Week 2 Of Gleeful Things Month long Giveaway!

Remember last post how I told you all about the very talented Julie over at Gleeful Things and how she was going a month of giveaways? Well shes back for week two, and this weeks theme is Pink! The very lucky winner will receive her High Tide Skully with earflaps, a Heartbeat Skully (which can I just say is so damn cute!!),  one of her adorable little Bearys (seriously, go look at them) and a pair of her Peacock Barefoot Sandals! So how do you enter? Head over to www.gleefulthings.com/blog and check out the prize package! You have 4 different chances to win, so get going!!

Giveaway Heads Up For Gleeful Things Blog!

So I was up scrolling through my Facebook this afternoon, attempting to kill time, when I came across the Gleeful Things page. Now, if you don't know who this amazing designer is, you need to just pause on reading this, and head on over there. She's a fantastic designer with an amazing eye for colour and creating beautiful patterns. How could this be even better? She just happens to be hosting 1 giveaway each week for the month of April! Anyone else as excited as me??

This weeks giveaway is her Heartbeat Skully hat. Seriously, I bought the pattern. I love the pattern, and I'm pretty sure the only thing that would be better would be to win the hat. I have another hat I bought from her, and it's my absolute favorite hat. SO!! Enough talk, and lets get down to the details: What you all need to do is take yourselves over to www.gleefulthings.com/blog/ and take a peek at the requirements to enter/ win. Once you've read it all... ENTER! And, should you not win, you all need to go over to her shop and check out the absolutely amazing patterns she has for sale! So, go! Enter and share with your friends!! And remember, this is only the first weeks giveaway, so theres more opportunities for you!! 
Enjoy!! xoxo

Little Crochet, Lotsa Babies!

I've been without my main laptop the last little while, because it's been migrating and doing everyones taxes. Which is actually ok, because then I don't have a constant reminder of all the patterns I have...  That I haven't even started, or thought of starting.  But, it's back, and mocking me. I'm using the excuse I've been busy with Easter holidays and cleaning and all that. Truthfully, I pick up my hook, finish a couple stitches, and put it down. I have a couple things to share, but I don't think theres a huge amount... Lets see.

                             

http://brittasami.blogspot.ca/2012/03/baby-blanket.html
So, this is the owl lovie that I mentioned in my last post. He came out quite fantastic, and I'm veeeery slowly working on some other ones.  Go check out her work. The original page is in Swedish I believe, but you can easily translate it.

This blanket in the making is one that I actually have a huge love for. I made a smaller blanket for my youngest a while back, and my sister was saying how she wanted it. Well, after all the colour changes I did, and all the ends I had to stitch in, there was no way I was doing that again. So I decided that doing a solid colour granny square for her would be a much better idea. I hate that there's ends to sew in, and when I'm being a slacker it seems to take a thousand years, but there has been a few times where I don't want to give it away. At all. Ever. But I love my sister, and I know she'll love this as well.

I've been reading back through the entire 5 other posts I've made (ooooh look at me go), and other than talking about my cats and sounding like a lunatic, I really don't have much about me or my life. So I was thinking maybe I would toss a little more in every so often, and kind of use this as a way to document my life and craft... If I ever find my camera... Ugh.
Anyway. My 'about me' section is kind of a small peek. I'm 25, and live in  a place called Medicine Hat. And yes, it's actually called that. Long story short, there was a medicine man who lost his hat in the river... And BAM, here we are. I was born and raised here, and moved back about 4 years ago with my husband and 2 kids. We've been married 6 years, and have two kids together. I had my first daughter at 19, and she's just gone and turned 6 on me, and made me feel about 100. Ladies and gentlemen, Rayne.

She's your typical girly girl. Likes sparkles and pink and clothes. Lord help me.

Number two came along about 18 months later. (Insert joke/comment about being easy or getting it done here). She's my second girl, and my husbands first child. She's our tomboy, and an interesting mix of both him and I. This is Kahlan.

Blonde hair, blue eyes... Guess who will be heading to a convent for schooling??

My baby is two and a half years younger than Kahlan. We had planned on three kids, but wanted to wait to add number three until after Rayne and Kahlan were in school... We came close, but not quite. Illiana was a HUGE surprise, and finding out on April 1st, 2010 made it even harder to convince everyone that I wasn't being funny.

We celebrated birthday number two in January, and I really just wish she would stop and stay my baby. She was 4 months old when my husband decided that he doesn't make boy babies, and that a trip to the doctor was in order. And so, this adorable ball of trouble is my last baby. :(  However, Rayne seems to think that if we trade in her dad and get a new one, then we can have the little brother that she so desperately wants. I don't understand why. I have a little brother, and I tried to sell him. Remind me to tell you about that another day.

Lets start with this little blurb and kinda go from there. All this typing has, I'm sure, worked off the ridiculous amount of ham and potatoes and cinnamon buns and cupcakes and such that I've eaten in the last couple days, which means it's time to go grab a cookie, and then head to bed. Now that the weather is getting so much nicer, the girls are all up before the sun, which means so am I... Ugh.
Until next time my lovies
xoxo

Holy Slacker

No, the yarn didn't strangle me. Right now, I'm wishing it had. The Husband has generously shared his cold with me, and I'm so congested right now, it hurts to keep my eyes open. Ugh. So instead of laying in bed sneezing and wishing I could breathe, I'm going to lay in bed, sneezing, wishing, and updating! I've finished quite a bit in the last few months, so I'll try to make a small dent... In absolutely no particular order.

So this one here is a three strand baby blanket in Aruba Sea, Light Pink and Off White. I Instagramed it, so of course it looks distorted. This one I finished shortly before Christmas, and the customer decided to back out and not pick it up. Normally, I would just sort of chalk it up to a mistake, and move on. But the customer was a friend, and she knew how long and how much work this order took, so it really pissed me off that she bailed. Whatever. Cute pair of booties and this will go into my stock bin. Mooooooving on...





This scarf I designed in January sometime. It's recently gone to its new home, to The Husbands cousin (long story, I'm just calling it this way to make it easier.) This picture sucks a huge amount, which saddens me that you can't see the fabulous stitch I used. The flowers (the over exposed lumps on the bottom of the scarf) are roses crocheted with embroidery floss. Little H loved her scarf, as did Mommy T. All in all, this one was a definite success.












This blanket consumed most of my January. I was looking for ideas on baby gifts for 2 fabulous friends who are expecting, and I came across a blanket on Etsy that I loved... However, I'm a major cheapo, and couldn't justify spending $13.00 on just the pattern. The balnket itself was selling for $90.00, and I understand why. My version here took about a month to make, and the time, effort, and talent needed is worth so much more. Had I not been a crocheter, I'm not sure I would have understood the pricing... But I sure do now. Anyway, this blanket measures 35.5" W and 41.5" L. The Husband and I met said friends for dinner this past weekend, and they LOVED the owl blanket. I also made a little take along owl blanket to go with it. Once I find the photo, I'll have to add it.
This isn't all I've done in the last 3ish months, but I either can't find the photo's or I'm too tired to discern them from the hoard in my photo folder. Alot of the other things I've done are hats, basic cowls... I also did some pattern testing a while back, which I really enjoyed. I purchased a new hat pattern as well, which I've been DYING to work on, but I have other orders I need to finish first... After I go make a sandwich....  And tell you to come check me out on facebook! www.facebook.com/TangledWebDesign

Orders, Updates, And Not Enough Coffee.

This past weekend and last couple days has been busy. Between kids, housework, and trying to keep up with the 6 or 7 orders that all happened to come in at once, I'm all sorts of ready to rob a bank and find a tiny island to hide out on. (Side note: I won't actually rob a bank.. I don't think I have the planning skills or super awesome stealth team  to pull it off.) It all started off with this order here:

Monster hats for a friend who has a toddler and one on the way. I was super thrilled with how they came out, and I lover her colour selection. Right after she placed her order, I got one for some Christmas gifts. Two slouchy and scarf sets were required. And so began this order:

 Just after I started the order above, I got two more orders the same day: One for a baby set, (which I'm not even half done, so pics to come) and one for a button up cowl.

