Crochet Me Crazy

1st Production of Evensong was a success. We do it again this afternoon. Alison was dazzling with her smile as usual. She's becoming known for her smile when she dances. She's beginning to collect a little fan club of people that we don't know that come up to her after the show and even got a flower from a lady fromt he audience this year. I'm very proud of her.

I'm still going to make that scrap afghan but I don't think it's suitable for a gift so I've halted construction. I'm not sure that I can pull this off by Christmas or not but I've switched up colors to a bright colorful scheme and started another one! Would this be nice for an 11 year old girl? If I can finish this by Christmas, then this will be her gift. I started out with the bright colors and a yellow border....but then I didn't like the look.

I don't like the yellow border. So I decided I like it better with just the solid colors joined. Off came the yellow border and this is the way I've decided to go with it. I believe I have enough bright colors in my Simply Soft yarn stash for this.
I will be adding a bright turquoise blue next.

I'm up early this morning. We have a tin roof on our house and the cats have taken to playing games on my roof during the early morning hours. It sounds like a herd of elephants on my roof!! This morning I went outside and called to the kitties. It did stop them from playing on my roof but I'm already up so I might as well stay up. It's nice to have time to drink a cup of coffee in peace before I start my chores. I'm enjoying my second cup of coffee from my new Kuerig coffee machine that my sister gave me for my birthday!

Well, I found something to keep my hands busy on the chilly evenings. It's very "scrappy" I know.

I sat through dance tonight and took video of all the dances for Alison. She has a whole lot of dances to get down pat. I realized that she is in every dance in the show except for the other two girls that have solos dances. The performance is a Christmas show called "Evensong" which featured a lot of different types of christmas music along with scripture readings for each dance. The whole show focuses on the light in darkness and the light of the world....should be very inspiring.

I thought I would take a little break from crocheting until after Christmas now that I have finished my Blue Star afghan, but now I'm having second thoughts. I sat down last night after my busy day and thought....what do I do with my hands? I don't have anything to crochet on! I don't think I can make it....I don't have time to plan or think of a project so I got a little inspiration from this blog...Gingerbread Girl And since the crochet as you go method is fresh on my mind, I think I will just start grabbing yarn and making squares. Who knows, I might even end up with another afghan to gift before Christmas? Not...but maybe knowing me!

We found out today from Alison's ballet teacher that Alison will be getting a solo in the performance! She's so excited!! The excitement and adrynaline is pumping about the coming show this weekend. Also, I think this will be her first completely solo dance to a whole song. It's short notice since the show is this weekend but because of Alison's injury, we didn't know if she would be able to dance even the group dances. We stay late tonight after dance class for her to learn her dance.

I really should have posted more progress reports on my Blue Star Afghan as I progressed on this but I've been a bad, bad blogger. Now, I find myself FINISHED with my afghan!!

I will still have many ends to weave in. The yarn quantities were right on this afghan and I didn't have to buy extra yarn. I love this afghan....even though there were a lot of errors in the pattern and the corrections, if you are an experienced crocheter, you can get through it and it turns out lovely. I think I may actually make this again. Alison wants one in pinks. I told her I'd have to get through the whole afghan before I could make a decision about whether I would make this again. My gift recipient is very excited to get this afghan so that makes me feel good that all my hard work is appreciated. (It's hard to keep this type of gift as a surprise from someone who is at your house a lot)

We've been so busy. It's that time of year that we are going to a whole lot of ballet. Alison has prolonged classes every day from here until show date. She's been at a disadvantage because of her ankle injury but she IS dancing and she says she feels confident she can "pull it off". After the show, she will get a nice break from dance which should give her time to fully recover.

We pulled out all the Christmas decorations this week and have been "decking the house" I have a whole lot of Christmas decorations and it's always a challenge figuring out where to put all this stuff in our tiny houses we've been in. Alison always insists on getting it all out though. She loves Christmas and so do I!
Tonight, we finished by decorating the Christmas tree...


Heck, we even decked the deer out! She's wearing her reindeer antlers...

This weekend was very quiet around here. The riding season is over so there were no rides. Yesterday, I took Morgan and Alison to town. I had no particular reason to go but they wanted to go so I cheauffered them around. Morgan got a hair cut and tried to do some incognito Christmas shopping for Alison. We ended the day by going to the movie theater last night and saw Red Dawn. It's been a long time since I've gone to the movie theater. It was a good movie.