Making a Pretty Crafty Home

I have just found a wonderful new (to me) blog and fabulous project to go with it! The blog is called Sandra's Cherry Heart.  Doesn't the name alone just make you smile? The project is called Pretty Crafty Home.  Click here if you wish to take part.

The project is basically about making your home prettier and decluttered by crafting and being frugal.  I feel like this was created with my name on it.  The five ideas toward making a Pretty Crafty Home are:

1.  Tidy, tidy, tidy and clean, clean clean!

2.  If it has to live here, it should be pretty.

3.  If I don't like how it looks, and I can change it, I will.
4.  Thrift, re-use and recycling are my watch words.

5.  Crafting is king!

See, a project that I can so completely relate to and jump on board with! Especially as we live in a rented property and I can't do things like paint and seriously remodel - crafting and re/upcycling are right up my alley.  So, I imagine there will be a lot of crochet going into prettifyong our home.  Plus, I've rea;;y been wanting to learn to sew and this seems like a perfect reason to finally do it! I just have to get over being afraid to actually purchase the seing machine.

I have many ideas running through my head.  I'll let you know which is the first for our Pretty Crafty Home!

A Crocheted Gift Set

My daughter's were invited to a friend's birthday party.  My oldest daughter - Miss O - asked me to make their friend a crocheted gift set.  So, I found out the girls favorite colors and made this:

 A Purse

 A Scarf

The set together.  I'm happy to say that my daughters loved giving these to their friend.  And their friend loved the set.  So yay - everyone was happy!

Happy Valentine's Day

Oh, how I love tulips! They are, in every single way my absolute facorite flower! Today, please allow me to share this multi-colored field of tulips with you.  Happy Valentine's Day! I hope your day is filled with love and happiness.

One a Day - Tuesday's Tallies

One A Day is hosted by Carole atGingerbread Girl and on Ravelry.


This week I managed to get six squares done for my One a Day project.  I am quite happy with the progress considering the week we had around my house.  Miss O was sick with some nasty flu-like bug.  Anyway, I now have twelve squares complete and fifty-two to go.  I'm happy with the way they're turning out.  I want to arrange them in a random fashion when I start attaching them.  I hope I'm able to do this when the time comes.  While I like being adventurous with my color choices - I get very nervous about random placement.  I don't know why.


And now, for the part I like best, the pictures:

Wordless Wednesday - Caffeinated - Artful Happiness

One A Day - Tuesday's Tallies

I'm late getting to this post today but at least it is still Tuesday.  I didn't make seven Granny squares this past week but I did make five.  My reasoning is that it was my birthday and I had a lot of wonderful family and friend time that kept me busy.

Also, I know I had said last week that I had decided to make a giant Granny square but I changed my mind again and stuck with my original plan.  I'll save the giant GS for another project.  In fact, I know for certain that I am going to make a giant GS afghan for my husband's grandparents.  He and I both think they'd love it.  Here are pictures of the five squares I made this week and all six squares together:

Birthday Artistry

I celebrated my birthday over the weekend.  I am extremely fortunate in that I was able to spend time with family and friends.  On the morning of my birthday, my husband and daughters let me sleep in (a true gift in itself), made me a delicious breakfast.  I would have been thrilled with just this as I adore nothing more than a peaceful day spent with my husband and daughters.  However, they surprised the heck out of me with a gift that they made themselves.  Shall I show you pictures?

Yes, I adore the band Duran Duran! My wonderful husband and sweet daughters made me a jacket celebrating the current incarnation of my favorite band.  As it turns out - the original bits of the idea for this gift were my youngest daughter's.  I love my gift but even more I love my family and their thoughtfulness.  They make getting 'older' so worth it!

Beautiful Girl and the Fish

I am so in love with this photograph and want to share it.  This is a picture of my daughter Miss B at the aquarium.  Neither my husband or I have altered this photo in any way.  I adore the way it looks as if our daughter is holding the fish on the left.

One A Day - Tuesday's Tallies

One A Day is hosted by Carole atGingerbread Girl and on Ravelry.


