obsessed with crochet

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sat, 11 May 2013 21:13:00 +0000

Peace, love♥, and crochet... Debbie

Sneak peek of Victoria's prom dress and shoes. The prom is next Friday 5/17

My daughter Victoria's senior picture's

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Fri, 10 May 2013 15:27:00 +0000

Peace, love♥, and crochet... Debbie

I am sitting here during my lunch at work looking at my blog. I have not thought about it for quite awhile seems my last post was in 2011.. Wow.. My life has been so busy or I am to lazy to post.. I guess if I am being truthful It's a little of both. I really enjoying looking at others blogs and hope to get mine going again. I love to take pictures and crochet.. And really want to post some of the new things I am doing... I have been using facebook quite a bit both for my personal page and my shop fan page..And of course instagram..I am looking now and my lunch is almost over. So it's ta ta for now and a post with some yummy crochet pictures later.... I hope so..I hope everyone is well and having a great day. It's beautiful and sunny here in NJ today... ♥

Also I am seeing my signoff is on top.. Forgive me as I try to figure this whole blog thing out again..

Was in a craft swap!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:12:00 +0000

I participated in a craft swap/gift exchange at www.craftaholicsanonymous.net. We were each given a partner, mine was Tiffany from Kansas. We e-mailed and I found out her colors are pink and brown.

I made her a brown neck cozy with a pink pin, matching brown ear warmers with a brown pin, a chunky, pretty posy pin of course in pinks and another flower pin layered in 3 different colors. I also sent along a small bag of goodies I send to my customers... I hope she likes what I sent her. It was fun, I can't wait to see what I get!!!
~TTFN Debbie♥

Peace, love♥, and crochet... Debbie

It's been forever.....

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:28:00 +0000

Well, it's been quite a while since I have blogged. Seems life gets in the way. Blogging, crocheting and updating facebook and etsy are a full time job. I already have a full time job and a family. I don't know how people seem to do it all... I changed my blog around a bit, not sure if I like it. When it comes to the computer I am very limited. I know it could be like 100 times better but have no idea how to do it... oh well guess it will be like this for a while.

These are a few pictures of some things I have been working on. I am trying to sell my crochet items so I can have Christmas money to buy gifts for my family ~ as our financial situation has not changed.. ENJOY!!!

And finally a picture I took of my daughters that I absolutely LOVE!!!!♥♥♥

Hope you are all having a great Sunday... as for me I need to go and crochet.. I have a few orders to finish and a swap gift to work on...

Peace, love♥, and crochet... Debbie

Summer happenings.....

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 22:34:00 +0000

This summer has been really busy despite our not scheduling things to do. The girls and I helped out with VBS at our church.

We also tie-dyed small backpacks as a missions project to send to Latin America. It was fun, 160 dyed with the teen youth group.

We had alot of dye left over so anyone who brought a t-shirt could tie-dye. These are the one's I did in the dark for the girls. They turned out great, the best one's I ever dyed!!!

My friend Pam and I went up to Stockton to Woodsedge Wools Farm for their fiber festival. This is the shop, The outside is huge and looks like a house. The inside is beautiful to with lots of yummy alpaca items to buy.

The farm has 300 Alpaca's. This is the first time I have ever seen them, they are the cutest animal and make the best yarn from their fleece.

This is my friend Pam, she is the best knitter ever. She was making a really cool sweater, this is her favorite color.♥

The Girls went to see Harry Potter at the 12am showing. They really enjoyed it. Me not so much had to get them at 2:30 and we all had to be up and in Metuchen by 8am for VBS the next day... Somehow we did it but were really tired.

The girls after the show, it was in 3D, they got these cute Harry Potter glasses. My mom bought them the shirts. they each like different houses....

We were lucky to be able to go to Brick, down the shore for the weekend. We stayed at our friends Sue and Beth's hose. They have a great deck and a nice big pool. We also went to the Tom's river ice cream festival. It was a nice weekend.

Victoria and Allie enjoying the pool.

Allie, Bailey the rat dog, we were watching him for my sister-in-law, Victoria and Gizmo Sue's dog and Beth.

Harry potter tickets...............
Me, Victoria, Jeff and Allie in Bayville at the bay.
Jeff and the girls goofing off in the pool.

