March - Crochet

During my DD's March Break we visited family in North Bay and I had a chance to get some more crocheting done on the road and while there.

On the road I made a floppy pink beret for my DD, she loves it even though it's super floppy and silly looking (IMO).

I also made a super cute, absolutely adorable baby set for my future niece... I absolutely love the Red Heart yarn I used for this set and the pattern worked up so quickly and easily - I love it! <3 a="" and="" are="" ava="" booties="" cloche="" from="" hat="" href="https://www.etsy.com/shop/LittleBirdieShoppe" target="_blank" the="">Little Birdie Secrets etsy shoppe

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I also started on a blanket for myself using some beautiful chunky yarn I found in my MIL's yarn stash ;)

February - Crochet

In February I finished 2 more baby blankets, one large one and a smaller granny square type blanket both for my sister who is expecting her first little girl end of June. I went with a very wild and colourful main yarn with a white stripe for the large blanket and a mix of those plus some purple for the smaller one. The smaller blanket is my first attempt at the classic granny square pattern. I was very surprised at how quickly and easily it worked up. Definitely going to have to make more of these in the future!

January - crochet

This month I got some crocheting done for myself and for a friend of mine having a baby in the Spring! I made myself a beautiful little frosty scarf for myself:

The blanket I made for my friend is done in camo with a brown stripe, since her hubby is in my Army I thought it was perfect for her coming baby boy.

January - Rainbow looming!

One of my new crafty forays is into Rainbow Looming. I love doing the more complicated patterns for my DD after she's gone to bed, then I leave them with a note of what the pattern is called for her to find in the morning when she wakes up. I love coming up with different colour combinations and finding new designs to try out. Here are some of the creations I made in January:

A new start, a new challenge - wish me luck!

Sooo.... It's been... 15months since I blogged? LOL...

Hubby came back. I still haven't scrapped much. We've moved to another province. And I've joined a home party company selling loose leaf teas - Steeped Teas to be specific.

That's 15 months in a nutshell.

I'm going to try picking up this blog again. We'll see how it goes again :P

My plan is to challenge myself to be creative (since I have nothing better to do since we've moved and I"m not yet working). Years ago I challenged myself to create a new recipe card every week for a year. It was a lot of fun. I created a new recipe card each week, sometimes a new recipe that I'd loved (which meant I was also trying a ton of new recipes in search of new ones to scrap) and sometimes an old recipe from my collection was scrapped. This was back when I first started scrapping my recipes and got my entire collection onto recipe cards in a very reasonable time frame.

While I don't want to do the same challenge as before, I'd still like to do something on a weekly basis. And so I've come up with a new challenge... to create a tag every week.

I've only ever made 1 tag before. It was a lot of fun and I"d love to make more, but I don't know what I would do with all of the tags that I'd love to make. So! I've decided to combine this challenge with a Smashbook challenge - to create a new tag each week, then add it to my Smashbook and create a bit more around the tag. Maybe journal about why I made the tag, the process etc...

I have a lot of ideas, and I'll be picking up some supplies for both the tags and the Smashbook at the Michael's grande opening on Sept. 14th - they are opening I think 8 new stores around the greater Montreal Area!!! The first ones in all of Quebec!

So... here's to a new blog start, some new crafty challenges and our new life here in Quebec (BTW - I miss Alberta!!!).

TTYL!

A new start, a new challenge - wish me luck!

New hobby!

Wow, I'm not really doing too well with the whole blogging thing am I?

Well I'm here now. Why? Because I feel a need to write.

My hubby is away in Afghanistan for the next 6 months, so nights are lonely. I haven't been scrapbooking much lately, just not feeling it I guess. But I'm still being crafty! And I've found myself a new little hobby :P

It can be a bit of a pricey hobby. And it's kind of stalled thanks to Canada Post going on strike then being locked out. What is my new hobby? Swapbot. A site just for organizing and getting together with people to swap stuff. All kinds of stuff. Crafty stuff, postcards stuff, sticker stuffs, if you can think it you can swap it.

I love getting mail. But it seems to be so rare that we ever get anything besides bills and flyers. So now with this new hobby I can get lots of mail! Just as soon as Canada Post goes back to delivering said mail.

Until then here's a list of things that Canada Post still needs to deliver to me:

1- invitation to my sister's wedding!
2- package from my sweet hubby in Afghanistan!
3- a crafty book I swapped a handmade turtle Amigurumi for.
4- a paper crafts misc supplies swap
5- a tote and a note swap
6- a birthday gift swap
7- 3 tourism swaps
8- 3 children's sticker swaps
9- a postcard swap
10- a summer recipe and tea swap
11- 2 more birthday gift swaps
12- 2 birthday card swaps
13- a private swap (ribbon key fob wristlet/coffee mug cozy)
14- a postcard purchase from Zazzle.com
15- a purchase from VistaPrint.ca
16- 3 purchases from Etsy.com (including 2 birthday presents for myself!)
17- 10+ birthday cards from my birthday contest :D

That equals to...34+ pieces of mail waiting for me in the postal system!! Wow.

And I have a few waiting to be mailed too. Including:

1- 3 tourism swaps
2- a summer recipe and tea swap
3- 2 birthday card swaps
4- 2 birthday gift swaps
5- a private swap (ribbon key fob wristlet/coffee mug cozy)

The above swaps are all packaged and ready to go. Just waiting for the post offices to open again.

Photo Share wk 1

Ok, so I'm a day late with shutterboo's assignment - but better late than never right? Week one's theme was... electricity. Here's my photo:

Why the big red symbol? Because right now it's Winter. And for me that means static electicity. And that means - don't touch the light switches or I'll get zapped!

The KCB CT is also trying to do a weekly photo share within our little fan club (hehehe, aka CT Forum) and this week's topic is: living rooms. And we just replaced some furniture in our living room this week so here are a couple before and after shots!

Before (there were also photos on the top of the entertainment unit, but I'd already taken some things off by the time I thought of taking a before photo.

So bye bye giant entertainment unit (that didn't quite make it in one piece on our last move - some of the doors on the bottom wouldn't go back on) and hello smaller tv stand and bookcase. The only problem - not enough room for all our dragons and faeries that we collect. So they'll have to get scattered around the house more. Oh well. I still like the smaller furniture, having more of the wall space visible makes the room feel a little bit bigger.

Here you can see all of Ally's toy storage lined up against the wall. Some of those end tables ended up getting moved between the couch and loveseat, and the brown ottoman is currently being moved around everywhere while we try to find the perfect spot for it.

And behind the couch you can see Jean's little computer nook and the built-in bar - I think he's got it made - wouldn't you agree? lol. Don't mind all the cardboard boxes, that's the aftermath from all the new furniture (tv stand, 2 bookcases, a DVD holder stand that went in my craft room, and an entrance unit with hooks, a bench, mirror and storage under the bench... what can I say? The Brick was having a sale... lol).

That's it for my photo sharing this week. Week 2's photo assignment for shutterboo is Joy, so hopefully I'll be back before next Wednesday with that photo. TTYL!