CROCHET FRIDAY!!!! (and figuring out putting pics on here!)

There is no ORs today! I LOVE crochet! Today I'm going to talk about a couple of my own creations. I really am thankful/blessed/happy that I'm the type of person that doesn't need a pattern to make things. I can read patterns. I can write a pattern. But, I can also take that pattern and change it and add to it and make it my own.
AND I can imagine patterns and develop items to fit my needs.
You can see from this picture that I do have a serious yarn addiction. Those rubbermaid containers are filled with yarn! Plus, I still have more bags FILLED with yarn! At least now it's organized and when I go looking for yarn it's like shopping and I can find what I need... most of the time... I still need to buy new yarns every once in a while! :)


This story all started when I was getting tired of lugging my purse around. Often, you don't need a whole purse full of stuff. Purses have always been annoying to me anyway. SO!


I crocheted a "KeyChain Wallet" for myself.
I crocheted it to fit my license and a credit card. The loops at the top, (one loop on one side of the bag and one loop on the other side so that the insides will definitely NOT come out.) fit around a D ring that my keys are all on. Obviously, keys are not enough for me... i also need a lego glow in the dark ghost and a lego Cat woman! :)








So, after telling my friend (whose daughter is in my daughter's kindergarten class) about my nifty Keychain Wallet, the other day she asked me to make one for her. She hates lugging around her purse as much as I do and liked my little Keychain Wallet. So, she offered to pay me to make her one. Her's however needed a space for a cell phone.

This is the side to hold credit cards and a license. I crocheted a keychain right onto the top of it. She can just hook her keys right on it.
I earned $10.!









Here is the side of the bag that will hold my friend's cell phone.

It's makes me feel old when I see a cell phone and think , Wow! That thing is tiny!

(we don't have a cell phone... it wouldn't work very well at home anyway, since we have a metal roof.)











This is a bag I made for myself. Yay! I was tired of having some of my hooks with me, and some hooks in the last hook keeper I made (where they can fall out), etc. So I made this bag to keep ALL of my hooks. Looks like I need to add a few rows to the top so my Q and S hooks can live here comfortably too. Maybe I'll make a shell pattern around the top?







Down below is the inside of the bag. I fpsc'ed aka. single crocheted around a post and then chained two , skipped a post and then sc'd around the next post. With two of these lines made I can slip my hooks down into this bag pretty securely and they will stay where they are and not clink against each other. Those lines on the inside make the nice dotted line pattern on the outside as shown above. Nice!
I can also fit my scissors case with all my finishing needles in there too.

Of course, ALL of my hooks aren't in there yet... I have to go figure out which crochet bag they are in! I can't wait to have ALL my hooks together in one bag!








Anyway. That's my crochet story for today. If I have a non-crochet week, which DOES happen, I will try to review previous work or talk about new techniques I've found out about.
Happy Crocheting! Happy Crafting!

Today is Writing Wednesday.

Wednesdays are either going to be Writing Wednesdays or World of Warcraft Wednesdays.
Writing is a craft and you get to craft and be crafty when you play WoW.

Perhaps today will be a Writing Wednesday.
Then I need to hurry and finish cleaning the house because today is our Bear Cub Scout Meeting and we are going to be making some crafts. Chinese New Year place mats and Chinese lanterns for the Blue and Gold Banquet at the end of the month! yay!
So, here goes!


The Mountain

Miranda was cold. Wait, no. Miranda was colder than she'd ever been in her whole life! She hugged herself to give herself at least the hope of some extra warmth as she stepped carefully over the icy trail. The altitude was so high it was hard to breath but she did her best.
'Why did I decide to walk the tops of these mountains?', Miranda thought to herself. 'I could be home watching the snow and drinking hot chocolate!'
The footing was treacherous and any slip would be a disaster. It was a good thing she had her trusty guide to show the way. He'd fallen and slipped a few times in front of her and had saved her from the same fate. Only his mountain climbing expertise had saved his life.
"We're almost to the end!", he yelled.
"Oh good! I'm ready to go home!", she yelled back.
A few more feet ahead was a drop off. Miranda was confused.
"Where do we go from here?", she asked her guide.
"We jump, of course!", her guide said with a big smile.
"What?" Miranda's heart jumped uncomfortably in her chest.
"Jump! Come on it's fun!" and with that, her guide jumped over the edge.

"Come on Miranda, Jump! It's time to go home." Miranda's mother said, "We've been playing on this snow heap for too long and we need to take Jacob home too. Hey, what do you say we have some hot chocolate when we get back?"
Miranda shook her head and blinked her eyes.
The adventure was over and it was time to go home.
She jumped over the edge...

Memory Monday

I want to write a memory every Monday. I re-experience Memories all the time in my head and perhaps it would be beneficial to keeping the memory and developing my writing skills to write them here. Welcome to Memory Monday!

I remember my wedding day back in May of 1994.
I remember that the night before our wedding there was a terrible storm! We barely got back from a used book store before it started. At 5am on our wedding day (obviously I didn't sleep well, I was too happy and excited!), I looked out the window of my motel room and couldn't see across the parking lot the FOG was so bad!
By the time we were ready to get going to the temple the weather had cleared and it ended up being a really beautiful day! The sky was a perfect blue! The sun was out and it was warm. We got some nice pictures that I can't post because we got married BEFORE digital cameras and e-mail. ONE TREE ripped out of the ground on the temple grounds was the only evidence that the storm had happened.
I felt very happy and lucky to have such a great weather story from my wedding day.

My FAVORITE memory is of what song Ross and I couldn't stop singing all day long!
This song will forever remind me of my temple wedding.

"What do you do with a drunken sailor?
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
What do you do with a drunken sailor?
Ear-li in the morning?
Put him in the long boat till he's sober,
Put him in the long boat till he's sober,
Put him in the long boat till he's sober,
Ear-li in the morning!"
and on and on...

I remember us walking happily up to the temple singing this sea chanty together,
I remember us walking happily away from the temple (Yay! married!) singing this sea chanty together, I remember singing this sea chanty at odd times during that whole day.
It's weird and it's interesting and it's just us, I guess. :)

The only thing I really remember from actually getting married is that the guy who married us advised us to "Always have a love story in the home." Isn't that sweet. I think we do.

Why two blogs?

This first post must be about why I have two blogs.
First of all. I have a friend and a brother with blogs on blogspot here, and I can't comment or even look at them without having a blog here myself.
Second of all. Why not? Why not have a blog that I can devote to my arts and crafts. I've tried to talk about and show my arts and crafts on my other blog... but, I just can't seem to get it going. I really wanted to write a Crochet Friday and talk about crochet, but, I just haven't.
So, having this blog is going to MAKE me do it. I think I will come up with themes for the days of the week and work on a good crafty blog.
Thank you for your patience.
Although, I don't know who I'm talking to, all my blog friends are on livejournal...
So, oh well, it's okay... I like talking to myself. :)

my other blog is roster007.livejournal.com just in case you are curious and don't really want to read about arts and crafts all the time. :) see, I'm nice.