I love my days off

I get so much done when I am not at work.

Like tomorrow. I am going to get my car looked at, mail off a beautiful leather corset and wait for a stunningly and more beautiful corset in a smaller size, do some laundry, vacuum maybe, oh, and, craft my ass off. LOL. Cuz that's what I do! I actually have a LOT of work done on the sock monkey now. He looks like the headless version with a bit less stuffing. I have done three of the main bodies for some Creepy Cute patterns to put out at the bank for Halloween and sewn them together, now it is just in the details.

I totally, on the fly, crocheted a cat in white and orange for Nimo, my friend Stewart's cat. Ok well the pattern was already written but alternating the colors was not and I totally made it up and am totally super proud. Plus, I stuffed a jingly bell in there so when Nimo plays he will be all the more likely to nom his new mini-me.

I have about 4-5 inches of the sweater dress yoke made. AND in BIG EXCITING news, I have less than 20 rows of another sailboat finished on Logan's baby blanket. Woot!

Coming up fast....

...it's the holiday season! Like, Halloween will be here in tomorrow time, and then BAM! it will be time to have Christmas presents done. I am a little overwhelmed right now! I have half of my brother's present done, and all of my mom's....but what to do for everyone else? I need to do things for 1) a beautiful little sister who is not so little anymore 2) finish the baby blanket for Logan (nephew) 3) finish a sock monkey for my aunt 4) finish my dishcloths for another aunt 5) figure out something for an uncle 6) something for another uncle 7) make a knee-length sweater dress for my cousin 8) something for Granny 9) something for Dad 10) you see where this is going, right? LOL!!!!

And that list does not include the myriad of "little stuff" for co-workers, friends, acquaintances, et. al. Nor does it include the love of my life. Cuz he needs something REALLY special. But NOT the dreaded boyfriend sweater.

I have a play-date with Amanda set for tomorrow, maybe I can crank some ideas out with her. Or maybe we'll just make some more really cute stuff....doesn't matter, it's fun either way!

Motivated!

The last couple of weeks have been a lot of changes! I finally got promoted at work, so I have a lot more responsibilities there. Buuuuuuttt....it's gonna come with some extra change for an even more awesome yarn stash, lol!

Having crochet play-dates with Amanda is putting my crafty butt into gear! I've finished some stuff and actually been productive, go me! It helps that the boyfriend has vertigo right now and can't really move or do much; therefore, he stays out of my way. :)

I've been working on creating some crocheted microbe patterns, in the same vein as the www.thinkgeek.com microbe plushies, only as amigurumi. I found a SUPER duper awesome yarn, pompadoodle by Red Heart, that makes the bestest crochet scarf. It's a little fiddly at first, working only between the pom-poms, but it works up quickly and is just so neato. I'm in love, can you tell?

I finished my beaded scarf, not the little boy sailboat blanket, and I'm really really close with the yellow sock. I finished Cherry's cotton summer hat, made a red bucket hat, and have a test crochet pig I did for one of Amanda's patterns around here somewhere. I strongly suspect my boyfriend's 3 year old put it in one of her purses, little stinker.

On the menu for the weekend: finish work (real grown-up job) today, finish up the brisket I'm taking to tonight's party. Tomorrow morning, get up, then get crackin' on finishing the stuffed fleece gorilla I owe my nephew for his birthday. Then maybe I will even do a few rows on the blanket that was supposed to be for his birthday.

Yessirree Bob, I'm gonna knock out these projects so I can do even more!