Christmas 2014 - All about the crochet

So I've been scrambling, and the weekend before Christmas I was all finished with Christmas presents.

For my mother-in-law, I crocheted a simple shell border around some high quality towels using Sarafina cotton (size 2) yarn.   To do this, I first sewed, with the same yarn and a sharp needle, a blanket stitch around 2 towels and 2 washcloths.  Then I crocheted a single crochet row, then 5-double crochet, skip 2, slip stitch, skip 2, 5-double crochet etc around making the shell row.  That's it.  Easy peasy, and well worth it, my mother-in-law loved it!  Perfect gift.

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For my grand-niece, well, I finished that blanket and pony!  Woohoo!  Her birthday is Dec 29th, and they are coming down for Christmas on Jan 1st, so what I'll do is wrap the blanket up as a birthday present, and the pony up as her Christmas present.

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I've already begun the new baby's blanket.  And, since I made Princess K a toy, I suppose I'll make Princess ? one too.  I'm about 6 rows past what is shown in this picture.

It's the weekend before Thanksgiving.   I have so much to be thankful for - my life, my health, my family, my daughter's life .. their dogs who helped keep me from falling back into depression with their adorable fluffy selves ...

And my Christmas tree is up.  Yep.  Micaela was so excited to get Christmas up she was literally bouncing.  She got as far as the mantel, and I had to do everything else.  It's been a few years since I decorated my own tree, the girls usually do it, but this year was all me. I'm a complete amateur, and my iphone pictures are as usual pretty horrible, but it's probably one of the prettiest trees I've ever done.  Got no money left though, lol.  Had to buy all new lights, and of course ribbon, and picks to stick in and help fill  up the tree, and a few other likely unnecessary items to make Christmas pretty.

I am a huge fan of Pentatonix, and they have some Christmas songs out that are just unbelievable.  You've probably seen them, they both rather went viral on the internet.  But here they are again.

Little Drummer Boy

 Mary Did You Know

Carol Of The Bells