Well, my mother-in-law wants me to make her crochet covered hangers. (I just figured out it was a real request, not a joke, on Thanksgiving!) So, I have one half made and can't wait to see how it turns out.
How many crocheted hangers make a set anyway?
The funny thing is that when Ross was on the phone with his mom, She said something about wanting something knitted for her... Ross said, "That's okay, we don't knit." HA HA HA!!!!
Thanks for standing up for proper yarn craft vocabulary! And me.
That woman just doesn't seem to want to know or remember things about me.
Also, she told Ross the details of want she wanted... he remembers, something with color?
So, I'm in the dark but pressing on anyway... I hope she likes whatever I make.
Without talking to ME personally about it, she is not going to get exactly what she wants. is she.
I promised kids and promised kids that we were making Ugli dolls out of fleece together for the fun of it. So far, two patterns have been figured out, cut out and fleece cut out... now the sewing. I'm not really a sew-er... so I just have to find a good day and get going on it. We were going to make some ugli dolls for my nieces too... more sewing... :(
I DESPERATELY want to make a new star for the top of our Christmas tree. I made the last one when I was a newlywed and a newbie cross stitcher. I want to make a big crocheted Star of David for the top of my tree. My 4th great grandfather was Jewish and I want to honor that heritage.
So, I'm looking up a pattern for a triangle granny square that I can make two of and assemble together as a Star of David. After all the above though, I don't know if I'm going to get it done in time! (I mean, I want to play World of Warcraft too!)
Only 24 days left till Christmas and we STILL need to make Christmas Cards for people! Yeah, MAKE CHRISTMAS CARDS. Thank you Ross' side of the family. I know that while our kids are young we can get away with potato stamp Christmas cards, but, as they get older... well... let's just say that Ross' mom and sister go ALL out on their cards and they look like they made them AT the Stationery/Scrapbooking store!
My mom waited until LAST WEEK! to tell me that she wants a family pic of us.... an 8x10 even!
Why didn't she mention that in October or beginning of November ... you know, BEFORE the big get family pictures taken for the holidays RUSH?
I'm still trying to figure out how to do this. Maybe we could pay our neighbor and friend? He's a photographer/videographer...? hmmm...
I was going to make bags for my kid's Bakugan. (they are plastic marble-like toys with a magnet in them, when you throw them down onto their metal card they pop open in different ways and look like animals or creatures. Too popular this year.)
BUT, I think they are going to have too many for my bag making tastes. So, plan B, find a really good container that can hold them all. Some sort of shoe box, maybe decorated, will do.
Really, I've been shopping for Christmas all year long... there were some things in the closet I didn't even remember buying! I laid it all out on the bed last night to see how it looks... LightningBoy is getting a few big things and ArtGrrl is getting a lot of little things. I think we can make that work...? Every year I feel like I do Christmas mostly on my own. I'm the only one who worries about it and does something about it. And last night I had to get all the stuff out of the closet by myself because Ross hurt his back protecting me from my own daughter. argh.
whatever.
All that's left is: A gift certificate for Ross' dad. A book for LightningBoy. (he wants a white blood cell and/or an official Ugly doll IceBat too!) Some sort of book for my brother. A baby toy or book for his second daughter.
And a gift for Ross' brother and his wife who we haven't talked to for a year or two? Who are rich? Who don't really need anything? Who last year got us a coupon book? (after we vowed to not go out so much anymore. lol!) Oh well. I was thinking about getting a basket of foods from around the world for them. We have so many foreign food stores around Salt Lake, it would be so easy to do. Actually when I thought about it, I could get all sorts of foreign foods right from my own Smiths down the street! We have food stores with foods from: Asia, Africa, Mediterranian, Australian/South Pacific, German, Italian, and Of course, from Mexico and South America! and these are only the stores that I actually know about myself. .. there's probably WAY more.
I like the idea. Now I just have to remember who I gave it to this year and give it to someone else next year. Muwa ha ha ha ha!
Wish me luck! Gotta get going!
