Out ofr the weekend

Friends,

  Im off to Sacramento for a Friends weekend out. My very good friend Lisa and I are going to go and meet up with our friend Tanya ( She lives in Sacramento). We have plans for a movie on Friday then a festival for Saturday, Then church on Sunday with lots of resting inbetween:) Yipee.

  Im not taking my crochet with me this trip. But I am taking my book! lol Ive been making baby hats like crazy. I have over 60 hats made so far. If I keep going I could have 100 by Christmas. SO now thats my goal.

  Well friends I pray you have a wonderful weekend Ill be back on Monday with pics I do hope:) I need to find my camera I havent seen it since the family reunion.

Tata for now

I live in the wrong side of the Country

Friends,

  Ive decided that I live on the wrong side of the country. I went to CrochetWithDee and   My Hooks and Needles. They attended the "Knit-Out 2006 and Crochet" Event in New York. Im totally jealous. I live in Las Vegas Nevada and we have many conventions here but they never have conventions for yarn or knit or even crochet conventions. I really need to think about moving back there. I just need to convince my hubby. I know they have casinos back east so there is a possibility.

  You really should go visit their sites they will make you want to be there as well. Well Im still working  Caps for the Capital for the babies I have 40 or so done now . Im going to make at least 50. Ive been doing so many different patterns and Ive reallyenjoyed coming up with the patterns. Now I was thinking about writing the pattern out and posting them here on my blog. What do you all think? Ive never written a pattern before but I will try and see what I can come up with.

  Ok have a great week and Ill be back real soon.

Friends,

  Ive been ever so busy:) Ive been reading Beverly Lewis Amish books. There are 5 of them and Im on number 5. I really enjoy her story telling.

  Ive been making the baby caps for the "Caps for the Capital" campaign. You can find a really cute pattern that Dee over at  crochetwithdee made. Ive made several of her cute little Tulip cap.

  Ive also been busy with my friends around here. My friend Karen had her 50th birthday on the 11th. We had a great time. She is around 6 months younger than me so I had a real fun time picking on her.

  Its really great weather here right now. Its somewhare in the late 90s. Wonderful weather. I hope your weather is great where you live too. Have a blessed day!

Tharp First ever Family Reunion

Friends,

  I spent the first three hours sitting at the park having a blast and then the family showed up:) lol Ok Ok everything went great lots of food, lots of joking and alot of fun to be had by all.

  As you can see by the pics all of family meaning the Tharp family showed. My dear sweet hubby had to work as did my son. But everyone else showed up. I just love the park It was awesome. Shady in the sun and cool shen need be. And the kids had a water toys to run raround in. Isabella was specially happy because the 3rd is her 9th birthday. Boy is she getting old. Doesnt that make me old too? Dont tell her but Ive as of yet to buy her a gift. so mum is the word here! ok

  I just want to show you a little of what happened I hope you enjoy the party. I have more pics to come some with my nephew Chris and his girl Marci too. Oh yea I did bring my crochet but in all fairness I didnt crochet much. Sorry but I will be bringing pics of the cool crochet bag Im making for me:) cool huh?

Books Books and more Books

Friends,

  Ive been totally engrossed in reading as of late. Not that Im not crocheting as well.:) But Ive been reading some of Dee Henderson books. I just love her fiction. If you get a chance try out one of her books. Ive also been reading Beverly Lewis books. I just finished one of her Amish books called the Shunning. My daughter saw me reading the book and thought I was reading the Shining! hahaha  I told her she should no me better than that. Not that it might not be a bad read but I tend to read only christian fiction books:) One of my favorite authors is Karen Kingsbury. She writes straight from the soul. At the moment Ive been reading a Lori Copeland   book called Brides of the West. Its very entertaining. Its about mail order brides in the west. Man o Man am I glad I didnt live back then:)

  Well I havent stopped crocheting. Ive started up on a scarf that I started a few years back and just know found crying out to me to finish. I thought of it because Dee over at www.crochetingwithdee.com mentioned her charity of donating scarfs for the homeless. Here in Vegas I really dont see people wearing scarfs. It really doesnt get that cold here. But I might make a few and send them back east. Im still working on the baby caps for Save the Children charity as well. I hope you can join in and make a few they are very easy to make.

  Well ive chatted enough for one day. Have a great day friends!

Sunflower Bag Holder

Friends,

  I thought I would share with you the Sunflower Bag Holder I made for my friend Karen. I made her another one but it did not open from the top to add bags. She requested another one that would take bags from the top. So walla here it is:)

  Im going to give it to her today. So I hope she likes it. I cant recall where I got the pattern but if anyone is interested I could search for it  for you, just let me know. The bag itself is very heavy duty. The stitch was very interesting. It was a DC in one stitch with another increase DC in the same stitch with adding the next stitch all across the body of the bag. It really makes a solid bag holder.

  Ok Im off to work on some of those motifs for my 15 year old project that I keep putting off. I collected the flower pattern motifs from members of Circle of Friends Happy Hookers when they were agroup some 15 years ago. But I have never put them all together. When I do get it completed it will measure out to fit my King size bed with overlapping sides. Its huge to say the least!

 Ok have a great day and Ill be back again soon!

 

Charity work

Friends,

  Ive been busy making caps for the Save the Children Charity. If your looking for a cool charity to do for the fall this is a great one. You can check out their site Save the Children: Advocacy: Caps to the Capital . Im going to go buy more yarn so I can make more caps. They are so easy to make. When you go to the site they offer a pattern in knitting or crocheting the caps. I made a few with their pattern then I went creative and made more in my own patterns. I love making them  I hope you can try them out.

  I went to my crochet group meeting last night and we had a blast. We even had a guy who knits and crochet come by to see what we had to offer. He brought along a few of his projects. He can really crochet! His name is Michael. He is looking for mens patterns if you know of any let me know and Ill pass them along to him.

  We are having a great time with the group I hope we can get enogh ladies to join CGOA so we can develope a chapter. We had 7 people show up last night, If we get more we may need to go to another place. But I love meeting at the Outpost because they have such great salads.

  Well have a great night and Ill be back with the other items Im working on to show you what Ive been up to.