Welcome to the FIRST Windfall Doll giveaway

Welcome to the FIRST Windfall Doll giveaway!

Come on over to Windfall Dolls (click picture below) for a giveaway!

We are so excited to introduce Holly.

Windfall Dolls

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Windfall Dolls

Free 0-3 MOS 10 Minute Crochet Bootie Pattern (2 different styles)

Please,please,please... if you use this pattern, please leave a comment below with a link to your blog with pictures of your booties!  I would love to see your interpretation!

 

Grey Booties Tutorial

(0-3 MOS) 

by

Laura Hooker

Hook : J

Yarn: Lion Brand Jiffy

Key:

CH-CHAIN

DC-DOUBLE CROCHET

HDC-HALF DOUBLE CROCHET

DC2TOG-DOUBLE CROCHET 2 STITCHES TOGETHER

SS-SLIP STITCH

PATTERN:

-CH 29

-DC IN THE 3RD CH FROM THE HOOK AND IN EVERY CH, CH 2, TURN

-HDC EVERY DC, CH 2, TURN

-HDC EVERY HDC, CH 2, TURN

-HDC THE FIRST 6 HDC, DC2TOG THE NEXT 14 STITCHES, HDC LAST 7 HDC, CH 1, TURN

-SS THE FIRST 6 HDC, DC2TOG THE NEXT 8 STITCHES, SS THE LAST 6 HDC

- FASTEN OFF

It will now look like this:

Using a needle and yarn of the same color, hide the tails, and then seam together both the heel, and the bottom of the bootie 

Turn right side out, and this is what it will look like now!

Now, you may wish to add a cuff / ankle height to the bootie, here is the pattern for that:

With the bootie WRONG side out, locate the left side of the top of the heel of the bootie

Insert the yarn here, and CH 2

-THEN HDC EVERY STITCH AROUND THE ENTIRE TOP OF THE BOOTIE

-SS TO THE TOP OF THE CH 2, AND CH 2

(SHOWN HERE)

-HDC EVERY HDC, SS TO THE CH 2, CH 2

(DO THIS FOR A TOTAL OF 3 ROWS, OR UNTIL IT REACHES YOUR DESIRED HEIGHT)

FASTEN OFF, AND HIDE THE TAILS, ENJOY!

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War and Peace, Happy Veterans Day

"We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude."

Cynthia Ozick

Today I am so very grateful for those who fight for our freedom.  I am grateful for the sacrifies they make and for the families who wait for their safe return. 

I don't think I could ever do that, you see...I am a wussss...make that capital WUSSSSS!!!!!!

I pray that neither of my boys, nor my nephew have to go to war.

I pray that they will never be drafted, or want to go to war. Because I am WUSSSSS!!!

Or maybe selfish, how bad is that?

I am a worry wart, and I do not know how I would deal with having to worry about them in a war situation.  I can see myself instructing them to dive into a burrow somewhere, and hide until the warfare stopped, and they would be safe.   To call me every night, and to blow kisses in my direction, as I do to them every night.

I worry about them when they are in the same house as I am, I worry for their safety at school, and I make sure, with all that I can, that they are safe.  I say a prayer for them every single night that they will live long, healthy, wonderful, happy lives, and will grow to have families of their own. (In those exact words).  Then I blow kisses towards them, or kiss them if I am next to them.

So, the things I take for granted today?

I am grateful for a beautiful little boy pretending he is a tough warrior, although he cries when he sees a tear in his mama's eye:

I am grateful for a sleeping baby, who's only worry is when he can nurse again, and if his baby is near by.

Happy Veterans Day, and I am sorry if I am a selfish WUSSSSS, I can't help it.

 

Crafty Goodness!

Hop on over to Crafty Rie, and add your blog to her blog list of superb craftiness!  So AWESOME!!!!!!

I am only 1/4 of a way through the list, and I swear it is so inspiring!  Love it!

Click on the button (Right) for the link!

He Sleeps

Sam was not a baby who fell asleep on his own, I nursed him to sleep almost every time, and I loved it.

Hayden is a different baby~that is the way it is supposed to be. Right? 

You have another baby, and you compare.

You grasp onto the similarities, and laugh about the differences.

Hayden does love to fall asleep nursing (similar), but he also enjoys staring at his frog mobile, talking to himself, and he drifts gently asleep talking to his trees outside of his window (different)

Here is a video taken this morning, after we dashed outside to bring Sam to the bus which I can never quite seem to meet in time (my husband laughs, and mocks me every time). He also loves the fresh air~like his Auntie Jella does.

He sleeps, I can't help touching him, he smiles...LOVE!