a bit late....

 Well its a bit late but i really wanted to show you how some of my crochet ornaments turned out....all made with simple acrylic yarn and a few beads and buttons...
and what about these super cute felt ornaments?? my friend Ioanna made them for me and i absolutely love them!!!!

making XMAS ornaments !!!

Xmas is my favorite time of the year and i just love to decorate the house and the xmas tree. And now that i know how to crochet im also making my own ornaments!!!! Im so excited that im making as many as i can at the same time....cant wait to finish one and im already starting the next one. Here are some pics to give you an idea of  what im doing right now...

meet Ginger !!

Its been so hot these days that i couldn't even get near my laptop...but i missed you guys...i missed my blog friends and all my favorite blog reads so i had to come back...

i spent most of my time inside...I'm a real couch potato me...but not just watching tv...i did a lot of crocheting and finished a few new projects that i will post here in the next days...I'm thinking of posting one or two every week...

so the first one is Ginger!!! my second crochet doll with long blond hair and a bright orange dress with green and blue stripes (and matching little buttons). i think she's pretty cute! 
she's best friends with my first doll- that i decided to name Lucy after so many of you asking about her name!!!

crochet...DOLL !!!!!

ok...i don't like to brag but this is my best crochet project so far and im crazy proud of myself !!!!
It was a very hot weekend with nothing to do and i decided to try and make a crochet doll...no pattern again...i just started crocheting each part separately and then sewed them together...i had no plan about the dress either...i just made up my mind while crocheting...
and after a couple of hours this is what i had....
i love her so much that im already making a second one with different colours...im gonna make a whole collection with many clothes and accessories...yes yes yes...i m gonna be a crochet toy maker and im not changing my mind!! this is what i wanna do and im gonna give it my best !!!!
hope you like her as much as i do....

baby*girl snake!!!

The other day i started crocheting a baby snake for our friends new baby room....i used acrylic yarns and i tried to choose the cutest and softest colours....i suppose they're gonna use pastel colours for the room and i wanted it to fit....i also used small plastic buttons for the eyes (and white felt fabric) and for decorating the little crochet flower...for the inside i used pillow stuffing which is hypo allergic and safe for kids although the snake is for decorating the room and not for the baby to play with.

sewing a bag

All this time i was looking at sewing projects, especially bags and i wanted to make my own although i don't have a sewing machine. I still had the fabric from IKEA (and lots of spare time) so i decided to give it a try.

Once again without a pattern i folded the fabric in the middle and started sewing the two sides together. I had it turned inside out of course, and when i finished i just sewed the two bottom corners in a triangle shape to make the bag look better. I just looked at it and sewed wherever i thought i should. I made the two handles and attached them to the body, sewed two cute yellow buttons on the front of it and ta dah!!!! My first ever bag is ready!!!! The fabric was very thick and it made the whole thing very difficult and tiring for my poor fingers but i like the final result so much that i no longer care about it ! I also made a little heart and a puff stitch flower to decorate it :)

As you see i didn't make a lining, i just didn't have the courage for more hand sewing...plus i was way to bored to go out and look for fabric (38C is too hot for me to run around...although i did go for jogging in the afternoon :p). I don't think it really matters...i will use it to put in groceries, mainly vegetables from the market...or should i carry it all the time??

baby snake in the house !!

As i told you i had a couple of projects to finish. Well this is one of them....Miss Snakes now has a baby!!!!
A lovely little snake with silly button eyes (white felt fabric with little plastic black buttons) and bright colour stripes!!!! They really do look like mother and baby, dont you think???

 I'm gonna crochet a whole snake family...its really easy and im thinking of more sizes...a very small one and a couple of inbetweens...its gonna be a real mess around here and im just loving it!!!!
I'll even try to write down a pattern for it...how hard can it be??