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Welcome to another edition of Sew Crafty Friday. Last week I put my daughter in her new dress I crocheted for her and we went to the park for a photo shoot. I washed her clean, blew her hair dry and was hoping for something sweet and girly.  Instead, I got action shots. Hubby took these photos:

First, Katie ran away over here.

When Daddy caught on to her shenanigans she ran away over here.

In this shot I think she has decided to try and fly away from intrusive camera.  Doesn’t she look like Superman about to take off?

Still not a good shot of the dress, but hey, she’s not running anymore.

Yes, I’m talking about you.

Oops!  Spoke too soon, there she goes.

Well, with all that running we did manage to get one good shot of her in the dress.  She looks miserable but the dress is nice.  If you’re interested in this pattern check out the Crochet Garden.  The directions on this pattern are super easy to follow and there are NO seams.

Aside from chasing my daughter I’ve found some time to work on a new project.  It’s actually an old project that I frogged and started over.

This is my sock loom from DA Looms.

On it is the leg and heel part of one sock.  I’m using Opal yarn in the “Crazy” line.  I don’t have the label so I can’t recall what shade or number it is.  I do know that yarn is from Germany and I like to smell it.  I tried to get a picture of the heel but until I get a little more of the foot done it is too hard to see.  Instead, take a gander at this close up of the stitches.

Pretty cool, huh?

That’s it for tonight.  Thanks for stopping by!  But before you go, if you have a blog where you post your crafts, leave a comment, I’d love to take look!

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First of all, I’d like to apologize to anyone who visited me last week from the Organizing Junkie and was directed to “Sew Crafty Friday” instead of “Menu Plan Mondays.”  We have not become desperate enough that we are eating yarn, I just wasn’t careful when putting my link in Mr. Linky.  If you are here this week then I did a much better job.  I’d like to point out that you didn’t miss much last week as somewhere about Monday I fell of the Menu Plan band wagon and my plan looks pretty similar to last week.   I’ve planned  the Chicken, Spinach & Pasta Bake three weeks in a row and just kept forgetting to take it out my freezer.   I made sure I got it out tonight since I’m doing my grocery shopping after work I’ll need a quick dinner.  Since I missed “Sew Crafty Friday” this week I’ll put a little sneak preview of what I’m working on now after this menu:

MONDAY
Chicken, Spinach, and Pasta Bake
Cheese Toast

TUESDAY
Green Chicken Enchiladas
Spanish Rice
Beans

WEDNESDAY
2nd Chance Meals

THURSDAY
Tortillini in Alfredo
Salad

FRIDAY
Kielbasa & Cabbage

BONUS:  I’m also cooking for a potluck at work this week so I’m making Baked French toast on Wednesday.  With any luck I’ll have a recipe up this week with a photo, but my track record lately isn’t so good, so we’ll see.

**Sneak Peak:

I’m not much of a knitter.  I’ve been crocheting so long that anytime I’ve tried to knit I give up because crocheting just comes more natural to me.  Luckily there are knitting looms and knitting boards.  The above picture is of a sock on my sock loom.  I’ve restarted that sock at least 5 times, including this weekend.  I wanted there to be a pattern to this sock and was having a hard time keeping track of where I was in the pattern every time I set it down.  This week, a new issue of “Loom Knitters Circle Magazine” came out and Isela posted a new sock pattern.  This one is super easy so far and I’ve done 2 1/2 inches of the leg part done, I only started it Friday.  Hopefully I’ll get the heel done by Friday and I’ll post more pics.  There will also be some pics of my daughter in the new dress I made her.  Too Cute!

It’s 8pm and I still have to do my shopping and return a video by 9pm, so real quick, here’s my menu. If you want to see more menus visit Laura (hopefully, if she’s back from vacation) at Organized Junkie.

MONDAY
Hamburgers
Tater Tots

TUESDAY
Grilled Swiss cheese sandwiches
Tomato Basil soup

WEDNESDAY
Chicken, Spinach, and Pasta Bake (I made up the recipe and froze it last week but we didn’t get to eat it)
Cheese Toast

THURSDAY
Green Chicken Enchiladas (in triplicate for the freezer)
Spanish Rice
Beans

FRIDAY
2nd chance Meals

Happy 4th of July and welcome to my second post for Sew Crafty Friday!

Last week I posted two little dresses I was working on and they are both near finished. I hope to take pictures of my daughter in the white dress so I’ll post about it next week. But here is the green dress:

It would have been done today but for some reason I couldn’t find my sewing needles so the snaps in the back haven’t been sewn on. After the pictures I took last week I happened to leave this within reach of my two year old who thinks this dress is pretty. She got her hands on it and with them some red substance which I believe to be spaghetti sauce. I pretreated it with Spray N Wash and it came out clean from the laundry. Whew!

I think I have decided to start an etsy shop and this will be my first product. I’ve always wanted to try and sell something online and here’s my chance. This is the back:

This second project has been finished for awhile but I never posted it here. It’s a baby blanket that I made on the long blue knifty knitter loom. Here’s the pic:

The pattern was found at on the Yahoo Group Knifty Knitter Looms. This is a great place to go to if your new and want to ask questions, or if you’re experienced and want to get ideas. I love looming because I can keep my hands busy without really having to think about what I’m doing. This blanket is as soft and fluffy as it looks. The yarn is Red Heart baby clouds and its really chunky. It was $4 dollars a skein at Michael’s so the blanket cost about $16 to make (if you don’t include the price of the loom.) Red Heart also makes this yarn in regular colors under the names Light N Lofty and Bright N Lofty. The Bright N Lofty is a bit bold but you can find it for a dollar a skein at Smiley’s Yarns. I just bought a HUGE box of the stuff in bright pink, varigated red, varigated black, and purple to make it into blankets. I’m going to probably start one this week.

