Recent Events

 For Kara's birthday this year, she wanted to step up the yearly tradition and play laser tag at a more challenging course. As a family we drove an hour and a half and had a blast! $10 of free arcade was included with the ticket price and I never knew how much I missed the old Putt-Putt days!

What I woke up to on Thanksgiving morning from Ryan :) 

We've been getting the house ready for Christmas. I made this wreath last year, but never put it up on the blog. It hangs in our otherwise bare bathroom.

This year we decided to buy our tree from the Boy Scouts vs. cutting it down ourselves. We picked almost the first one we saw!

So relaxing with all the lights off and the tree lit :) 

Red Pixie Santa Hat and Booties

My friend had a baby in May, but lives out of state and is now coming home for Thanksgiving and a baby shower.  I really wanted to learn to crochet so I could make things for myself (like scarves) and others, especially cute infant clothes. Baby Quinn is my guinea pig :)

I followed this pattern. This is only my fourth crocheting project and it was a pretty easy one for beginners! 

The yarn I used:

I felt so accomplished after finishing the hat that I decided to try for a pair of matching booties. This was quite an undertaking. Booties were the very first thing I ever tried to crochet a few months ago, yet after multiple hours and attempts, I ended up with six booties of different shapes and proportions though I followed the same tutorial each time. I stopped crocheting pairs- scarves can have imperfections that go unnoticed. 

But ultimately I was convinced that the hat would be so much cuter with the booties.

I got one done on my first attempt and was quite pleased. A couple hours and three attempts later, I came out with another bootie. Yay!