I have been a little busy working on my crochet projects. Here is what I have done so far.
This is the afghan for my SIL. On Ravelry there is a group called Block a Month. You crochet or knit a 12″ squares each month and at the end of the year you have 12 squares to work with. I made sixteen squares and added a border.
I did a lot of scarves for some reason.
Blue Scarf for a friend.
Scarf for The Violinist teacher
This scarf is seven feet long. It is a gift for Sir William. He loves to drive around during cold weather with the top down. Along with this scarf, will be a coupon from the kids to clean his car, and a huge candybar.
I needed a couple of very quick gifts and I came up with these. I made these in on day, all from one huge skein of yarn. 
Below is a headband for Pea #1. She loves headbands. This one is made from wool yarn and goes over the ears to keep them warm.
All these gifts made to keep people toasty warm in Florida. LOL
This was taken during our annual trip out in the cold, cold world looking for Christmas lights. You can’t see anything on the video because it was dark.
This is my Christmas gift to all my friends. You may download this and burn it to a CD for all your Christmases to come.
Enjoy!
Beautiful. Just Beautiful. 
My sister writes to me and tells me, she is going to start a small business. She’ll be making quilted items, little bags, luggage tags, and other cute things. I said, “Luggage Tags?”, can you make cute ones for backpacks?” Which really is a dumb question because my sister is an excellent sewer person. Is “sewer” a word? Well, it is now. Want to know how good she is? Take a look at this beauty that is on my bed.
Back to the luggage tags. The sis wants to know what I want. I tell her, The Violinist likes blues, Pea #1 likes purples and bling, Pea #2 likes reds with lots of bling, and I like bugs. This is what she came up with.
Aren’t those the cutest tags? She really did a great job with them. I wanted to link to her new Etsy shop, but apparently she hasn’t gotten it up and running yet. Some kind of problem with the name. As soon as I get it, I’ll be blogging about it with a give away.
After these hot little items were in the mail to me and I emailed my good friend Kristy and begged asked her to make name tags with her stampin’ stuff she does. After several minutes of begging and crying, she agreed. She’s really good at what she does too. Want to see how good? Go here and look at these beauties.
I was kind enough to give her specifics. Measurements √, colors √, names √, animals: frogs with skinney legs, manatees, bugs, puppies all √. Yep, covered everything.
I get an unbelievable email from Kristy. No manatees and no skinny legged frogs. WHAT!? She lives up north and does not have any stamps with manatees or skinny legged frogs. Something is wrong with that woman. Thankfully, she had bugs.
She slaved over the cards one Sunday afternoon, while I took a 4.5 hour nap. It was so refreshing to wake up knowing Kristy slaved for me. She put them in the mail and then blogged about them. I couldn’t wait to see them, so I took a peek. I put them in the luggage backpack tags as soon as I got them. They are so stinking cute!! Take a look.
Can you see the extra bling my sister put on the outside of the tag and the extra bling Kristy put on the name tag? That’s my Rebekah. I thought the names were stamped, but they are cut out individual letters. Very cute.
I love the puppies peeking out. lol
Thank you Dava (my sis) and Kristy (my friend) for making these things for me. I really appreciate it!
Now I have to make sure I don’t open this blog, while the girls are in the same room.
AT THE MALL!!
There are three girls in her group, but one had a conflict at the last-minute. The instructor had to call in her friend to fill in the blank.
Here are all the students, minus one, and the instructor.
The Gammer came to watch and then did a little shopping afterwards. Unfortunately, she wasn’t shopping for me.
And the DAD shows up! That was a nice surprise.
Everyone played very well. Even though the concert was at 10:00am when the mall opened, they did have an audience. A few people came up and said they did a wonderful job.
I found these old 2002 pictures of the kids, just before Christmas.
Last Thursday night our co-op had their Christmas Concert. This is the first year my daughter, The Violinist, participated. She is the very cute one on the front row, far right.
They sang beautifully and it was enjoyed by all.
The facilitator worked hard with the students since the beginning of the year for this show.
In between some of the songs, the story of the candy cane was read. See my very cute daughter in the front?
While the story was being read, the boys handed out candy canes to the audience.
Grandparents even came. That made The Violinist very happy and nervous at the same time. lol
I got to go in early, to take pictures while they practiced. That embarrassed The Violinist completely.
It was a very enjoyable evening.
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On this day, 12 years ago, this little cutie was born. She weighed 7lb and 5oz and had red fuzz for hair.
At the age of five, she declared she was going to play the violin. Knowing that she had no idea what a violin was, I took her to a children’s symphony to try out all the instruments. She stuck with the violin.
At the age of six, on January 15, 2004, she had her first violin lesson.
Since then she has played for our church, nursing homes, our co-op, family and friends.
I am very proud of her and who she is becoming.
May the Lord bless you and keep you.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Sweetheart.
