I DID IT!!!!!!

I finaly finished my dads blanket before his birthday which was monday. I gave him the first peices of it last year for his birthday and now it is all done. GO ME!!!! now I just have a ton of other things to finish.

yay update

jayson is feeling better but now hes nervous about testing for the police academy so hes way stressed out we are going to start running/walking together but i am soooooooooo out of shape and even when i was in really great shape i still couldnt run hes going to end up killing mme with all this exercise and what not i should be getting a car with in the next two weeks which im really looking forward to having a car will be really nice. ok now for a crafty update im almost done with my sweater i should be done with it next week sometime. ok thats all for now......

I am so lazy

I am so bad at keeping up with things but heres a little update. I have one sleeve, the back and part of one side of the front done of a sweat I'm making for my self and I started a simplier on that I'm making out of hand spun yarn I got from a friend of mine, I'm almost done with my dads blanket I just have two more border sides to go, i organized a swap on craftsters, the couples swap, and I just joined a huge swap, the giant multi-theme swap. Thats my crafty update now for a personal one, my hubby got two test for two different police departments for May, I'm super excited for him and he has bronchitis again and a broken capulary (I know its spelled wrong) in his throat so hes bee coughing up blood we are just lucky that he broke it when his did and went to the doctor before the bronchitis turned into pnemounia again. I have a new job that I'm unsure if I like in or not yet. I'm still looking for a distance learning school for college I think I've found a couple of them I just have to pick the perfect one and then hope I get the federal funding. Collin is potty training which is an adventure we had a big set back when we went on vacation for 5 day and he was too busy to use the potty so now we have to start all over. MY chest is bruised from a concert I went to with my hubby, the dropkick murphys, we were right up front and the railing was chest height and when there are a ton of people pushing behind you and your smashed against a metal fence pretty much it tends to bruise. other then that there isn't much going on.

UPDATES UPDATES UPDATES

Okay so the past to month have been stress full to the point where I haven't even been able to function, the only thing that has kept me half way sane is my new love of knitting and starting my new sweater, I'm adventurous and making it up as I go along and I'm organizing a swap and working on a friends website and hemming 12 pairs of pants for a friend of my husbands and planning a weekend trip to my grandmas who lives 8 hours away to go to a nascar race at the end of the month and trying to finish up all my WIPs which hasn't been going so well and today we got out tax refund and that added about 5 more things to my list, and just to top it off my dads roommate died on my sons b-day on the 9th and I'm missing the second craft meeting in a row and I am so bummed out. I hate being frazzeled and stressed because I simply can not function, it took me two weeks to figure out something that should have taken 10 minutes. I'm hoping the frazzeled thing goes away because the stress level isn't about to go down any time soon, because starting pribably monday we (meaning me) are going to start potty training my son whose 2 now. I just want to scream and hide in a dark room for a day or two.

update

I've been slacking on almost everything lately, but heres whats going on,
Yesterday was my brthday so on sunday my threw me a small birthday party which was fun and bought me a new sewing machine, a singer advance, it is so cool. I got a job sewing labels into t-shirts from home which is awsome too.
I have been working on my dads blanket in hope of having it done by christmas and a really cute crocheted sweater for a family friend and I taught my self to knit so I'm knitting a scarf for my step mom. all started, none finished.

new project idea

Right now my husband hates his job and in january he is putting in his applications to become a police officer and he turns 21 in april so when he get accepted he plans on taking a month off of work before he starts the police academy since it pretty much consumes your life when your in it. when he takes that month off we are going to go on a nice vaction to visit my aunt who lives in washington and my grandma who live in california, we live in nevada, so I was thinking about it the other day and I remember the last time we visited my grandma it was a mess since we don't own any luggage just duffle bags, I am going to make use luggage, I found this really cute bag tutorial on craftster and I think if I just make them bigger they will work great, I am making a tester bag that I am going to use as a diaper bag since I hate the one I have now. If it works I am going to start picking out fabric soon.

Craftiness update

So the other day I finaly got the second sock from the sock swap I did through craftster. Arn't they awsome.

