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Even if I Didn’t Get A Day I’d Give

Amber — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 16:15:57 +0000

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On January 1, 2010 Disney started a program to get 1 million people to volunteer in their communities. They called it “Give a Day Get a Day.”They offered a free Disney park 1 day pass to anyone who committed to and went through with one day of volunteer work. With work and school I didn’t think that I’d have the time to volunteer. Everything turned around for me 3 weeks ago. A friend told me that a local charity was allowing people to knit and crochet hats that they would then give to breast cancer patients. I love crocheting so I thought I’d give it a go! Then my family wanted to do it too.

I settled on the Knifty Knitter to make my hats and taught each member of my family how to use it to make hats. It took us all 3 weeks but, we got them done! It was a challenge at first. I was starting to only crochet the hats. I found my wrists hurting though. I was crocheting for almost 4 hours a day and wasn’t making much progress. The good feeling I was getting for helping out those with breast cancer was being overwhelmed by the bad feelings in my wrists and arms. We picked up speed and rested my wrists after we switched to the round loom though.

I put the hats in the mail yesterday. I feel so good that our family could help out such a cause and i will continue to make hats for this charity between each project. I just hope that everyone that volunteered to get Disney tickets continues to volunteer after their trip to the Happiest Place on Earth.

Girl Talk Thursday – Craftification!!!

Amber — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:34:06 +0000

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So just by the exclamation marks in the title you can already tell where this is going…

My name is Amber and I am a craftaholic. Yes it’s true. I’m always on the hunt for my next project. But, I can stop anytime I want to. I don’t need saving! That all being typed as I stare at my huge Fire Mountain Gems haul sitting on my dining room table, and the 3…yes, THREE crochet projects sitting on my couch.

I’ve always loved art and crafts. When I was in preschool we had a graduation when it was time for us to move on to kindergarten. Do you know what i got as my graduation present from the school??? A HUGE copy paper box (you know the ones that used to hold the dot matrix printer paper?) full of art and craft supplies.

I come from a prety crafty family on my mom’s side. My Grammy always sewed, painted, did embroidery, painted and crocheted. As a child I always did crafts with my mom and my Grammy. We would make decorations at the holidays, do some painting on rainy days or just draw when we were bored. My uncles were the artists when it came to drawing. AMAZING!

Newdays I have taken on the craft gene and embraced it with love and respect. The crafts I currently love are as follows; crochet, jewelry making, scrapbooking/jpaper crafts and knitting. I love all types of crafts though and will try anything once. If it doesn’t work out I pass the supplies on to someone who could use them.

Currently I am working on a market bag, a blanket and a scarf in crochet. I’m putting together pendulum necklaces and learning to make earrings AND making rune sets out of polymer clay. It’s definitely an exciting time in my crafty world. The crochet projects are gifts and the rest I am thinking of putting in my Etsy shop.

So I guess the answer to the Girl Talk Thursday question is HELL YES I get crafty!!!

Magical Monday – Craftiness Is In The Air

Amber — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 05:20:03 +0000

I haven’t had a lot of time to work on my crafts lately. Work and school have eaten away that precious crafting time that I hold so dear.

Recently I have been able to work on a few things. Today I don’t have pics but I should have them by weeks end. Thanks to a loving furbaby in my house I have a camera cord and yet I can;t seem to find the thing. I’m guessing it got snatched when I was cleaning up the desk area.

I’ve been working on what I lovingly call the “Shawl of Doom.” I am notorious for not finishing crochet projects. I have had 3 attempts at the Seraphina’s shawl pattern. 1 with homespun, 1 with boucle and 1 with some real thin yarn that seriously made my head hurt when I realized I’d gone through a ball of it and have a shawl made for a barbie so far!

I decided to grab a nice green skein of Vanna’s acrylic yarn and have one last go at the pattern. I couldn’t be the problem with it it HAS to be the yarn! I was right it’s the yarn. I should have listened to everyone that told me that a bumpy yarn will drive me insane when crocheting with it.

Next on my agenda is to put together some jewelry. I have a few car protection pieces to do and maybe a few necklace and bracelet sets. I want to learn how to correctly make a wire loop and I can then start making earrings that don’t fall apart.

I hope you are all having a wonderful week. Don’t forget to check out the giveaway here that will end Thursday!!