Clarification, Crafts, and Cuteness

So I think some clarification is needed...

There has been some confusion about the "Kicking of the Dog"  incident that Ben posted about. The dog was not harmed and it wasn't a WHAMO kick that Ben depicted. Ben merely lifted his leg as the dog was near it and the tip of his foot brushed the nose of the dog.  The dog did no whimpering and no harm was done.

Now that that is clarified, on to other things.

Merrilee was sick again this past weekend. Poor thing. Seems like she gets sick a lot, but she is over it now. My mom was also in town over the weekend and it was fun to see her and spend time with her.

I have been feeling quite crafty lately and I have finished a few projects.

Crochet Project #1--Kylie, my Sis-in-law, was crocheting cute headbands for friends over Christmas and it inspired me.  I got some yarn and crochet needles and tried my hand at it. For the headband, I didn't exactly follow a pattern, but just experimented until something kind of resembled what I was going for. For the flower, I did follow a pattern I found on youtube. It turned out Merrilee size, but it can also stretch to my size.  Both Merrilee and I have worn it. (I'm wearing it in the pics on the last post.) Its a little rough around the edges, but it works!

Crochet Project #2-- Star stitch hat with flower. The pattern for the hat can be found Here. I added a row or two to make it adult size.  The flower is the same pattern I used for the Headband and can be found Here. I think this hat turned out really well and I'm kind of proud of it.

Crochet Project #3-- Slippers.  One of them got weird at the toe and I'm not sure what happened, but overall I think they turned out ok for my first attempt at something like this! I found the pattern on the Red Heart yarn website Here.

My next crochet project will hopefully be something for the new baby...we'll see!

So I threw a Bunco party just before Valentine's Day and for some of the prizes I made some magnets and put together some frames...Of course I couldn't resist making some for myself to keep too!

For the magnets I bought some flat backed clear gems, some magnets, and some clear tacky glue.  I used some scrapbook paper that I had for the designs.  Its as easy as cutting the paper to the size of the gem, and gluing it to the gem, and then to the magnet! So Fun!

I found the design for the print at this site, printed them off at costco, and stuck them in some cute frames.

My latest project has been a cork board. Our desk/office area gets so cluttered sometimes I want a place where we can hang our important things up so we will see them and take care of them right away, or just to have up as a reference. I found the most amazing site that has tutorials on all sorts of amazing crafts! This tutorial covered the frame with fabric, but I used some scrapbook paper again. I still might switch out the ribbon I used for a more brown satin-y type ribbon (like the one on the tutorial) which I think might look a little better with the colors I used. I still need to hang it up.

There you have it folks. I don't take credit for any of these ideas, I just steal good ideas from other people. :)
You can go ahead and steal the ideas too, they were all free online!

In other news, Merrilee has been protesting her afternoon naps...she throws her blanket out of the crib and cries like its the end of the world when I put her in her crib for her afternoon nap.  Even when she is obviously SO tired (bags under eyes, rubbing eyes, crying at everything), she protests! I don't know if this is a phase or if she is deciding to switch to a one nap schedule. I guess we'll see. Here's some more pics of the cutie...

She LOVES books!! :)