Nesting..... Baby Watch

   It has been a long 40+ weeks. Or so it seems to me. We are so eager to meet Little Miss Seraphina. There was an area on her wall where Mira was wanting to put some shelves in to hold all of the children's books. That has not happened yet. For now she did make this sweet little hammock out of the yarn we used at her baby shower. The game was to guess the length to go around her waist.
  It just made this little hammock very sentimental and a nice way to keep a piece of her shower around long past the diapers and pacifiers.

Crochet 1

I recommend getting a size J or K hook for learning reasons.

 Some regular white or very light colored yarn and we are all set to begin.

Watch the video first, then I will add some notes.

The reason I prefer you get a large hook and light yarn is so we can see what you are doing. If you have a problem and send a pic. It will be nice if I can actually see it. 

I am getting very frustrated trying to load a video here. I finally figured out my problem. My youtube and google are on different accounts.  Makes me quite silly *rolls eyes*

Tomorrow if we are not on babywatch, I will remedy this.  :)

When you first start go ahead and rip it out as many times as you need to,

 until you are sure you have the beginning and chain down pat.  

This video is not very good, but other things came up today. 

Then the ones I did after dark did not work at all. 

We will get a better one up though. With instructions on it. 

God Bless

~Ginger

Crochet? Anyone?

Our event today was rather slow. Things just did not work out as planned. Not anyone's fault, just the way it goes sometimes.
  So we had other sorts of fun instead. One woman was teaching some crochet stitches to another woman. Several other vendors watched this interaction with some amusement. If you have never watched someone get crochet lessons, it might be worth your time. ;)
  Tomorrow is supposed to be another show if it isn't raining. Maybe it will be a bit better..
God Bless

~Ginger

Little Doggy Ruffs

  We have an event tomorrow to raise money for a local animal rescue. We wracked our brains and Mira finally asked me if I could make some doggy cuffs. She even came up with the label idea. I have seen dog leg warmers before although usually crocheted or knitted. So I made one and we put it on Thea. She did not mind it at all and when she would take it off she brought it back to Mira to put back on her. I did not get many made.  Oh well..  This is something I think I will continue to make..
God Bless.
~Ginger

Duct Tape and Baling Wire

  A silly fun fact I thought I would share. What is in a name? We changed our name from one that did not indicate what we did. Through long hard discussions we decided on ~ Emporium ~ It has a nice ring to it and denotes many items. Mira makes many things including her duct tape line. She does wooden wall decor, canvas wall decor, lanyards, beaded everything, crochet and so much more. I myself sew about anything, crochet about anything, do bead work and I bend baling wire. Yes! Baling wire or electric fencing. I bend it into rings, bracelets, and more. My favorite bent wire item though is my tree. So when we were trying to come up with a name Duct Tape and Baling Wire was at the forefront (for a minute or two anyway). We were afraid people would be disappointed when they realized we did not really carry nuts and bolts etc. ~Ginger

Another Fun Day

  We were supposed to have an event today, it was cancelled due to the weather. So I went back to sleep. Since I was going to miss church I had turned off my church alarms and just had the very early event alarm set. OOPS! I slept very late. When I finally woke up Ellie had eaten four, yes FOUR cupcakes. Oh my...

  First thing I did was start on diapers. We had some old hoodies from some popular brands, they will make cute bums. Then Mira came over worried about curtains for Baby Seraphina's room. So we pushed the diapers to the side and got out the only non-velvet white fabric I had. The Bridal Satin that we never used.
We got some curtains whipped up, now nesting mother can relax.
Mira has several plans for dressing them up. 

Not sure which one she will go with. 

Of course we will post pics and the "how-we-did-its" when we/she do whatever it may be.

God Bless!

Nursery Lace

Nursery Lace HOW-TO

Mira's newest creation for the Baby's bedroom. 

She painted three flat canvas 8x10s

~ in colors to coordinate in the nursery, 

~ then layered lace over in strips.

~ then lightly painted with white spray paint.