Aww, how cute is this little dragon?! I’ve now got to make one for a friend as well, lol.
The crochet pattern for him can be found by clicking here.
On the weight loss front, I have now lost 25lbs, woohoooooooo. 3lbs to go until that’s 2 stones!!! I thought I would have looked much thinner than I am by now, lol, and still only two sizes down! Still, I’m happy with the speed it’s going, I was never in it for a race.
Ronald the Reindeer was born today!!! How fab is he???? LOL! (New photo’s of Elijah at the bottom)
Click here for the pattern if you wish to crochet him too!!
I think I done pretty well this time with him. I managed to get the sewing up much better and the limbs were more similar in size too. The antlers I went up a full hook size to make as they are the fiddliest bit, narrow tubes to make for those.
I also made a bag for my cousin’s other daughter, Katie – I made one for Amy first, so now it’s Katie’s turn.
Here are some new photo’s of Elijah. These were taken on Thursday 24th June.
I mentioned in the post below about buying Let’s Get Crafting Crochet magazine. I saw that there were lots of little Amigurumi animals crocheted. I didn’t fancy any of those – they looked too difficult for me really, but I found this fab little bear online at Learn to Crochet. If you click on that link you’ll find the written instructions, but also there are video links as well. You can see how the stitches are made and how to make the bear. So…. here is my first ever bear, lol.
Bear in the making!
A bear is born…
I can’t believe how easy he was to make!! I know he’s far from perfect, but he’s a cute little character. Watch this space for more!!
And here he is later on in the day with his sun hat on smelling the roses.
We had Justin’s dad and step mum up for the weekend, and yesterday we visited Twinlakes in Leicestershire. It was a lovely day, 26c. We had a great time at the park. It is one of those places what is fast becoming a thing for farmers to do. This used to be Red Rooster Farm.
We ended the day at Frankie and Benny’s back home.
Matthew really had a great time on the biggest rollercoaster (top photo’s) that he’s been on so far, and he loved the Sky Flyers where you lay down (above photo) on your front and it takes you up high and then you go up and down, quite fast too! He loved the petting zoo as well, and the little lamb at the top was born in April and took a shine to Matthew’s shoes giving them a good licking.
I made this card and little bag filled with notelets from a Crafter’s Companion Popcorn Floral CD. I love Popcorn! I made this for my friend Jacqui.
The image on the front of the card was stamped using the Popcorn Thinking of You rubber stamp set. Coloured with ProMarkers. (I really must write down the colours I use, even though they don’t match the printed image, lol)
Head on over to Passion for ProMarkers for this weeks Anything Goes challenge.
I made two little bags with notelets coz they’re so cute!
The Hedgehog ATC is for a swap about Hedgehogs, lol… a Hedgemog as they’re now called since Jacqui sent me a text with a spelling mistake. I’m into making ATC’s again now, not made any for ages!!
Click here to join in with swapping at Swapbot.
The ATC’s above are for a swap with a free theme. Two cards are to be sent to 3 people. I had a lot of fun making these. I used chalks for the backgrounds, and ProMarkers for the little girls, and lots of glitter! I also dug out my old lacquer glossy tube things as well.
Just in case you’re wondering about the diet… I lost another 2 and a half pounds last week, so new total is 1 stone and 2.5lbs, woohooooooooo! I weigh again in the morning, but I’ve got a feeling there won’t be much of a loss this week.
Here’s little Elijah from a couple of weeks ago playing with his Hungry Caterpillar. He’s always such a happy little thing. I shall have to take a photo of him on the odd occasion when he’s grizzly… but that’s difficult, he only ever seems to grumble a little bit when he’s tired, and that’s it!
And here’s a little ted. I stitched this Popcorn the Bear for my friend Jacqui, isn’t he cute?!
Yesterday afternoon sometime, I was lying on the bed waiting for Matthew to finish doing something and I was thinking about the heavy portable telly that’s in our room sitting on a wall bracket. It’s been there for about a year and a half quite happily. I was wondering where it would fall should the bracket snap or something.
Matthew went to bed after Darryl & Co left at 9.30pm. I started to watch Ladies of Letters on Catch up TV about 10pm. All of a sudden there was an almighty bang upstairs and Matthew started yelling. We ran upstairs and at first couldn’t find what would have caused such a racket. Matthew went into our bedroom and our telly was lodged between the bed and the wall… there was my answer, that’s where it would fall!!! Blimey! The whole bracket had come out of the wall complete with it’s little plug thingies that the screws go into inside the wall.