That’s all for tonight. Thanks for looking!

These beans are delicious and absolutely no cowboys were harmed in the making of them.

1 lg & 1 sm can Bush’s Original Baked Beans

1/2 cup ketchup

3/4 cup packed brown sugar

1 pound lean ground beef

4 ounces bacon, chopped (I just used the kind in the bag in the salad dressing eisle)

1/2 cup chopped onion

4 teaspoons Vidalia Onion dressing

Preheat your oven to 350 degrees F, or you can use a Crockpot. In a large skillet over medium heat fry the ground beef, bacon and onion together until ground beef is no longer pink. Drain the fat. In a large bowl combine the beans, ketchup, brown sugar, vidalia onion dressing and the beef mixture. Mix throughly. Pour the bean and meat mixture into a 9×13 inch baking dish and bake in a preheated oven for 30 to 40 minutes. Or, if you want to use the crockpot, put bean and beef mixture in crockpot and set on low four hours.

This week’s “Menu Plan Monday” is being hosted by Heavenly Homemakers because Laura thinks she gets to take a vacation. The nerve (just kidding Laura!)

I thought I’d take a little vacation from my normal routine today and took the family to see “Kung Fu Panda.” I liked it…from what I got to see. Answer me this. How can one little 2 year old girl be so troublesome and cute at the same time? I got a soda lid crammed in my face, popcorn shoved up my nose, she kicked the lady’s chair in front of her, stood up in her own chair to see the people behind her, yelled, “Get me out of here!” when I tried to keep her in her seat, then cried that she wanted to see the movie when I took her out of the theater. What’s worse is I’ll probably do it all again next week because I want to see Wall-E. Glutten for punishment I am.

The pork chops on the menu last week were good. I can’t remember if I took pictures of it or not, but if I did I’ll try to get the recipe up soon. I did take pictures of the cowboy beans so I’ll put that recipe up for sure this week. My recipe section looks very bare so I need to get more up.

This week isn’t all that exciting. Tomorrow’s meal is the one I’m most looking forward too. I think I’m going to like the mixture of Alfredo and Spaghetti Sauce. While at Target I bought a box of Glad Ovenware so I thought I would a couple extra batches of the ever yummy “Chicken and Spinach Pasta Bake” and freeze them for future menus. The Ovenware is like kinda like the Gladware but it can go straight from the Freezer into the oven as long as it isn’t over 400 degrees. We’ll see how they hold up. On to the menu:

Monday
Red and White Tortellini (we didn’t get to it last week)
Five Cheese Toast

Tuesday
Kielbasa with Peppers and onions

Wednesday
2nd chance meals

Thursday
Chicken and Spinach Pasta Bake

Friday
Hamburgers (winder farms)
Baked Beans
Salad

OH! I also see doing this on a future menu. Good night!

One of the reasons I wanted a blog was so that I could show off my crocheting and other crafts. Since I’ve been so lazy about posting crafts I’ve decided to join the Mr. Linky at Waiting for Him called Sew Crafty Friday. If I make it a habit to join every week then I have to get off my kiester and actually take some pics right?

The first dress is made out of yarn I had hanging around. I think the green skein was Bernet Coordinates, but I don’t know what the white stuff is. I didn’t make it with anyone in mind, I just wanted a project to use up some stash and this is what I found. I think it’s coming out pretty cute. I still need to hide ends, put some buttons on it, put the ribbon in, and I want to put some extra embellishments on the yoke. The dress is made according to the “9-12 months” size and the pattern is a free one from Red Heart called “Sweetie Pie.” You can download it here.

The second dress is being made for my daughter. I got the pattern (Seaside Fairy Sundress) from the always amazing Crochet Garden. It’s being made out of Aunt Lydia’s size three crochet cotton thread from Walmart. The dress is turning out adorable! I have no idea where Katie is going to wear it and not get it completely dirty. The good news is, it feels like it will hold up really well in the wash. I’m considering taking her to the Botanical Gardens at the Bellagio and getting some good shots of my little doll in her dress. Unfortunately she likes to try to pick the flowers when we are there and unfortunately, the Bellagio doesn’t like that.

Here’s a link to the original pattern so you can see what it’ll look like when it’s done, or buy the pattern for yourself.

Thanks for checking me out!

Candi at “ALL DAY ALL NIGHT” tagged me for a meme. This is my first meme. WooHoo! Here’s the rules:

This meme originated over an idea that was prompted by the book written by Larry Smith & Rachel Fershleiser, Not Quite What I Was Planning: Six Word Memoirs by Writers Famous & Obscure. It’s a compilation based on the story that Hemingway once bet ten dollars that he could sum up his life in six words. His words were, “For Sale: Baby Shoes, Never Worn.”

1. Write your own six word memoir.

2. Post it to your blog including a visual illustration if you would like.

3. Link to the person who tagged you in your post and to this original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blog sphere.

Sarah’s Link is here.

4. Tag 5 more blogs with links.

5. Don’t forget to leave a comment in the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.

Here’s Mine:

Ice is slippery, protect your knees.

If you missed the post about this a year and a half ago, or haven’t heard me complain about it for the past year and a half, read about it here.

As far as tagging other bloggers with this meme, I don’t really e-mail many bloggers. So, here’s what I’ll do, if you come here and you want to do this meme, let me know and I’ll link you.