I just finished making a scarf for my husband's Grandma - our daughters' Great-Grandma - for her 83rd birthday.  We all quite love it and even better - so does she.  In fact, she told our oldest daughter that she plans to wear the scarf whenever she is chilly.  Here are some pictures:

For my new One A Day project - I had decided to make ten inch Granny Squares like the one below.  Which, by the way, is not showing the color well no matter what I do.  The green is the same as in Grandma's scarf above.  Anyway, I had decided on making a bunch of theses squares in different colors and attaching them all together for an afghan.  Then I saw pictures of a giant Granny Square blanket and fell in love with that.  Now I think I want to do the giant Granny blanket more than the series of squares.  Aside from the fact that I love the way it looks - it also means not attaching multiple squares and that so appeals to me.  So, I believe the below square is the start of one giant Granny square blanket.  I figure I'll do a few rows a day until it gets to the point that one row/round will count for the 'one' per day.  Wish me luck!

Now I'm off to get caught up on other lovely One a Day projects.

Current Crochet WIP

With the happy madness of Christmas behind us - I am indulging in a crochet project for myself.  That's right - I am making myself something.  My oldest daughter loves this project, too.  She was a bit bummed that this one is for me but got over it quickly enough when I told her I'd make her one.  For now, here are a few colorful pictures of my WIP:

Happy New Year

I am excitedly awaiting the start of 2012.  Normally, the changing of the year is not that big of a deal to me but oh, 2011 was a challenging year.  I am hoping that the new year will be filled with happiness, health and peace - for all that I know as well as my own family.

Whatever you do tonight and tomorrow - stay safe and have fun.  I'll be back soon with some new additions for this blog.

Merry Christmas

Hello Everyone -

I just want to take a few moments to say thank you for visiting my blog and adding to my ever increasing enjoyment of blogging.  With lots of wrapping, baking and some last minute stocking stuffers to buy; and yes, some crafting to finish - I know I won't be online again until next week.  So, I hope you all have a joyous Christmas and happiness with your family and friends.

Sincerely -

Sheery

Tuesday's Tallies - Still Here

So, I thought it might be a nice idea to make a quick post and say that I am still here.  I am crafting a lot for the holidays (mostly crocheting) and loving every minute of it! Unfortunately, I have nothing to show here on the blog of my WIP's though as my husband lost our camera in the middle of November.  I am an avid shutterbug and very sad about the loss and he feels really bad about it.  In fact, I have a feeling there may be a new camera under the tree for me on Christmas morning.  And if there's not - well, that will be all right but my husband should accept that I will be buying a new one in January.

Anyway, my main projects on the go are afghans for my daughters for Christmas.  I had started the blankets for them a while back and then took a break because I really didn't like the way they were turning out.  THne I went back to them but still wasn't head-over-heels for them.  THEN, I finally learned how to properly make a Granny Square.  I must say that I now understand why so many people love the beautiful squares.  Oh my goodness.  I took apart all of the work previously done on my daughters blankets and started over to make them both Granny Square afghans in their favorite colors.  Oh, and did I mention that this was at the beginning of December? I know, I am crazy but I am darn determined that my girls have these beautiful (yes, I am boasting) creations on Christmas morning.

I am also working on something for my husband but won't say any more about it until after Christmas.  There is a small chance he'll read this post and if he does - I don't want the surprise ruined.  And, as if I'm not busy enough - I'm making little bags or scarves for every female in our family.  Wow, it makes me a little jittery thinking of all I still need to complete in thirteen days.  I better get back to it.

I'm hoping everyone is having a beautiful Holiday season.

One A Day - Tuesday's Tallies

One A Day is hosted by Carole at Gingerbread Girl and on Ravelry.

I have to admit I had been slacking off just a bit over the past couple of weeks.  That was due, in part, to having been frustrated with the way my daughters blankets looked when I joined the different pieces together.  I am happy to say that I am ready to pick their blankets up again.

In the meantime, I have some hexagons to show you:

Two that I joined to create a mini bag for a family members Christmas gist.

And two more that I'm going to join into another mini bag.

Short and sweet but I'm happy to at least be making progress again.  Have a great week everyone and thanks for stopping by.