It is almost over!!

The holidays are almost passed, thank goodness. I did finish my grandmothers scrapbook, nothing short of a miracle by the way. I spent an entire weekend holed up in the house cutting and pasting and organizing. Then came the framed pictures with crocheted angels and hearts and a small cut out scripture. This one I had to have my husband help me with, and he is not the craftiest person you have ever met. So, a few choice words and a broken exacto knife blade later and we are just about done. That is until I realize that some of my pictures lay horizontal and some lay vertical, and I have glued all the angels and hearts and scriptures to the matting as a vertical picture. Very nice, NOT. I was able to get that fixed and get everything wrapped by Christmas Eve night, and I got into bed around 2am, not bad.

So, I am taking a break from making things for other people. I am working on some chair sets for the recliners in the living room. I have suddenly discovered that I like crocheting with thread, and I like making doilies and such. Still not into writing my own patterns, so you wont see any published here. I will post some pictures of some of my finished works one of these days though, perhaps of my chair sets when I finish them. I need to get a bigger house with one room for all my crafting stuff though, it is starting to get crowded.

My Craftiness

Well....here I sit still crocheting coasters at my desk. What in the world. Anyway, I am finishing this last coaster. This weekend I vow to not crochet anything. I will be working on the pictures, getting the matting cut out and everything glued on and stuffed in the frames. I will also, in my spare time (what the heck is that?!?!?!) be working on my grnadmother's scrapbook. It is my sincere goal to have it finished by Christmas and give it as a present. Now, whether or not this happens is beyond me. We have a birthday party tomorrow, church Sunday, and while my kids are at a play with my sister, me and hubby will be off to find a small bike with training wheels for my youngest and a bike/skateboard ramp for my oldest. So, between this and laundry I may be able to get those things accoplished. We did get everything wrapped that could be wrapped and put under the tree. So, once I finish making the rest of the gifts we can get those done as well. Hope everyone else isn't feeling the pressure of the holidays, however, I am sure most are. We just have to remember what the holidays are all about. I keep reminding my kids that it isnt about santa or presents, but about family and celebrating our Saviour. It is hard in this day and age, when so many find it fashionable to denounce the Christian faith. So many also find it so much easier to be politically correct than to stand for what the truly beleive in. So many retailers are so afraid to offend some client base that they fold under the pressure. Now, I know it is easy for me to say since I do not own my own business and do not have to deal with the whiners. However, I do deal with a couple of young whiners in my household. I know that it grinds the nerves, but when they understand the whining will not make me cave to their every whim they soon stop. They get the message. We, as a country, have given the message that even if you are not in the majority, the majority is so opposed to hearing the whining they will cave eventually. Off my soapbox until next time. Have a great weekend!!!

Crocheting Along

So, we got the lights hung, AGAIN...and they have fallen again, so we will be hanging lights again tonight. There is a brilliant invention here to be made, I just wish my brain could figure it out. I finished all the Christmas shopping I can possibly do right now. I am planning to try to make some truffles for both sides of the family for Christmas. I have been cutting the matting for the family photos (you know, that is much harder than it looks). All angels and hearts have been crocheted, and most have been starched and laced with ribbon. They look so nice. I even got one photo and frame put together with a nice scripture and the heart and angel. It will look real nice if I can get the backing to close shut (the mat is thinck, and that paired with the crocheted elements makes the back next to impossible to close).



So, with all of that done, I am bored. The only other project I have going right now is my husbands blanket. Being a stock broker in a call center, it makes my boss just buggy when I crochet large projects at my desk. He seems ok with the small thread crochet, but let me pull out an afghan or a large granny square, he just freaks. So, I have a lovely collection of mismatched coasters, doilies, and so forth at my desk. I did make a couple of extra hearts today for a lady I work with, she really liked them and said she wanted some for her tree. Of course, I haven't seen her since I finished them, so I still have them on my desk.



I am a member of a Christian message board, and there have been a number of posts lately pertaining to child discipline. What is and what is not appropriate, to spank or not to spank. Do time outs really work, and so forth and so on. i have noticed, at work when we talk on breaks and such, that most of the people that have the most wonderful feedback on child raising have no children of their own. They have all the best answers, and know exactly what it takes to raise a child and make them come out normal in the end. I have in the past voiced some issues that I am having with one child or the other at home, and it is immediately met with a "Have you tried this?" or "You know what you should do?" Amazing that they immediately know what my child, whom they have never met, will react to and what form of discipline is best. I just nod my head and smile. What more can you do? My oldest son hates time outs, he was an only child for 3 1/2 years and finds it horrible to be in a corner all by himself, so this works for him. My youngest finds time outs to be just wonderful, as he has never known life as an only child and rarely gets peace and quiet. It all depends on the child. I hated being spanked when I was a kid, mostly it was the time leading up to the spanking, but the spanking was pretty bad. Never bothered my sister. She would just look at my dad after, so different forms of discipline were used for each of us.



Oh, enough of my soapbox here. Off to hang lights soon, and figure out how to get them to stay up once and for all. Perhaps a house of metal and a light string of magnet will do?? Or, perhaps I need to spend my time crocheting some sort of contraption that will hold them up, instead of all these dang coasters and doilies laying around!!