Chemo hats I made for RAJKpatterns hat drive. I sent 4 to Alabama today in the girls name in honor of Nana~Evelyn Procek who passed away from colon cancer. We hope this will bring peace and comfort to the recipient.

I have been into recycling t-shirts, these are some bracelets I made. Came out really cool. It's amazing how many things you can make from t-shirts. Anybody want to send or give me some please do so.

Finally in June we ran down to Maryland real quick and had some oral surgery done. Jeff had an infection, I am getting an implant and Victoria had 4 wisdom teeth removed. This is Lumbo our good friend who performed all the surgeries and Vic with her ice pack Christi his wife devised....

Hope everyone is having a great summer. Please check out my etsy shop www.yarnfreak.etsy.com and my fan facebook page
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!!!
TTFN~
Peace, love♥, and crochet... Debbie

Happy Platypus Day Everyone!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 16:51:00 +0000

Happy Platypus Day!!!! My daughter Victoria is a big Perry fan... Enjoy!!!!!! 3/5/2011

Peace, love♥, and crochet... Debbie

Crochet scarves and Victoria `~♥~`

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 22:40:00 +0000

Some more new scarves I have been working on ~ This is a big thick and chunky wrap around circle scarf. These are really warm and look really great on.

This can be made in any color and worn under a jacket or over a shirt ~

This is the same scarf but with a slight variation on the stitch. Done in a thick and yummy barley color. This color goes well with everything.

You can wear this wrapped over once or not wrapped at all, either way it looks fab!

Chef Vic came home today with some wonderful goodies she made in baking today. She made me the sunflowers and Allie the oreo cookie cupcake, needless to say we were very happy indeed......................

Victoria with her nice new Land's End jacket she got for Christmas from Gi-Gi and her new Ugg boots we bought her for her 16th birthday!!♥

Nice classic Uggs, she will not take them off, they feel that great.

Our sweet Victoria, happy 16th birthday!
She also made the heart shaped bagel. She had the idea and made them for the bakery in her shop. I had one ~ yummy♥

Victoria is the bagel queen. Happy hump day and let me tell you this has been a tough week. We are so use to having a day off from school or a delayed opening from all the snow in the past month that it's been murder going all day... lol We have off next Friday and Monday so there is hope! Have a great night.

TTFN~

Peace, love♥, and crochet... Debbie

Chocolate Cupcake Circle Scarf

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Mon, 07 Feb 2011 23:50:00 +0000

Just a quick post and some pictures of a beautiful circle scarf I made for a co-worker. I just love the colors, they make me so happy!!!! ENJOY!!! ~♥~

Just love this scarf, it can be worn under a jacket or over a shirt. It looks fabulous either way!!!

Close-up of the yarn and stitch, LOVE, LOVE, LOVE IT......

Can be worn many ways as well, looped over 3 times as in the first picture or 2 times like in this picture.

So warm and snuggly......... ♥♥♥♥♥♥
TTFN ~

Peace, love♥, and crochet... Debbie

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 23:30:00 +0000

My daughter Victoria is turning 16 on February 14th, Valentines Day. I can hardly believe it, time has just flown by. Soon she will be driving.
Because my husband still has not found a full time Job from being laid off almost 2 years ago we can not have a Sweet 16 party for her. This makes me sad but she is ok with it.

I took her to the mall yesterday and was able to get her Ugg boots. We found the pair she wanted and she is thrilled. I was able to do this only because I have sold quite a few scarves to friends and co-workers. I thank God for them every day. We also got her a Free Hugs bracelet from Hot Topic and a Perry the Platypus hat from Wal-mart.
On Valentine's Day we plan to use coupons and take her and the family out to dinner to Red Lobster. My parents are joining us for the celebration.
We also decided she could have 5 girlfriends sleep over next Saturday.... So all in all I think she will have a nice birthday...
I thought it would be fun to make the girls crocheted cupcake favors. I started them yesterday. I added a lot of rice to the bottom to help it stand correctly and weigh it down. I am not sure if I like how the bottoms turned out, maybe a bit fat, but they aer all made and the rice has been inserted, just waiting for the tops.
Here are a few pictures of the cupcakes in progress..... I will post more when they are done and of course the party.

The different colored yarn I am using. I am making 7 in total...

