Coffee Cozy Giveaway

 Doing a quick and fun little giveaway over on my Facebook page today! 

Winner gets to customize their own cozy with the colors of their choice. 

come on over to my page and join the Fall anticipation fun!

Crochet: Simple Statement Ornaments

Here's a simple and easy crochet project I pinned onto my Christmas board a few months ago. I found the idea on a blog called Goodknits. She crocheted around these circular objects called cabone rings. I've never attempted or even thought about crocheting around objects like this before. I wasn't planning on making them, until I found some old curtain clip rings {6 to be exact} while I was cleaning out my craft room last weekend.

I just took out all of the screws and got to work creating pretty new ornaments for our tree.

They were pretty easy for the most part. Basically single crocheting around the ring, filling it up (took 45 single crochets), and then lots of chaining and more single crochets to form the little loops. But you can just go check out the instructions for yourself on Goodknits.

I think they turned out cuuuute!

I didn't have any wire ornament hooks so I just made my own with some wire I had. Paper clips would also work for making ornament hooks.

OooOOOooOoOhh... presents under the tree already!?! ;)

Crochet Coffee Cozies

I recently discovered the fun of making crochet coffee cozies.. and now I can't stop! 

I'm absolutely IN-LOVE with these bow cozies! They are so fun to make!

I pretty much made up my own pattern that works for me. At first, crocheting in the round (or circle) was a bit confusing.. I'd tried it before when I first started crocheting but gave up. Now I think I've got it down. 

I made some other styled cozies as well.. 

Embellishing them is the best part!

No burned fingers for me! 

I've added a few to my Etsy shop, and I've posted more of them on my facebook page as well! 

They'd make perfect little Christmas gifts or stocking stuffers, maybe along with a gift card to a coffee shop!

Baby Bloom Bands!

A couple weeks ago I purchased some skinny elastic form an etsy shop, because I've been thinking about making some different kind of baby headband. I haven't been making anymore of my big flower crochet baby headbands lately, and I've really only sold like one of them. So I'm going to try out something a little different, and incorporating my bloom flowers that I use for my bloom necklaces. I made my first one today and I think it's pretty cute. What do you think?

 

This one was wrapped, packaged, and mailed to my sweet baby niece! 

I hope it fits and looks adorable!

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BY THE WAY.... 

I've added some Bloom Rings to the shop!

Have already gotten a custom order for one! :) 

Over time I'll be adding more colors. 

If you don't see a color you'd like, ask me and I'd be happy to make one in the color of your dreams! ; ) 

New Shop Item Coming and Giveaway!

I must introduce to you a new item I am adding into my shop! 

{please excuse the creepy looking skin on my pointer finger. I burned it last week on steam while making dinner}

 

 

Aren't they little cuties?! 

Made a pretty white one for myself! I love it!

They are made with the same cotton embroidery thread as my bloom necklaces, and are glued down to a silver plated adjustable ring. 

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Before I add them into my shop I'd love to do a giveaway for one of these rings! 

One of you bloggy friends of mine will get to pick your favorite ring you see here in these pictures- the very first batch of my bloom rings!  

To enter:

 {only open to my blog followers please!}

 Lately I have been thinking about and wishing we could have a pet- a puppy! But of course we can't because of our apartment living. So... 

1.leave me a comment telling me about the first pet you owned. If you are married, tell me about the very first pet you and your spouse had together! --I love hearing stories! 

Random entry, huh? : ) 

For a second comment:

2. Share your Pinterest account link in a comment so we can all be friends and like the same things ha ha ha! (seriously!)

 

Don't forget to leave your email in one of your comments so I can find you if you win! 

example: metsymade(at)gmail(com)

write it just like that in case that helps in avoiding spam mail..? ..I think

The giveaway ends Wednesday, April 11th!

And the winner will be picked using random.org.

 Have fun!

Infinity Scarves In Shop!

Yay! This week I've added some of my brand new shop items-- infinity scarves!!

Super excited, cause I just LOVE these scarves! 

I often forget to take them off when I come back inside, they are just that comfy!

These are so fun to make too, and I want to make them in all kinds of colors! I'm seriously about to get dangerously addicted to buying every pretty colored yarn I fall in love with! I told Hubs he's gonna have to build me shelves on the wall in my craft area to hold all my yarn! :) 

Anyway, come check out my scarves in the shop! 

I'll have to suffice as my own model for now.. which I think wearing them for photos seems to be more appealing than hanging on a hanger.. what do you think?

It's Been Awhile...

