new knits

Okay, I have a couple of catch up posts that I need to write but I dont have pics yet so they will have to wait. Until then, here are some of the most recent things I have been knitting. I made this little hat on my bday weekend and the booties last weekend. As I have mentioned in previous posts, the lighting changes a lot when I take pics because of the flash and ambient light so sorry about that. It makes it hard to tell the colors of everything in some of the pics I think.

And I am trying to get some more stork baskets, pods, hammocks and cocoons together to use for pics when baby Ava is born and some of my other friends babies that are to be born soon as well! The one below is very girly but I am going to make some more neutral ones and boy-ish ones too.



And here is a hat that I made last night for my friends one year old girl but I have a few flower options that I cant decide on. I think I will just make 3 hats so that I can use all of the flowers!!



I kind of think the pink flower is too big for the size of the hat but some people like big flowers on things!

Thats all for now!

random picture day!

I have been meaning to post these pics for a long time because I took them forever ago but have forgotten. This is Jackie with a lot of his friends! It looks like he is giving them the stink eye for being on his back!

And this is Lucy with lots of her toy friends. It is kind of a bad picture but you get the idea!

I love my pets! They make our lives interesting!

Spring Cocoons

These are the newest things I knitted this last week. They are photo props for baby photos. I have lots of friends about to have babies so I wanted to make some stuff to have available if they want to use and also to get some pictures for future advertising. I love these colors for the spring time!

Here is a picture of all 3 of them:

A baby boy cocoon (or it could be for a girl too I suppose). It is folded down like a shirt but I think it is long enough that it would fit over the baby's head and still be folded under the arms.

This is the pea pod that could be for a boy or girl. You lay the baby inside it like it is an open pea pod. I forgot to take a picture this way but it could be cuffed as well.

And this is the baby girl cocoon (definately not for a baby boy)! Something is wrong with the picture formatting because it put them in here sideways. Sorry about that. Just pretend I was trying to be artistic!

Baby boy booties/hat

Here is the newest set from last week. Matt gave me the idea for the blue pom pom on the hat.

I really enjoy making these baby sets, and they dont take me too long to make. These will definitely be on the website/etsy site. So far I have only made newborn sets but will also make 6 months and 1 year sizes too. To all my friends having babies soon, I hope you are a fan of knitted stuff because it is likely I will make you a set for your baby-to-be :)

babysitting fun!

Last week, Matt and I got to hang out with Olivia while Katie and Ryan went out for Ryan's bday. We had loads of fun and Olivia really enjoyed interacting with Lucy as always. She only got mad at me when I tried to make her go to sleep, she won that battle the first time! After I conceded, we then we came back out into the living room and played with Lucy and Jack for another hour and she was perfectly content. I guess she is just a partaay girl! At least she slept good the whole night I hear so that her parents could enjoy some much needed sleep I am sure :)

Matt tried to get her smiling but it didnt work out. You cant really tell in this pic, but Olivia has a big wad of my hair in her mouth!! At least none stayed in there though!

Baby booties and baby hats

So a few weeks ago, I started trying to figure out how to make little baby booties and I finally found a pattern. I practiced it for a while and alternated the pattern to come up with something that I like a lot. Here are a few examples of the finished products, these were for baby Ava (Ryan and Heather's baby that is on the way):

And I made this little hat (a miniature version of an adult hat that I made on Christmas break).


I really like these little tiny hats and booties and this week I am going to make a set for a baby boy this week. Those are always harder to come up with a cute idea thats not to girly. Hopefully I have a good idea come to me, we'll see.

Valentine's cupcakes

We had the annual "Mayfair Live" talent show and dessert bar again at church this year and I made some delicious goodies. I got this idea from my cupcake book to make a "box of chocolates" instead of making mini cupcakes in a regular chocolate box, I made regular size cupcakes in a giant chocolate box that I made from posterboard. They were red velvet cupcakes with chocolate frosting instead of traditional cream cheese frosting. I just got as much pink, red, white, and chocolate candies out that I had, bought some more too and went to town. I was so pleased with how these turned out as you might be able to tell by all the detailed pics below:








I also made some regular things too, these tortes are filled with nutella, carmel, chocolate and topped with pecans.
And I made the cake on the left. It is an Italian Creme cake. Joanne made this delicious cake on the right. It is chocolate cake covered in peanut butter icing and topped with reeses cups and pieces (yuuummmmmmmmy)!!!

Lana made this pretty strawberry cake below, I wish I had got a piece because I love strawberry but I got full before I could try any.

And I dont know who made these last two but they looked really impressive and delicious.

There were many more and too many to try all but it was great as usual and I am glad all my things turned out well despite the minor complications I had when making them.