In all it's glory, YarnBag-a-saurus...

Unfortunately, my cousin Deedee passed away recently. A few years back, her mom, my aunt, Helen, also passed. As family members were cleaning out the house, my mom had heard of this huge bag of yarn that was there. My great aunt Helen had taught my mom to crochet and then my mom taught me. It's something I cherish very much and it's something I can carry on for years for them both.
I have a lot of sentiment with this yarn, but at the same time, I suppose I should use it doing something I love: yarnbombing!

Behold..... YarnBag-a-saurus:

(A soup can is all I could find

for scale purposes!)

I'm a creator!

I made a Meetup SnB and a Ravelry SnB! Here's to hoping for members!! I love my banner. I hope NatalieDee.com doesn't get upset. Better send an email...

I'm actually crocheting!

I'm currently working on my Purl Foundation squares for the homeless. I don't have great colors. For now, orange, white, dark gray wool, brown, maybe red.

Yarnnnnnn!

I just found a stash of cheapo yarn that I had to wind on my new winder (yay!), however....
*sigh*

An hour and a half. An hour.... and... a half. The green beast is safely in it's basket now, but what a pain. So many knots... so many tears...

I need to get in gear here. I WANT to do so many things, but would rather wind, browse and read about crocheting instead! Teehee.

The Toy Society

I found another cute cause! The Toy Society is kinda like yarnbombing, but where you WANT someone to take it. I like the idea of a little kid taking and loving whatever I create, or even a grown up! I applied to TTS, but first thing's first... I gotta learn how to crochet toys!!

Yarnbombing Tags

Yay, my tags came in! They actually arrived Saturday, but I've been inebriated and suffering from drunken party wounds pretty much all weekend, so I've been out of commission. But I love them! With all this rain, though, I'd probably need to laminate a few of 'em. Here's the pic of what they look like again.

Baby, it's frickin' cold outside!

Wow it is really raining. I'm gald I waited to hang my latest yarn bomb because it is just pouring. The dogs are having trouble going potty!! I have to take them out to the EZ-Up! I just had to take Soda to work (I have today off) because her stomach started gurgling similar to last week. They gave her some meds and took xrays, so we're just waiting for the blood results to come back.

This is great crocheting weather. Better get to it!

Movie night

I went to my first night Knitting to the Classics. At my favorite LYS they show classic movies every first Friday of the month while we eat pizza and yarn it up. It was fun. The ladies were very nice to me but of course gave me weird looks when I said I was knitting a "cover" for the pole next to my work. I didn't want to bring up the word bombing or grafitti to these little old ladies, lol. I wish I could have stayed but I was so tired. They were doing a double feature with one of my favorite movies too: White Christmas.
I got my christmasy project for work done, though. Here is Leanie showing my candy cane-esque yarnbomb:

 I also started on my 6x8 squares for The Purl Foundation. I wish I had a bigger stash. My stash sucks. Yarn, yarnnn, YARRRRRNNNN!!!

Arrrgh!!

I went to my LYS #1 and purchased some soft green yarn to make a sweater for Pokey. Then I remembered my LYS #2. I found better yarn, but now I'm too embarassed to return the other skein. I can use it, but I would normally buy cheap green for things to bomb. This was like 6 bucks. Oh well, I'll just have to forget about it. Forget about this AND the fact that I spent money yesterday on crochet stuff.

I couldn't help myself.

I shouldn't have, but I did... I bought myself bamboo crochet hooks, SUPER cheap yarn for tagging, AND a yarn winder. *Sigh* I couldn't wait for my birthday!!! They are gorgeous, and I had a free shipping coupon from Joanns! Hey, don't judge me...

YAY FOR BAMBOO HOOKS!!