The fat ( I think) cupcake bases filled with rice to help balance the finished cupcake.

These are the materials I am using to make the cupcakes, yarn and rice.

Picture of 2 finished cupcakes, 5 more to go! I also added a hanger to the top of the cherry in case they want to hang it. This can always be cut off if they don't want it.
Gotta run and go pick up my husband form work, watch the Super Bowl, listen to some yelling and eat some good food!!! The girls went to a Super Bowl party with their youth group!!!
Life is good! :)

TTFN~♥

Peace, love♥, and crochet... Debbie

Beautiful Crochet Pins

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 17:02:00 +0000

Well, here they are. I got this pattern on Etsy, I am always looking for new and unusual flower patterns to embellish stuff. I thought these would make fabulous pins. Was I right? I think so..quick and easy to make too!!! I used Vanna yarn and went to town, made 24....

Here is a picture of the finished pins...
Two in every color. They would look great on a jacket, purse, tote, hat anywhere.

I LOVE♥ them!!!!!!! How about you?
Doing wash, it's a beautiful day to hang the clothes outside to dry. Allie is at another band competition today, they came in 3rd place again yesterday. And Victoria has cramps and is watching TV. It's a really nice day out here in NJ. Off to do more wash ~ then I want to finish a purse I started from another Etsy seller. Will post pictures as soon as I am done. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this purse!
TTFN~♥
Peace, love♥, and crochet...Debbie

Yes, I am still alive!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sun, 10 Oct 2010 02:56:00 +0000

It's been awhile. Have not really had to much time to blog or even work on my Etsy shop. Work started for me again in Sept. I am an aide in 2nd grade at the local school. So far this year has been trying to say the least. I come home tired everyday.

Hopefully I am getting use to working again after having the summer off and basically being lazy..
My husband went to Maryland today to visit our good friends. He went to a hockey game tonight and is going to see Roger Waters do The Wall tomorrow. We are so blessed to have such great friends who do nice things for us!!!♥♥

I made earwarmers and wristwarmers for the girls as a gift for treating Jeff so nice. I really like how they turned out and plan on making more.... Maybe Christmas gifts.............

Will try to post tomorrow on the beautiful crocheted pins I am working on...
TTFN~♥
Peace, love♥, and crochet...Debbie

Happy Mother's Day!!!! ♥♥♥

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Mon, 10 May 2010 03:13:00 +0000

This is a picture of me and my girls ~ Allie and Victoria ~
Me, my sister Donna and mom........

These are the beautiful flowers the girls gave me for Mother's Day!

The 2nd grade class I work in made these "flower pots" for Mother's Day. They are so colorful, I still have the one Allie made me when she was in 2nd grade. She is in 6th now~

Woke up this morning, went to church, helped out with the ladies retreat, talked to alot of people I had not seen in a while, came home then we went to my parents. Had a nice time there had some good snacks and great cheesecake. It was not Vic's but it was good. We took alot of fun and silly pictures, got my dad to smile and even laugh for a photo. He never does he is so SERIOUS. Came home and relaxed and crocheted while watching Baby Boom on TV.

All in all it was a nice day. The girls with the help of my mom gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers. It really brightens up my family room. I wish it was a bit warmer, it was really cold here and it's suppose to be cold again tomorrow.

TTFN~ Debbie ~♥

Peace, love♥, and crochet...Debbie

Good to be back!!! ~ ♥ ~

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sat, 08 May 2010 21:33:00 +0000

This is a picture of us Jeff, Victoria, Buddy ~ The Cake Boss ~ Allie, me and A friend Kerri in Hoboken N.J. Our Pastor's daughter, Leslie works for him. We were lucky enough to met him and the gang and have a tour. Victoria was in her glory. She whats to be a "Cake Boss" and go to school at the CIA. She is in baking now in Vo-tech and LOVING it and so are we, with all the goodies she brings home!!!!!

Hi! It's good to be back and writing a new post. This past year has been really hard for us. My husband lost his job over 1 year ago and we have been struggling ever since. Thank goodness for great family, friends and prayer. We are just trying to get thru one day at a time.

We have had to change the way we live, this has been a POSITIVE thing that has come out of all this. We are conserving energy, recycling what we can and spending less. I have always wanted to live a simpler life and now we are. We learn something new every day. This situation has also brought our family closer. We need to work and help each other.

