Showing posts with label crocheting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label crocheting. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 29, 2012

Really February!?!

February started normal, boring and cold. I two new pattern to show. Hot Air Balloon Ornament #3, made with seed beads.




And Let's Dance Necklace made with seed beads, fire polished beads and round beads, using right angle weave and netting. First picture is a close up.

Found a new place to sell my patterns Craftsy. They have all kinds of patterns, sewing, quilting, jewelry, crochet, knitting and they do classes there too. Check it out it's really neat.

I did a little crocheting...I made a shrug, well two of them. The first one I made was too small, I followed the pattern for a women's small, but it is a child size. So I made another one. Which you could see the yarn better, it is a cream color with specks of color through out, very pretty. The pattern is a freebie from Bernat. Top picture is from their site.

Then I made a couple of Flowering Vine Scarves by Red Heart, another freebie. I have eleven made, for Christmas gifts for co-workers.


I also made one for Hayley, Dylan's girlfriend.








Cross Stitching...Yes!!! I finished Hang Ten by Raise the Roof Designs!


Sweets...It's been a while, I was sick the beginning of February for about three days I couldn't eat anything, but then I started feeling better and had to have something sweet and I found this recipe Chocolate Berry Pie. Next time I make it I am going to use chocolate melts instead of chocolate chips and raspberries instead of strawberries.

Classes...I did two classes at the gallery, one beading class and one crochet class. The beading class I just had one person sign up, it was my high school teacher, the one that came last month. This time we were making the Little Hearts Bracelet. Class started at 6 it was after 9 and she was only half way done with her bracelet. She couldn't remember what she had just done. I thought I was going to pull my hair out!!! It's just repeating 3 steps over and over again. It's a good thing she was the only one in the class, because I couldn't have helped anyone else.

The crochet class went much better.
Moving...Somewhere between the scarf I made for Hayley and the pie, our landlord told us we had to move out. We only had a contract for one year and never sign another contract, but we were there for almost three years. So, we started looking at everything (in our poor man's price range), for rent, for sale, even apartments. All surrounding towns and even a few up in South Bend, but most of them (in South Bend) were in really bad areas. Just when I was breaking out with that nervous rash I get, February 14, (Valentines Day) we looked at a house that was for sale by owner, just a sign in front of the house, nothing in the paper. Bob found it because he took a different route home from work one night. Feb. 15th we put a down payment on the house and started moving in. I call it my backwards, hillbilly house. ;) It is a modular, but when they set it on the foundation they put it on backwards, so the back of the house faces the road and the front of the house faces the backyard. As you can see in the picture it needs a LOT of WORK! We decided to start with the cheapest rooms (bedrooms).



This is the back of the house that faces the road. When you walk into the door you are in the laundry-kitchen area. The sliding glass door takes you into the dinning room. All the houses I have lived in before the front door is the living room or formal room.


It has the open concept, kitchen, dinning and living room. I love the fireplace. The window with the drywall in front of it, we had to replace before we moved in, it was broken. I have tossed out the ugly light.


Here is our bedroom, it is very small, but we don't watch TV in our bedroom, just sleep. I didn't get a picture before we tore out the walls. The walls were panel, torn up and looking really bad, the doors were broken also. We gutted the walls, ceiling, replaced the window. The window was too big for the room, once you set a bed up you would be in the window, (old window in first pic).

New window and walls, we also replaced the insulation, brought it up to grade and we put insulation between the rooms-sound barrier.

Picture looking into closet, before we put up the drywall in the closet.

After-closet.

When we were hooking up the washer and dryer, we had a few problems. So we torn out a partial wall and a small pantry. The pantry faced the frig and you couldn't open the frig all the way.









As of today our bedroom is painted and I have bought the wood trim, doors, etc for the bedroom and the stain. Once that is up it will be carpet and closet rod and shelf, then we will move our stuff in.
So, I am knee (butt) high in boxes, a lot of things went to storage and my craft stuff is all packed.
I have canceled my next two beading classes for March and April, but will still do the crochet classes. I can pick everything up locally for those classes.
Until next time, hope you and yours are all well and happy.
Can't wait to see what March brings, SPRING!!!

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Good bye January!

New Patterns

Wild Thing Slave Anklet made with fire polished beads, flower button beads, leaf beads and seed beads, using right angle weave and netting. CAN'T WAIT FOR SUMMER!


Tic Tac Cuff Bracelet made with bicone crystals, seed beads and bugle beads, using right angle weave and netting.

Ooh La La Necklace made with fire polished beads, bicone crystals and seed beads, using right angle weave and stringing.

Dangle Diamond Earrings, made with fire polished beads, seed beads and bicone crystals.

Bungle of Flowers Earrings, made with fire polished beads, leaf beads, flower button beads and seed beads.

Hawaiian Lei Bracelet, made with fire polished beads, flower button beads, leaf beads and seed beads, using right angle weave and netting.


For 2012 I decided to try to come up with 12 hot air balloon ornament patterns!

