BRING BACK VERONICA MARS

I am obsessed with Veronica Mars.

I finished the Series. And I am so sad. It ended ubruptly... I guess during the writers strike a couple of years ago, and it never picked back up. STUPID MISTAKE CW! And Rob Thomas (creator, and no not the rockstar. same dude who is doing the new 90210). BRING RONNIE BACK! And Logan too. *swoon*

I have started reading fan fiction.

Yes, it is Twilight all over again.

Except, I am not staying up till 4 am and I am not writing my own versions. yes. I wrote Twilight Fan Fiction!! HAHA!! Love it. I had a lot of waiting to do between books. ;)

And I've only read one so far. I know I'll read more.

HA!
But.. you guys have got to know that Logan... oh, man, Logan. Well, he's the thing t.v. shows are made for! Because, he doesn't exist and if he did we would really hate his guts. But on t.v. you just love him. He's not all bad, mind you. He's just that guy who would beat the pulp out of anyone for you and then come kiss you because he's madly in love with you. He's kinda broody and over emotional when you break up, but it's because you're the one for him. You know, that kind of guy who is out there, but we never really find.

mmm. sexy man. i gotta quit talking about him before my husband finds out.

*SIGH*

I miss my Veronica Mars. :( It was such a great T.V. show. It was apart of my nightly routinte :(. Get home, bathe Doodle, Get doodle to sleep, watch V.Mars, crochet, bed.

What t.v. shows are good (other than Glee. Totally a Gleek here.)!? And on Netflix? I adore Netflix! I need something new to watch now....

In other more crafty news:

I finished this Cowl for Cuppy!!

Much Better, Thank You.

After a good nights sleep, a good talk with my amazing Daddy & a fun phone call from my brother AND Robin cleaning the bedroom I feel so much better. Thank you for the comments Cuppy, Courtney & Amy. Thank you. You really lifted my spirits! *hugs*

Onward to fun things! And back to that happy-go-lucky mentality!

CROCHET! Yea, you know how much I love it & lately thanks to all the long car rides to town & back I've been able to get a lot done!

Mainly, I've been working on things for my neice/nephew on the way! My brother & his wife are expecting, with only three more months to go! They are waiting to find out the gender till the baby's birthday! So, lots of neutral colors!

Simple Granny Square Baby Blanket with Scalloped Edges! I didn't follow a pattern, I just changed colors whenever I felt like it! I knew I wanted to trim it in brown though. It took me about 3 weeks to finish it. The majority of it was done when I went to Natalie's house for the weekend!

I love the look of scalloped boarders! It takes FOREVER, but it's so worth it!

Baby Ripple Blanket!

This is another blanket I'm working on right now! It's everywhere I am! These are the colors of the baby's nursery! My brother, who is a Hobby person as well, painted the baby room a beautiful shade of sage green. He also painted stripes in these colors on the bottom half of the wall! It's so pretty! They have dark hard wood in thier house and its so cozy feeling!!

Don't these colors just look so good together? I'm using Impeccable Yarn by Loops & Thread. It's my new favorite! (I still love Hobby Lobby's I Love This Yarn Best though!)

Ha, I just noticed that I skipped the second stripe of blue. Wow. I've ran into a few problems while making this one. But I've corrected them as I've went. I used a pattern from one of my most loved blogs:

Attic 24

The pattern is here.

It is super simple & anyone with basic crochet knowledge could look at her blog and be able to do this! Lucy explains things so well. It's very understandable! She has a ton more tutorials that you can look at in her side bar! A really great crochet resource!!

Ah, it looks so warm and cozy!

My Pumpkin Patch:

I've been making tons of pumpkins before the blanket craze! Here are the little guys I have left! I gave two away! ;) So, I did have more! But I am PLANNING to GIVE AWAY anther one to one of my lovely blog readers! Keep checking back here for the give away! I can't wait to get it all ready for you! I should have the post up tomorrow!

Becky's Best

The wonderful and massively talented Becky, from Strumpets Crumpets Arts & Crafts is having a FALL GIVEAWAY! There will be two winners! One winner will LUCKILY receive a hand crocheted blanket by Becks herself, and the second winner will receive a $15 gift certificate to her etsy shop!! Can we say AMAZING! I am crossing my fingers for this one!