We are finding wonder in everyday things. I just wish we were not so stressed out about paying the bills. This is where the problem is and what to do when you don't have the money. Any and all ideas are welcomed. This is how we learn to cope by other people's experiences. I know in my heart that God will provide a job for Jeff and that we are luckier than most.

I am going to update my etsy shop, http://www.yarnfreak.etsy.com/ check it out. I have alot of really fun things to add ~ peace sign bookmarks, washcloths, dishcloths, potholders, scrubbies all in really fun bright colors. Thank goodness for my crocheting and knitting. It really relaxes me and makes me feel good that I am making something beautiful. I also have a fan page on Facebook that I am trying to get together. It's a bit hard for me as I am really terrible with the computer. If you want to be a fan that would be really cool! I have 23 so far and that is just a wonderful feeling! There is a button for my fan page at the top of the blog or you can go to Girls Just Wanna Have Fun!!! on Facebook. I am also trying to figure out Ravelry, if you want to be a friend there I am purling angel. So bear with me as little by little I get this together and as always thanks for all the LOVE and support.♥♥♥

I leave everyone with a goodbye for now and a Happy Mothers Day for all the moms tomorrow. We will be going to my parents house in the afternoon for dessert. A low~key but nice day. After Church I just want to relax and maybe read or crochet a bit.....
LIFE IS GOOD!!!!!

~TTFN Debbie♥♥♥ ~

Peace, love♥, and crochet...Debbie

Out of commission for awhile

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 18:36:00 +0000

As some of you may know for the past few years I have been having problems with my eyes. I have dry eyes which is the stem of all the problems. It affects my contacts, but my eyes are so bad that glasses at this point would not work, they would be to thick and look like coke bottles. Plus I can see better with my contacts when I don't have any problems. On Tuesday of last week somehow I scratched my left contact, wore it all day and messed up my eye. When I took it out it ripped, I really did a number on it. Tried using my old left contact which was just as bad. Since my eyes are so bad they have to special order my contacts which takes 2 weeks I called on Wednesday. I have a long time to go. I am reduced to wearing an eye patch because I can not see out of the left eye. Wish me luck, it will be a challenge at work. I have compromised depth perception now. It's amazing how this can change your whole life, even if it is just for 2 weeks. I don't think I will ever take my eyes for granted again. Will be back when I can navagate pictures and blogging better.
Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Way to busy!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:11:00 +0000

Hello, just a short, short post. Have been so busy these past few weeks. Did a Christmas Boutique at a church in town last weekend. I was crazy for 2 weeks packaging and pricing all my stuff, as it turns out I had way more than I thought. Will be participating in another sale in December. At least it's all done, and ready to go for the nest sale. I will be making more scarves, hats and fingerless gloves for the sale. I will post pictures from the past weekends fun that my daughter took with my new camera soon. We are still learing how to use it.

TTFN~
Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Halloween Fun at work!!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:28:00 +0000

Halloween fun today at Faber School where I work as an aide in my town. This is Laurel, yes she is cute but she is a die hard Red Sox fan, and I love The NY YANKEES!!!! She dressed up as Buddy from the Cake Boss a show on TLC that takes place right here in Hoboken NJ. Victoria's Friend Leslie works for him. I just had to get a picture of her, she does look cute. Onward....
This is Mrs. Desousa, she is a great 5th grade teacher.

This is Mary, her son was in my class last year, I have to say I almost split a gut when I saw her and she posed for me. What a complete riot.......

This is Eileen I worked with her 2 years ago, another crack-up. Her face was hysterical. I had to get a picture.

This is Don another aide in the school, dressed as a cowboy, complete with the spurs.

This is Dr. Ray he teaches 5th grade Science and American History I was an aide in his class last year in the afternoon. He was giving swine flu shots..............

Megan was in my class last year and looked good enough to eat. Devin is next to her as a chef, she is my friends daughter.

This is Mrs. Kime aka Lady Liberty, she is the one who bought all the fingerless gloves from me. She teachers 3rd grade and had both my girls. They take a class trip at the end of the year to Ellis Island, this was a perfect costume.

Mary Poppins is Devin's grandmother. Man did she look really good.

