Throwback Thursday

I wanted to start creating a blog topic for certain days of the week to share further with my readers. Thursdays will be known as - Throwback Thursdays! If you have been on the internet previously, you have probably already encountered this topic multiple times.

How It Works

I will look through my photos and post a picture of a previous project. Because this is a crochet blog, I will try to make it crochet; however, I may throw in other types of photos!

I would love to hear your comments!

Today's Throwback Thursday

This little bear is not only poorly constructed, but she is my second ever doll and my third ever project in crochet. My first doll and first project in crochet was an elephant. I will have to share that soon! I am not actually sure where this bear ended up, but I sure have come a long way.

What was your first project? 

Sarah

Preview of Upcoming Spring Patterns

I have a bit of work to do on formatting the patterns and putting them to PDF; however, I have finally created a good background for my new patterns. Would you like to see a preview?

I thought so!

Please remember to respect my copyright! There will be quite a few sets coming out for my Spring line! Yes, they are all Barbie; however, I will have different patterns in different categories coming up. Stay tuned.

Are you excited for new patterns?

Sarah

Months of Work

This crochet designer has figured out a better, more efficient, and prettier way to format and write patterns. Currently I have around 30 patterns or so, give or take a few. So, in the idea to create a more uniform and prettier pattern, I have decided to recrochet, rework, and rewrite my patterns. All of them. Plus work on the 50+ patterns I have sitting half ready to publish.

That means:

• New wording
• New pattern designs
• New format
• New photos
• New backgrounds
• Bringing in some testers

Times 80!

.........

When you look at it that way, that is a lot of work!

Wish me luck!

Sarah

Snow Pictures

Just sharing some beautiful snow shots from TN!

Cozy in Bed

It is in the quiet of the morning that I usually like to take time for myself - without much distraction.  I can think on what I want to accomplish and plan for the future.  The cats are usually quiet.  The house settled into just creaks.  This morning...at 5:38 a.m., I am curled up in bed under the covers because of the snow.  At the base of the beautiful Smoky Mountains, we tend to get a lot of snow in January.  We can pass Thanksgiving with just a flurry.  We can even pass Christmas without a speck of white.  Yet, the moment the calendar flips to January 1, our winter season truly starts.  For a week we have experienced ice, snow, rain, warm weather, rain, ice, snow, and freezing weather.

Tonight...it is the latter part.  It is still dark out, but here are a few pictures of our beautiful snow.  I have mastered how to take snow pictures.

Without a doubt though, I am still trying to stay warm and thinking of the future.  And realizing that 6 a.m. has come way too early.  Tonight, I apparently have been in curriculum making mode.  No...I do not have any children, but I have a degree in Elementary Education and LOVE making worksheets, lesson plans, and fun units as something fun to do.  People have movies.  I have making worksheets.

*shrugs shoulders* What are you gonna do?

I have been thinking about offering homeschool resources as I make them!  Is there anyone out there that would like that?

A New Design

As I am working toward a new me and focusing on my new goals - spiritually, mentally, emotionally, financially, and in a business sense - I decided to revamp my blog look to something sleek.  I have added links to my Ravelry and Craftsy stores at the top of the blog as well as an About Me section.  Feel free to check it out if you wish!  Over the coming months, I plan on announcing new patterns and creating a new view of my work through this blog.  I hope that you continue to explore, craft, and grow with me.


Sarah

Recovering from the Holidays

After the hustle and bustle of the holidays, crafters like me tend to take a break from last minute gifts quickly crocheted/knitted/crafted to wrap and box.  That is exactly what I did.  I made it about a week before the itch to create came back to me.  As I neared the end of 2013, I glanced at the amount of patterns I started to design and develop and almost cried.  There was around 25-30.  How could that be?  How could I have started that many projects and never finish? 

*shifty eyes*

Okay!  Okay!  Like some...if not most...crafters, I have put myself in a position to jump from project to project without committing to finish.  Which is how I now have a huge tub of scrap yarn from unfinished WiPs that I frogged.  For those non-crocheters/knitters, WiPs stands for Work in Progress and frogged is...rip it out or ribbit.  Not only have I know have lots of scraps, but I amassed a large amount of yarn over the last few years without really using it.

This...is how I came to one of my goals for 2014.

1.  Do not buy any new yarn until I use a majority of what I have.  (Yep...crafters...I made the goal.)

2. Finish the patterns I started to develop in 2013 by the end of 2014.  This gives me a lot to do and perhaps some new revenue.

3. Create a list of items I want to develop into patterns and try to finish them as well.  So far...the list hit around 20.

If you have been keeping count...that is around 50 patterns to develop and attempt to sell this year.  And that is how I find myself tonight...alone...in the bed...under the covers attempting to stay warm, crocheting one of my old 2013 patterns.  It is turning out cute if I do say so.  Either way, I wanted to share pictures of my tree this year.  We usually do not go all out and this year is the same.  It's simple and fits the handcrafted, passed down ornaments from our childhoods and some I created myself.

Our 2013 Christmas Tree

Underneath is the small tree skirt I made. 

And this...is one of our newest ornaments.  My roommate and one of my very best friends is a HUGE coffee drinker.  So, he received this coffee mug ornament (with the coffee the way he likes it) as a gift from me.  He loved it!

Either way, I hope that you had a wonderful holiday - whatever it might have been.  Have you decided to create goals for 2014?  Or just going with the flow?

Sarah