Have a blessed and beautiful Holiday Season!

Have a Happy Yule and a Merry Christmas!!!

Our homemade decorated tree... we start out with no ornaments and keep making them until Christmas!

More Christmas making fun!

I tried to play around and make hand held type sport fun things for the boys!

Ty's basketball hoop and ball!

















Tomas' soccer ball set!

Make your own bath crayons!

Take 1 cup shredded Ivory soap
Boil 1/4c water. Add shredded soap a Tablespoon at a time. Mix until melted
and pasty.
Add food coloring.
Press mix into tins, ice cube trays, or cookie cutters.
Now, I have read there are different ways to do this... you can microwave it for 10-15 minutes. But since I was using tin, I cooked them on the lowest heat my over would go for about 30 minutes. I have now learned you can also pop these in the freezer for 30 minutes.
Let them dry for a day or so in the molds.. pop out of the molds and continue drying for about a week. Enjoy your bath crayons!

Christmas Gifts!

This year, we decided to do 100% homemade gifts (all but Santa's) I am learning about patterns and having so much fun.. mostly I like to change patterns or make my own but here are a few of the presents I have done. When I started, I started making blankets for everyone. I got bored fast and had to move on!
These are in order of what I have done.. learning as I go... These blankets I made before the longies, though.
(Caden's..just learning the SC! covers his crib)



















Tommy's (covers his twin bed)


















We have a tradition in our house, every Christmas eve we let the boys unwrap one presents.. always PJ's. This year, I decided to MAKE our jammies. Here are Caden's wool longies... I still need to make a shirt and slippers to match.























I made these fish from Susie's pattern. They are color counting fish. I decided to play a lil using different textured yarns, different sized hooks.. I still need to make a bag for them.


















One of Ty's hats (still need to make him one using his school colors with a basketball on top!)


















Hat and scarf for Tommy.. he wants MANY hats so this is only a start!
























Nieces hats, scarfs, and purses: ( I am planning on putting those heart crayons we made in the purses!)

Caden, modeling his cousin's hat!






















































































Nephews hats and scarfs: (I need to make some lil drawstring bags for the boy's star crayons)
Chicago Bears colors (scarf and two hats)























Chicago Bulls colors (scarf and basketball hat)

Crocheting fun!

Ok, so I got soo tired of making nothing but blankets and dishcloths, I posted in Diaper Swappers.. HELP for a pattern.. I had never done a pattern and only had been crocheting 2 months but I gave it a try! I posted my very first ones in my Halloween bog, so here are my second and third ones! They are the dragonfly pattern from ladybugz.ca but I did change them a lil here and there.























And my third pair! I became addicted real fast! He has been wearing these for awhile now, so they may have a lil pillies on them and need to be re-washed and blocked, but here they are!