Which one is the real Nancy Sager? Every year our school nurse dresses up as an unsuspecting staff member this year it was Nancy a kindergarten teacher whom I've also worked with. I have to say Ann looks just like her. The real one is on the left. When we were walking around outside for the parade, Ann was not by Nancy, so Nancy says" I lost myself". What a great sense of humor. Wonder who will be next year?

This is Melissa, the teacher I am working with this year. How cute is she? She is so nice and fun to work with to!

Here is my class during the parade. WE get to walk around the parking lot 2x. The kids love it and you get to see all the cool costumes people come up with.

Tonight is mischief night, it's usually pretty quiet around here. The girls will be dressing up tomorrow and doing some trick-or-treating. They love the candy. More on them and our last yard sale at my parents tomorrow. Stay warm, it's really cold here tonight.

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Happy 12th Birthday Aleksandra!!!♥♥♥♥

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:32:00 +0000

Today is Allie's 12th birthday, I can hardly believe it. Time is flying by so fast and my babies are not babies anymore. This is Allie this morning before going to school. She straightened her hair last night for an hour.
She had a great day at school. Her friends decorated her locker. Her BFF Samantha made a little cake and the girls at her lunch table sang Happy Birthday to her and the whole lunch room joined in. Allie was embarrassed but I think that was totally cool!

They also sang Happy Birthday to her in chorus. Her friends gave her a bouquet of candy, apparently this is the thing to do at LMS. Whatever!!! This is the hat the girls use to wear to school on their birthdays. I did however get her to put it on for the picture. Yea me...

Allie and her Costco cake. Don't you just love their cakes? So yummy and so reasonable. Hers was for a snack for youth group tonight for all the leaders and kids and has chocolate moose filling with a white cake. I have to tell you I hope they bring me a piece home!!! LOL.

Totally yummy cake. She would not let us put 12th birthday on there. She said that was dumb???

Happy 12th Birthday Allie!!! I hope you had a great day... LOVE, MOMMY, DADDY and VIC. Can you guess her favorite color????

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Thank You Mrs. Kime!!!! And Crazy Vic ~

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 03:27:00 +0000

My husband and kids were raking leaves tonight, seems like we had alot in our front yard. Crazy Victoria wanted to make a pile and jump in. So I took a few pictures. She actually had a really great time running and jumping into the pile. Look for yourself. Allie however wanted nothing to do with it. Her loss it looks like.

Hello!!!!!!

Oh the thrill of the jump................................

Ouch!!!! Head first, did I really want to land that way????????? Going for another try...... WOO HOO this is fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This was fun, can I go again mom?????

Actually it was cold by that time and we went inside, but she had fun while it lasted....

A teacher at my school who also just happened to be both my girls 3rd grade teacher ordered 6 pairs of black fingerless gloves from me, with a possible order of more. Wow, I have to tell you this came at a great time. I was getting nervous as to how I was going to pay for Christmas gifts and this will really help. Plus I love her as do my kids. She is such a beautiful person and awesome teacher!!!!

Look how I packaged them ~ This was genius if I do say so myself.

They each went into a black and white box. The tissue paper was white with different colored glitter which I thought was festive. The gloves were folded and placed in the box along with care instructions, my card and a sample face scrubbie. The box was then topped off with a red ribbon bow and a To: From: tag that I punched to match the box. I have to say I would LOVE to get this as a gift. Read on......

My parents had a yard sale this past week and so with our few left over items and new things we wanted to get rid of we participated. Our booty was not so good this time. However due to the rain they are having it again next week. So we will see how that goes. Anyway the best part................

My mom was selling these towers, filled with candy, brand new for the upcoming holidays. Something happened and they had to take the candy out of the boxes. I saw them and thought what a great container for my fingerless gloves. She gave me 6 boxes and the matching red ribbon from the original towers. How utterly perfect. I think they are fab!!!!!!! I just hope she likes them. I tried to make them special...

The finished boxes and a little something for Mrs. Kime as a thank you for her order... more soon about the cute bird pin attached to the package.

