New additions to the etsy shop

I have finally added the Ruthy Pattern to my etsy shop lmao!! it only took over a year after it was tested but It is now up there!!!




also added a lil Hooded aswell called Squirt I made this cutie awile ago and just never got around to adding her:)



Both can be found in my etsy shop..

I also started to draw again its been years sence I picked up my pencil and drew.. I have to thank Adriana Almanza, You can see her stuff in her flickr gallery here.
Her stuff is amazing I actually bought a painting from her. My mail man better hurry lol

But I thought I would share one of my finished pieces of course`s its no where close to as good as hers.



I have finished another larger one but havent took photos yet.
If you go to my flickr gallery you will see some other Drawings i have done.

Well Im in the midst of working on a custom doll im almost done and will post pics as soon as she is finished:)

Meet May...

Meet the newest lil sweetie, Who also isn't dark !

Meet Pretty lil May-day The Lil one that was brought by those lovely April Showers.
( We haven't been getting any April Showers or May showers kinda in a drought here in Northeren Alberta and Praying for some rain)

I just love this lil doll, Her hair is White with Pink and Blue Streaks

Her dress has two lil orange buttons on it aswell as a Velcro Closure.

Im just loving this not dark style right now, As well with these lil nose's on the these past two dolls. Plan on seeing a couple more of these gals

She will be going up for grabs in the Etsy store within the next couple days:)

I have also made a lil hooded but never took pictures today hopefully tomorrow, Im also going to try to write up a pattern for the Bloomy Gurumi Hooded Monsters but that might be awile.:)

Betty !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and a late happy mommas day

I wanted to Write this on Sunday and then on Monday and then on Tuesday!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
But I just never got time:)

I wanted to say

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

to all the mommies out there that are reading my blog!!!

SO what did you all do for mothers day and what special items did you receive?

Ethan made me a lovely card at school, and the kids and hubby went to town and brought home a beautiful cupboard book shelf thing for me ( something I truly Needed to you know put all my yarn in)

What do you think:) I just love being able to have all my stuff in one place i use to have it in the closet in the living room all stored in Rubbermaid containers and wicker baskets I ended up taking the whole closet.. So hubby decided He would get me something that I could put everything in!!! Now I need another I could hardly fit all my yarn and goodies in there!

I have this bad addiction that i think any knitter or crocheter has and it is

YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH YARN

sooo

I just keep buying cuz

I always need more

and I never will have enough

Yes I have this problem

and I will truly admit it that the next time I go to the city I will probley come home with more even though I only need Beige

The kids then bought me another lovely Orchid ( I also have a small addiction to house plants!)

So once I got my Lovely storage closet all organized I finished my Gloomy
Now this gloomy is not dark:) But she is still a lil sister
Meet Betty !!

Now this is wear I would right that Betty is up for grabs in my etsy shop :) BUT She is there but she is all ready reserved! * Sorry * I added photos of Betty yesterday to The facebook fan page and this morning I had a very nice gal send me a message that is now going to be Betty's new owner!

BUT I will be making a couple more gloomies like this one you see the Nose ain't it adorable:)

I also Made a huge Change to the feet!! they are more shoe/foot shaped i think and bigger!

I will say I just love this doll and again this has to be my newest favorite. I can really see my skill increasing with each doll and each one getting a lil bit better as my Skill level increases.

But I need to run

TTYL

Not much getting finished here

Well I haven't worked on my Afghan at all :( and I have not finished a single project. I ended up getting the flu bug and was laid up for a couple days, so sick all I could do is just sleep and whine lol
I now have Three projects on the go, including the Afghan! I also have so many things I want to do and have to do lol. BUT I better finish all these things before I start another or i will be getting myself over whelmed.
Looking at the calender I don't think i will be able to accomplish my own Challenge of finishing my Afghan by the end of April :( so I will have to give myself a new date and It shall be ........
I will have to look at the calender more. Next month is going to be alil busy. Both my kids are in soccor and mys ister is graduating next month:)

So lets start with the Gloomy Sense she will Probley be finished sooner than the rest.

