farewell, 2012

Hullo, friends!

Happy New Year's Eve! I hope you are all enjoying your day. I, unfortunately, am not. I've come down with some sort of sinus cold--but really, I can't complain. What better way to spend a sick day than in your favorite chair, wrapped up in a Star Wars blanket sipping iced Canada Dry? I don't think there is.

I apologize for the lack of posts lately...I've got a lot of things to show you all, I just have to take the time to take pictures and write up the posts.
I promise to post again soon! Until then, enjoy the last day of 2012!

Much love to you all <3

{merry Christmas}

Hullo, friends!

Merry, merry Christmas! I hope you all have a wonderful time today celebrating our Savior's birth and His ultimate sacrifice.
We celebrated yesterday, since all of my family couldn't be here today. It was such a lovely time! We went to church, exchanged gifts and had a delicious dinner together.
And today, I am just taking it easy :)

Much love to you all <3
Merry Christmas!

{the frosted, flowery hat}

Hullo, friends!

I saw a very pretty hat on Etsy that inspired me to make this :)
I'm really excited about the look! I love the idea of making the flower the same color as the hat--it keeps it from being too over the top.
The hat is a granny stitch and the flower is lots of FPTCs. And in case you aren't aware, FPTC stands for front post triple crochet. And they are very, very tiring, and very, very hard on the wrist!
It's made with 100% natural wool, which was really interesting to work with.

What do you all think?
It just seems like a really special look to me. Sort of like a flower trimmed with snow.

Much love to you all <3

high 5 for friday

Hullo, friends!

1. Congratulations! You survived the end of the world! :P

2. So, guess what?! I joined Pinterest!
My username is thecraftyjedi (stitchingupastorm was too long. Go figure.) Look me up sometime! :)

3. Another sale! Woohoo! :) This time it was a plain pink hat with some flowers. (Flowers not pictured.)

4. I got a haircut! Like, a major one. I really like it--layers = awesome.

5. My Christmas dress! I found this Joy Joy dress at Goodwill for $4. This is a $100 dress, folks. Total score.

Have an awesome weekend!

Much love to you all <3

{it's not the end of the world}

Hullo, friends!

You'd better be getting ready--the Mayan's calendar ends tomorrow, so obviously that must mean the world ends with it....right?

Well, although this idea really just has SO much common sense working for it, the Bible has something else to say:
Check out Matthew 24:36:
NO ONE knows the day or hour! Not even the Mayans.

People are always predicting when the world will end--so why are so many people placing their trust in a so called "prediction" by a civilization that eventually fell, anyway?

We may not know WHEN the world will end, but by reading Revelations we do know that it will. And even if the world does not end within our lifetimes, we are still going to die either way.

And what happens then? Are you a good person? Good enough to get into heaven?
Go to www.needgod.com--it will give you an incredibly interesting (and completely anonymous) quiz to find out.

Please, don't wait for your world to end to acknowledge God. You don't have to wait until you think you are "ready" or things are "right" in your life. The time to act is now.

Much love to you all <3

He has overcome

Hullo, friends!

Happy Sunday! :) I hope you are all having a wonderful weekend.
I'm going to see The Hobbit today (eek! I can't wait!) so my weekend couldn't be better!

John 16:33 is one of my favorite verses--he has surely overcome the world!

Much love and blessings <3

high 5 for friday

Hullo friends!

1. Thank y'all! You are just awesome :) I enjoy you comments so much! Keep it up ;D

2. Keep calm and carry a light saber! Seriously, how cute is that phrase?! Love it. I saw the idea for a necklace like that, so of course I promptly stole the idea and made one for myself :)

3. Yum! I love hot vegetable soup on cold days :)

4. Check out the Piano infinity app--awesomeness!

5. I made these gloves and I really love them. So I made another pair. And I'm working on the third. Best part? I have a PATTERN I'm writing for them! :)

Blessings! <3