Baby Seraphina is Here

It has been a couple weeks since she was born. We have been very busy trying to get everything ready for baby, Christmas season and so many things.
   Now that Little Miss is here maybe I can get back to creating and blogging .. I so badly wanted to post crochet tutorials. :(  However having to get several hats finished. Many leotards to make and all my other things needing to get finished, it might be after Christmas before I try again.
   Almost forgot to mentioned. Miss Ellie needs to have surgery again. The sooner the better as far as she is concerned.
God is Awesome. 
Good night.
~Ginger

 

Camera Silliness....

   I am sure having difficulty uploading videos from my phone to this blog. I can use the built in web cams but it is hard to crochet with a laptop between it and me. My phone takes much better videos too.
  It seems my only recourse is to have someone else (Ellie?) hold the phone and take the video -then we can upload to the computer.
  Anyone that knows Ellie.. Stop laughing. :)

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

Crafting Friendships

Another day with not a single thing made, except a strengthening of faith and renewal of spirit.
We had our weiner roast and hay ride at church tonight. They counted 130-150. Hard to say for sure. For a little country church we have a lot of souls. This is probably one of my favorite church activities. I did not stay late because I had taken a couple other kids with me. Smore's are just not my favorite food. The blackened hot dogs however I could live on YUMMY!!

DITNEY RIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH

Ashley's House

Tomorrow there will be an event to raise money for a project very close to our hearts. They are raising money for a smoke trailer used in training children of all ages what to do in the event of a fire.
Ashley Weir was Mira's very close friend all through school. From third grade on.
We will be donating 50% of our profits to the Ashley Weir Scholarship Fund. So I hope we do well, so we have something to give.
They already have the trailer and take it to schools or anywhere people want them to bring it to teach children about fire. They really want to get a flat screen T.V. and a DVD player for it. They play educational material during the tours.
There will also be a table set up with prints of Jessi Evans Art With the proceeds going to the Jessi Evans Scholarship Fund. Another girl that left us way too soon, I still can't type about her without choking on the words. So anyone within the vicinity of Norris City Crossroads church come on out and help support these causes.
God Bless!
~Ginger

Bread Yet?

   Between Craft Shows and sewing it seems I am spinning in circles. It has been a wish of mine to make real home started sourdough with no packaged yeast. Just the water and flour. It has finally happened. Tuesday was the first time I felt it was stable enough to use. So I carefully followed all of the instructions for bread using just my own homemade starter and after hours and hours my rolls were in the oven. ..... I went back to my sewing room, i had been working on several things in there all day. BIG NO-NO. I forgot I was cooking. One hundred and five (105) minutes later as I walked up the hall, The aroma hit me. Fresh bread! Oh man, so disappointed in myself. It did not burn, it dried. Like pottery. Fortunately as I was making the starter instead of throwing away the excess I kept one other starter, so I could give some away. It is so simple if anyone wants to do it. Here is what you have to do.
   One cup warm water to one cup of flour. Stir it up well, cover and set on top the refrigerator (preferably in glass container) until it gets all bubbly and smells yeasty (24 hours). If it isn't bubbly just wait. According to everything I have read it can happen in 12 to 36 hours.  I have a starter friendly climate and mine did well. After it is bubbly feed it 1 cup of flour and 1 cup of warm water. Wait again until it is bubbly. You might have water on top, that is fine (called hooch) just pour it off or stir it in. I kept mine. Now the next time it bubbles divide it in half. Throw half away and feed the other 1/2 cup flour and 1/2 cup warm water. Instead of throwing mine away - I made another starter.
   After you have done this several times and it is obviously a good healthy starter it is time to feed it again then putting it in the refrigerator. Feed it once a week with 1/2 C f;our and 1/2 C water. Throwing 1/2 away before feeding.
   To make your bread take the starter out and feed it 1 C flour and 1 C water let it sit on the counter until it is bubbly all the way through to the bottom. This is called a sponge. Make sure it is bubbly on the bottom too, it will look like a slow boiling cream soup or something. (you won't see it boiling, it just looks like it has been)  After the sponge is ready take 2 C of it and put in a bowl with 2 T soft butter 2 t salt and 5 t sugar, mix it up and start adding flour until you have a soft dough. Mine has taken anywhere from 2 to 4 Cs. Not sure why such a difference. Just use the dough consistency to get the proper amount, not the recipe. Barely dry enough to be able to knead. Knead for about 10 minutes.or until a finger hole poked in pops right back out. Let sit until it doubles in size. Punch it down, shape into a loaf and let rize again. Sourdough start with no added yeast takes longer to rise. A LOT longer to rise. Best to start in the morning or let the last rising rise overnight.
   My best advice is to not sew once you pop it in the oven.
   Enjoy!