October 8th, 2011 -- Posted in knitty/stitchy, pics |
So after knitting my very first baby garment (an adorable hooded sweater), the next baby gift I wanted to make was a pair of knitted baby booties…
I know it seems a little backwards, having done a really difficult project and then moving to a more simple project like booties, but for me it was just about the order of the babies being born and just going ahead with what I wanted to make! I didn’t want to be limited or slowed down by a difficult pattern. If I see something cute, I want to be able to make it, and I’ll try to just learn whatever techniques I need to learn to do that. It’s just the way I’ve always been and so far I haven’t hit too many road blocks in accompishing anything I set my mind to. 
My first pair of booties turn out very well, although I found they didn’t go up as high as I would’ve liked. So I ended up modifying the “Small” size version of all future patterns to have higher sock sections. Since knitting that first pair of booties, I’ve now created a half dozen more pairs!
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May 4th, 2011 -- Posted in blinkies & other cuteness |
So one of the continuing projects I’ve been slowly chipping away at on my freebies site is filling out the free Big Blinkies area so that it has as much choice and variety as the regular-sized blinkie area… Right now it’s not even half the size and there are some “themes” that are completely missing! For example, if you want love & marriage type blinkies, they’re only available in the smaller size.
One more “set” of blinkies has been added though that is now available in the 150×40 size! If you want to add a blinkie to your signature that shows you are a proud mom to 1, 2, 3, or more (up to 6 and “many” for beyond…), you’ve got ‘em!
Another option if you have more than 6 munchkins would be to check if requests are being taken. I have opened the requests back up for now and I’ll see how that goes, but if it gets busy, I may need to take a pause again.
There are also some blinkies for moms of multiples (twins, triplets…) and moms of all girl and all boy families…
I just have a dozen blinkies created so far in one colour set (orange, pink and purple) but I have plans to do a second set in a similar style but with a coordinating colour palette or orange, blue and green.
You can check out the whole collection on this page: “Proud Mommy to…” Big Blinkies
Enjoy! 
April 7th, 2011 -- Posted in scrappy / stampy |
These were a really fun project to do…
For my first card order of the year, a friend commissioned a birthday card in blues, browns and greens. Suitable for a male in his 20s… oh a by the way, it’s being sent to a celebrity rock star, no pressure. 
She only needed one card but I ended up making two (I often do make more than one at a time, often in pairs since that’s the way an 8 & 1/2 x 11″ page of cardstock evenly divides!). Then she had the choice of which one to opt for. She ended up choosing the guitar, so the star card will be added to my KStar Card Store…
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