WIP-Granny Square Blanket

So I recently learned to crochet, and I'm working on my very first project! My grandmother used to make gorgeous blankets for us when we were children, and now I have to. I watched a great tutorial by Michael Sellick on Youtube. Definitely check out all his videos, he makes it super easy to learn. I bought some yarn to start practicing, ended up liking how it was turning out, and wanted to add another color.

I picked out the bottom yarn, Brandon chose the one on top. 

This is right after I switched colors. 

I also learned to switch colors from watching another tutorial by Michael here. He's pretty awesome. 

I'm at the end of my first skein of yarn (the darker colored one). I bought 2 of each color, I'm not sure if it will be enough. Like I said, this is the first thing I've ever made. I can't wait to finish it. My hands finally stopped hurting and I can work for longer periods of time. 

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Craft Room Inspiration

Brandon and I finally have the down payment for our new house! So we should be in within the next month. There's only two of us, and it's a 4-bedroom, which means I get a new art  room! I have been seeing inspiration everywhere and wanted to share some great craft rooms.

I absolutely love the color of Tara Andersons craft room, and the way the different containers all go together makes me all warm and fuzzy inside. 

Jen@Craft-O-Maniac showed us her awesome craft space, and it's definitely one of my favorites. I love organizing with pegboards!

I love this simple organization for small things. This is a great use for that behind-the-door space.

I love the cubby holes, and the pink. 

I am in love the way Megan@CraftyIntentions organized her craft room. I'd love to explore that bottom shelf.

Rachel Castle's craft room is the type of room that would look good clean or messy!

There's many more, but I'll save those for another post. If you know the sources of the few pictures I don't have the source for, leave it in a comment please!

Just a Little Update

I have not posted in about a week! I'm not following my blogging schedule at all. Hopefully I'll get back on track soon. We spent the weekend in Gladwin with no internet. Brandons step mom took me shopping at Arnies. I keep telling her I'm going to make her a necklace like the one here but I kept forgetting to buy the beads, so she did. I also got some more buttons, and I found a great way to organize them that I can't wait to share. I love going to Gladwin because there's a lot of inspiration. I also got a really cute white tubetop that I took to Arnies to get a transfer of a family of frogs put on it. Saturday night I won some money playing bingo. Definitely a good first bingo experience. We had a bonfire, s'mores, pizza, and the next day we went fishing. I'm also getting things ready to start my new job at the casino. This is the longest employment process ever! I'm still not done. I also learned to crochet a granny square, so I'll be working on my first blanket (Yay!) I got so much more to do tomorrow, and we'll be getting our new house soon, so I'll be swamped with stuff again! I'll try to update as much as I can (I should have a new post up Wed. or Thurs.)

Keep Smiling. Stay Creative. Get Crafty.

Lariat Necklace

I was hopping around blogs yesterday and came across a post by Gwen at baD.I.N.K.adink about a lariat necklace. I had never heard of these before, so I did some research, and then I made one of my own. I made it a little differently than what I saw, but I really like it. I have a bracelet post coming up that matches it, and my next lariat necklace will show more ways to wear it.

 Hope you enjoyed!

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DIY Ribbon Bookmarks

I love pinterest. And like so many others, I pin, pin, pin, but rarely actually do anything with the inspiration. My first project made from pinspiration was this Rainbow Button Bracelet, and since then, I've been making button bracelets like crazy! Todays post is another pinspiration post. Looking through my Ribbon Bookmark board on pinterest, I decided to finally make some. Here is what I came up with:

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