OMG I suck at blogging...

Nearly two whole months without a post? Really Julia? Oy! I am sorry! Don't let the lack of blog posts fool you, I have been quite busy with craft projects, or at least as busy as I can be when being a mommy to a two year old! (Ok, I admit, I could be spending a lot LESS time on the computer and a lot more time crafting, it's something I'm trying to work on and hopefully once the weather warms up and I can be in my shed, things will change...) Unfortunately, most of my projects are still Works In Progress... Ah, the dreaded WIP... I have a BEAUTIFUL baby blanket for my new niece Lucy, waiting to be finished (I won't post a photo of it here until I do finish it and send it to my brother and his family!). I have a hat on a loom to be completed for Kayla (my wonderful Mother-In-Law who was recently diagnosed with Breast Cancer). I have a whole list of projects that actually haven't even started yet- Red's bivy sack (we ordered the fabrics for it from Outdoor Wilderness Fabrics, an excellent resource for all things outdoor fabric!), fixing his enormous stack of ripped jeans, crocheting a bag for my grandma, goodness I can't even think of the other projects without getting my list, but you get the picture... and yes, there are more, many, many more.

Some projects I've actually completed recently are- a loom-knit and crocheted market bag (SO cute! I'll post photos another time); a crocheted hat and monogrammed baby blanket for our good friends' Gayle and Ian's baby-to-be, Sydney; a crocheted cell phone pouch for my grandma; monogrammed towels and sheets for my friend Stacey's husband, who is currently in Afghanistan; I repaired my favorite pair of jeans with a little bit of darning stitch over a small hole which, if not darned, would have quickly turned into a very large hole; Also repaired two pairs of Red's jeans (it's a start, albeit a small one, on his enormous stack of holey jeans) and replaced several missing buttons on a shirt. Sadly, not much else comes to mind... I feel like there is more, but if so it escapes me right now!

I also have been dabbling in cake decoration, though not too much. Two times I baked cakes, I got horribly sick the next day, even though the second time I didn't so much as taste the batter... I'm sure it was coincidence and not actually food-related, but it was enough to turn me off the idea for a while. I did bake and decorate Wyatt's birthday cake, which I must say I think came out quite well and was very tasty! (patting self on back) We're getting ready to plant our garden and greenhouse, which I consider to be a crafty sort of thing, so I'll be posting about that more as the summer goes along (first of course it has to show up, but that's another story all together...)