Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Happy Earth Day!

Earth Day is such an important holiday, in my oh-so-humble opinion, and, as I just learned, is also the 3rd 'craftiest' holiday after Christmas and Halloween. It must be from all those milk-carton bird feeders and soda bottle maracas, right?
I feel terrible that I have not been very crafty lately... Christmas seems to have sapped all of my creativity for the last few months, and I am just now starting to get the urge to make things again, which I've been trying to channel that into finishing up some (previously put-on-hold-indefinitely) projects around the house, cooking, and starting a garden with the kids.
This doesn't leave a lot of time for doing much knitting, or for much crocheting either. I've started a couple of things, but haven't had any motivation to finish anything. :(
It's really a shame, because I lucked into some amazing yarns on Freecycle that have been calling my name for the last two months, but I've felt so guilty about all of my UFO's that I haven't dared to start anything new with them. Siiiggghhh.....
I am going to knit a couple of bags to hold the wheels and such for the Heelys that DH's mom bought for Thing 1 and Thing 2, though, which should be a gratifying, quick project. In the meantime, here are a few pictures of past accomplishments for my imaginary audience's viewing pleasure.
























This is the bearded hat I made for Thing 1 for crazy hat day, aka Halloween. I had to talk him into wanting it, but now he loves it.























And, also for crazy hat day, this one was finished as the kids were eating breakfast that morning, a crocheted Goomba hat for Thing 2; he loves all things Super Mario. It's a little too small for him, but he wears it anyway. What a kid.
Hopefully, I will have some more stuff to show off soon - not my house projects, though... I forgot to take pictures. Bad blogger, no biscuit....