Save a Sack

Save a Sac
Save a Sack
Creative name? I need a name for the little sacks/bags that I'm making. I'm in the process of making 30 for Carson's school. For his birthday snack, he wants goldfish. And instead of sending plastic baggies or paper cups to put them in, I thought I'd make little sacks for them.

They aren't as detailed as the ones that I'll have at the craft fair in Vanc. There's no "handle" on the school ones. I'll get pics up as soon as they are done. like tonight. cause well they have to be done for tomorrow!

The great thing, they can be used for other things, like collecting treasures!

Oh Happy Day

So the kids had dentist appts with Dr. Pike yesterday and on the way back to the Eastside, the girl needed to pee. So we stopped at the GW on Grand to use the facilities. And well it was almost noon and I really didn't want to head all the way to Gresham and then turn around and go pick up E.
Anyways back to the story. I took Mad to the bathroom and then of course they want to "just look" at the toys. So I said okay, I've got time to kill, right?! Well on the way to the toy section is the craft section. And I see bags of yarn. The knitter I am, has to look to see what kind of yarn. Oh it's WOOL!!! and the next one, WOOL! and it goes on. There are 11 bags of almost all wool yarn. And the bags were priced at only $3.99! One bag was priced at $2.99. So for a little over $50 here's what I got:
a pirate flag (the kids said we needed a new one, cause the other one was starting to tear.)
wizard tattoos. Okay I couldn't deny wizard tattoos.
Okay on to the yarn:

Patons Classic Wool in brown, forest green, 3 sk denim marl, tree bark mix, and black
Nature Spun 3 sk roasted coffee
TLC Cara Mia #2376, #2402, and 3 sk #2801
Sublime 3 sk #4001
Frog Tree fingering Alpaca wool #96
Frog Tree Sport Alpaca/Wool 4 sk #56, #204, 4 sk #31, #46, 4 sk #64
Plymouth Indieata Alpaca #2924
Misti Alpaca RJ2105, RJ2302, NT100
Dale Ull Dalegarn yellow, red, orange, pink
Patton Brilliant Gold Glow
Shaphard Baby Wool #91, 2 sk #51, 3816, 2934
Mill End lime green, 4 bright pink, 2 bright orange, 2 Swirl
Cascade 220 #9462, 4 sk #824, 4 sk # 7827
Brown Sheep # 551 5 skns 1 ball(could be a full skein)
Lamb's Pride Superwash 3 sk purple haze, 2 sk onyx
Patons UpCountry #80935
Rowan Summer Tweed 6 sk #507
Galaway 2 sk #13
Elsebeth Lavold Silky Wool 2 sk #24, 5 sk #23, 5 sk #25, 4 sk #14, 3 sk #17, 2 sk#04 and 3 unknown colors (no tags)
Austermann Scarlet #10
Unknowns:
5 tapes
2 fuzzy acrylic
1 mohair-ish,
2 lion brand chenille
5 hvy worsted weight possibly wool
1 large undyed sport weight skein.
and 5 or so smaller balls of worsted weight yarn, looks to be patons classic wool and then possibly 2 sock yarns.

If I added right this early in the morning, that's over 90 sk of yarn for $50!!!

E wanted to know when I plan on using it all.

crafty linky links

pencil bag
hand me up
ruffled skirt
easy skirt
wrap dress
morsbag
jeans to apron
labels
felt barrettes

wowsers 2 posts in 2 days!

So I had an hour yesterday and after getting my pattern pieces cut out, here's what I made of my time.....Farbenmix Olivia pattern. Thin knit that says Little Miss Sunshine.

I didn't have enough fabric to do long sleeves, so these are 3/4 sleeves. The stripes on the sleeves don't quite match but the body stripes do. (insert little banana dancing here, LOL)

And the crocheted Jack Skellington hat I did that came out way to big for Gman. It fit's his daddio so I'm in the process of making a smaller one. I wanted to add that I was inspired to crochet this hat after seeing this over at etsy.

what I've been doing

Dora dress size 2T one of the big name patterns
Mad picked out the fabric. She looooves Dora.
Cape and pants set for one of C's friends up the street. I made up the pattern for the cape. I still need to tweek some things to it. and I will never sew with satin again! it slips tooo much!
Pants of set. Lined with thin blue fleece, same as inside of cape.
Small longies, Belladonna Designs pattern and yarn. For sale at Zoom Baby Gear in Portland.
Large soaker also for sale at ZBG.

Pants for Gman custom sized just for him. BDD pattern and BFL yarn.
Front of pants.



There's more of what I've been up to but I forget to take pics of them before they leave the house. I've also made a peace fleece small soaker, another pair of longies in hand dyed cascade 220 in yellow, reds, and oranges, a double sided kid's mt for an mdc mom's daughter, uhm I know there's more but I can't remember right now. Oh a jack skellington crocheted hat for Gman's birthday. Ah how could I forget HP robes for Halloween. Those pics will come soon.

So I got a couple of Farbenmix patterns in the mail from a coop and I'll probably be mia while I sew up some clothes for miss M.

It's raining today and the kids and I are stuck inside, which after spending a week camping, we are very stir crazy!

Camping was fun. The kids never napped during the day which made bedtime sooo much easier. C brought a microscope that he found at the Sunnyside Co-op clothing exchange and was mesmerized for hours looking at things under it.

Eric found a huge toad on the road and brought it home to the campsite. As soon as the batteries are charged, I'll upload some pics.

C then found a frog in the creek and tried to catch it. Gosh darn frog was too fast and C got frustrated too easily. It was obviously nap time but he didn't want to admit it.

I think M's favorite thing was roasting marshmallows over the campfire. She is very independent lately and her favorite words were "I get it". She wouldn't even let me try and keep the mellow out of the ash for her. (rolls eyes)

I started knitting a little vest for M while camping, decided to abandon the longies that I started before going camping, cause they were not wanting to "look right" for me so I said forget it and decided to let them sit for a bit, I might frog them latter.

C decided he wants to go to school and talks about it, but we are hanging tough and going forward with homeschooling. Well more like unschooling. He's using the computer for some alpha games, his wipe off board that he practices his letters on, and his leapster games.

M is still learning to use the potty. It's easier for her to go without clothes on and then she'll use the potty. If she has a diaper on she'll use it and the take it off saying wet. She won't go number 2 though in a diaper, she'll find a toilet for it. And since camping, she likes to go potty outside. She's mastered the squat! At least she's not afraid of dropping her drawers and going.

I went with the name MamaHen for my crafty creations. I've also started a new blog for it, I'm still trying to upload pics and stuff for it.

M woke from her nap so back to parenting.....

names

I'm thinking of opening shop for some of the crafty creations that I've made. I was thinking cute little tops and knitted shorts or longies, or little bloomers for under dresses. I don't know. I may never do it. Just putting some ideas down, and I know I won't loose them here.

restless waters
kula kids
kula keiki
kula kui
humuhumu
ohana

adding Aspen Skies. This "name" is growing on me as it's Miss M's and C's middle names. Well Skylar is C's but Skies sounds better. :)