1 Month Old

I can't believe how quickly they grow.... *sigh*

A Girl Grunge Kit by Susan Godfrey available at Elemental Scraps Shoppe
Fonts are Bradley's Hand and MA Sexy

B is For....

BeMyBaby Kit by Susan Godfrey which should be available at Elemental Scraps shortly!
Fonts are Papyrus, Garamond, and Bradley's Hand.

I learned a new trick today for resizing my images... so hopefully they'll load faster! :) Look for PIXresizer online and download the freebie - its an awesome tool!

Patience (New Kit by Susan Godfrey)

BeMyBaby by Susan Godfrey, available at
Elemental Scraps Font is Papyrus and Bradley's Hand.

ABC Challenge

There is an ABC Challenge at Elemental Scraps.

So A is for.....

Animals of course! :)

A trip to the zoo yields a few pics of the Zoo right?!

Kit is Lauren Grier's Zoo Buddies (Crop Freebie) Alpha is also hers from the SweetHeart kit (recoloured here)
fonts are Harlow and Bradley's Hand.

Gina's Sketches #6 & #8

Spring JellyBean Kit by MissMint
Fonts are Papyrus and Bradley's Hand
Alpha is from Joedee Matsler's Pistacchio Pudding
Gina's Sketch #6



Same kit, Font is Bradley's Hand - Gina's Sketch #8

Washing the Floor Layout.

Very bland and simple based originally on a scraplift layout from Lauren at ElementalScraps, but it turned into its own Layout and only used her quote "Imagination is everything."
Kit is DDE-AquaDreams by Gina Cabrera, Fonts are Vivaldi, Times New Roman and Pristina

Susan's Colour Challenge at Elemental Scraps

I seem to be spending a lot of time at Elemental Scraps lately. But I'm inspired! :) This layout was done using papers I created from the color swatches she provided.... The Dots and Stitching are from MissMint's SpringJellyBean Kit.

Can we say Addicted??

Birthday Layouts on Shabby Birthday Kit for April 19 Crop at Element Scraps by Susan Godfrey.
Font is Bradley's Hand and Harlow.


This was inspired by a Challenge from Amanda at Elemental Scraps and was done on Zoo Papers from Lauren Grier (Chat freebie)

1 December LO and 2 Easter LOs

This first one here is a picture of baby H after 4 months in hospital. It was Christmas hence the red and green and the holly and berries. This is my all time favourite picture of her. The fonts for this kid are Harlow and Journal is Bradley's Hand.

Journal reads:
You spent your first Christmas in the TD-ICU at Children's. Santa visited you there and we spent a quiet Christmas together as a family in your room. The nurses were great. I had hoped that you would be home by now, but the doctors are promising it will happen soon.

Christmas Eve Santa stoped by to visit. Like a good little girl you were fast asleep.


Simple layout here for Sarah.

Kit is Fun by Amanda Rockwell, Font is ??

Kit is still Fun by Amanda Rockwell

Fonts are Forte and Bradley's Hand.

Journaling reads:

Happy Easter Sweetheart.The day after Easter you and I decided to do a photoshoot with Sarah, so you both put on your pretty dresses from Grandma andout into the yard we went.
The pictures turned out perfectly.The secret behind this picture is you were watching a bee in the Azaleabush and you were actually inmotion to get up and run.Apparently you share that little fear of bumblebees with me!

Garter Sweater - All Done

Buttons have been sewed on the all is ready to toss it in the mail.

Koolaiding

I've been Koolaiding in preparation for my next project.

Amanda Done, Mitt-ies in Progress!

Ah, the upcoming expiration of the Photoshop trial gave me a few days reprieve from the computer and I spent a little bit of time catching up on my much neglected knitting work.

I completed the Amanda last night with a few differences including a little ring fobby thing to hold keys and a cellphone in a holder (I always use the label in my store-bought bags and thought this would be useful.) My friend has decided that she wants to felt it herself so I will write up the instructions to give her and let her go to town with. ( pics coming)

I finished my baby hat (for the mint set) tonight as the little one rolled around the floor. I kinda used a pattern and then did my own thing with that and the hat kinda looks cute - instead of the hearts I did garter st. like the jacket. (pics coming)

And I'm still working on my March Charity Challenge (35-40 items).

