Crochet Me Crazy

She says these are super quick on her pattern and she isn't kidding.
Fake Mary Jane Pattern
As soon as I made these booties, they quickly became my favorite bootie pattern. I was having trouble finding a pattern that would truly work up to newborn size. These fit the bill and you can use worsted weight yarn too! One of these works up in less than 10 minutes!

Here are two sets of booties I made using this pattern.




This is the pattern I used for the baby booties I already posted here Here as well.

We went to my sister's house for Memorial Day weekend and had a really good time. They live on a lake and its really pretty. we got to do some fun "lake" stuff. The kids were able to try their hand at skiiing for the first time. Michael was up and going right away. Alison got up but couldn't quite stay up. We fished and actually caught fish for a change! LOL ... Michael caught a 14" fish!

Homemade Purse Handles

Alison was so excited to get her exam report back today. It is kinda like a report card for all of the skills you've learned. She got a overall rated of "Highly Commended" which is very good.



Her show, "Deliver Us" is only a few weeks away!



We were invited over for dinner at our neighbor's house tonight. They have a friend visiting from Germany and she cooked us authentic sauerkraut like they eat in Germany, roast and pan friend potatoes. It was very good! I was so surprised how much I loved the sauerkraut! It was so yummy and not sour like the sauerkraut is when we make our Reuben Sandwiches. She's going to give me the recipe.

My 15 yo son, Michael, has been on a bread making kick with my bread machine for the past week! He's been looking up recipes on the internet to try. So far, everything he's made has been pretty good! Our neighbor, Stephanie, loved his cinnamon raisin bread so much she brought over some bread flour and sugar with a request for him to make her some for her birthday! He tried another recipe that didn't use the bread machine for cinnamon raisin bread and it turned out better than the first. He's made plain white bread, banana bread, Italian Peasant bread. Luckily, the kids eat most of the bread so I don't get fat! He made some really, really good sweet dinner rolls today. Those were so good. Now, I'm going to have to coordinate him making those to serve with one of my dinners one night. It takes a while to make them because you have to roll them, let them rise, and bake them in the over after the bread machine mixes them. He says he's going to cook some food too so we're going to turn this into some Home Economics lessons for school credit. We'll get him to cook a whole meal one night. I'm voting for lasagne! :)