Best present!

For Mother's Day my husband bought me the best present - two amigurumi crochet books:

Amigurimi World and Amigurumi Toy Box

These are the cutest books with the cutest ideas ever! I think I squealed out loud at some of the pictures and couldn't WAIT to make them!!

I've made 4 already from the books and I wanted to share them with you!

I fell in love with the bear and wanted to make it right away for me!

I used some left over "mermaid" colored yarn I had from another project.

He fits perfectly in my purse and loves going on adventures.

I then let my kids pick out something they wanted me to make them.

My son picked this duck with a bear hat and named him Gunther.

My daughter wanted me to make her everything in the books!!!

She finally settled on this duck and named her Sophia.

She has also requested that I make a bear and kitty hat for her!!!

Finally I made this polar bear!

I love that the patterns come with hats for the animals!

This pom pom hat made this polar bear EXTRA Cute!!

I can't wait to make more of them!!

My mom gave me a gift certificate for mother's day and I got 17 new yarn colors!!!

What amigurumi have you made before?

Do you have a favorite from these books?

Or do you have a suggestion for another book I need to check out?

Unicorn Request

One thing I really love doing is making things for my family and friends!

On Easter my cousin was showing our Granny a Crocheted Unicorn that she thought was cute.

Granny told my Mother-in-law and then the word got to me.

I knew I needed to make her a Unicorn!!

I really wanted to try to make one without a pattern and see if I could make it work.

I used different pictures on the internet to help me get some inspiration and to give me some idea on how to structure the project.

It was a lot easier than I thought it was going to be and I had a lot of fun trying to make her!!!

Here she is with her horn and purple hair!

And all done!!

My cousin loved her! YEAH!!! 

It's a Turtle!!

My youngest sister's birthday is coming up and I wanted to add a fun handmade item for her present.

I found this cute pattern for a turtle and decided he would be perfect!

This is the CUTEST turtle!!!!

My nephew really likes him!!!

Introducing Ace, the Guitar playing...

I bought the cutest shirt from ACL the other weekend and love wearing it!

Seriously how cute is this shirt???

It is cute and it has inspired me to make Ace

Ace loves hanging around the house late at night so it can make it hard to photograph him. Hopefully he'll come play guitar for me in the afternoon so I can get a better picture of him.

We found out he is a fan for the Beatles and he is working on the guitar solo for

Be on the look out for Ace, he might be coming to a gig near you.

I gave in...

I caved and joined in on the Owlness!!!

 

Aren't these just the cutest though????

I found the easy peasy pattern and watched several youtube videos on crocheting amigurumi and got going!

I made the blue one while watching Harry Potter last night -- Hedwig must have inspired me!

Since I have 2 kids, I can't just make one... so I finished the pink one up while at work today.

And for Marci -- OWL with a MUSTACHE!! Hee hee hee

Baa Baa

My brother also wanted a black sheep, so I gladly made one for him!

Since my brother is a "rockstar" his black sheep needed a mohawk!

Black sheep stick together!

Little Black Sheep

Once there was a cute little black sheep that was looking for new things to do.

The little sheep spotted some eggs and got very excited.  She knew exactly what she could do!

She get our her egg dyeing kit and got straight to work.

Look at all the beautiful eggs she made!

I made this little black sheep for my little sister.  Its one of those long family inside jokes.  But she loved it and now my brother wants one too!!!

pattern can be found here