She is not named yet !
She is the first ever Bright Gloomy lol Her Eyelids are magenta not black, She also is wearing a slouchy raggy looking hat :) I have one leg done so I just need to make another leg and dress her. OOoooo and name her. I bought some really cute fabric to out fit this girl with and am excited for her to be finished the yellow and the pink I used in this doll is a different yarn than i usually use and its 1/2 Wool and 1/2 Acrylic, it has a fuzzier texture to it and the stuff i used for her hat and scarf is really unusual I bought it at a yarn store and need to search for the wrapper so I can tell ya all exactly what it is called I will say though it is terrible hard to work with i had to us a K hook.

I will add more details on this gal once I have her finished!!

So lately I have been trying to get my crochet skills up there Learning newer techniques stitches etc, SOoo I found some sock yarn in Zellers and decided I shall try to build a Sock .. YEs you read that right A sock. I would say a pair but once I finish this one sock I will maybe make another by next year lmao

So theres my Sock I'm using Pink Camo its turning out pretty cool but boy oh boy is it taking awhile.
The sock Pattern is called ribbon`s and Bows I'm thinking I picked a two complicated pattern for my first try at socks but I really wanted to learn how to do the cable cross stitch

NOw woooo hoo I acomplished something today I updated my blog ppls on my self.

So hopefully next time I will have some finished items to show you all. Im still feeling under the weather so I have been taking it easy .

My sister bought me Yarn to make her

* 3 more dishcloth's

*and a slouchy hat

So I would like to get those done for her soon aswell Due to she bought the yarn/cotton for me to make them for her`:)

So I shall be done with rambling do my dishes up quick and get my Hooker moving lol

A bunch of new stuff :)

I made 4 slouchy hats:) these two the one pictured above and below are from the pattern called pretty puff slouchy hat that can be found here. Above model is me :P lol and below is my daughter kiera!!



I made two others but gave one away before I took photos of it and the other I made for myself and forgot at a friends house durring the weekend lol

and...

I'm trying to finish an afghan lol

I started this one on Saturday and do plan on finishing it this is my forth try at making an afghan so my hope is to actually finish it. The Pattern im following for this one is called the Blooming Blankie it is or was in the crochet today magazine:) Im challenging myself to have it done by the end of april! I just love the colors and am actually really excited about this one so I don't think it will go in to the closet with the other three that are sitting there unfinished.

so that all seems like alot of crochet but people I make amigurumi`s not blankets lol so to give myself a break from the blanket and well I was searching lovely patterns online i came across this etsy store called berriiiz!
and just feel in love with her dolls but what one thing i just loved was the hair :) and I just needed to know how she did it so I bought the pattern. she had a deal going on so I ended up buying three patterns lol. I bought the patterns for Sugar, Candy and Gloria:)
Well i got the patterns really fast and of course then printed all three out, had them sitting here and just had to start one.



oook i never followed the pattern all the way through I changed alot of stuff. ( i really need to sit down and actually follow a pattern through seriously.

When I was making this doll Kiera ( my daughter) just loved here even when all i had was a head with hair and eyes on it! I was planning on making it for my lil sister who's birthday is in June and told kiera this but when i finished this lil doll Kiera named her lucy-ella and the look in here eys just told me how much my own lil girl wanted to keep this lil lucy-ella.

soooo

She got her lucy-ella!!!! she has practically been hugging her ever sence and they even had a tea party before bed :)

So there is my update and all my works.

Need to run and start working on the is afghan lol

Twinkle Twinkle lil Bat! How I wonder what you're at!"

Whats you favorite Verse from Alice in wonderland????

I have the lovely Classical Original Story Book by Lewis Carroll Published by Dandelion Library ( you know the ones that had the two stories in one book lol) this on when flipped around has Peter Pan by J.M Barrie

So with this Alice fever that has been going on in the craft world what should a Tim Burton fan do in a time like this ???? Well they shall make there own design of a Alice in Wonderland!!!

So meet my Alice ( the younger version of course)
I'm sad to say I have put her up for sale lmao It was soo hard for me I just want to keep her for myself just love her so much but then I know who ever shall take her in will give her more love than I can. I just cant keep all my dolls need to let them travel the world.
So you can see her in my etsy shop here!!!

You can find more photo's of Alice in my flickr gallery!
If you are not in The United states or in Canada and are interested in any of my dolls in my shop just convo me I have on there I only Ship to the US and Canada right now but I will ship to you depending!!

ta-da a new gloomy

Yeah I finished her..



