Convertible Crochet Shawl

It took me a month to finish this project. When I started this project, I was in little stressful and nervousness after I was done with one row of the motifs. Because we were just nervous about the van that we was hoping to get one. We got a van. Then I finally back in motived to get this project done after my disaster of nervous. I love that color. I love the brown leather buttons too. It is fit but little bit loose. This can be a shrug or a shawl. I choice to be a shrug over a shawl. You can see my back, little bit loose but it is still beautiful.

Shrug Is Almost Finish

I want to show you what is block meaning....

On the right side, I pinned the motifs. It is looking beautiful when its after blocked. This will be permanent look after blocked. On the left side, I haven't pins it yet because I don't have enough of the pins to block it. That how it looks like if I don't block it. It looks like winkle and not neatly.

This has two ways to wear it: a shrug or shawl to wrap yourself. I prefer a shrug with leather brown buttons. I have a lot of the shawls in my closet. This will looks so pretty blue shrug on me.

Snowflake Earrings

I made these last Christmas 2009 for my sister-in-law. So why not I make one a pairs for myself. So I made them today. I added the gold beads on them to look more nicely than just plain. I used Aunt Lydia's Classic Crochet Thread Size 10. Natuarlly color. They are looking like a snowflake. This came from designer named Linda Parmann.

Toyota!

Derek gave up his big toy truck for a van. I am really thankful that I have a such awesome husband! Yes, we do still have a blue car. We had this truck for three years. It is REALLY bad shape. We can't afford to repair the truck. So I begged my husband to trade his truck for a van. We were looking for a van for about three months since. I told him that I want this to be over. I saw this Auto shop in Bountiful from my cousin Brandon's van. So why not we go down to Bountiful to look the van there in Affinity Auto. We saw one that I really fell in love with it. We almost get Honda Odyssey but it was too much price. Toyota is my second choice. The blue car is still GREAT shape. I bought a blue car in 2006. With my HUGE pile of cashes and it was paid off when I bought it. It was so nice. Mr. Truck, you served us like a crap!

We bought this from Affinity Auto. I fell in love with this! It is 2008, white, 48,000 miles. A blue car is too small for us to travel to Salt Lake City. A van is best for us to travel to Bountiful often to visit my families down there. The kids are loving it. Wyatt love to see how the doors slide open itself. We finally got this van yesterday afternoon. It has been on hold for a week and a half! My parents love it too. I just can't stop stare at it. :)

Light and Lacy Top

Finally it is finished. I started this in last January. I was not in motive for crochet because I wanted to knitting. Now I am back motivating to crochet this top. I finish last night. I use 100% cotton yarn light blue. This size is M, but it is very loose top. I will make another one when I am losing some weight. Love it. It is now on a long block board and obviously it is wet so I am blocking it. It will be a while to get it dry.

Granny Swatch

I think that is a pretty swatch. I am going to make a shrug. I will use light blue yarn. Not this color. This was came from Robyn Chachula. I used a small white board to block my gauge swatch to find the right size for my gauge into 4 1/2 X 4 1/2 square. This is not right size. It's 5 X 5 square. This shrug can becomes shawl. How to do that? Well, there will be button on side to close up another side to become shrug. If I want just shawl, then unbutton and wrap on me.

Angee socks are done!

Yay! I finished them last night. It took me ten days to knit them. It was pretty quickly project. I like that color. I used merino yarn. It is pretty fit my feet. I will make another in someday. I want to make one for Derek for church socks. It's fun project.

Aw!

Wyatt really wanted to take the picture of himself after I pictured of Emma. He was standing on his chair in the kitchen with his milk bottle. He is just silly little boy.

Aww! Yes, she is hurt. She fell down from the couch in family room. It was not that bad bleeding. After that happened, she was fine, laughing and playing around. This is her first "scar". Wyatt had his first black eye on both eyes when he was about early age 2. He was fell down into Emma's little crib in my bedroom.

Yes, poor my precious children. I don't remember what is my first hurt.

Angee Socks

This is Angee socks from designer named Cookie A. I am half way now. I made two socks to keep balance. If I knit one sock, then I will feel like I don't want to knit another sock. So I just finished knitted both of the cuffs. Now I am working on my heel flap and gusset. I will do same for second socks. I was expecting that my socks color will be stripes. Nope, they are pooling color. That's fine with me.

Tilted Duster

Sorry that my background is so bright white because I had to used flash. It was dark color so to see better with flash. Anyway, I just finished this jacket with skirt. Yay! It was on my list for a long time. It was knitting project. I used 100% wool yarn. It is looks like I just bought from an expensive store. Ha ha. I really fell in love with this jacket.