In addition to the scarf I made with the super soft yarn, I have made several other scarves lately. This one was made with blue and yellow. I crocheted five rows of blue and five rows of yellow and repeated. Then I did a ruffle of blue around the whole thing, and I was going to just leave it, but it looked a little funny, so I did a yellow ruffle. I like it. And it's pretty soft yarn, too.
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Don't worry, I had to look that up, too. In crochet, I am familiar with a "V" stitch (double crochet, chain one, double crochet--all in the same hole), but had no clue what a "brick repeat" was. I found the pattern here. It made a rather pretty scarf design, if I do say so myself.
When I made stockings for my parents, EJ asked me if I would make him a monster one. (Last year I made him an apron out of the same monster material.)
This is his stocking at our house. I used it as a template. Last year after I wrote my stocking stuffers post, my mom lamented that she and my dad really missed out--and miss out--by not having stockings. So guess what I did? I made them stockings! Merry Christmas, parents!
Last year, I saw this genius idea, probably on Pinterest, to make a portable wrapping station. They took it farther than I did, but I am happy with what I made.
My husband had this rolly-thing he probably got off the side of the road somewhere. I've seen other people's blog posts, where they list 150 stocking stuffer ideas. I see the title and think, "Oh good! I need good ideas!" Because, you know as well as I do that stockings are usually the hardest thing to buy for for Christmas, especially if you are buying for an adult. {Growing up, my parents didn't have stockings of their own because they didn't have them when they were growing up. My siblings and I did, and we still do. I mean, when do you stop having a stocking? The obvious answer would be "when you're a grown-up", but our first Christmas together, we didn't have any kids to buy toys for their stockings (and I would imagine most other people don't either). So, we had stockings. And then, the kid is too little to understand what a stocking is, and then the daddy takes the kid shopping and buys little presents for mommy's stocking so you can't really not do stockings after that. Okay, I feel justified being 28 and still having a stocking.}
So back to the point. I click on these other links, anticipating a flood of super ideas that I just won't know which ones to pick, there will be so many good ideas. And normally, I am sorely disappointed. Like the most recent list I found. #143: Kindle. Seriously?! Who gives Kindles in stockings?? If you are like me, you are about to give up clicking on stocking-stuffer-idea links. But I hope you will click on mine before you completely give up. Well, if you are reading this, you've clicked, so before you decide I'm just going to rant about bad stocking stuffer lists, here is my list, compiled from random ones floating around in cyberspace, with only the truly cheap and not-stupid ideas included. This week is our mission's conference at church. We do things differently from any other church I know of. Monday through Wednesday, each missionary goes into a Sunday School classroom and presents his work to anyone in the church who comes to his room. It works out really well, because if someone can only go two nights, they can listen to whichever two of the missionaries they want.
Changing gears: A couple days ago, I made these delicious pumpkin spice cookies with cream cheese frosting: I talked on the phone for over an hour this morning. I don't normally do that. But today, it happened. EJ likes to be with me, but he knows he has to be quiet when I'm on the phone, so before my conversation got too deep, he obtained permission to cut up some of my cardstock. I had fun watching him work, and it wasn't until he was finished that I realized what he had made.
Here he is making the bottom of the ship. I'm not sure why it's wrinkled, or why it's pointy. The mast of the ship is his shark head grabber toy that he got with some of his tickets from Hoover library. Last year (yes, it really has been that long) I did a project to help us pray for people during our evening family devotions. As he was growing up, my husband and his siblings learned a verse every week, then his dad would pull out a new missionary every night that the entire family would pray for. We always had a Bible lesson and just prayed (prayer for missionaries happened at meal time). For our new little family (once EJ was old enough to actively participate) we made our own routine.
Every night, EJ gets a verse to memorize, and we stay on that verse for about 4 days. I wanted to pray for specific people every night, and I also wanted to pray for missionaries we knew. So I made prayer sticks. We didn't actually paint with real worms. It was al dante spaghetti. But it felt like worms. I think the cup on the left started out as all green, but after multiple kids using blue and pink and orange then reaching into the green kinda mixes the colors!
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