Crochet Me Crazy

I have a friend is thinking of starting a craft store in town. She asked if I would be interested in teaching a crochet class. Hmmm...I'm sorta an introvert so it would be a challenge for me. I've never taken a craft course of any kind so I'm thinking about that and how I would go about it. She was thinking I should charge $10 an hour and require them to buy their supplies in her store. Not sure how it should work, maybe a class on chain stitch and sc and another on hdc and so on? Or I thought, maybe teach a class on mastery of chain stitch and single crochet and then come up with some small project they can complete in sc so they will be motivated. I was also thinking maybe a class on crochet pattern reading for people that know the mechanics of crochet but don't know how to read a pattern? I was thinking the more things she can offer inside the store to bring people in would help....demonstrations and maybe craft groups to meet there. I'm open to any ideas! Feel free to email me with ideas or suggestions! The more I think about it, the more excited I get...it could be fun! We'll see if she actually gets the store open...

Ah, it's miserable weather this week. It's slushy mud everywhere. We have been sitting here inside and not wanting to go out. Of course, my car has been inoperable since last Friday. I think he finally got it fixed today!

Then, we found out that someone has gotten our debit card number and was charging things to our account. One charge went through but we caught 4 more that were pending for about $700. They wouldn't have gone through anyway because we don't have that much money! LOL! Well, the bank cancelled the pending charges and reversed the one that went through. Don't know how they got the number as we rarely use our debit card anyway since we rarely have money in there. If it's not one thing, it's another!

Last night was the first night that Grace didn't sleep in the house. We have a large hay barn right beside our house and we put her in there during the day since it was raining. You would think she would have an endless supplies of food to munch on but contrary to popular opinion, deer do not eat hay! She's laying in it and has hay bales all around her and she doesn't touch it. It's a grass/alfalfa mix! She seems to really like it in there so we decided to see how she fared in there last night. She's such a picky eater...she needs a large variety...We have been gathering branches and various green things and laying them around in there for her to browse through. She has corn and various types of grain. We let her out for a little while the rain let up a little bit yesterday and she munched a bit and then went back in the barn on her free will. Today, I let her out and she followed me around! She knows I'm a protector for her.



We decorated our Christmas Tree last night!



Alison was taking pictures...Michael & I don't like our pictures taken...HA!



I have several crochet projects going on right now. I'm working on a Christmas project that I'm not extremely motivated on....can you guess what it is?... NOT!! Ha! Ha!



I also got started on my Prairie Star again last night.



My shawl is finished...