Homemade Pizza

Hubby and I tried our hand at homemade pizza, he made the dough and I was in charge of the sauce. Together we were a great team.

another scarf

Finger knitting is becoming a new passion. It keeps my fingers and mind busy while I’m watching TV in the evening and better yet, it keeps me from eating! This week in Western Pennsylvania we have been having record low temperatures so I need to entertain myself so cabin fever doesn’t set in too early. After all it’s only January. I’m recommending this cheap, easy craft to everyone. All you need are your fingers and a ball of yarn.

I also added a button and a seperate crocheted buckle to keep it all together.  Here's a close of the button and piece. 

Also I almost forgot to mention, your looking at my new dress form that was a Christmas gift from my daughter.  I always wanted a dress form and she surprised me with it.  Thank you Kylee, you are the best!

Finger knitting

I never heard of finger knitting until I was checking out Pinterest for scarf ideas. Check out this inspiration photo.

Here's my version:

This is my first try,  I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.  Stay tuned for more attempts.  I love scarfs and unfortunetly in Western Pa right now I will get alot of wear out of it.

The temp. today is ZERO.  Did I mention that I hate Winter!!!!

American Girl Outfits

I love that my Granddaughter plays with American Girl Dolls, but have you priced the outfits? I bought her a few outfits for her doll for Christmas and decided to try and make a few more. I purchased a few single pieces and figured I could make a cute outfit out of them. I purchased the leopard pants $2, cowboy boots $2, owl hat $2, denim jeans $2. I did sew the black jacket, and the white outfit.

Infinity scarf x 3

I decided to break out the crochet hooks and see if I remembered how to make a scarf. It's only been about 25 years. Yikes when I stopped to think about it the last thing I crocheted was a blanket for my son and he is going to be 25 in a few weeks. Holy crap that is a long time. I didn't know where to start, so I used the modern technology available and asked GOOGLE. I'm still amazed everytime I type in How do I....................... that I get a ton of videos showing me exactly what I want to learn. I looked for the easiest video and just starting crocheting. The first scarf was for myself and I was hooked. The next one was for my daughter, then my granddaughter and why stop there. I made one for her American Girl doll too. Here's a pic of the three of them. Pretty cute don't you think?

Childs desk

Let's see if I can remember how to write a post and add some pictures. Here we go...........

This is what the desk looked like when it was given to me.

I made a few changes with some paint, leftover wall paper border and modge podge. 

Here's how she turned out..........

Starting Fresh in 2014

Do I have any followers left? I hope so.

 It's been a while and I have a million excuses but I won't bore you with any of them. What's important is, I am back and ready to go. You will notice some changes in my posts going forward, I'm going to be concentrating on more sewing refashion projects and less furniture redos for now.

 I'm also going to be posting healthy food ideas. I'm not going to use the words "new year's resolutions." These are going to be "life style changes." Here's to a Healthy and Happy 2014.