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Feb. 3-9, 2025 What I Made This Week

We made it to February after 100 days of January. After getting through a month long of colds, flus and pink eye we are all finally relatively healthy over here and I finally have energy and time to make things! Between baking, cooking and crafts, here are the things I made or worked on thisContinue reading “Feb. 3-9, 2025 What I Made This Week”

Easy Peasy Crochet Pumpkin

Simple Yarn and Bead Garland

Beads and yarn! These can be used in so many ways to make crafts. A simple, yet sweet way to use it is to make a garland. Just grab your favourite colours of yarn, some wooden beads, a needle and you are good to go. MATERIALS yarn – whatever you prefer! I used a basic,Continue reading “Simple Yarn and Bead Garland”

Valentine X and O’s

Love week is upon us and I have a soft spot for making sweet, lovely gifts. I have always thoroughly enjoyed making my husband homemade cards and gifts throughout the years. Since I have been into crocheting so much lately, I had another tool to use to make something special. Now I can’t take fullContinue reading “Valentine X and O’s”

Crochet Flower Patterns

The winter blues have me channeling my creativity into bright and summery projects. I started searching up all the free crochet flower patterns and is there ever a lot of amazing ones!! I ended up picking two of them and off I went with my hock and yarn. HEADBAND – I purchased the nylon headbandsContinue reading “Crochet Flower Patterns”

Crochet Vegetables

I finally got this post done! The 5 vegetables I crocheted for my daughter for part of her Christmas gift. The patterns I found were very straightforward and easy to follow and if you are new to crochet, and you have a bit of patience, you can easily create these sweet little veggies! I loveContinue reading “Crochet Vegetables”

DIY Fall Decor

September hit and my Fall decor is coming out. I created 2 different Fall decorations using several of the same fake florals from Michaels. The first item I made was this super simple wreath. This is a very customizable wreath that you need very little supplies to create. Just pick out your favourite florals andContinue reading “DIY Fall Decor”