So a little progress.

No sign of easing!

So the new obsession has taken over my life with no signs of easing up.

I'm at 20 layouts with only 8 days left of my free trial of Photoshop Elements 4.0 and I gotta say there is no question I'm hooked. My dh compared me to a junkie - I can't seem to get enough of it! LOL!

My knitting and crochet projects haven't fallen by the wayside though, like I said the computer is slow. I feel remotely guilty about ignoring them, but life with an infant and an almost 5 yr old and a scrap addiction is well kinda difficult to focus on more things! LOL!

This month's goal is to finish up the projects I've got on the go and get on with my to do list. So here is the list in black and white.

UFOs
1. In Progress - Heartghan for friend (Seam - 1.25 of 3 strips done) .... couple months old
2. In Progress - 35 charity items (28 33 of 40 items) .... March goal
3. Amanda Backpack for Friend (10 more rows, strap and felting to do)
4. - Outfit for Aunt's Great Gran (jacket needs buttons, booties done, working on hat and need mitts)
5. In Progress - 52 Digital Scrapbook layouts (20 29 done waiting to print)... 2006 Goal.
6. Ducky print#4 on Embroidery quilt (3 of 12 done) .... Feb goal
7. Sampler quilt. .... Dec goal
8. Bunny print#5 on Embroidery quilt (3 of 12 done) .... New goal
9. 35 Charity items .... April goal

A New Obsession

A new obsession has been born.
I've now added Digi-Scrapbooking to my list of hobbies.
Addicted like a junky, I managed 6 LOs in 4 days... and set a goal to one baby's full set done by the end of the year or at least 52 LOs! :) SO I guess I'm well on my way.

The sad thing is my computer is so slow that the knitting hasn't gone by the wayside, I can knit 2 short rows or one long row between additions! LOL!

Marr Haven is Hitting the Needles

I just got a stash of 100% Pure Wool... what a nice soft yarn... (its spoken for I think)

But for now the Marr Haven is on the needles readying itself for a panty style soaker... by Fern and Faerie.

Also on the needles is another Amanda in Cascade 220 in a trio of blues. (20 rows into the bag portion.)

Also on the needles is the Mint set for my Aunt's great-grandbaby. It's about 1/3 into it... and such a pretty piece.

I think I'm going to add to the sidebar my fancy yarn stash.

Booties

In case you missed it here is my first pattern

Booties

Perfecting a Pattern & Longies Done

I'm working on getting a Charity pattern up here for some booties inspired by Bev Qualheim's Very Easy Bootie pattern.

It should be ready in a couple days.


I also just finished a pair of Longies in Lion Wool... nice yarn but I don't like the fact that I now have blue hands (blue dye from the Ocean Blues print yarn)

The Hoodie is Done

The hoodie is done. I'm still in love with the colours. And oddly am obsessing about maybe making a pair of longies in a yellow wool...



And after the initial kermudgeon about knitting with cotton, I seem to like it. As a result have added a few more 'cotton' projects to my list. Woe Nelly, I need to slow down with that darn list and work on the projects I've already got yarn for.

2 balls of purple 220
4 balls of KnitPics Wool of the Andies.
4 balls of Lion Wool (in Sea Blues)
4 balls of Lion Wool (in Floral?)
2 balls of Marr Haven (in Green Heather)
4 balls of the Treliske.
1 ball of pink 220

(Darn I didn't realize I had that much yarn! LOL! Nelly needs to get back to her knitting now! LOL!)

A Little Break

Now that my 'official' Olympic project is done I decided to take a little break last night and work on a Dishcloth. I need more, so I've joined the Monthly Dishcloth Knit-a-long.

Tomorrow it will be back to the Childhood and I'll keep my nose on that one til it is done.

I also absolutely must put the afghan together. So that will be the next big project.

It' Fixed, It's Done, It's Beautiful

Alright, so I didn't tink or frog it, but while sleeping I came up with a way to fix it. SO I fixed it this morning, took before felting pics and will take one when its dry (cause dd won't touch it wet! LOL!)



I gotta say I love it.
I will make it again, but next time I won't felt it so much.