Happy Easter

Its Easter weekend and I hope everybody is happy, and will be with family this Sunday. My husband and I will be with his family on Easter Sunday enjoying time well spent!!!

I've been working diligently on patterns for my doll book. I've also started patterns for a second book, but they aren't dolls, more or less big floppy stuffed animals. Yes, I'm slightly crazy for working on two different books at once, but in a way I think its easier than thinking about the patterns I want to make for this second book which come into my head and distract me so that I can barely work on the doll patterns. Although after this first sweet stuffed animal is done, I have another doll pattern that's coming in loud and clear in my head which is crammed full of yarn colors, crochet hooks, single crochets, double crochets, and in the rounds. Seeing as I'm closing in on the finish line of the doll book, I believe that its alright that these other patterns are calling out my name. :D I can't walk through the yarn isle of my local Walmart without seeing the bright wonderful colors of the red hearts and the Caron, and the lion brand without something popping into my head and wanting to come to life. Ahhh if only I had all the time in the world to work all of these wonderful creatures up. If only I was a lot faster at working these wonderful creatures up, but one day I will.

I know I promised you all a pony pattern, but unfortunately I had to give in and use a pattern somebody else has written. Its a good pattern, and I'll post the link on here this weekend.  I tried and tried, but I just couldn't hack it. Maybe one of these days I'll sit down, with no dogs, no TV, no husband just me, the yarn, the hook and some paper and pens/pencils, and I'll get it!!! But for now...its just not going to happen. Who knew that a pony could cause me so much grief???

ANYWAYS...guess I had better leave this alone for now, and try to get something accomplished today!!!
Happy Eater from my family to yours.

cross eyed

So, after scouring the Internet for a decent pattern for a my little pony that I agreed to make, I finally came up with what I consider to be the least of all the evils out there. Now I'm not saying they are bad patterns, not at all, to me there is no such thing as a bad pattern. Its all in what stitch one likes to use, and how they do it...So, I did a little copying and pasting because it wouldn't print out from its web site...unfortunately they used some funny color that wouldn't show up with the back ground they chose to have it all typed up on...those are the joys of the Internet world as well.

Anyways...so I print this pattern out, sit down, really look at it closely...its a good pattern...BUT its done in double crochet...that's not a bad stitch..not at all, I like that stitch, it makes things work up faster in a way, but when you are making a stuffed animal, that's the last stitch that you want to use. So, what I'm doing is I'm rewriting the whole pattern as I go...I'm basically using it as a simple guide so to speak. Generally I would attack something like this with complete and utter abandonment without even a pattern, but I feel after having gone through the trouble to find this pattern, that I must write this pattern better, and share it with the world. SO my plan for all of you wonder people out there in Brandi Land is this...I'm going to get this pattern re-written, worked up and I'm going to share it with all of you out there!!!! Yup...I'm going to share my creative genius with you all!!! (wow, do I sound like I have a big head or what???)(I think its all the coffee and chocolate I have consumed)

So stay tuned, and within about a week, week and a half, I'll have a pattern for you wonderful people!!!!

somethings always breaking!

If its not one thing, its another!!! This time, my car has decided to start acting up!!! I was going to go and pick up a movie at walmart last night that was just being released, well, lets just say, I didn't get to get it...big fat frownie face, my car has decided to act like its crazy, lost power, started doing this strange engine thing where the car kind of shook, but not in a shaking kind of way, but kind of like a strange power surge kind of way. My dear hubby thinks I have water in the tank, which it very well could be the way we have a bad habit of letting the tanks get low, so I'll go and pick up some of that alcohol stuff they sell for cars, and dump that in there and see what happens.

On the upside, I've been working on my mermaid doll pattern, and she is looking great! I'm on the second work up of her now, aka second draft...lol that's how I work my patterns, like I'm writing a paper, first draft, second draft, final draft...all that good stuff. I must say, I'm kind of proud of myself. I hope that this book of crochet patterns gets published, because that would rock!!! I've always wanted to be a writer, I just never knew I would be a writer of crochet patterns.

I'm hoping today ends up being a not so nasty day outside.  I have lots of things I need to do this morning, none of them which are overly fun. I'm taking some flowers to my husbands Uncle's grave this morning. He passed away on Frank's birthday, and I don't think people realize just how hard Frank took that. My biggest thing this morning is going to be making sure I find the cemetery on my own!!! EEEK!!! Its kind of back on all those twisty turny side roads, and this will be my first time going back there by myself...now lets just hope that the zombies don't decide to invade today!!!

I've been trying to be a better house keeper. I'm not saying I'm bad at it, its just really hard keeping up with the cleaning when one has so much stuff to have to work around!!!  I have this dream of someday having a house with a basement...ahhh yes, a basement, one in which I can let my dear husband have, and he can turn it into his own personal man cave, for all of his manly stuff!!! LOL..I know that sounds bad...but I guess it is what it is.