The surprizing results of SCIENCE!

I bought some bright red fish food labled 

"Omega One: Natrual Protein Formula"
I will have to say, even though it did drastically change my fish's colors, I was pretty surprised by the results.

Here is my SCIENCE RESULTS!!

Before
Aug 16, 2013

After
Nov 30, 2013

Notice the new orange tips on Gakou's pretty flowy caudal tail and improved intensity of the orange on his body?
Yes. Pleasing and now. . .








Jessie

Before  on Aug 16, 2013

After on Nov 23, 2013

Notice the erm, complete lack his previous orange?
Yes that surprised me greatly!

Looks like I've made a knitting pattern

My baby  daughter has unique legs, so I had to make up with a leg warmer pattern. This is what I came up with.

Her chubby thighs are 12 inches around, but her dainty ankles are only 4 inches. This pattern was custom tailored to her so I'm not sure if it cold fit any other baby, but I wouldn't know how to go about changing it for different sizes.

Here goes. 

Yarn: Lion's Homespun, Lagoon color

Needles: US size 6 / 4.25mm

Gauge: 3 stitches per inch

Co 40 st

Work 2x2 rib for 1 inch

Work stockinette stitch for 1 inch

Decrease:
Next row * K 8, K2tog Repeat from * to end
Purl
Knit
Purl
*K 7, K2tog Repeat from * to end
Purl
Knit
Purl
*K 6, K2tog, Repeat from * to end

Work Stockinette stitch for 6 inches (length of calf)

Work 2x2 rib for 1 inch

Bind off leaving long tail to sew up seam.( I used the stretchy bind off).

. . . Sew up the seam. Knot the end. Cut off the tail. Make another, and then chase around designated baby until you can wrangle leg warmers on them!

Good Luck!

The problem with being "a crafter"

    Since my daughter was born, she's known I can make things. I bet in her very early childhood, she believed that all people, or at least all moms could make anything.

   This is cool for her because, if she wants anything, all she has to do is ask. For me on the other hand, it adds to my growing queue of "things to make."

    Now I'm "a knitter" which means, not only my daughter, but others are asking me to make things so now I have

1. Things The Robot Princess asked me to make, to make
2. Things other family members have asked me to make, to make,
3. Things I want to give away for Xmas to make,
4. Things I want to make for me to make,
5. Things to make to sell on Etsy AND
6. Things I want to give as gifts, but don't plan on doing it this Xmas

. . . WOW! I have too many things to make!



Here I go organizing them! I'll add pics as they pop up

Things The Robot Princess asked me to make, to make

1. barbie couch,
2.  little pillows, 
3. knitted bracelet
4. I'm sure I'm forgetting more

Things other family members have asked me to make, to make,

1. Child's legwarmers
2. crocheted potholders (I still need to learn how to crochet.)
3. Hat and scarf for medium sized stuffed bear,
4. Plate of sugar cookies for the same bear, one star, one snowman and one ginger bread man

Things I want to give away for Xmas to make,

1. Iron Man doll
2. 3 Monster High hats
   
3. 3 doll sweaters
4.  6 pairs of doll jeans
5. 1    Teapot
6. 1    Creamer
7. 1    Sugar pot
8. 4    teacups
9. 4    saucers
10. 4    plates
11. 4    spoons
12. 4    cupcakes
13. 4    crumpets?
14. 4    sandwiches
15. 4    dresses
16. 4    pairs of shoes
17. 3    Invitation (optional) 

Things I want to make for me to make,

1.  Pumpkin hats for the whole family!! EEEEE!
2. Pretty Purple Shrug
3. Sexy Stripy Sweater

Things I want to give as gifts, but don't plan on doing it this Xmas

1. Something knitted for Mr. Professional, my beloved. 

Things to sell on Etsy. This will be the longest so I'm putting it last.

