Gabe's Rosary

As promised, here is Gabe's rosary. It really turned out! His birthstone is pearl so he picked out the blue colored pearls because he thought they were "manly" enough for him! He is such the little man.

Pearl and Crystal Inspired!

I made two rosaries for my nieces, Bailey and Carly, who celebrated their First Holy Communion this past weekend. I used glass beads in their birthstone color with clear glass beads and bead caps to highlight each decade. Then my son Gabriel mentioned that I never made one for him. So we headed after school to the craft store for him to pick out the kind of beads he wanted me to use. His birthstone is the pearl, so he chose a blue/silver pearl with blue glass beads for each of his decades. In the time he did his chores, I finished it and had it waiting for him. Close up of the girl's beads.

After I was done with his rosary, I made myself a new pair of earrings using a kind of light gold pearls and bead caps like the ones I used in my niece's rosary but in a gold finish.

I will post a pic of Gabe's rosary tomorrow.

Almost Finished!

Here's the last group of things I needed to catch the world up on. I'm experimenting with a few new purse styles and whether or not they would sell if I made them...

More items to post!

Here are two bracelets and a necklace I made. The green bracelet is for an auction at the school I used to work for. The robin's nest was an Easter present to myself.

OMG! Has it really been that long since I posted!

Here's all of the items I have recently crocheted.

Baby Star Afghan

In all of my crafty time, I have never crocheted anything larger than a scarf. Then I fell in love with pattern I found online, Beth's Little Star Afghan (http://www.angelfire.com/va3/heartfeltangels/littlestarafghan.html). It turned out better than I ever thought it would. I will probably keep my first one but I am already planning to make them for family and friends who are expecting. On the next one, I am going to crochet a row of white in between each different rainbow color.

Arggggggh! I'm home with the family going stir crazy!

Happy Snow Day from the Midwest!