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Time to test the Faerie Coat!!

Crochet the Week Away

That’s what I have done, in an attempt to get a few non~pattern items into my Etsy shop.

I am hopeful that once I get a decent inventory I will be able to contribute to our down payment fund. I haven’t done much for advertising yet, I will think more on that once I have more to sell. I don’t really want to spend money on the advertising, so I am going to have to get creative. I’ve been enjoying crocheting the days away. Though the motivation to get it done is a bit stressful. I put a small inventory for sale at InsaniTea, also.

I do plan on getting back to the patterns on Wednesday. The pattern I am working on right now is the faerie coat, and it should take a good week to finish making Vada’s and editing the pattern as I go. Then I still need to have it tested in the other sizes, which should take about a month (ugg). At least once it is being tested I can go onto making my next pattern.

Oh No!!

Announcing!!!

Testing, testing, 123

I have decided to focus!! I have so many knit and crochet designs floating around in my head, and I do have the skill to turn those designs into patterns. Every once and a while I write one up and put it up here and/or on Ravelry. Considering our current issues with coming up with over 10 grand for a down payment on a house, it seemed as though this might be the time to buckle down. Ravelry offers a great opportunity for me to find many talented yarnie folk who will test a pattern instead of paying money for one. I have started testing through my Yarrrn Club group over there. So far I have only started testing one, kind of as a testing test ;^) *ETA, I am now running my tests in a secret group on Facebook.

This is the pattern that is currently being tested, in knit. Tomorrow morning

Busy little me.

This was a very handmade holiday. Lots of pirate~y hats for various little (and not so little) ones.

Gobble Gobble, Ho Ho Ho!!

As usual, I’m a bit late in posting these pictures. We had a wonderful time visiting family in Beverly for Thanksgiving. So much fun in fact, that I frequently forgot to pick up the camera. Ooops. We stayed with my cousin Christine, who hosted a small Thanksgiving at her apartment. Afterwards Tom, her boyfriend, kicked everybody out of the kitchen so that he could clean it all up. Vada popped in and asked if she could help, and amazingly he said yes. I had to sneak in to take a picture of Vada carefully loading the dishwasher after Tom rinsed off the plates.

Later Tom came into the living room to let us know there was another photo op. Vada was busily scrubbing out all of the pots. She is quite the little helper!

Photo Card

I love my dragon!

So I’ve been wanting a dragon for a year. I asked for one for Christmas last year, but they’re kind of expensive. I know you’re thinking, ” where do you buy a dragon?” It’s not that kind of a dragon. I’m talking about the talk to type computer program. You know, the one they advertise on TV around this time of year. Well, I found one really cheap on O.co, so I bought it for myself.

We’re both still figuring each other out, so for the time being, it’s not that much quicker than typing; however, I’m sure as we get to know each other, it will get faster. It’s still tons of fun though!

Anyway, this past Sunday was the Yarrrn Club meeting at InsaniTea. I brought along lots of sock monkeys who needed eyes and mouths. As soon as they were able to see, they fell in love with the giant InsaniTea sock monkey, and had to go sit with him. They were very sad to leave, but they are looking forward to their new homes in Texas.

On Monday morning the girls saw the new additions to our sock monkey family and had to start the quality control. Vada just had to see how many she could hug at once.

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