Hot Air Balloon Ornament #1, made with seed beads and bugle beads, using stringing, netting and ladder stitch.

Hot Air Balloon Ornament #2, made with seed beads, heart, star and double cone beads, using netting and ladder stitch.

Hot Air Balloon Ornament #4, made with seed beads, fire polished beads and round beads, using right angle weave, netting, stringing and ladder stitch.

Hot Air Balloon Ornament #3, is still on my beading desk, ran out of the beads I was using and just place an order for more this morning.

Etsy

My Etsy shop made a small profit this year! Woot-Woot! Not enough to pay me for all the time I spend at it, but it's looking up. Customer appreciation 2011 went to James E. and Susan S. they received a coupon code for 20% off on next purchase at my shop, good until the end of February. Combine they purchased 30 patterns from me in 2011. Top salers for 2011 where Bicone Crystal Bracelet and Crystal Bracelet for a total of 55 sales.

FaceBook

Remember to hook up with me on FaceBook for all my specials and give aways.

Beading Classes

Started doing beading classes again at Heartland Artists Gallery in Plymouth IN. I will be doing one class a month. This is what we did in January, the Snowflake Pin. I forgot my camera at home, so the picture is the one I made. My high school home economics teacher came to my last class! LOL! That was a little strange, me being the teacher and her being the student. She said she didn't remember me, "I must of been a good student" LMBO! But she did remember my sister Barb, said she talked a lot. TEE-HEE! And she signed up for my Feb. class.


Crocheting

Here are a few things I made. For Dara headband and fingerless mittens by Clare. She also has a great Facebook Page.
Beanie hat by Clare and scarf by Vicki Blizzard free pattern at Premier Yarns.

Again I made a beanie for Kayden using the same pattern and the scarf was a freebie from Redheart.








The next four pictures are Flowering Vine Scarf by Whitney Christmas freebie pattern from Redheart. I have made 6 of these scarves so far, they will be for co-workers Christmas 2012. The work up really fast just a little over an hour and one is done.









Two more pairs of fingerless mittens pattern by Clare. Both for me to match the scarves I made for myself. First pair shown is for when it's cold, the second pair is for when it's really cold.


Spending as much times as I can with Kayden, we made play doe and had fun playing with it.





Here are a few of our creations.

And last my not least picture of Kayden after a long day of playing.



Good Bye January...So glad to see January go! Looks like my 2011 luck has ran over to 2012. Hoping that February is much better. How many more days til spring??? Van broke down, just after I pulled into work. It's fixed now, had to borrow a car a few days to get back and forth to work. Was written up at work for passing a med. that was suppose to be held due to Dr visit. It wasn't in the MAR so I passed. I did pass my Med passes and I think that is all the test I have for work, that is until they come up with something new.


Until next time! Live with a happy heart.

Wednesday, November 2, 2011

Caught Up

Gees where do I start? It's been a while...New Patterns

All patterns can be purchased at ZaneyMay's.

This is my very first beaded embroidery, it is called Lattice Flower Cuff Bracelet, made with seed beads, jade flower, glass flowers and leaves.


Double Cone Bracelet, made with seed beads, fire polished beads and double cone beads using right angle weave.


Crystal Snowflake Bracelet made with seed beads, bicone crystals and fire polished beads.
Started a Facebook page ZaneyMay. Check it out and it would be great if you "Liked" it.
Also reopened my shop at ArtFire. I decided giving it one month was not fair when I gave Etsy over a year.

Pool Season

It's officially over! This is the first year that I was looking forward to the end of the season. Closed the last pool and took down an above ground pool. The owners of the above ground pool was going south for the winter and they wanted the pool down and out of there before they left. So, I now have an above ground pool that is in storage for Dara and Kayden. Dara and Brandon are talking about buying a house next year. That should be good for a couple of birthdays and Christmas. LOL! While we were waiting for the pool to drain, we went in town to get a cup of hot chocolate and then we went to an antique shop. I have collected milk glass since I was a little girl going to yard sales with my Mom and Grandma C. and I found this set still in the original box! And a few other things.


Charm Necklace

This charm and beads were in the goodie bags from the beading retreat I went to at the end of Sept. I made a cute little necklace with them. I'll be giving this to a friend. Can't say who, she might read this post.


Kayden my sweet grandson, helping me made a cake. He comes over as much as he can and when he gets here, he tells his Mommy to leave.


Halloween

My sister Mary gave me this witch for Halloween. My one and only trick or treater-Kayden or I mean Iron Man





Knitting

My name is Debra and I am not a knitter! I had about 12-15 inches knitted in my shawl and I ripped it all out. Started over and had about 5 inches done and had to rip it out too. It was just too frustrating for me.
So now I am trying crocheting, this is all have have done so far.

Cross Stitching

Still working on Hang Ten by Raise the Roof, just finished another page. I now have 4 pages done and two more pages to go!!!



Well that's about it for me. I hope all is well with you and yours.
Tomorrow I will be leaving for the Hoosier Stitchers Fall Retreat. WooT!