Earth Day Giveaway - Hosted by Jenny at Dapperhouse

Giveaway is up and running!!!

Please go enter! I would love for one of my readers to be the winner!!! 

Make sure to scroll all the way down and click on read more to get to the how to enter option. 

There are a lot of cool prizes to win! Let me know if you entered so I can cross my fingers for you!

Preview of 2012 Earth Day Give-away!

Jenny at Dapperhouse asked me to join in on her Earth Day Give-away! 

YEAH!!

Here is a preview of the give-away that includes who is participating!

I'll be donating one of my coffee sleeves from my etsy shop! 

I'll post another link as soon as the giveaway is officially open!

Sometimes its good to make mistakes

Remember how I was working on that Earth Day Project?  Remember how I was going to use it as my Mother's Day gift to my mom and how it didn't turn out right the night before?

I tell you I was FRUSTRATED! I was almost done with that bag and I hated that I couldn't get it to work right or look right.  I wasn't a fan of the pattern the more and more I worked it but I didn't expect it to look so YUCKY!

 So I had the main part of the bag done.  All I needed was to attach a strap to it.

Then I had an idea! BUTTONS! I could add buttons and then add the strap!  So I rolled down the edge a bit and attached some colored buttons and added a different strap.  This is what I ended up with.  

Here is a close up of the buttons

I added buttons on both sides.  I think this turned out WAY cute! 

What do you think?

Earth Day Re-do

I had great plans to make an Earth Day project for last week. 

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I found a cute pattern, I had the yarn, I was set to go.  

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As I worked the pattern I wasn't thrilled with it, but I kept going.  Then I ran out of yarn... easy peasy, just buy more! But I couldn't remember the brand or color type as I had bought for a prior project and have a bad habit of just tearing off the labels and throwing them away (lesson learned!)  I finally figured out the brand but could never find the right color, even after going to several stores and then going online. So what do you do? You start over and try something else!

After pulling the yarn apart Monday night I looked something like this

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So I'm ready to go now with my yarn ready.  I'm still going to make a bag, just going to make it a little different than before.  We'll see where that leads me!

Earth Day - Getting Started

My friend Marci is making an Earth Day Project and it inspired me to make one too!  

I found this cute grocery bag tote on Lion Brand's website.

I started working on it last week but its taking me some time to do it even though its a pretty simple pattern.  First, you have to use two strands of the yarn to help with durability and the yarn I'm using is already pretty stiff... so after about 3 rows my fingers are ready to quit.  So I've only been working on it in slow increments but also with determination to get this part done so I can move onto yarn that won't hate me.

I'm planning to make a heart to go on the pocket instead of the stripes.  Thinking about adding buttons too, not sure yet!  But here is where I am so far!