Halloween Dreams

Halloween...it's my absolute favorite holiday of all time! Yet sadly, my house is undecorated thanks to walls getting prepped for painting and my Dexter dog has no costume. Sigh. I had so many big celebratory ideas for doing Halloween up right in my new home, but alas, those dreams will have to remain just that...dreams. Life just gets a little hectic and sometimes we all need to stop and just breathe...or drink--your choice. BUT NEXT YEAR, I'm going to make something like this sweet skull garland to drape across my fireplace. It will be lovely...next year.

Get your garland here.

So freaking cute!

These are more in the Day of the Dead sugar skull style, which I equally love.

Here's Dex doing exactly what I'd like to be doing right now:

This Can Only Mean One Thing . . .

. . . the holidays are just around the corner. sigh


Oh, but here's what they looked like before they gave up on pumpkin life. Mine is on the left, Shane's is on the right.

Happy Halloween!!!

I hope everyone has a great Halloween. Dress up, go trick or treating, carve a pumpkin...or at very least, eat candy! Happy Hauntings!

Happy Anniversary...

...to me and Shane!

It's been four wonderful years since the man and I got hitched. We had an Oct. 30 wedding, with mixes of beautiful fall colors and a few fun Halloween goodies, such as pumpkins topped with dried flower arrangements, a skeleton holding a papier mache coffin card box, and little plastic pumpkin favors filled with trick or treat candy. But the cake topper, well, took the cake.

A Family Skull Affair

So yesterday I showed you the baby hat I made that my co-worker bought for another co-worker. Well, once he received the hat for his baby, he decided every member of his family needed one. So, I knit one for the baby's older brother, mom and dad. Such a fun project. And I just found, another member of his family wants three hats for their family!

Baby Skull Cap

I knit up a cute little baby hat with a felt skull and bow on the front. I was all set to add it to my Etsy shop, when a co-worker saw it and snatched it up for another co-worker's baby. Being a baby boy, the bow had to be removed, but the end product was just as adorable!

Itty Bitty Boo Hat

Inspired by the Halloween tea cozy I knit, I decided to make up an teeny tiny baby hat for Etsy. It was super quick to make, and turned out pretty cute. I like the ghost the best. If you're interested, it's in my shop.

Ravelry and RAK Pattern Testing

I can't believe in all these months of posting that I've never talked about Ravelry. According to the site, Ravelry is a community for knitters, crocheters, designers, spinners, and dyers to keep track of their yarn, tools, and pattern information, and look to others for ideas and inspiration.

I love this site because I can have one central place for all my knitting stuff--patterns, pictures of things I've knitted, and a place to get inspiration for new projects. I also love the groups you can join, which are like smaller communities within a big community. I have a number of groups that I belong to, but my faves are Knitters for Obama and RAK. The first group is obvious what it's about. The second stands for Random Acts of Kindness. This group is all about doing nice things for one another. If you read the comments on my site, you may see lots of RAKers stopping by. That's because we get to create wish lists, and on mine was for people to visit my blog and make comments. (Thanks to all the RAKs who've visited!)

nother RAKer was looking for pattern testers. She's going to be selling patterns to help cover the medical costs for her husband. I was more than happy to help out, so I contacted her to volunteer. She's going to be selling tea cozy patterns that are holiday themed. I volunteered to do the Halloween pattern, since it's one of my favorite holidays. The pattern turned out great, and was very well written. But even better was the joy that came from doing something nice for someone else. Try it and you'll see!