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Silent Day

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 00:20:00 +0000

Yesterday October 20, 2009 was the 6th annual Pro-Life Day of Silent Solidarity ~ Where you ready? My daughters Victoria (almost 15) and Aleksandra 12 were. They took part in this day and remained silent all day, even while being persecuted by there peers. I am proud of them. They were well prepared this year. Allie had asked the Principal of her school if it was ok to participate days in advance and got the ok. Some how on the actual day, it seemed everyone in her school wanted to participate. They say it only takes one person to make a difference in the world. I am not sure how many felt the conviction Allie did but at least if nothing else she made people, including teachers aware. Victoria was armed with a red marker and red notebook to answer questions. She had a hard time in her school. She is in 9th grade and the kids in her school were acting like they were in 2nd grade. But she remained Strong and made it thru the day. Last year she was not so lucky, they broke her and it really hurt her.

59 babies were saved last year, that they know of. There were important reminders and rules to speak of that needed to be followed:

~Not everyone will be nice to you ~ you need to remain peaceful and loving no matter how nasty they get. This is hard to do.
~This is a day of prayer, remain focused on why we are doing this.

This is Victoria wearing her red duck tape sign: PRO LIFE. She choose as did Allie not to wear it across her mouth.

Allie wore hers on her chest and it said LIFE.

Allie ready to go to school and remain SILENT.

If you are interested in finding out more information and maybe doing this next year, go to standtrue.com. I am really proud of both my kids, they believed in something and made a stand, and they were true and real and loving in their stand. Allie's principal even said I knew you believed in this with all your heart!!!♥♥♥

What do you believe in, it's time to make a stand!

I found out tonight after youth group, when the girls came home that 21 babies were saved this year. God is Good!!!

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Happy monday!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:24:00 +0000

This is Victoria's room. Yes it is 3 colors, lime green, fuchsia and purple. She loves it and it is so her..
This is her bed, she got a new bedspread set, this was great as it came all in a bag. Very sorta bohemian. hopefully now she will keep the room clean!!! Fingers crossed.

She has a great window seat area , where she can read or look out the window and daydream. I'm sure she does more of the daydreaming.

This is Allie's room.

Sshe loves ladybugs, frogs and owls. She is also very neat and keeps her room looking great.

Allie's Room..........................

Her new bedspread, she got for her birthday. She could not wait to get it on her bed and mobile uploaded a picture to Face book yesterday. I'm glad she is excited.

This past weekend we went to my sister's house for my nice Nicolette's 17th birthday, holy cow where is the time going? She is driving... I took alot of pictures but gave the card to my mom, she wanted to get some developed. When I get it back I will post the fun and the cutest owl cake ever that my sister Donna made.

Allie's birthday is on the 28th of October. My baby will be 12 except it seem everyone thinks she is turning 13. Slow down, she is the youngest grandchild.. We got her a really cute owl comforter, sheets and pillow for her birthday. She has outgrown ladybugs? No way, she just wanted a change.

I am off I have an order from a friend who is a teacher at Faber for 5 black pairs of my famous wrist warmers. I already gave her one today and she just loved it. I am so glad. Have a great night. Stay warm, it's getting really cold here at night and I was reduced to putting my heat on over the weekend.

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

I treated myself......

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:21:00 +0000

I was looking on Etsy yesterday and found a really cool shop. www.thefancifulfeline.etsy.com She makes the most beautiful covered crochet hooks out of polymer clay. Since I LOVE to crochet, can't hardly breathe without it, I decided to treat myself to a special hook. I choose an I hook. I use that size often and would love to have a hook that has a little eye candy. Mine has colorful flowers and butterflies on the handle. I can't wait for it to come and start using it. I feel so special. I don't know how to attach the actual picture of the hook I purchased, just click on the website above and you will be in her shop. Enjoy ~ I know I will.

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Well, it's now Sunday....

