Crochet Me Crazy

I realize I have terribly neglected this blog. I am still crocheting though. Just been really busy with my Ron Paul meet-up group. My mind is on other things right now. I am working on a really nice top for Alison right now. I think its going to "be one of my better works. Here are just a few small things I've completed recently.

Water Bottle Carrier. I've actually made two more of these but I have to round those up to take pictures. I made these on a trip where we were going to be outside carrying our water bottles.

Boot Slippers

Cabbage Patch Doll Outfit

Made matching dresses for my daughter's doll and her friends doll.

green baby dress 


Ear flap hat and scarf set 


My scrap-ghan...where all my scraps go! 

chenille muff and hood 


purple doll suit 


Alison made her first cake all by herself! 

Here is a picture of a night gown I made for Alison's doll. I've had this made for awhile but hadn't posted this yet so here it is!


Annabell's night gown 

I just finished a ear flap hat tonight while Alison was in dance class...it turned out so cute! I love it! I'll try to get a picture of it posted too. I'm also working on a hat, scarf set for Alison's best friend, Hannah. She had told me she wanted me to make her one so I'm going to get it finished up and give it to her for her birthday coming up in January.

We helped my sister move this last Saturday and put the Christmas tree up on Sunday. We don't have it decorated yet though! Hopefully we can do that one night this week...Alison is about giving me fits wanting to know when we are going to decorate! She is so excited that I can see its really hard for her to concentrate on school. Just the excitement that Christmas AND her birthday is right around the corner...she's busy making and wrapping presents, making up Christmas dances! LOL!

Hope everyone is enjoying the season! :)

Here I am sitting with my real computer. I've gotten most of the stuff from my poor overworke hard drive moved over to my external hard drive. Boy, does it feel good to have MY computer back! Now, are you ready to see a little bit of what I've been crocheting all this time?

Here are a couple of baby doll outfits I finished...wow, these seem like a long time ago!


blue & white baby doll dress & hat 


baby bloomer overalls 

doll dress 

I'm toying around with different ideas for a craft booth someone has asked me if I want to put any home made items in. I was thinking of baby doll dresses. Once I find a pattern I really like, I thought of possibly finding some dolls to model them on or even selling the dolls themselves with several outfits. I've thought of making the cradle purses. I was thinking about the treasure bags but I don't know about that. I'll probably make some scarves and hat sets. Anybody got any ideas on what would sell good. I have until November to get the stuff made. HMMMMMM......
I don't think this doll dress is worthy myself. I tend to never think my stuff is good enough to sell. Crocheting is something I do for fun.

Navy & White Sailor Doll Dress 

Just finished up this little doll dress tonight. This doll was my doll when I was a little girl. My daughter never has any clothes for her to wear because she is so small.

chenille doll dress 

Here is a picture of a doll dress I finished awhile back. I AM still crocheting every day but I have really been falling down on the job with taking pictures and posting. There is just so much going on right now. The public school has been on spring break this past week so my house has been a "buzzing" with kids all day. I actually took 9 kids (including my 2) at a kid's play place called Jumping Jaks. Took 4 kids (including my 2) to the park and McDonald's last Friday and the same group, I took to the skating rink on Thursday night. I think there was at least one trip to Cici's Pizza in there somewhere where we had 5 kids with us. Tonight, Alison's little "boyfriend" went with us to eat chinese food. Sometimes I wonder if I'm insane! LOL! But in all honesty, I really don't mind. I would rather my kids have there friends here because I know what they are doing. I'm really glad they all like to be here.

We just bought a Legacy soft sided pool today and hopefully it will be here in the next week. It is 17x29x52 and is really huge. We have had a 12" round above ground pool for the past 2 summers that the kids have really enjoyed, however, it got a little bit crowded when friends were over. I decided we needed to get something bigger so the kids could have all their friends over to swim. I don't want to be taking all those kids to the neighborhood pool everyday so this will solve that proble. Jeff is going to build a deck around it. It should be a fun summer! The kids are VERY excited to be getting such a big pool. We decided on the soft sided pool because the liners don't need to be replaced and we can take it with us when we eventually move.

