Happy 2026

Today is the first day of 2026. Wow. I am not into that "New Year, New Me" BS....  It's just another day to me. But... "Happy New Year". I remember when it turned 2000. I couldn't believe it. (Remember "Y2K"? 🙄) Now it's already 2026...  

I picked apart the pink edging on the baby basket, and I redid it in all hdc's. You can't really tell from the pictures, but it lays better. And I like it better. Then I said "This baby needs a blanket. It's only 22 degrees outside." (LoL).  (It was actually only 9 degrees out this morning!) So I crocheted one I found on Pinterest. But, I did not do the whole thing. I only chained 24, and I did five rows. Then I did the edging. 

Here it is, all bundled up. Now what to crochet.... 

Okay, I took a picture of the side view. You can see it isn't all tight around the bottom like it was before, and pulling in. I must crochet single crochets tighter than half double crochets. Who knows... 

Doll Bed/Basket

After all my Christmas crochet projects were done (well, except for the Penny Hat), I didn't know what to do...  I have been wanting to crochet doll clothes/things for a long time still. I wanted to make a bed for the dolls. Not a cradle purse, but... I thought "What about those 'Moses Basket Beds'?"  I looked for one for an 8 inch doll (to fit the dollar tree dolls I bought). I found this pattern. I didn't do the bunnies or anything, I just kept doing sc's until I thought it was long enough. I might actually pull the sc's apart and do hdc's because it looks too tight. But other than that, it's finished.  

This is the only dollar tree doll I have clothes that I crocheted for, so far. There isn't very many 8" doll clothes crochet patterns out there! I guess I'll have to crochet my own...  But for now this is what I have. It was the Sweet Pea Outfit pattern. It's a little bit long on this doll but other than that it fits. The bib was from a different doll I have. 

Here he is in the basket. The basket has a "mattress" insert, too. But I didn't do that. 

It's 26 degrees outside with 50 mph winds. 🥶🥶🥶 It was 19 this morning. Spuds was in the garage all night! We don't know how he got in there (my husband must have gone in there and he got in when my husband went in), but I'm glad he wasn't outside in this weather last night! It sounded like worse than 50 mph winds last night and it was soooo cold! Even with his heated pad/shelter, I was worried.

Well I guess maybe I need to crochet a blanket for this now... :P

Don't ask me why I'm crocheting doll things when I don't have little kids or any grandkids... (I keep hoping, that's probably why. 😁)

Christmas Is Over, Happy New Year

Can we just skip winter now and go straight to summer? 😭 Even though we didn't even have a White Christmas. (We had a White Thanksgiving, but a Green Christmas. 👀) I still don't want to do winter. Sigh....  

I took the Christmas Tree down by myself just now. And all the Christmas decorations. I can't reach the boxes on the shelf in the garage, so I will have to wait until my husband gets home to help me. I asked Eon to get them down for me..  

I made a card this morning, too. For New Year's. I don't know if you can see the sparkly center of the flower.

I just used what I have... My dollar twenty five plus store stencil for the numbers, and a marker to fill them in. And a ribbon spool to make the "scallops" edging. 

And I used a glue stick and embossing powder to do the flower center. I have a few circle punches. 

This is the video "tutorial" I used to make this card.

I don't know what will happen in 2026. We may be moving, though. Again....  I thought the next move we made would be our retirement home. I am so done with moving. But.... It will be to help out my family.  I might need a straight jacket soon...

 

Merry Christmas

Merry Christmas. 

We opened our Christmas Stockings last night (we would do that when the boys were younger, and we just kept doing it..). And, what I thought was true: Eon is not into golfing. 😞 He does this with everything. He got a guitar, and played it a couple times. Now it's just sitting in his closet. He got a punching bag. It's just hanging in the garage... He bought a weight bench and weights.... Sitting in the garage gathering dust and cobwebs... I should have known. 😏 Now what am I going to do with two crocheted golf club covers, though? I probably won't even give them to him today...

 

Winter Solstice

 

Today is technically the first day of winter. But it has felt like winter for a long time. You can read about the winter solstice here.  It's the shortest day and the longest night of the year. All I have to say is it's depressing.  I hate winter.

Oh Christmas Potato...

I finished the potato. And I got eight gifts wrapped. (Six are small paperback books, missing ones from a collection that I bought off Thriftbooks.) He got all the books in the collection used, so... I still have to wrap the golf club covers. Now I just need to bake some more. I don't know. I am not baking anything to give away to anyone this year. And I did bake some cookies. Maybe if I get in the mood to, I will. I feel relieved the potato is done. LoL.. I feel crazy saying that. (Almost as crazy as what I made the title of my post..) Do you think he needs a little Santa hat?

Only Five More Days Until Christmas

😬😬😬😬

I can't believe it. And has my husband even started shopping for anyone? No.....   He waits until the last possible second. I am not done either. But, I am 90% done. I still want to get more stocking stuffers, and candy for the snow glob jars. And I still have to wrap some things. I am crocheting the potato, too. I should be wrapping or crocheting right now. But I was in here dusting and I sat down. One thing led to another and I did a blog post. Okay bye.

Bags to Bows

I was wrapping a book this morning, and I thought, "I need a tiny bow".  And I don't have any.... It got me thinking of the bows I made out of chip bags before. 

Cheetos and Doritos bags...

I know this was for Eon's birthday, because of the date I posted it on Facebook. I could not find it on here. So I thought I would post it. The video that I linked in my post is no longer available. So, I went searching...... Searching..... Searching... UGH

This is the bag I used today.

Cut it open and washed the inside.

Cut about 800 little 3/4 inch strips 11 inches long. Well....  I didn't like the first one I made. At all. So I looked at the pictures of the ones I made before and I did it my own way. I cut the 11 inch strips in half. 

What a mess...

Fold each one in half.

                                      Using double sided tape, fasten down with right sides out. 

Do the same to the other side. 

  Did three of those. Then I cut three more one inch smaller. Same thing, then two more one inch smaller. Same thing. Then, I cut the middle piece about three inches? Taped it down in a circle and put it on top.

For the little bow, I cut three inch pieces and did the same as above but only cut the pieces a half inch shorter each time. Then for the middle piece I cut it an inch and a quarter. There's my little bow for Eons' book. 😚

And all of the bows. The one I did first is on the left. I don't like it. 

Now I have strips of chip and halls bags all over my desk. Ugggghhhhhhh.  But if I went out to buy a bag of bows it would cost $200 by the time I get out of the store. LoL But, you have to be in the mood to do this. It's a mess!! And it might just be worth it to go to the store and get mini bows... (If you only buy the bows!)😝

This was what started the whole thing...

The bow. I don't know why I do this... It's just going to get thrown in the garbage.  I have five more books to wrap, too. (I am not making any more bows, I am going to go to the store.) But, if you are in a bind and don't have any money.....  This could be useful. 

Another Crochet Christmas Present Done

Well, I finished the golf club covers yesterday. The one on the right, the pom-pom is not tight to the top of the cover and I already knotted it on the inside about 10 times. Ughhhhhhhh. I don't know how I'm going to fix that, except try a glue gun. And I have to weave in ends. And wrap them. The end on the one on the right is curling up. I think it's just the way I laid it down...  I think I will trim up the pom-pom on the right more, too.

I got the yarn for the potato and I want to start that today.  I still don't know if I will crochet the red truck gift card holder. I don't think we are getting him a gift card...