern link) My DIL (well, technically my future DIL) loves Stitch. And now they have a house and more room, I am going to crochet her one. And, I technically have my Christmas crocheting started. (I got my Christmas shopping started a couple weekends ago, too. I don't know if I blogged about that.) A Stitch ornament, for my DIL and our son. I don't know if they will get a big tree now. I know they have a little one. I should take a picture of the ornament.

Well, that's all for now. My son keeps asking me to go to a park with him. And (I soooooo don't want to) we're going to go today. I don't want to go for a walk. It's officially past the six week mark after my surgery, so I don't have any excuses now. Except that I don't want to!! 😭

Color Of The Day Is Purple

To be honest, that could be the color every day for me. 💜 This is a little phone bag I crocheted a while ago. I think it was a You Tube video tutorial. I have since this bought a phone wallet (?) for extra protection because I have a bad habit of dropping my phone. 😳 

And, I finished the purple tote bag I had posted about a while ago. I wanted to sew a liner in it. I need to find some purple fabric. 

And, I crocheted a purple turtle. Yes, a purple turtle. 😝 I didn't crochet these all one after the other. I'm crocheting a sunflower towel topper now (not purple 😜), for my kitchen. I saw some really cute sunflower kitchen towels at the store. I want to get one. 

Well that's all for now.

 

A Little More Catching Up

Well, I can't seem to catch up here. I will still attempt to, though. I've been doing more "crafting". I tried some hidden paper clips. I can't remember what video I used, but if you type hidden paper clips in the search engine you should be able to find a good tutorial. These are the two I made first.

                                           Then I tried some with sunflower paper I have.

 I started a purple tote bag. I'm using the Beach Please pattern. It is a paid pattern, but there is a free version on her blog. I am doing it a little different; I'm doing four rows of sc in between the cross stitch rows, and only doing purple not switching to another color. I just wanted to do a "summer" project. I also got more yarn to do a different color one of these. Well that's all for now. 😊

Time To Make The Donuts

Do you remember that Dunkin Donuts commercial? :P I said it when I was making these donuts. I was craving a cinnamon-sugar donut last week. And I thought later, "Oh yeah! I have that donut pan..." So the next day, I looked up a recipe and made some. They are so yummy. (What wouldn't be yummy about butter and fat and cinnamon and sugar?...) Especially warm out of the oven with a cup of coffee. I might gain back all the weight I've lost from chemo if I keep eating like this. :P  I might make some more. My husband is working all weekend. :(  So what is there to do..  Except bake. And crochet.

 I just wanted to say how bad Elsie is...   #1 Look at her, standing on the table. She thinks she can do whatever she wants.  #2. She keeps killing animals outside. Snakes, I don't really care about. But last night she killed a baby bunny out in the back yard. :(  Then, (#3) a little later after she came in, she just attacked Jaxson out of nowhere. Eon got her away and took her up into his room. I'm glad he's so calm with her. I wanted to break her little neck. I don't know why she would do that. (I googled it too.) Except if it's a dominance thing. She's 14/15 months old?  Ugh...   I don't have the energy to deal with that. 

Ribbit

I don't know why, but I have been in the mood to do frog things lately. Oh I think I do know why. One of my Facebook friends (crochet since Crochetville and the one webpage Kathy ran-Crochetmania?) messaged me about a frog she had been crocheting. And I started looking for frog crochet patterns. Then someone wrote me a letter with a froggy sticker on the envelope. So that made me want to make a frog card. I got an idea for one on Pinterest. Mine did not come out as cute... :/  

And this is a frog I started to crochet. But, I can't go any farther because I have to stuff the head then close it. I used all my stuffing on the Purple Hippo Pillow.  Sigh.... And we have no money right now. I will have to figure out something else to crochet... Sigh...    

Today and tomorrow the weather is going to be warmer, high 70's. Today is wet and rainy. Maybe I'll see a real frog.:P  I'm glad it finally decided to be Spring. It's been cold, grey, windy and rainy for I don't know how long. 
 

Some More FO's

I have been in a crocheting funk lately. Not knowing what to crochet. I want to crochet something, but I don't know *what*...  I was going through my patterns one day to try and see if i could find anything. And I thought, "What about a pillow?" I have a couple pillow books. Then I thought "Wait. What about that purple hippo I started a long time ago?" So I dug that out and I finished it. I had everything done except the back piece. 

And, I needed a 12 by 16 inch pillow form. Well I wasn't going to go buy one. (This is why I didn't finish it, I think... It involved sewing.) Well I dug my sewing machine out and dug some purple fabric out, and I sewed a pillow. I used every last piece of stuffing I had.  And I finished it. This is a "If I ever have a grandbaby" toy...  

I had been working on some little bags. I found the pattern for this strawberry one on Instagram. The Instagram username is clOudyches. She has a couple more bags on there, too. She says to "DM her for the patterns." But there is no way to DM her. And she doesn't answer anyone's questions. So... I winged it for the other bags. I used the basic bag pattern and then went by the picture and thinking "how to do this"...  Oh, and she has since crocheted a bigger version of this same strawberry bag. (But still hasn't answered mine or anyone else's questions on her page...) These were a lot of work doing all the fruits/swirl, and the "beads" and ties, and sewing everything on and weaving in all the ends..

This is a swirly one. The one she did was pinks. I was thinking, this would look really cute in tan and brown. Like "chocolate". :P 

 

And this one is "blueberries". She also had a grape bag and a cherry bag. I was thinking about sending this one to my DIL. I'm sending the strawberry one to someone else. 

And, I am still in a big crochet funk. I started a frog. But, I can't go any farther because I used all my stuffing up on the hippo pillow. And I'm at the "Stuff" part of the head... Sigh..  I have another WIP I could finish, but I need some fuzzy balls for the eyes. (Which, I don't have any of. Of course..) Well that's all for now. Going to go look to see if I can find anything I want to crochet...