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 23:15:00 +0000

It's now Sunday evening and I have to say I did not do much at all this weekend. I had wanted to have Allie go outside and pose for me so I could put all my wristwarmers on Esty. But that did not happen. I really need to do that soon. I have to get some sales, I need to get Christmas gifts. Maybe I will see if anyone wants to trade, I did that last year and got some cool stuff. Maybe with the economy the way it is more people will be willing to trade. I guess I will have to look into it. My kids seem to be lazy to, Vic the Chef slept quite a bit today. Jeff had to work at his p/t job at Wal-mart today 12-9pm. He still has not found a full time job. Still praying about that. I also would like it if people would leave a comment for me. I'd like to know what others think of my humble little blog. It would make me feel like someone was actually reading it. LOL. Not much else going on, trying to crochet a bit. I am making lip gloss holders for my friend Maryann, still have alot to go. We are making a trade, hey maybe I will use what she trades with me as gifts. She make the best soaps ever. Don't you just love handmade soap. I do. It's a wonderful little luxury. Gotta run am making meatloaf and I need to put the bacon on. Yummy, I can taste it now. Jeff actually made it so you know it will be fab. Have a great rest of you Sunday and if you have off tomorrow, enjoy it..................
Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

Just tired

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:06:00 +0000

This past week was really stressful. There is this thing going on at work that is just dragging me down. I was so tired on Thursday that I actually fell asleep for a minute in gym class. I had to take Friday off and slept most of the day. I made an apt. for the Dr. to get a physical and a flu shot but she is so booked up it's not until Nov. 18th. And to top this all off Monday we have an in-service day while everyone else has off. UGH is all I have to say. Sorry for the down post but it's how I feel. Just stressed, busy and tired. Tomorrow will be a better day. At least we got rid of all the junk on the side of our garage. It's junk month in Dunellen , we are allowed 2 car loads of junk which Jeff with the help of his brother took advantage of this morning. So the back of our house looks nice again. TTFN~

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

A great weekend!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 23:30:00 +0000

Wow, what a great weekend I had. I took a personal day on Friday and went on a retreat to Warwick NY with the ladies from my church. It was the most gorgeous weather, the sun shone on us all weekend. The sessions were great as was the fellowship. I had not been to church in a bit and did not realize how much I missed everyone. Sometimes when I am down or a bit depressed I back away from everyone so I don't get hurt. I need to change that and get back with the people I love and trust. We played the best games too, Tabu, Scattagories and The t-shirt game which was the best game ever. I wan to get it for our family I never laughed so hard in my life.

~All my sister's in Christ ~ First Baptist Church ~ Metuchen, NJ. ~

Enjoying a pumpkin farm, they had the best sunflowers. Sunflowers hapen to be my favorite flower.

My friend Patricia, I just LOVE this picture. What a beautiful face.

What the heck are these? Some sort of funky pumpkin.............

Chris, chugging apple cider, slow down girl...........

This cross is on top of the hill over looking the valley, so beautiful.........

This is in back of the Chapel. So peaceful, a great place to reflect and be with the Lord.

Jennifer, our driver and best friend of the speaker we had. She always takes pictures of everyone so I had to get one of her!

These are the samples I am sending off to the Little Black Box tomorrow.

For the month of December, colorful bookmarks ~

For the month of November, Flower face scrubbies~

And for the month of October round face scrubbies ~

I hope everyone enjoys the samples and checks out my shop. I will be adding new stuff soon, as soon as I can get Allie to pose for me.
This has been a busy week so far, have been tired from work but am forging on. Have a great night..............

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie

To much? Not enough? What?

noreply@blogger.com (Debbie) — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:25:00 +0000

Just added a bunch of new stuff to my blog, inspirational quotes, pictures of starfish etc. etc. Is it to much? Not enough? What. I like looking at all the stuff on blogs do you? Tell me what you think. I got it all off Blogger I wish I could add music and other cool stuff but I don't know how to do it. Oh well I am happy right now. It's cold here in NJ. Last week my husband and Victoria went to a U2 concert at the Meadowlands and had a great time. Jeff's good friend Lumbo who is an Oral Surgeon gave him the tickets and to Bruce Springsteen this Friday. I told Jeff to take Vic it would be her first real concert and she loves U2. They took the train in and had a really great father-daughter time. Victoria was going to go to Springsteen on Friday to but her friend Andrew invited her and Jillian to go tonight. I hope they don't freeze. Wow wow wow. He is suppose to play the whole Born To Run Album Holy Cow did she hit the jackpot. He has never done this before. And Allie gets to go with daddy on Friday her first real concert. Jeff and I saw Bruce last year and man can he put on a concert, he really plays to the NJ fans. We are lucky to have such great friends who treat us so well. We are truly blessed♥

Peace, love♥, and crochet...

Debbie