Early Christmas

Okay...I admit.  I always seem to want to create Christmas in any month by crafting or purchasing discounted Christmas presents.  What can I say?  I love saving money.  And with such a large family to purchase for, it is awesome to save money.  This is the year I wanted to make a majority of the gifts I give.  A tall order for sure!  But one of the ways I have decided to provide that gift giving is by providing each family with a set of crocheted Christmas ornaments.

I have searched pattern after pattern and blog after blog looking for the perfect ornaments.  Some of them have not been living up to my standards.  So I just improvise and make my own.  Here are two such examples:

The Christmas stocking ornament!  It is open at the top so little (maybe sparkly) gifts can be slipped inside.

Mittens!  This one has yet to be attached to a second.  This is just the prototype of my pattern.  It is also open on the top. 

There was a tradition in my husband's family each year.  Certain ornaments would have a candy hidden in them.  The children were allowed to pick an ornament and see if there was a candy in it.  I think this is a cute idea.  For those families who prefer not to give out candy or chocolate, the stocking provides enough room to put a different reward like crayons or chalk.

These will probably be available in my Etsy shop around October for purchase.

Accessories

For some reason, my stock of accessories keeps filling up further and further.  Not complaining though!  Recently I created a lanyard clip.  For anyone that doesn't know what that is...it is an i.d. badge holder.  It comes with a clip at the bottom and you just slip the i.d. sleeve on it.  Well...I saw that these were popular to purchase as crochet, so I made one.

I have more planned for the future.  What designs would you like to see?


Another accessory is the wonderful hair snaps.  Yes...the easy and beautiful way to put your hair back.  The clips I bought online came all the way from China, so it took at least two weeks to get here.  They estimated the arrival at 6-8 weeks!  Wow.  Either way, I finally took the time today to make some flowers.

Here is the results:

Pink mini flowers!  I love these the best.  They are just adorable.

Hoot Hoot!

One of the more important and marketable items that I seem to make is anything to do with is....Yep you guessed it....Hooters!  LOL!  Owls.  I  have tested multiple patterns, but most of the time I end up going my own way.  Like everything else.  (Yes I have to forge my own path.)  Recently I had an order to make two owls, so I decided to share some pictures of the Hooters I have crocheted.

I have to say...after all those orders, the newest version (at the beginning of the post) is my favorite design.