Beautiful Crochet Pins

Well, here they are. I got this pattern on Etsy, I am always looking for new and unusual flower patterns to embellish stuff. I thought these would make fabulous pins. Was I right? I think so..quick and easy to make too!!! I used Vanna yarn and went to town, made 24....

Here is a picture of the finished pins...
Two in every color. They would look great on a jacket, purse, tote, hat anywhere.

I LOVE♥ them!!!!!!! How about you?
Doing wash, it's a beautiful day to hang the clothes outside to dry. Allie is at another band competition today, they came in 3rd place again yesterday. And Victoria has cramps and is watching TV. It's a really nice day out here in NJ. Off to do more wash ~ then I want to finish a purse I started from another Etsy seller. Will post pictures as soon as I am done. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this purse!
TTFN~♥
Peace, love♥, and crochet...Debbie

Yes, I am still alive!!!!

It's been awhile. Have not really had to much time to blog or even work on my Etsy shop. Work started for me again in Sept. I am an aide in 2nd grade at the local school. So far this year has been trying to say the least. I come home tired everyday.

Hopefully I am getting use to working again after having the summer off and basically being lazy..
My husband went to Maryland today to visit our good friends. He went to a hockey game tonight and is going to see Roger Waters do The Wall tomorrow. We are so blessed to have such great friends who do nice things for us!!!♥♥

I made earwarmers and wristwarmers for the girls as a gift for treating Jeff so nice. I really like how they turned out and plan on making more.... Maybe Christmas gifts.............

Will try to post tomorrow on the beautiful crocheted pins I am working on...
TTFN~♥
Peace, love♥, and crochet...Debbie

Way to busy!!!

Hello, just a short, short post. Have been so busy these past few weeks. Did a Christmas Boutique at a church in town last weekend. I was crazy for 2 weeks packaging and pricing all my stuff, as it turns out I had way more than I thought. Will be participating in another sale in December. At least it's all done, and ready to go for the nest sale. I will be making more scarves, hats and fingerless gloves for the sale. I will post pictures from the past weekends fun that my daughter took with my new camera soon. We are still learing how to use it.

TTFN~
Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Happy 12th Birthday Aleksandra!!!♥♥♥♥

Today is Allie's 12th birthday, I can hardly believe it. Time is flying by so fast and my babies are not babies anymore. This is Allie this morning before going to school. She straightened her hair last night for an hour.
She had a great day at school. Her friends decorated her locker. Her BFF Samantha made a little cake and the girls at her lunch table sang Happy Birthday to her and the whole lunch room joined in. Allie was embarrassed but I think that was totally cool!

They also sang Happy Birthday to her in chorus. Her friends gave her a bouquet of candy, apparently this is the thing to do at LMS. Whatever!!! This is the hat the girls use to wear to school on their birthdays. I did however get her to put it on for the picture. Yea me...

Allie and her Costco cake. Don't you just love their cakes? So yummy and so reasonable. Hers was for a snack for youth group tonight for all the leaders and kids and has chocolate moose filling with a white cake. I have to tell you I hope they bring me a piece home!!! LOL.

Totally yummy cake. She would not let us put 12th birthday on there. She said that was dumb???

Happy 12th Birthday Allie!!! I hope you had a great day... LOVE, MOMMY, DADDY and VIC. Can you guess her favorite color????

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Thank You Mrs. Kime!!!! And Crazy Vic ~

My husband and kids were raking leaves tonight, seems like we had alot in our front yard. Crazy Victoria wanted to make a pile and jump in. So I took a few pictures. She actually had a really great time running and jumping into the pile. Look for yourself. Allie however wanted nothing to do with it. Her loss it looks like.

Hello!!!!!!

Oh the thrill of the jump................................

Ouch!!!! Head first, did I really want to land that way????????? Going for another try...... WOO HOO this is fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was fun, can I go again mom?????

Actually it was cold by that time and we went inside, but she had fun while it lasted....


A teacher at my school who also just happened to be both my girls 3rd grade teacher ordered 6 pairs of black fingerless gloves from me, with a possible order of more. Wow, I have to tell you this came at a great time. I was getting nervous as to how I was going to pay for Christmas gifts and this will really help. Plus I love her as do my kids. She is such a beautiful person and awesome teacher!!!!

Look how I packaged them ~ This was genius if I do say so myself.

They each went into a black and white box. The tissue paper was white with different colored glitter which I thought was festive. The gloves were folded and placed in the box along with care instructions, my card and a sample face scrubbie. The box was then topped off with a red ribbon bow and a To: From: tag that I punched to match the box. I have to say I would LOVE to get this as a gift. Read on......