 And yes. I know it's sideways. Do I care? Probably not. I still have a scarf for another order that I am working on, a hat to make as a birthday gift, and I will quite possibly have an order for 5 or more hats coming in within the next bit. So if I happen to disappear again for a while, one of two things have happened. A) My yarn got sick of me, strangled me, and sucked me into its stringy depths.
or
B) I'm in a corner rocking myself from being overwhelmed, over tired, and hating yarn.
Either one works for me.  And if you're curious what else I've been up to, come like the page on Facebook. We're at 23 likes (22 if I exclude me lol), and I've decided at 30, I'll be doing a draw for one of my lovely followers to place an order of their choice! Hope you're all having an awesome day!

Not (so) Lazy Anymore!

I really wish I could put fireworks and shiny stuff all over this post to really spruce up the 'reveal'. But since I can't, this snazzy picture will have to do. This is my granny bottom bag that I finished a few days ago. It honestly was a super easy pattern to follow, being that the majority is a granny square. Other than that, I think the lining was the most taxing part. Mostly because I really wasn't in any sort of mood to sew that day. Or measure. Or anything. I also didn't really pick a matching colour which is kind of bugging me now.But the fact that I finally finished something, and the fact that it's for myself, makes it even more satisfying. Now if only I could get this kind of oomph and finish other projects I have everywhere. Another thing I finished this past weekend was a hat for my oldest daughter. I made them each a basic beanie a while ago, but when they saw all the owl toques I was making, they all wanted one. So I started to slowly make them each one. #3's hat was an owl, done in a brown and a multi colour.

#2's favorite colour is purple, and she wanted her owl done in colours that matched her beanie. So I used a variegated purple, and a lime green.

Then, as I was finishing the basic hat for #1, she asked me if she could have a different hat from her sisters. So I said sure, what did she want. Well, silly mommy. She wanted a monster hat. With a hairbow. Right here is where I should point out #1 is my girly girl drama queen. Thats why her hat needed a hairbow.

I've never really seen a monster who wears a hairbow, but hey, it keeps MY monster happy. My dad had picked #1 up from school today, and when he dropped her off, he told me the only way he can find her on the playground, was by searching out her hat. Perfect. Multi purpose items here my friends!
Ps! I was thinking about it the other day, and I finally have a facebook page set up if you want to see my other creations, or maybe see about ordering something for yourself!
www.facebook.com/TangledWebDesign
Let me know what you all think, and like the page for a chance to have your name drawn for a giveaway!

Cats, Crochet, and Being a Little Crazy

So, just before I got the flu, I had started working on a granny bottom bag/fat bottom bag/ whatever the fluff you want to call it. Anyway, I finally finished it last night. And other than needing to fix the liner because when  I originally put it in because I didn't feel like sewing at all (and neither did my sewing machine), I'm very happy with the way it came out. And I guess this would have been my reveal post for it... But I'm lame and really haven't photographed it at all. Actually, I'm a good amount behind photographing anything lately... Other than my cats. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I am a crazy cat lady. I've got two of them. I'd have more, but the Ginger won't let me. So, long story short, and much rambling later, instead of my new bag... Allow me to introduce you to my fur babies.

The giant fur ball on my clean towels there is Precious. She's a dilute calico, and kind of an odd cat. She's got this thing where she will sit and stare at you, while her tongue is hanging out. She also drools. Like alot. It's kinda gross. She's not the cuddliest cat ever, unless you have treats. Then, she is all on you like white on rice.

This one is kind of a backwards picture, but this is their first Hallowe'en. Mini is our second cat. She's a bit on the... lacking of brain side of things. She enjoys attacking and sleeping in plastic bags, sleeping in plastic storage bins, and squawks worse than an angry chicken. You even think about her, and shes meowing her face off. Annoying as anything, but she fits in pretty well.
I realise how random and absolutely pointless this post is, but I figure it's better than just not bothering at all. I'm still trying to find a rhythm to posting and when to do it, so lets just call this a wavering step.