Yesterday I started a pair of sock for my son in the harry potter colors yarn dyed, they are almost done all I really have to do is add the heels and I am working on a cell phone cozy for my new cheap phone and I think I'm going to make one for my dad too, he really needs one.

I fixed it

I fix my sewing machine for now, I put tape under the little arms the hold the bobbin casing in and that pretty much all thats holding it together right now. So after a week of sewing by hand all I needed was some tape, TAPE CAN FIX ANYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I still hate my machine and plan on getting a new one soon. I really need to get this halloween stuff done so I can finish my dads blanket, I gave him part of it for his birthday in may and I have been adding small peices to it as I get it done and my goal is to have it done by christmas, original I wanted to have it done by fathers day but that didn't work out. urrrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggg.

lots of hand sewing

After almost a full day of hand sewing with one sad bent needle I almost finished the paws, I just have to addthe elastic and elastic casing, I finished the booties and I just have to take in the hood I made today a little, tomorrow I have to add the contrasting belly, make the candy bag and add the bow tie, I think thats all but I could be forgeting something and I could have a lot more work to do. I'm almost done with my costume, I just have to finish hand sewing the last 5 inches of one of the legs and add a waist band and velcro and possible get more fabric if I have any money and make a hoodie. OH and I have to make a teddy bear that looks like the costume to put in the candy bag peeking out. urrrrrrrgggggggggggggg I hope this all works out. the good thing is that this thick fleece is really easy to sew and you don't see any seems so there are no mess ups.

Costume update

This is the progress I made before my machine broke, I also have the sleeves on but my son didn't want to pose again. He loves to have is picture taken but he didn't want to sit still.

blown up machine

I have been sewing collins costume all day and the fabric is really thick and I knew my machine was going to blow up by the time I was done with this project but its okay since my dad is buying me a new nice one for christmas and a car for my birthday, I'm getting spoiled this year, I don't really care what happens to this piece of junk. But my machine decided to explode while I was working on my costume, pj pants, made out of thin fleece, really thin and it blew up, the needle got stuck and bent, when I opened up the place for the bobbin and all the pieces fell out. ugggggggggg now I going to have to spend alot time in the next few weeks hand sewing. I hate hand sewing and I'm not very good at it.

Collins Costume

I started my son Collins costume yesterday, Hes going to be a teddy bear. I got this great fabric, it super thick reversible fleece, on one side its tan and looks like an old teddy bear and the other side is darker brown and just plain pile fleece. I have really crappy scissors and had no idea how I was going to cut this fabric so my step mom let me use her electric scissors which are the great things ever. I cut out all of the fabric yesterday and today I am sewing most of it together. I'm going to start posting pictures tomorrow.
I got the pattern instructions online for free so I had to guess on the size and so far its working out and I'm also making it so the velcro is on the front not the back so he can wear it all winter long.

My progress

So today I'm sick and I don't want to clean so I thought I would update my blog.
I finished my first sock for the craft swap and I am about a 1/4 of the way done with the second one.
I have started the front of my scrap yarn sweater.
I've been trying to figure out what kind of fairy to be and how to dress up my 19 month old son for Halloween.
I've spent most of the day trying to find a real job I can do from home that doesn't involve being on the phone all day.
I'm going to post a ton of pictures of the yarn I dyed for the craft swap and the finished products.
Now I am going to lay down and crochet some more.

My WIPS

Okay for my first post I think I'm just going to list all my WIPs.

First my crochet projects

• A Blanket for my dad (about 70% done)
• A Blanket for my husband (80% done)
• A Blanket for my son (20% done)
• Mismatched socks for a craft swap made with hand dyed yarn http://www.craftster.org/forum/index.php?topic=189924.0 (100% done)
• giant zombie for my husband (0% )
• 2 sweaters for me (0% )
• sweater for my son (0% )
• a pillow for my great grandma (0%)
• really long socks for me (0%)
• a hat and scarf for me (0%)
• a scarf for my son (0%)

next my cross stitch projects

• 2 wall hangings for my son (70% done)

and one finger knitting scarf (0%)

WOW!!! I didn't realize that I had so many WIPs I should really work on these more often