Oregon Crafty Pic Spam :D

Returned home from vacation in Oregon this afternoon with a bag full of finished projects and lots of memories (along with brochures, photos, aches, pains and the need for a good nap which has been accomplished! :D lol

Oregon fun pic spam will follow soon! As will the Days 9 through 11 - The return home collage! But for now:

While in Oregon, I created a Molly Sweater for a Build A Bear as well as making the bear his own Hogwarts Student cap



Seven water bottle slings



Two Market Bags: (and have two more in progress)



and a shawl

Oops

Oh Merlin!  Did it again...  let life roll by and failed to update anything here again.  Hmmm  Guess I'd better remedy that today. 

It's been a bit of a time to organize myself a bit.  Cleaning out areas at home, at work, on line.  Organizing crafts, getting yarn stash out of storage (*stares at 9 large rubbermaid tubs and insists she does not have a yarn problem*)  On Facebook, deleted some applications that I just don't enjoy though I did keep Pieces of Flair and a few others :D.  Same with a few other places I'm on.

Mostly, just trying to catch up with my own life and take some time for me.  Which I've managed to do a bit of.  Crocheting still.  Working on several Molly Sweaters including ones for  ,  , the winner of one at the OKC Mistletoe Masquerade Ball,  ,  , and a few others.  Also working on a Team Jacob tote for  ,  the winner of the last challenge at  

Finished an afghan for my friend's grandson aka my mini-me *grins*



Also made lid handle holders for the potholder swap   conducted

  


Met up with quietish in Tulsa a couple of weekends ago and spent time with her hobbits as she went to a concert.  Had fun with the pair and was good to catch up with her and meet Kassey.   As you can see, someone manages to make themself at home whereever he is :D lol



Yesterday, had been planning to see Taken in Ft Smith with hubby after doing some shopping we needed to do but the car decided it had other ideas as both front tires went bad while we were out forcing a purchase of 2 new tires at one of the Walmart's there.  Today, we're just relaxing at home having a HP movie marathon on a cold rainy Saturday though at least today we don't have the Tornado Sirens blaring for an hour like we did last night.   Work for me is getting busy as the most busiest week on the Liturgical Calender begins in one week.  Joe's work is cutting hours which means cutting paychecks short but its still better than no job at all.

Well, back to crochet!

Catching up with things...

Well I've been meaning to post all this and planned last Friday to update but my internet went down and couldn't be fixed till Monday night. But finally, here it is.

Firstly, I had promised some photos of awesome squeemail received and here they are.

From , the most wonderfully warm and comfy pair of crocheted Maryjane slippers which I wear all the time at home.



The same day, I also received a package from

scowling_hermit

that contained the gorgeous painting she did of a water dragon (my own Nessie picture :) ) and the awesome Halloween banner.



Also, and I did a personal Twilight Trade and her package arrived full of fabulous goodies A paperpieced Twilight Bag, Twi stationary, Twi Journal all made by her. Bookmarks, stickers and some LaPush beach fabric. An Australia pencil set as well as Liquorice Bullets (mmmmmmm and think chocolate Good & Plenty!), Allsorts (which can be gotten in the US just not where I live) and Tim Tams and yes, I've done my first Tim Tam Slam. Oh and ? The new Target in Ft. Smith does not have TimTams :( She also included a book of dog sweater patterns with a cute set of knitting needles (little dogs on top)





Thank you all for the wonderful squeeness!!!

I've been getting some crochet done... 107 of 200 mini cauldrons done for the OKC Yule Ball... here's 50 of them



A Molly Sweater that Accio_lily on Leaky Cauldron has been waiting for for months!



Several 12" blocks in a CAL I'm in on Ravelry that will become an afghan for my bedroom and a Team Edward Tote that is the prize for the newest challenge

And my squeemail this wee was my copy of The Tales of Beedle the Bard that I won on friday (just before the internet died) at Hogshead.org!. However, I have yet to read it as dear hubby grabbed it last night and hasn't finished yet.

Tonight we're going out. The place we went to on Halloween has the same group coming back for "Celtic Christmas Night' and we're going to it for a while. Weekend is mostly just relaxing at home and crafting.

Also spent time updateing my pages on Ravelry, Cut Out and Keep and Deviant Art as well as MyCraftivity.com I was rather excited when my internet came back on to see that one of my projecs on Cut Out and Keep is in the top 20! Which is my pizza recipe that I've made since my kids were in school and they love.

Currently been catching up on getting some Molly Sleeves made for other Mollys that are being waited on and the mini cauldrons as well as the other pieces for Mollys. Also, mailed out my cards for 's recipe swap this morning at the post office.

Still have to up date on the Metallica concert that was just fantastic! But now its time to get ready to go out.

The latest....

I have spent the past few afternoons listening to this........



It seems the city needs to replace its very old waterlines with pvc lines and they've reached the area around our house. So its a big cat with jackhammer going, small cat moving debris and digging and just loads of noise.

I've been distracting myself today working on a 'sekkrit project' for someone with a special event coming up. Started it at the doctor's office last week waiting on the doctor to come in after the nurse took out the stitches




And right now its here: But I'm stll working on it tonight.



Did get another Molly done and delivered to Chrissie just in time for the Wrock cruise she's going on. Have a great time Chrissie!



Right now, the sky ahs darkened and the wind picked up a bit earlier with the temperatures dropping a bit but none of the rain they said we might get today. But still nice weather to snuggle up with some crochet.

Okay, just to make a liar out of me, I no sooner typed the period for the preceding sentence when the rain started. :D

Crafty Update - Picspam once again

Ok, so the last time I updated you on my Molly Sweater progress was here. Since then, alot of those parts have now become these which have now found homes with , , , Lizzie, Melissa, Cnprpl and Shawna at Leaky Cauldron as well as ,






However, my craFting these past months did not stop there. I made the atc's and owls below for some swaps at Terminus, the tshirts for the DRAGONs team (Leaky Con 09 Informal Programming Team) to wear at Terminus as well as a crown for our Queen Dragon :), gifts for friends and fiends that I looked forward to spending time with while there (and did :D ).

















Made myself a shawl to wear to the ball at Terminus and then made shawls for and her mom,



There was a wedding at Terminus and I wanted to make a small something for the couple... this afghan



And along with an apron above, made this for a Twilight swap with Cat