One A Day Tuesday Tallies (17 January 2012)

Its Finished!!!!  

My first Ta Da of the year!

The first of many!

This year is the year of COMPLETION

and I will complete lots.

Here it is:

My finished cot ripple blanket.  Made using Rico Baby DK wool in cream, purple, turquoise, red, petrol, grass green and denim blue.  

I was able to crochet 5 stripes from one ball; 27 stripes in total plus boarder which is equivalent to 10 stripes.  

Just over 7 balls in total at £2.25 a ball.

Just loving this snugly blanket and I can't wait for Baby Hyde to arrive to wrap it up and hug it tight.

Now my one a day blanket is finished, its time to move on to a new one!  To accompany the cot blanket baby Hyde needs pram blankets.  This is my progress so far:

I am using Rico Baby DK again; this time in cream, red, petrol and green.  There are 3 rows of dc in the red, petrol and green followed by 4 rows of tr in cream.  

I am then going to do 5 rows of dc (red, petrol, green, petrol, red) before 4 rows of tr in cream.  Final row will be 3 rows of dc in red, petrol and green.

I plan on getting this blanket finished this month as I have some time off work and plan to concentrate on this as I have lots of other crafty makes I am eager to do this year.

Pop on over to Carole to see lots of other one a day tallies.

A Make A Month

This year I have set myself a goal to make more handmade items and to also give as Christmas and Birthday presents.  Therefore, in order to help me achieve this I have signed up to a lovely group where everyone pledges to make something handmade every month.  You can make anything you like.  Knit, sew, crochet, paper crafts, bake.  You name it, as long as you have made it by hand it counts.

If you fancy joining in, head on over to Annie and sign up.  Each month you upload a picture of your hand made item to the appropriate flickr group.  Looking forward to this new adventure.

10 Things on The 10th (January 2012)

This month I am going to share 10 amazing places we visited last year:


Cologne

Prague

Warsaw

Krakow

Venice

Bravaria

Bruges

Arley

Stratford Upon Avon

West Midland Safari Park

Although we absolutely enjoyed our European adventures last year I can honestly say we did visit some amazing places in the UK as well; too many to list here sadly.  Having reviewed the finances :0( I can honestly say we are probably looking at staying the UK this year.  This does not disappoint me as I would love to introduce some amazing places to Liam and Freya and also visit the many places in the UK I have never been.

Pop on over to Shimelle for some other 10 things.

One A Day Tuesday Tallies (10 January 2012)

Are you ready?  I don't think you will believe this, I am struggling to!  I now have one very nearly finished ripple!!!  I have decided to end my ripple adventure at 27 stripes.  this make a nice square blanket.  On Sunday I had finished those 27 stripes:

I have since completed 1 1/2 round on my border and I am just loving how this blanket looks.  The plan is now to complete the other 3 1/2 rounds of the border and come back next Tuesday with the finished item.

The only problem now is which WIP will be my new one a day project.

Pop on over to Carole and see some other one a day projects.

Project Life Wk 1

Last thing Saturday night after the kids had gone to bed I used my new photo printer and printed off some photos for both JYC and Project Life.  Just love that I can print a small number of photos out the minute I want and then just scrap.

I have sorted the photos for JYC into the album and am a little unhappy that I may be a few short to complete the album.  Having said that who is going to know they are taken a few weeks in to the New Year.  I'm not going to tell!  Anyway, I need to catch a few extra photos and hope to work on the album over the next few weeks.  I printed the photo for the first week of Project Life and finished the first week's pages.

Surprisingly I could have filled two page protectors this week but I am going to stick with my decision of one a week as I know this is unlikely to be the case every week.  It was so easy and quick to complete with the pages prepared in advance.  Going to get on top of some more pages this week.