• Snowmen for Jesus

    Snowmen for Jesus

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    I know it’s still fall, and temperatures haven’t really dropped yet here in Texas, but I have been busy making snowmen. It took me a little while to figure out how I wanted them to look but I’m pretty happy with these. I won’t be putting these up for sale right now on the site,…

  • Amigurumi: One of my first projects

    Amigurumi: One of my first projects

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    Over 12 years ago I started amigurumi, which is crochet or knit (in my case crochet) creatures or objects out of yarn. I’ve made some dolls but mostly enjoy making animals.  Today my husband was going through our garage, which we’ve had to use for storage since having to tear the house down, and he…

  • Be Kind, Rewind

    Be Kind, Rewind

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    I will admit, I was kind of excited to recently purchase a VHS player for our kids at the thrift store. We don’t watch television except for some DVDs we have. We actually got rid of our TV about 7 years ago and have used a laptop for any DVDs we want to watch. We wound…

  • Surviving Abuse: Some Symptoms

    Surviving Abuse: Some Symptoms

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    One of the hard things about surviving abuse, be it mental, emotional, spiritual, physical, or a combination of those, is that it will shape the way you think and feel as you grow into adulthood. It will effect the way you have relationships, how you see others, and how you perceive others see you. You…

  • Changing yarn stock

    Changing yarn stock

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    I’ve been attempting to use up a lot of my yarn stash recently. When I was designing and writing crochet patterns to sell I accumulated a lot of different yarn colors. Having a lot of different colors has been fun but I haven’t been keeping my colors organized as well as I’d like them to…

  • Finishing projects

    Finishing projects

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    I was going through my yarn after finishing Randy, attempting to gather it all into a tote and away from our living space, when I came across some unfinished snugglers. The pink and purple bears just need eyes while the red, grey, and white bear is still missing a head. After that I found some…

  • Dande-Lions

    Dande-Lions

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    I’ve been trying to get better photos of the stuffed animals that are done. Here are the small dande-lions with the large one. I had a lot of fun making these and I’m always up for trying to crochet puns. I’ve made corn dogs as well but we gave those away in town so I…

  • New Big Dog Style

    New Big Dog Style

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    I’m not sure why it took me so long to finish this particular dog but she’s done! I made the body last night and put it all together then quickly made a little bow headband that can come off as well. I’m still debating putting a tail on this one now that I know these…

  • Grief and Narcissists

    Grief and Narcissists

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    I’ve noticed over the years that there is a rising number of people coming out and speaking about cutting ties with narcissists whether they were friends, romantic relationships, or relatives.One of the things I don’t see talked about very often is the grief that can come with cutting those ties. Not a grief that misses…

  • Storybook Characters

    Storybook Characters

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    I’ve finally finished adding the Character Animals segment to my portfolio on the website. Each character has their own little story that we’ve been working on. If you’d like to read their introductions you can find them here. Some of the characters are more developed than others but we at least have their background story…