Creating in January 2016

Instead of a typical New Years resolution, I decided to do something different...I wanted to document how I was creative each day...  Here is how it has gone so far:

January 7 Started knitting some fingerless gloves for a friend and built a Lego kit

January 8 Continued knitting
January 9 Baked bread and did some knitting

January 10 Band of fingerless glove almost done

January 11 Does taking apart Lego creations count?
January 12 Calendars and Agendas for Activity Days event

January 13 First glove almost done

January 14 I frogged the glove and started over (had some issues with unwanted holes)

January 15 Knitted a few rounds
January 16 Finished the wrist ribbing (all while riding in the back seat of my brothers car)
January 17 Started building Lego Palace Theatre

January 18 Some knitting - finished the Theater (the Parisian Cafe was built just after Christmas)

 

January 19 Knitting at the dealership waiting for my car to get fixed/battery changed

January 20 Baked bread :)
January 21 Knitted several rounds
January 22 Wrapped birthday gifts and made a layer cake with homemade frosting. Add in the dinner of Potato Stacks and meatloaf...

January 23 Knitted a few rounds while waiting for my car (again)
January 24 Prepared an extra nice dinner for family and Reuben, a nephew who came to visit...and made bread

January 25 Worked on Legos
January 26 Taught knitting at Activity Days...didn't get any photos
January 27 Started some homemade cards (from a kit)
January 28 Finished the body of the first glove...now I need to do the thumb

January 29 Worked on a Lego version of our home online using a program from Lego...it's not as easy as it looks!
January 30 Built some new designs of Lego with Steve

January 31 Made bread using my new mixer
February 1 Created a happy atmosphere in the home by being of good cheer :)
February 2 Baked fancy cookies and updated the Eiffel Tower shelf

February 3 Started a Jigsaw puzzle, started the 2nd glove and baked a cake for Stephanie which included homemade lemon buttercream frosting.

Tuscan Knitting Bag

A friend of mine wanted a "knitting" bag for his wife. A "Tuscan" knitting bag. His wife had broken her ankle and he thought this would be just the thing for her.

Sooooooo...using some curtain material that was given to me, I think I made the perfect bag. :)


The pockets are all on the exterior of the bag and go all the way across and enter into the side seams. I then sized them for things like patterns, pens and pencils, scissors, cell phone and such. You get the idea.

Then there was the insert knitting needle holder. This idea came from my Mom and I think it worked out really well. I even embellished it with a bow. (Mom thinks that I don't embellish my bags enough.)

It's done and I can deliver tomorrow morning, right on schedule.

Scarves for Sale

I have opened a store in ETSY.com to sell some of my scarves. Knitting the scarves was the easy part. Teaching Stephanie how to be a model...that was a challenge, but I think she did pretty good.

Then there was the time to just set up the store itself. Thankfully I have a husband who understands all of that and really made it easy for me. He also looked up all the shipping info for me. You also have to set up the store, take the pictures, re-size the pictures and then decide which ones will actually be put in the listing. You can only show 5 pictures max for each listing. I spent half my day...Saturday afternoon and early evening...just getting the scarves listed.

So if you are interested...or know anyone else that might be interested in buying a homemade scarf, my store is listed at: http//sweetrt.etsy.com

I'm really hoping that they sell...and soon. Monday I will be listing some of the bags I have made too. So keep watching the site.

These are the actual pictures we took...in the listings, they are cropped and sized smaller. I just didn't think you would want to see only the chin of Stephanie... :)