Yesterday and today, we spent the whole day raking and doing spring cleaning in the back yard. Jeff cut tons of limbs to get the yard ready for the pool. I was VERY impressed with Alison's little boy "friend" who lives next door. I offered to pay kids $5 an hour to help and of course, they all said they wanted to. All of them quit after a very short time but Santiago worked solid for 2 hours. He was actually a very big help to us! He raked and hauled literally mountains of leaves to the forest. Then he went around dragging the tree branches to the forest and stacking the bigger peices up against the fence for firewood. I'm just not used to a kid being that diligent and perserverent. The rest of the kids were jumping on the trampoline, screaming and having fun and little Santiago was just working his tail off! We paid him $20 for his work and he definately earned it! He is a real good kid.

Well, how about a few snap shots of life at the Ritz!

Watermelon doll outfit 

I am slowly but surely getting my completed projects posted. I just finished this outfit tonight...I'm pretty proud of this one...turned out real cute! It was pretty quick and easy to make, too!

chenille doll dress 

Here is a picture of a doll dress I finished awhile back. I AM still crocheting every day but I have really been falling down on the job with taking pictures and posting. There is just so much going on right now. The public school has been on spring break this past week so my house has been a "buzzing" with kids all day. I actually took 9 kids (including my 2) at a kid's play place called Jumping Jaks. Took 4 kids (including my 2) to the park and McDonald's last Friday and the same group, I took to the skating rink on Thursday night. I think there was at least one trip to Cici's Pizza in there somewhere where we had 5 kids with us. Tonight, Alison's little "boyfriend" went with us to eat chinese food. Sometimes I wonder if I'm insane! LOL! But in all honesty, I really don't mind. I would rather my kids have there friends here because I know what they are doing. I'm really glad they all like to be here.

We just bought a Legacy soft sided pool today and hopefully it will be here in the next week. It is 17x29x52 and is really huge. We have had a 12" round above ground pool for the past 2 summers that the kids have really enjoyed, however, it got a little bit crowded when friends were over. I decided we needed to get something bigger so the kids could have all their friends over to swim. I don't want to be taking all those kids to the neighborhood pool everyday so this will solve that proble. Jeff is going to build a deck around it. It should be a fun summer! The kids are VERY excited to be getting such a big pool. We decided on the soft sided pool because the liners don't need to be replaced and we can take it with us when we eventually move.

Yesterday and today, we spent the whole day raking and doing spring cleaning in the back yard. Jeff cut tons of limbs to get the yard ready for the pool. I was VERY impressed with Alison's little boy "friend" who lives next door. I offered to pay kids $5 an hour to help and of course, they all said they wanted to. All of them quit after a very short time but Santiago worked solid for 2 hours. He was actually a very big help to us! He raked and hauled literally mountains of leaves to the forest. Then he went around dragging the tree branches to the forest and stacking the bigger peices up against the fence for firewood. I'm just not used to a kid being that diligent and perserverent. The rest of the kids were jumping on the trampoline, screaming and having fun and little Santiago was just working his tail off! We paid him $20 for his work and he definately earned it! He is a real good kid.

Well, how about a few snap shots of life at the Ritz!

crochet teddy jumper 


plastic canvas 

Just a couple of projects I'm behind on posting here. I have a another doll dress and a rug I've made to post pictures of. We have been traveling a bit! We just got home this evening from a week long trip. We went camping at Dinosaur Valley State Park in Glen Rose, TX. We went to hear a lecture by Dr. Kent Hovind at the Creation Evidence Museum which is right up the road from the state park. Dr. Hovind is an awesome speaker who gives incredibly credible scientific evidence of the fallacy of the evolution theory. Here is his website: Creation Science Evangelism - Creation, Evolution, Dinosaurs, and the Bible.


Dr. Kent Hovind 


Dr. Carl Baugh, Creation Evidence Museum 

We drove on from there to Shreveport, LA where we spent the next 3 nights. Jeff had some business there. We had a few rough spots along the way....another flat on the camper again! This time it shot part of our rim up into the camper and put a hole in the water heater! No warm showers on that camping trip! LOL! Also, in Lousiana the radiator fan was going out on the truck and we had to get that fixed there. The good news is that Jeff just found out this week that he has gotten a nice little promotion at his job!

Well, hopefully I'll get more posted later this week!

Bear Outfit 

Here's a picture of an outfit I just finished for one of Alison's bears. You can't really see her booties in the picture. She has on little bloomers, too!