Finally!

So much for getting to post

more during my break.

Now we are back to school.

With the return of routine,

comes renewed organization

and motivation to get things done.

So I put the finishing touches

on a couple of pairs of booties

and took some pictures to show 

you friends.

Thank you for being faithful friends.

And welcome to a couple of new friends!

Sweet Pink Booties

I did these sweet booties for my friend's 11th blessing

(and 10th girl).  I love to crochet for girls!

They fit her so perfectly!

Summer is here!

I'm finally FREE!!!

School is out!

Hopefully, now I will have

time to photograph my

projects and post them.

And maybe finish a few of them.

Joplin, MO Tornado

Friends, we live about 40 miles from Joplin and are so sorry for this community.  We are lifting them up in prayer.  We are thinking about how we might help.  If you know the Lord Jesus, please join us in prayer! 

A 1/2 mile swath was pretty much wiped out, including a lot of schools and one of their hospitals.

So sad and difficult a time.

Thank you!

Baby Boom!

I am in full baby gift production.  I have 8 babies I know of to be born before the year's end!  Woah!

The 1st one arrived yesterday.  It's a GIRL!  She is the 10th of 10 girls and the 11th child altogether.  She is beautiful.  And she was a surprise, since they don't find out ahead of time.  So... I've got to get right on that.

Another one is due any day, a boy.

The next 2 are in August, 2 girls.

Then a boy in September, and another 2 in October.

The last baby I know of will arrive in December.

Plus, I have started a doily in looking forward to reaching 50 followers.  I plan to have a give-away to celebrate.  There should be plenty of time to get that done.  A year into blogging, I'm almost to 40 now.

With all that, it is probably a good thing that I've frogged a couple of projects, and that I couldn't get my new sweater started right yet.  It will stay 'paused' while I take care of God's gracious bundles of blessings.



My husband's 45th birthday is Thursday, and our 19th Anniversary is a week from today.  So we are looking forward to those celebratory events.

I hope this post find you and yours happy, well, and blessed!

Frog It Friday

I made my decision.

THIS ONE

is going too.

Say good-bye.

I just never could find the color that

should come next, and

I'm tired of thinking about it.

So...

Springtime Floral Doily

While waiting on a fresh baby to arrive so I can size 1 project and waiting on smaller hooks for the sweater, I have finally been working on my floral 3-D motif doily.  I have all the motifs done now.

(When these pics were taken, I didn't have quite

enough daffodils made.  But they're done now.)

So now all I have to do is iron/block the doily

Then sew on the roses

And the daffodils

And the flowerets

And the butterflies (which also need their bodies and antennas)

And I will be done!

It will look a like this except for a couple

more daffodils and butterflies with

some black bodies and antennae.

This doily pattern is from my book,

Vintage Floral Doilies

by Elizabeth Ann White