Meet Rose.. (The Gloomy Bunny)
See I wasnt to sure about the albino eyes but after taking gloomy Rose out for a photo shoot. I started to love her a bit more and her wierd eyes.


A lil pi of behind! Her lil bum:) I love the pom pom tail:) In this photo she is wearinga scarf I ended up taking it off and adding a bow instead on her head felt the scarf just didnt do no good for her. ( it was cramping her style lmao)


so once she got that lovely bow she just had to come with me to pick up ethan from the bus but Miss Gloomy Got stuck high up in a tree when I wasn't looking!! I will say she wasnt to happy about that but ooo Well


Once she warmed her self by the fire she decided to look over the bunny pattern you know just to make sure I didnt mess up any where. She looked it over and found no faults now she is grumbling at me about getting it wrote up she cant wait to see other bunnies.. ( even though she has two bunnies here she just thinks she is better than them)

So for who ever might be interested in this bunny pattern I hope to have it wrote up soon. I will include the gloomy version and the not Gloomy version. There is so many things i can add to these bunnies or that you can your self. If I do make another I probley will add some clothes :) But that will have to wait im about bunnied out for a lil bit.

Im working on some baby booties right now I just found out last week that my SIL is Pregnant with number two She is due in October, so I plan on getting some baby stuff made or more like try some haha. I have finished one bootie ( the same color as rose's boots) but it never turned out just quite right. Im going to making the matching one then try again!!

I also hope to make a baby blankie I have a pattern sitting here that im going to try we will see if Iwill actual finish in time for baby!

Well I still have a lil Gloomy to finish aswell soo I better run

TTYL

Bunny Project

My hope I will just say my hope, is to get my patterns on to etsy by the end of this month even if it is only two that is the plan:) ( thats the forever pattern I have had sitting here the Ruthy monster pattern) I have been working on my Bunny with boots pattern to get it up and well hopefully get it all wrote up this week.. BUT the bunny to me just isn't gloomy material so I decided to make the bunny a two in one.. One nice lil bunny and a gloomy version for all who would want it:)

So here is the sneak peak of the Gloomy Albino Bunny!!! ( of course the bunny wont have to be Albino its just going to be the gloomy version)



So hopefully I will finish this lil gal up tomorrow or the next day:)

I also have done alot of changes on the blog lately and had add a translater I have notice i have been getting lots of visits from around the world!!! :) If you find any errors on the layout feel free to leave a comment and tell me so i can fix it asap!!i know some of the links at the top are still not up but will be soon

Bunny, Toad, and a mush square.

Been busy busy!!!!!! I have finished off three items and tried something new!!!

So I finished another bunny and never ran in to any mistakes in my pattern * yeah* So I think I will do one more bunny and get the pattern all wrote up!!


I just love how this one turned out:) I dont know how to wright out knitted patterns sence I sorta free handed the last bunnies knitted stuff so with this one I Crochet the boot rims and did a lil scarf:)



I then Made TOAD from Super mario bros!!!


You can find the awesome free pattern for him and toadette here. Im allready working on toadette:) I plan on putting toad in Ethan's easter basket :) I'm hopefully going to make Luigi and mario by christmas for him and a bunch of the other nintendo mario characters :)
The pattern was really easy to follow and it took me no time at all to finish up:)

so something new for me is the graphed out patterns where the square and the exchange of color make a picture sorta like cross stitch but crochet.. NOt sure what you actually call in my brain truly isn't working corectly right now..

Any way so I found a pixelated Mario Mushroom put it on my photo program blew it up and pixelated it, Every Pixel being a stitch ( the first time i have ever done anything like this)
well I started here is a lil collage of my start to finish !!!

I think I did a pretty good job due to not ever doing anything quiet like this before:) I think I will make 3 more lil squares like this and make a lil mario mushroom pillow for Ethan..

I also made a starghan and will have to post picture later of that :)

Hippity Hop!!!! Snow Ball Fight!!!

I actually got something finished!!! WOOO HOOO

I have around 5 items on the go right now it what is not like me at all but i just have so MANY different ideas that i guess i just desided to start each one!! BUT I got this one done!!! I really wanted to make another bunny and well come up with a new pattern!! I wrote this pattern down so I plan on making the bunny a couple more times following the pattern to work out the glitches.( it will only be fore the bunny its self though)

(pictured with my sledding helmet)

Well once i finished the bunny she really needed some clothes so i was going to Crochet her a lil dress but then remebered them knitting needles i came across last week so decided i would see if I remebered how to knit. ( all i know how to knit is a scarf lol) SO I sorta winged it and knitted the sock toppers ( that was easy). I then made a real simple sweater, Knitted two Squares and two long rectangles!! THen just sew the pieces 2gether:) down side sence this was my first time the sweater is sorta stuck on the bunny lol.. I also knitted the toque :)

Here is a lil collage :) I dont have my photo editing program right now due to the free trial ran out, I bought the program but its in the mail on its way here!!!

So I got to play around on picnik.com its really neat and easy to use!! I have h eard about from many ppl but never went over and tried I guess its cuz I allways just used paint shop!!

I really like the way the knitted stuff works the, the crochet!!! Im more comfterble with crochet for the time being but I think will be working on my knitting skills :)

Well hope you enjoy my new bunny there will be more to come!!

ONce im done all my WIP!!!

On the go

1. Bigger Green monster

2. reprooducing my threadknits entry for a friend ( and righting down the pattern)

3. Another lil sister doll ( head arms and body done)

4. Star afghan ( yes Im making a Stargahn or how ever you say it)

5.I have a head made up for something lol

OOOOO and last but not least i need to get my blog all organized again all well most the links on the top DO NOT WORK I might get that done tonight`:) I also need to make a banner and make this layout more personal to fit me but that wont be till i get my program so hopefully by next week :)

My threadknits entry!!!

Do I decided I would join The threadknits contest !!!!!! I searched through the awesome tshirts and finally picked one...

Called Training you can see it here


and you can see my entry here ....



But I will post a picture here lol



I had a hard time figuring out what to write about my lil guy I named him Frank! I made him completely free hand no pattern I'm making another one and am thinking of writing the pattern down this time!!!

There is alot of great entries I will seriously be surprised if I place I wasn't to sure about all of it this is my very first challenge competition I have entered with crochet so I guess we will see how I do!!!

Please comment and tell me what you think of this lil guy im so proud of him lol

Happy Late Vday!!! Some new stuff!!!!!!!!!!!

So Kids are sick i m not so great either so whats the best thing to do when your not feeling well.... Well of course sit down have some tea and Crochet lol `:)

I have finished the gloomy bear and am so pleased the way he turned out

I'm not to sure What to name him I Was thinking Beans for Some reason !! Any suggestions.....

SO with the Gloomy Bear all done, I was finally able to make some other stuff! I hate Leaving things half done :) So I really wanted to make some hearts for valentines!! of course I was late in the matter but I did make two last night and here they are..


Made the brighter pink one first but it didn't turn out just like I wanted it to, so I made the lighter pink one and bravo I gotter the way I wanted now to remember just how I did it!!! I really need to start writing things down lol..

SO once I was done that I another beary hat!! This one will fit probley a 6mth-1yr old!!!!

Im going to try it on our friends baby once I see them to make sure it will fit that age group!!!

I also need to get the Newborn hats I made tried on to lol

»Well that is all for now gotta get my sick kiddos to bed then im going to lay back and RelaX«

Its been a year

I can`t believe it it has been one year this month that I started crocheting !!! I have learned so much and have gotten so much better in one year..

I have made so many Amigurumis i cant even keep track of them all. I have created my own pattern and my own items.

What a year of crochet has brought me is the freedom of my imagination.

one of my first projects was Maya it was also my first design..

I look back at that lil girl and can not believe how far I have gone with my crochet
I then did some roxy craft patterns and that made my skills even better.

Go back to last feb, and take a look at all the lovely items I did in the start. Its amazing to see how I progressed and got better..

All the ladies I have meet in this past year and all the Talented ppl out there you all are my inspiration to keep going and I can`t wait to see what I will come up with this year!!

Some WIP shot

So I have been working on this lil one for around a week on and off he will be quite big in the end! I was really hopen to have him done by now but of course this is all I have :) I have decided to make my own bear pattern up (but have already forgot to write everything down! I'm not completely fond of crochet bears Some are just adorable but there done so much and there is just soooo many Amigurumi bears out there. When I started this guy he was always attended to be a bear though and I decided I will just try to make a bear in my own style.. HE will have BIG BIG feet I hope in the end and BIG Hands!

I think HE is kinda sad that he is purple my original idea was to make him Blue but I didn`t have the color of blue I wanted in my stash so I went with the purples. I hope to have him done this week.

Please give some input I'm not completely fond of him but hubby thinks he looks wonderful I did the eyelids a bit different on this one than what I have done with my other Gloomy`s, I also use bigger Safety eyes!

Happily Married and some new items

January 23, 2010

are wedding day!!! once i get my photographers photos I will add a couple!! it was an amazing day but went by so fast i cant believe its been a week allready!!!

but with that day all done and over with i know have some extra time and now a laptop so......... i can update my blog more regulary lol! I cant tell you all how nice it is to sit up stairs and be ableto search the web update my blog and read others blogs! My computer is in the basement and it is allways so cold down there that i dont like sitting down there for to long plus if im down there the kids are usually updstairs un supervised lol ( not a good thing most days)

so I do have some finished crochet Amigurumi`s and a new out fit i made for my pullip awile ago that i have been meaning to share.

When I was wedding decoration shopping at Micheals I seen Ana Paula Rimoli`s book Amigurumi two! on the stand so of course i grabbed it

! its not usual to see these great amigurumi books in my area ( northeren alberta Canada)

I have allready made two things from the book and i will start first with the first haha

PJ Teddy ( im not completly thrilled the way this turned out but it is cute )

Now this next one is the reason i had to buy the book lol

Sweet peas (or i just call them pease in a pod)

and another of these i just think they are adorable!!

So thatsmy newest stuff i have a couple on the go projects and trying to stuff out to change the gloomy gurumis just a lil but so far i have frogged to many so i might just go and make an original designed one!!

SO to my pullip Joe- dee

I made her this new outfit before the wedding stuff got crazy and just never had a chance to even get the photos on my computer.

There are a couple more photos of her on my flickr page. I hand sewwed the whole out fit and loved the way it turned out i didn`t use no pattern just sorta came up with it myself

well that is all for right this minute im still here and hope I havent lost my readers due to my lack of updating

( trying to get use to a laptop is sorta diffcult for me lol )

2 more... xmas gifts...

Got the third Amigurumi christmas present done

Meet the lil Fairy Ballerina that will be nameless until christmas

and also has not yet earned her wings

I sorta used the Punky bunny pattern for reference but chaged alot of things in the pattern.. The sizing is a bit different. The bunny and fawn are allready wrapped so I couldn't get a show of the three 2gether :)

AINT SHE A CUTIE

The hair is Leaves I crochet around ten leaves and stitched them on to the head it is really hard to see the detailing in the photo but it looks really neat the leaves where first going to be her skirt a then out of know where I pined two to her head and decided to use it for her hair. She has no ears they are hiding lol so not sure what sort of animal she is :Z

The feet have toes and I made lil green slippers that are removable!!

I also finished a lovely scarf

Its called Queen Ann's lace scarf

you can find the pattern here for free

It is going to one of my grandmothers for christmas and Im almost done the second one. It is in a deep purple ( the second one)

This one is in browns and has other colors mixed in the photo does not do justice.

Im also not that great at taking pics of scarfs lol

It is around 5 feet long so it will be able to wrap around your neck twice..

Well 44 days till the wedding i have revamped the flower girl baskets and the ringbearer pillow will take pictures later today and hopefully post tomorrow.. Im going to be finishing up the bouquets tonight :)

~hApPy CrAfTiNg~

~Punk Bunny~

I finished this a couple days ago but sence he is for my son for christmas I have been having problems trying to get this bunnies photos done.. I ended up doing them in my room so Im not completely happy with the photos but they will work.

I made him a lil back pack that ethan could put lil trinket in.. I never did do the skull on the shirt.. I think it looks just fine without it. I Just love the way it turned out and am sure he will love it just as much

So two Handmade presents done :)

Got the kids xmas shopping done yesterday and finished sheldon up today.. Ordered stuff through Sears for sheldon and 1 thing will be here by dec 5 and the big thing will be here on the 15 :)