Hi there! Remember me? It's been a while, hasn't it? Life has been a little busy recently with my job and the holidays. And I've been missing blogging, but I've been so unmotivated at getting into blogging about anything. Speaking of the holidays, Christmas in California was wonderful! It was so good to be home with my family for a couple of weeks. I think I'll share about our trip in another post though. But with the holidays over and no more baby shower to plan for (blog post soon coming about that!) I have more time to work on shop related things! And I'm excited to introduce a new item I will be adding to my shop. Infinity scarves! I made one for our church's Christmas gift exchange party and it was a hit! It was stolen 3 times! It gave me a feeling of pride inside!! haha! I made one for myself, one for my coworker since we drew names for Christmas, one for my sister and mom too! Everyone loved them! So I'm working on adding some of these to my shop now! I love them, and they look great with everything! I'm just having a hard time figuring out how to photograph them for my shop. Outside in the snow makes beautiful photos, but I'd probably freeze to death! No joke. Today's weather is 7 degrees farenheit!! If we live here in New Brunswick forever I may have to invest in a parka!

Here's just a little peek at my infinity scarf I wore today

Carrot colored infinity scarf I made for myself

Isn't it cute?! It's hard to see the whole thing, but it's a pretty big circle and it's wrapped around my neck twice. So comfy and cozy! Can't wait to get them in my shop! 

Until next time.. 

happy creativities!

(haven't said that in a great long while!)

P.S.. this photo is the first photo to be posted on my blog that was taken by my new Canon point and shoot camera that Hubby got me for Christmas!!! Love it!

Crochet Ruffle Scarf

Wow, It's like I've been avoiding blogging like the plague! ... Not really, I just haven't had anything great to blog about. I do have a bunch of projects I'm in the middle of, but it could be ages before those are done because, I'm pretty sure I've mentioned it before, I tend to procrastinate things. I'll try to work on that.. cause I have some things I really want to share!.. before I get gray hairs. 

This week I was feeling in the mood to make a scarf. I haven't done one in a great long while, so I bought some pretty yarn. I love this color. It's called Pale Antique Rose. Isn't that a pretty name too? I was planning on just making one of my normal scalloped scarves, but I decided to try and make ruffles instead. I didn't follow any pattern for making ruffles, I basically just figured it out on my own.. 

Ta- da!

I like it and can't wait to wear it! .. Well, I CAN wait, .. cause really I'm not looking forward to winter gracing us with its presence again. I'm rather sad about the summer ending, but now that fall has started showing itself, I don't mind it getting a little teensy weensy bit cool. I love fall. It makes me all romantic-y and dreamy and I want to go buy pumpkins and put them everywhere in our apartment and burn yummy smelling candles all day long--(big breath for air!) 

back to the ruffly scarf I made...

Lovely, right? :)

I thought I'd share the tiny little instructions on how I did the ruffles in case anyone's wondering.

So first things first, I made the foundation row 210 chain stitches long. 

Then I did 3 rows of double crochets.

For the ruffles on the first side (which is the opposite side of the foundation chain stitches) I did 3 double crochets in EACH stitch all the way across.

(no skipping spaces at all).

Like this.. 

(the gray ovals represent the stitches you are stitching into)

 

For the other side of the scarf I did things a little different. I alternated between 3 double crochets in one stitch, and 2 double crochets in the next and continuing in that pattern. 

Like this..

I did it this way because I was finding that the foundation stitches seemed to be a bit scrunched and closer than on the other side of the scarf.. When I was doing 3 double crochets in each stitch everything was tighter and the ruffles were smaller than the other side. So by doing it this way, to me it seemed to even them out more to look like the other side.

And yes, the ends will look a little strange too. So what I did for the ends was just add double crochets right along the ends to make them rounded. Not sure how to explain this part, but I just put double crochets anywhere on the ends to get it across and connect to the other side's end with a slip stitch.

Here's a photo of the finished ends which might help with understanding..

They aren't perfect, but they look SO much better then if I hadn't finished them this way.

So that's my ruffle scarf! 

I'd love to make a few for my shop too, so we'll see that how that goes!

If you make your own ruffle scarf I'd love to see it!
Feel free to leave your a link to your own ruffle scarf blog post in a comment
if you make one!!

Crocheting with Embroidery Floss- A bit of what I've been working on for my shop!

Recently I discovered how much fun crocheting with embroidery floss is! Not only is the process of creation fun, but the results are SUPER CUTENESS!! 

 

Look at these DARLING little crochet flower earrings I've been making!

Aren't they the sweetest ever? I am so happy with how they've turned out! 

Soon they'll be going into my shop, along with some other items I'm working on!

I'm calling these 

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