I Heart Fall Class & WIP UPDATE

you guys are going to get so sick of me this fall. because I am so gung-ho about it. :)I signed up for this journaling class! What can I say, it is my new obsession.
I can't wait to get started! So, if you're in the I Heart Fall Class, follow me so we can keep up with each other!

W.I.P UPDATE:I took Doodle outside to play today and while she ran amuk in the yard I sat in the swing and crocheted granny squares for my blanket.
can you see her peeking out of her house? and yes, our gas tank is painted as a cow. gotta love my dad. he's crafty. i get it all from him!!
I thought I was nearly finished. After laying it out the other night I realized it wasn't big enough to go on my bed. Now, I have 4 more big granny squares I need to make! No Problem! Here is the most recent one!

Three cream rows down, six more to go! Then, 3 more granny squares.... It's getting there.

I am so feeling these colors for the season change. The last bits of summer hanging on and the gradual change to Fall.

I am planning on making a full post dedicated to what colors I am loving for fall. I have this all planned out in my head.. and the colors may be unusual, but I am so ready to work with them.

I want to badly to get started on new project, but I am being very strict with myself. I will not stop making this blanket, because IF I do, it will NEVER get made. It will fall in the pile with all the rest that I have tried to make then put away. I can't let myself do that. I have to finish this like my life depends on it.

You guys will help keep me accountable, right?

In other news:

I am in love with Little Big Planet!

It is a crafty little game! And SO ADDICTIVE. This is the first game I have ever actaully wanted to play for hours on end. I played online to day and had a ton of fun with a person I met through "quick play."I am so going to make a sackperson. If you have a PS3, GO GET IT! NOWWW! :) They have a new one coming out soon! Here's the trailer. Let's all be amazed!

Okay, I'm signing out. Peace.

crafty business

Hello, lovelies! I made it to and from my weekend trip safely! In the midst of all the rain & flooding here in the atl., I'm surprised it wasn't worse when I came through on Saturday. Anyways, I have tons to tell you about and a few pictures to show you and even a SURPRISE!! Yes, a surprise & trust me you will want to tell all your friends! ;)our set up on day one @ the emporium. no one wanted to take a peek at what we had going on.. so we moved things around a bit at the end of the day. 

I finally got around to typing some sort of bio/explanation for heatherlymade. It is very strange how I HAVE to be away from home to have some sort of creative edge to come up with witty little sayings.. but I finally birthed some cute little words. I'll probably change my about me info to this.. so you will see it soon. (if you want a quick peek, just zoom in on that thang! ;)

this is a little quickie i hooked up the day before the show. I used some lion brand thick-n-quick I've had since last Christmas & I have to say that this scarf is so soft and squishy that I really hoped it didn't sell. And well, it didn't. :D (but thats really another story & I'll talk about it a little later...)
we had a sign up sheet for a GIVEAWAY! and only a few people signed up! SO.... GUESS WHAT!?!? We're going to EXTEND our little give away to our ONLINE friends.. seeing as how we had to use some "fake" names to get out list going (no-one wanted to be the first to sign up.. you know how people are sometimes. ;)) SO.. go to the BOTTOM of this post for details!!!!!!
Natalie displayed her crafty business cards in this cute tea cup!
some crafy business of natalie's. can i just say that if you  like owls, leaves or birds, you will LOVE her earrings. very soon she will post some more things to her etsy & you guys should really show her some love. her debut wasn't as amazing as she had hoped for & her earrings are way to cute & amazing to go unnoticed and whatnot. check out her etsy- www.nataliexmarie.etsy.com

my little leafy necklaces were a BUST. can YOU BELIEVE THAT!? I so thought they would be the hit of the day, but it seems that they were not. What did sell was my little happy dishcloths!!! Can you believe that?! I had a customer come by and she touched and felt and picked them up & asked me to hold them for her. She purchased all of my dishcloths (plus the 3 more I made the first night to put out for the next day), a set of flowered coasters, my little hippie head band, the three chains headband & some flower appliques. I was so happy that she was there at the show. she sent over her friend who also bought some flower appliques. she was a fellow crocheter so i had to share some tiny secrets with her about where to find some awesome patterns. so. I had two customers. Natalie had one customer besides me & her friend Mandy. Her customer was a little girl probably about 12 or 13. Her and a little friend came up and were so grown-up about picking out some earrings. They loved all of natalie's pairs and had a very grown up discussion on how to purchase a pair. It was funny to listen to.

