Birthday Today

Today is my dad's 52nd Birthday! Today he is having cupcakes and an ice cream cake for dessert (well,not all of it) . I also have a gift for him.

This is Piney,the baby alien. I'm not quite sure what made me want to crochet an alien for my dad,but I think he will like it anyway. The pattern I used for Piney is Tek the Baby Alien by Teresa Alvarez. Here is the link.
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/tek-the-baby-alien

It is a free pattern,and I think it is,in my own opinion,a pretty easy pattern. Well,I think that is it.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

Craft Fair Last Saturday

The craft fair we went to last Saturday went nicely,actually. I managed to sell $24 worth of crocheted plushies. That is pretty good for me,considering most of them are priced a four dollars each. My mom also managed to sell some jewelry. I got some older kids books at the book sale at the craft fair (they were one dollar each,and they were hardcover). They are mostly from the 1940's through the 1950's. It was fairly warm that day,but we had a nice breeze. They also had the police there doing a demonstration with the attack dog. It was funny watching the dog trot around the police officer after it got the arm cover away from the guy that was part of the demonstration. My mom and I also got some photo cards from a lady that my mom knows. I got one with a woodpecker,one for my dad for his birthday,and one for my grandpa for his birthday. The funny thing about the one for my grandpa,is that it is a photo that was taken on a road the is fairly close to his house. Funny,isn't it? My grandpa's birthday is tomorrow,and he is going to be 86 years old. I made him an orange crocheted bird. Here is a photo.

The pattern I used is the pattern Birds of a Feather. Here is the web address.
http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/2007/02/19/birds-of-a-feather/
It is a free pattern,and I think it is well written. Here is a photo of my stuff I was selling at the craft fair.

I sold out of the octopuses! I was kind of surprised by that,but that was my mom's prediction. I couldn't sell the set of marshmallows that are in the box,though. A couple people wanted them separately. Oh,well. I also couldn't sell my big crocheted snake. I guess he was priced to high ($25). Actually,I had five octopuses on the table,but one was sold before I thought of taking the photo. Here are the web addresses for the patterns I used for the octopuses and the marshmallows.
http://nyanpon.blogspot.com/2012/01/kawaii-octopus-amigurumi.html
http://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/marshmallows
They are both free patterns,and I think they are nicely written as well.
 Well,I think that is it.
Bye!

Tiger and Whiskers,Birthday

Today is the birthday of our two cats,Tiger and Whiskers! They are both thirteen years old today. They got tuna for breakfast,and they are going to get chicken for dinner. I think that is pretty much the perfect present for them.  =]  Here are photos of the two boys.

This is Tiger (sorry for the far away shot,I couldn't find the other photo of him that I think is on the disk,but you can click on the photo to make it larger),

and here is Whiskers. Happy Birthday guys!

Crazy? Maybe!

I have started crocheting five-petal flowers. I don't know how many I'm going to make,but it may end up being quite a few. The weather has gotten rather warm again,so I haven't been making as much stuff lately. This is the reason for the flowers. I just got bored one night,and I started crocheting them.

Here are the flowers I have made so far. I have an idea for how I can use them,but I haven't worked out the details just yet. Well,I guess that is it.

Scrappy Snakes

I have made these crocheted snakes that I call Tunisian Crochet Scrappy Snakes (long name,I know..). They are from my own design,and I make them out of scraps of yarn. Here are a couple of photos.

I don't have an exact pattern for them,because they are kind of still in the testing phase. I'm actually selling the top one at a craft fair in July,that my mom is also selling her jewelry at.
I'm also making other various crocheted plushies to sell. I don't know if I will end up selling the snake,but who knows? Anyway,I had better be going.
Bye-bye!

Halloween in June

Last night I decided to crochet a little Jack-o-Lantern. I think it came out pretty well. I could of made the vine a little better,though. Oh,well. I designed it myself,and I wrote down the pattern as I was making it. I might post the pattern,but I might need to do a little more testing first. Here is a photo.

It took a little bit of experimenting to embroider on the face just right. Well,I guess that is it!

Creativity?

A while ago,I decided to start making my own magic yarn ball. I started collecting all the leftover bits and pieces from my projects that were long enough,and I started tying them all together. I made a crocheted pillow with my first magic yarn ball (only at the two ends of the pillow,though),so I began collecting scraps for the second one. Um...I really think I need to figure out something to use it for. It's about the size of a basketball,and I have about two 1 gallon bags worth of scraps to go!

This is a photo of my basketball of yarn.  -_-  Wow,that is a lot of scraps of yarn. I'm wondering how a crocheted and/or knitted monster would look made out of this. Well,I guess I had better get busy trying to make something out of this yarn.
See you.