Thursday, March 5, 2009

trip to Portland, crochet revelation

We went on a trip to Portland to celebrate Ross' grandmother's 90th birthday.
Read all about it on my main blog. http://roster007.livejournal.com/

Now for the crafty crochet revelation.

Every time we travel to Portland, I end up buying the kids a stuffed animal.
This time it was beavers from Multnomah Falls.
THEN everytime I buy them stuffed animals on this trip to Portland, the kids ask me to Crochet something for their stuffed animals.
Last trip it was tiny crocheted backpacks.
This trip it was log shaped bags for their beavers to live in.
I'll have to take a pic some time. (don't have time right now to mess with it.)

Ross' mom noticed this time that every time I come to her house in Portland I am crocheting something for the kid's stuffed animals.
That was a revelation to me. Duh. Duh! Oh yeah, I DO do that, don't I.

But, I do love making tiny items for small stuffed animals. It's a fun design challenge for me.
And it's something to do with my hands while Ross and his parents talk about Boron, CA (where they used to live) and all the people they used to know (in great detail) and about all the places and people that I REALLY don't know.
Crochet. It's something to do.

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