Well, all around it was an adventure and a lesson to learn about the art of selling things. First lesson learned, you have to sell in a market where your things are what people want. Where we were was the wrong market place for our things. Second, your display is WHO you are as a seller and WHAT you want someone to see you as... so make a lasting impression. Third, sitting back and watching reactions is the best way to find out what your work is like. I really felt like I was an okay crocheter... after this weekend I feel like I am really great at it. I received so many compliments on how nice my work was & how beautiful things were. I was very pleased with that. And the last bit of information I learned was this, craft shows are BORING to be at all day... at least we had a few good things to occupy our time with, like the man beside us who was selling his homemade bidet...yea, little toilet squirter... (and let me tell ya he sold a BUNCH of them.. a little creepy) and the man across from us who was just to LARGE to understand what was going on exactly and the AWFUL music they played (it was like being in a crappy elevator with crappy piano music all day.

Needless to say, I had fun, I sold somethings and I learned somethings. Keep checking my etsy from time to time... I will slowly be adding some new products left over from the sale. I have tons of things I made and didn't add!!

ok, what you're all waiting for- A GIVE-A-WAY:

Natalie and I put together a little give way with some nice little things from her and some nice little things from me. SO... I will be taking some pictures & posting some cute words here in the next few days & you'll have to tell everyone & after a few days we will announce the winner after a random drawing. so, stay tuned for that!!!!

thank you all for reading my insanely long post.. im off to bed. i hope i can fall asleep with this pounding headache i have!

<3heather

pictures worth

you bet'cha i dyed my hair! cinnamon stick. you know how "they" say blondes have more fun? well in heatherland, redheads do. so. when in heatherland do as the redheads do. have more fun!

here are the cute, happy dish cloths I promised. it seems crochet never quite turns out great in my photos, but these are some brighly colored do-dad sure to make your kitchen sink, bath tub or where ever else you need 100% cotton squares happy and bright! did i mention they make you HAPPY? :) because its like spring or sunshine all day long. dishwashing needs to be fun...  ;) dont'ya think!

(if you'll peek in the photo below, there is the other bit i was talking about earlier. the dish cloth in a brown, pink & green color scheme! before I add the brown, it reminds me of watermelons :) i know everything is all spring colors, but I just can't help it. i like bright junk. it's all in the up bringing. rainbow bright ruined me.)

there is a lovely man* in my life.

while i sit on the couch hooking and watching t.v.

he is in the kitchen baking.

baking his first ever peanut butter cookies.

he is giddy as they turn out to be HUGE cookie cakes.

he realizes that the top rack does best for this particular recipe.

he fixes me a glass of milk and brings me goodies. 

he cleans up his mess when he is done.

*that boy<3

i.love.him. :)

<3heatherxdawn.

hand cramps & baby blankets

Well, well, well. There for awhile, I had to stop crocheting. I had some severe pain in my left hand. Whether it was from sleeping or from crocheting so much, I'm not sure. Needless to say, when I started up crocheting again, it was like falling in love all over again. I can tell I'm starting to develop my own style and way of doing things. I'm really excited about my progress and I can complete any regular stitch so far and a few decorative ones. I LOVE the puff stitch. It is just so cute and sweet.

Well, as far as projects go I've made a slouchy hat without following a pattern and it turned out pretty cool. It's really plain, but I like it and I made it for me so it works. I'm not really sure when I'll be able to turn a product, but hopefully I will be able to make some things soon that I can sell. Right now I'm working on a baby blanket, and it is lovely. I adore it. I'm doing it in about 5 different colors and yarns, so it is really a hodge podge. Two of the yarns I'm using is "I Love This Yarn" and I really do like it, a lot. It's very soft and inexpensive.

I'll get some pictures up next time!!