My parents had a yard sale this past week and so with our few left over items and new things we wanted to get rid of we participated. Our booty was not so good this time. However due to the rain they are having it again next week. So we will see how that goes. Anyway the best part................

My mom was selling these towers, filled with candy, brand new for the upcoming holidays. Something happened and they had to take the candy out of the boxes. I saw them and thought what a great container for my fingerless gloves. She gave me 6 boxes and the matching red ribbon from the original towers. How utterly perfect. I think they are fab!!!!!!! I just hope she likes them. I tried to make them special...

The finished boxes and a little something for Mrs. Kime as a thank you for her order... more soon about the cute bird pin attached to the package.

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Happy monday!!!

This is Victoria's room. Yes it is 3 colors, lime green, fuchsia and purple. She loves it and it is so her..
This is her bed, she got a new bedspread set, this was great as it came all in a bag. Very sorta bohemian. hopefully now she will keep the room clean!!! Fingers crossed.

She has a great window seat area , where she can read or look out the window and daydream. I'm sure she does more of the daydreaming.

This is Allie's room.

Sshe loves ladybugs, frogs and owls. She is also very neat and keeps her room looking great.

Allie's Room..........................

Her new bedspread, she got for her birthday. She could not wait to get it on her bed and mobile uploaded a picture to Face book yesterday. I'm glad she is excited.

This past weekend we went to my sister's house for my nice Nicolette's 17th birthday, holy cow where is the time going? She is driving... I took alot of pictures but gave the card to my mom, she wanted to get some developed. When I get it back I will post the fun and the cutest owl cake ever that my sister Donna made.

Allie's birthday is on the 28th of October. My baby will be 12 except it seem everyone thinks she is turning 13. Slow down, she is the youngest grandchild.. We got her a really cute owl comforter, sheets and pillow for her birthday. She has outgrown ladybugs? No way, she just wanted a change.

I am off I have an order from a friend who is a teacher at Faber for 5 black pairs of my famous wrist warmers. I already gave her one today and she just loved it. I am so glad. Have a great night. Stay warm, it's getting really cold here at night and I was reduced to putting my heat on over the weekend.

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Hello, I'm back

Ok, so I have been gone for a week. I am going to come clean and tell you why. We were not having computer problems, my computer ,TV and phone were shut off because we could not pay the bill. It is so embarrassing to me to have this happen, but I figure alot of people are in the same boat as we are. My husband still does not have a job. He has been out of work since March. We have cut back on everything we can and are starting to live a more simple earth friendly life style. I have to say I like it. We have in the past bought so much stuff we did not need, now we really think about it. It's not about the stuff it's how you live your life. What you teach your kids and how you try to follow a path God would want you to.

So we paid the bill and now on on Monday we are switching back to the cable company, We were with Direct TV and I have to say it was the worst experience of my life. Plus we are getting soooo much more for soooo much less. Since this whole job loss I am not loyal to anyone if I can get the same thing cheaper somewhere else I am going for it. These companies do not care how they treat their customers. the Customer Service is terrible. I am getting off my soapbox now.

Vic made these awesome donuts in baking class.... We enjoyed them for a few days........
Vic enjoying her fabulously good donut...

The whole box of them ~ Yum-Yum. I think I gained 10 pounds.

Vic and the donut box.......................

Vic and Jillian at the Girl Scout Bridging ceremony for their sisters.

The Girls now Cadets and Mrs. Deegan one of the leaders. These girls have been together since Daisy's. I can no believe they are in 6th grade and Cadets.

Allie Bridging over and Mrs. Herbig one of the leaders.

Allie talking about respect...............

The three leaders, Mary Ruthie and Lisa♥

Vic trying her hand at stilts at the bridging ceremony. It is not as easy as you think it may look.

Allie ~ The new Cadet

Allie's Junior sash.............. ah the memories.

Every year for the past 30+ years our town of Dunellen has had Art on the Green. It has gotten smaller in the past few years but it's still fun. There are crafts and local businesses and groups that come out. I actually won some cool scapbooking paper, 4 stamps and stamp pad and adhesive from Stampin' up how cool was that. Victoria and I went we had a good time and saw people we knew from town. Allie was at Great Adventure with a friend.

Victoria looking at the sports vendor. He had players cards framed very cool but to rich for my blood.

We liked this motorcycle, it was a fundraiser for a group.

Victoria painting a pumpkin which she later gave away? Who knows.\

A view of Washington Park. This is where we also light up the town Christmas tree.

Maybe one year I will take part in it and sell my crochet.

Ta Ta For Now~

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie