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April’s Afghan

This sweet project was truly a labor of love that took nearly a year to complete. It was April’s turn to choose an afghan and she chose the pattern and all the colors. She really has the best eye for all that, so I was thrilled that she didn’t tell me to just wing it. That would have gone badly!!

I stitched the squares together with a simple single crochet. I know there are fancier ways to do it but this worked just fine.

The edge came from the deep ridiculous recesses of my brain and I’m sure I couldn’t do it twice–Haha. I just kept going around until it looked like I wanted it to.

In the end, we both thought it was perfect.

For you April….with love.

Mom

 

 

Original pattern is called the Island Time Granny Square by Mallory Krall

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Dali’s Adventure

So, I’m just sitting at my desk, minding my own business when I hear a tiny squeek. Ohhhh….man. I know what that means. Dali is not in the pretty little basket that I fixed for her to have her babies in, back in the laundry room.

Nooooo….she’s laying in the kitty couch…in the family room. On closer inspection,  I see that she already has a teeny little baby snuggled in with her! What the heck?!!!

Nothing shy about this girl! Instead of hiding away somewhere she is in the middle of the room with both Hobbes AND Lyla asleep just a few feet away

There is absolutely NO CHANCE that she and a few babies would ever fit in that silly thing.

So bizarre.

In a panic, I got very, very brave and picked up the whole couch and put it all in the laundry room basket where I wanted her to be, in the first place. Scooting her off the couch and into the basket–while she is still in the birthing mode was quite the feat–let me tell you! But she was awesome and we did it.

She very quickly had two more babies–three total. We have a brown stripe, a black stripe and a solid black.

SOOOOO cute!!!

She seems comfortable and content.

Now if she’ll only stay put.

Fingers crossed.

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Beckham’s Dino

Beckham came over on his lunchbreak from school the other day. There’s a huge benefit to grandkids that can drive!!

While he was here he saw me scrolling through my Pinterest boards.

After hearing him say, “OOoooh, you could make me that!” about 50,000 times…

I jumped up from the computer and showed him how to make his own board that he could Pin ideas to.

Yep. He liked it a lot–especially when it came to this little Stegasaurus.

Sure made his birthday present easy!

Happy Birthday Beck!!

I love you.

Grammy

 

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Linky’s Birthday

For Linky’s birthday, he wanted his “friends” to come watch a movie with him. His movie of choice was Mighty Pups 2. Good choice little man. Everyone was enthralled–as you can see.

And he loved alllllll his loot. Sweet little guy.

Happy Birthday little love. You’re going to LOVE being three!!

Grammy loves you!

 

 

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Crocheted Wind Spinners

I’m going to start this by saying that my daddy was a pastry chef.

He passed away about 17 years ago and we’re still at this very moment, trying to figure out what to do with some of his things.

That’s always the case, right?

You want to keep a thing but there’s really no room for it.

Or you don’t want to get rid of a thing but have no idea what to do with it.

Well, that is exactly the dilemma I was faced with. So many of daddy’s cake things that were a billion years old and not really usable but still had so much of him in them. You know?

That’s when a lovely idea struck me.

My dad loved decorating cakes.

Not me.

I’d rather poke myself in the eye.

But give me a crochet hook any day and then we’ll talk.

What if there was a way to smush the best of both worlds into something clever and unique for my entire family?

Could I possibly doooo that?

Turns out, I can.

Everyone chose their favorite color and POOF!

A little bit of Grampa and a little bit…

of me.

See those pretty wind spinners? Me.

See those ancient piping tubes turned into sweet little bells?! Grampa.

April–our color expert–didn’t tell me what colors to use. She sent me a few swatches so it would be perfectly perfect.

Lyndi chose green and blue. Kind of Earth Day-ish colors.

Jillian has always loved pink and yellow. They were even her wedding colors.


Of course Dane, our very patriotic patriot chose red, white and blue.

And Rhen–the die hard Vikings fan picked purple and yellow. The green and black are a nod to Bob Marley, no doubt. Haha.

Merry Christmas my sweethearts.

With love from Mom…

and Grampa.

 

 

Note: The pattern I used for this is Anemos Wind Spinner by Brunaticality