Creating......

Sometimes I have so may ideas running through my head hat it's hard to get them all made.  Right now I'm working on a new hat pattern, there has been a lot of ripping out and redoing as I'm making it a little different than I ever have before.  It's a slouchy hat that I'm making as a tube from top to bottom and then going back and sewing the top closed.  So it's taking some more work than just working a regular hat in the round.  I tried it first from bottom to top but I didn't like how the band felt around my head with the chainless foundation row as the bottom row.  So I'm flipping it around the other way and we'll try it like that :)  I'm hoping to get a couple of free patterns up soon.  I have so many ideas running through my head.  I wish I could just sit for a whole week and crochet.  I've ordered a skip stitch blade.  I sure wish I had known about them when I was making the blanket for my nephew last christmas.  I made him an awesome blanket that was crochet on one side and fleece on the other and I went through and poke a hole in each spot with scissors.  It was a headache and I swore I would never do it again.  Now I can do more blankets like that though without stabbing myself 50 million times.  I'm super excited!!  That will probably be one of the free patterns coming up once the blade gets here and I can get a couple different sizes made and patterns written up.  Fun, fun, fun!!  Lots of pictures coming soon!!!

A Spark

I had a spark of an idea and today I started to act on it.  My idea is to keep blank greeting cards with Bible verses that strike a chord with me in my car with a bag of goodies.  Candy bars, gift cards, cash, etc. and pass them out to random people, put them on random vehicles and distribute them as God leads me.  I don't know where this will go.  It's just a spark.

Dear Daughters

To My Girls,                                                                                                       Jan. 3rd, 2013

You are 6 and 5 right now and I want so badly for you to always stay this age.  You are both so in love with Barbie and the Furbies you just got for Christmas.  Clothes, sparkles and make-up.  Oh to be so innocent and see everything in life with such wonder.  Right now you are eating dinner, it's a short order cook night as I am in desperate need of a grocery store trip.  Hot dogs and pizza rolls were the requests and I am happy to oblige.  Kale, you go back to school on Tuesday, 5 days from now.  Today that feels like an eternity and on Tuesday I will be so sad to see you go back.  I am ready for a "normal" day again but will miss the laughter of you and Dee playing together.  She will miss you too.  I am so thankful that you are such good friends.  You don't know it now but you will treasure each other someday.  I can't imagine what life would be like without a sister.  Mine are my best friends.  But you know that.  There are so many things I wish I could tell you.  So many hurts I have felt that I wish I could spare you from.  But I know you have to learn a lot of those same lessons on your own.  This has become very random so I am going to go and have some dinner.  Love you more than most.

Mom

100 Random Things About Me - A little at a time

In an effort to let you all get to know me a little bit I am going to come up with as many random facts about myself as I can, hopefully 100.

1. I am 30, YIKES, I feel like that means I'm officially a grown-up although I still get carded any and every time I try to buy alchohol.

2.  Hello, my name is Katie and I am a yarn addict.  I actually think I like yarn more than I like to crochet, which is pretty scary because not many days have gone by in the last two years that I haven't picked up a hook.  I'm a professional hooker.

3.  I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE Grey's Anatomy.  I mean in an unhealthy way.  I talk about them like they are my friends.  I even have been heard to verbalize those words "they are my friends."  I get depressed when I do not have a new Grey's to look forward to.

4.  Purple is my favorite color.

5.  This should be number 1, oops, I am a C, I am a CH, I am a CHRISTIAN.  Proud daughter of the King and LOVE my church family.

6.  I really like Italian food.

7.  Horses are my favorite animal, specifically Straight Egyptian Arabians.

8.  Before I got marries I worked as a groom for 3 years at a National Level Arabian Horse farm for a great trainer and got to work with some of the most beautiful horses in the world like Pyro Thyme SA.

9. I am waiting for my "something big".  2 years ago God asked to me to give up a huge part of my life because "something big is coming" I'm still waiting and believing that it is.

10. When I was a kid I won the YMCA NY State Gymnastics Championship.  It was pretty cool

11. I am a little ADD and a little OCD.  It can be kinda confusing, it means I get really crazy obsessive about something and two hours later I'm really crazy obsessive about something else.

12. Taco Bell is a little bit of heaven.

13.  I always plan too big.

14.  I dream REALLY BIG DREAMS.

15.  I am the oldest of 5 kids.  I have a brother and three sisters, they are my best friends.

16.  I am a mom of 3 girls and a Fred.  Fred is our dog, he adopted us 4 years ago, and my girls guardian angel.  I'm convinced God sent him because my girls are fearless and they needed a constant shadow to tell them when they should be a little afraid.

17.  

Happy New Year - I'm determined to be happy......

My little girls and me waiting to bring in the new year.

2013 is here.  WOW.  New Year's always makes me reflect.  I take that back, I've been doing a lot of reflecting over the last month.  A month ago I turned 30, YIKES, right??  Anyways, I've been thinking back  back over how much my life has changed from where I expected it to go when I finished high school.  I was a horse crazy 18 year old who planned to spend the rest of her life training and showing horses and a husband and kids were NOWHERE on my radar.  

He was the love of my life.

And he led to me to where I am today.  Well okay, I guess I can give God a little of the credit since He was obviously the one setting everything into place but Gator was a big piece of the puzzle.  Where am I today?  I really don't know, right now I am a stay at home mom(13 year old step-daughter, 6 year old daughter, 5 year old daughter), a wife, a crochet, a bunny enthusiast(just wait until I show you some pictures of some of my Netherland Dwaf bunnies).......

I couldn't make you wait long, they are just too cute not to share, okay where was I?  Oh right, I am trying to start up a crochet business and trying to figure out what God wants me to be doing.  Two years ago God told me "something BIG is coming" and I keep grabbing at everything that I can see coming that even resembles something great only to be let down time after time when so many things don't develop into anything.  I'm trying not to get frustrated, I'm trying to be patient, I'm trying to have faith.  I know there is a plan, I would just like to get to take a peek at what the plan is.  More to come.