I feel so bad! I did the last month of the color swap - September, which was red and pink. I took a picture of my swap and never posted it!

I love it! See the little wrinkled packages by the pen and tomato pin cushion? It’s tea! Tea leaves that bloom into a flower when you put them in the water. I still haven’t tried them, it’s just now starting to cool off here so I know I’ll try them soon.

The yarn has been claimed by Alice (DD) for blankets for her groovy girls. Have you seen those dolls? I love them!

I put the candle on my desk and have been buring it a little each day. It’s apple cinn and smells SO good in here. It is a great fall scent.

Or stitch? What is it called when you attach crochet pieces?

I am ALL done with the pieces for the two little girl ponchos I am making. I am amazed at how fast it went! Again with the OC behavior! LOL

I need to weave in the ends (I’m sure there is a much easier way to do this then leaving them all hanging like I did here!) and attach the pieces, do the drawstring and then I am done! I am so excited, I was only hoping they were done by Christmas. Wow to have them done this early.

The other two pieces for the other one are the same, but here they are tucked into the box I was carrying them around in ~

There is that organizing bug in me. I bought two shoe box sized boxes for these projects, I didn’t want to get the yarns mixed up because I had to buy different lots for one of the colors for them. I am starting new projects this week/coming weekend though so I know I’ll put them to good use.

Any tips for weaving in those ends?

Earlier tonight I took this picture ~

Of course, my obsessive/compulsive ways led me to finishing it tonight as well! I was only a few rows away when this picture was taken so it wasn’t too much longer. The pattern is from a flyer I bought at the craft store and the yarn is 100% cotton. I wasn’t too many rows into it when I realized it was going to be a thick feeling and heavy scarf. But it is for my sister in law in Montana and I’m sure a thick/heavy scarf will feel good during the cold winter that Montana has. It already snowed their last week!

There is also a pattern for fingerless gloves and a hat. I haven’t crocheted in the round too much so I’m not tempted to do the hat, but I do want to make the gloves. It is a gift for her birthday (in a week) so I will either have to obsessively/compulsively work on them tomorrow or not until her birthday passes so I won’t feel pressured.

I love this scarf though, super fast and easy pattern. I plan on making myself one in a lighter weight yarn since the winter here is not nearly that cold.

I love the cowboy card that Linda posted at her A Muse blog! So very cute!!

I remember being in college and someone asking if my family celebrated Christmas. You know, because we are Native American and I guess that means we shouldn’t?

Of course we do - we like to eat good food too!

For me Thanksgiving just isn’t Thanksgiving without a rectangle pumpkin pie. That’s how my Grandma makes it and it’s just great. And she makes a cherry pie too. I’ve continued on that tradition since I’m not at home.

If you click over to my flickr –> over there in the sidebar, you can see my craft room/office. Okay, office because the desk with computer and the stand with the printer is in here.

Then I go to the craft store or Target and see things like this

That is the back of the box. Does that set up not look like craft room heaven!

I was with a friend of mine when I took this picture - see the individual cubes at the bottom? That’s how they are sold. So for the set up shown on the back of the box it would be about $350 - before taxes. And of course not counting the time it would take to assemble it!
Anyway, my friend Monica (the same one who taught me how to crochet!) offered to help me build a set of crafty desk stuff. We figured it was just fiberboard (is that what it is called?) and then of course the hardware, painting, etc. Putting boxes together wouldn’t be that hard.

I have yet to draw out what I want my space to look like, and that means I don’t know what it would cost from the store. I plan on figuring the cost and refiguring the cost because I know if it is too expensive to make - taking into account my time - I’ll end up buying.

Of course, the other problem is that we are military and if I configure something great for this space, this house, what happens when it is time to move?

ETA: I bought graph paper so I can plot it out. Okay I admit it - I love office supplies. I am a little OC when it comes to paper, pens, pencils. I mean I need to have a certain pen and certain type of paper depending on what I am writing down. Yes, it sounds crazy! LOL But its my system, it work and I love it!

So I bought the graph paper and am going to do a couple of drawings this weekend. I’m excited! I really really really want a new crafty space. I sort of have a table - sort of because it is in the loft and currently has toys piled on top of it. I need a crafty table that is only for crafts.

Free Crafty Books

I finally signed in and checked it out - wow! I am loving the font collections and the cookbooks. We’ve been trying to do meal planning and keep the grocery  budget to a managable amount - LOL - and so far so good. But I love cookbooks (I even found a great candy cookbook at the library sale we went to last weekend - more on that later) and recipes.

There are a few other great craft books in there - books on making soap, how to crochet (which I printed so I would have a quick reference!), and a craft project about making purses - very cool, something I am going to try very soon.

And you can get access to more craft stuff once you refer a few people - thank you to the few that already signed up with my link!

Here is what one piece looks like ~

Actually, that isn’t finished but I know my camera battery is charging right now. I made two of these per poncho - one for my daughter and one for my niece. And today I should be done with the last of the four. I need to get a knitting needle so I can sew them together and do the edging and the tie. I’m excited!

I finished Alice’s pieces in about two weeks and I worked like mad and finished my neices two pieces in five days. Yep, five!

I’ll grab more pictures today and share - I’m so proud of myself that caught on to crochet fast, that I can read a crochet pattern, and that I sat and (almost) finished my project.