1. Fashion doll sets
2. Fashion doll outfits
3. Fashion doll food
4. Fashion doll furniture
5.  
6. Twelvth scale food
7. Twelvth scale furniture

Squeeeeeze

   I'm doing my absolute best to squeeze as much craft time out of my busy mommy-life as possible.

    Between the dark hours of the mornings, with chilly toes, I sneak out of bed and craft before little baby wakes up.
    During her fifteen minute to half hour nap, I drag out my polymers and craft like crazy before I have to shove everything back into their blue containers and dash them under the couch before she dives mouth first into them!

    Knitting is a bit easier, so I can sneak a row or two out whenever I can keep the shinny metal sticks out of her view.


    I'm desperately trying to work on my daughter's X-mas present, which is turning this normal Ken doll into Ironman.

It's going. I have a good base now, all I need to do is buy more polymer!

In other news: knitting!

Laterz!

Mini Dinner

Knitting:

 I finished some leg warmers for the Robot Princess

I started some blue ones with much softer yarn. I was going to do another pair after this with purple for Baby Ang, but I do have a lot of knitting projects in queue.

Baby with her victim.

AND IN OTHER NEWS:

In a desperate attempt to get back on Etsy, I've decided to recreate my dinners in polymers, . . at least as often as I can.

Tonight I made porkchops with cheesy spinach and mashed potatoes.

 Phase One: Polymer

Let's compare, Hmmmmmm

And the last story of the night:

I made a master for making 9x13 casserole baking dishes. It's not nearly perfect enough, but it's a rushed start.

. . . unfortunately I didn't have the foresight to take pictures of it before smothering it in Mold Builder.

A lengthy introduction

  I joined a cow forum and typed all this out, then I realize it may be a handy thing for my bloggy blog.

    I'm learning how to make cheese tonight! I'm so very very excited! I just love learning how to make stuff and I figure it's a skill I can use when I achieve my life-long dream of crafting a farm around myself! Next on my educational list is canning!
   Just for fun, here's a sample of my dream farm so far:
      
         My current family and animals:
                 "Breezy"  Myself, (I like to think of myself as a "creator." I'm an author, I knit, I make miniatures of anything I can for "fashion dolls," I cut gems, I sew but mostly, I'm a caretaker.)
                 "Mr. Professional." My Beloved Hubby (He has lived on a farm before and once owned a blue roan mustang horse! He's just as excited as I am.)
                 "The Robot Princess,"  My oldest daughter (She loves the outdoors and needs a yard to frolic in before she becomes a cyborg.)
                 "Baby Ang," My youngest daughter. (My feisty new addition. Born in January this year, 2012)

                 "Puppy" My boarder collie lab x (Anyone know how to train a cattle dog without any livestock?)
                 "Rorshack" Mr. Professional's stubby-tailed love ferret.
                 "Valentine" My naughty little girl-ferret.

                 Mr. Professional just got a chameleon in August. I think it's a female. . . possibly. "She" is awesome!
                
                 "Jessie" The Robot Princess's common, white and red goldfish
                 "Gakko" My white and red-orange fantail goldfish (The name is Japaneese for "school." It's pronounced "Gah-Kou")

                 To a lesser extent I also raise mealworms, crickets and waxworms for our new lizard.

       ThE FUUUUUUTURE ADDITIONS!! (Cue epic echo voice!)
           
                Irish Dexters!! (For being cute and making milk!)
                Easter Egger chickens!! (For making plenty of colorful eggs and being sweet and cute.)
                Silkie Chickens!! (For being cute and amusing.)
                1 Gypsy Varner Horse (For being lovely, sweet and mine!)
                1 Horse of Mr.Professional's choosing.

                Probably a beehive (For making yummy honey, and scaring me, and because Mr.Professional loves them!)
                Possibly fainting goats ('cause they're funny.)
                Possibly but probably not, some sheeps (if I ever want to MAKE yarn instead of buying it.)
                Possibly, but probably not, a piggy. (Because Mr.Professional loves them, but it would become a pet.)


   I've done quite a lot of research, but right now I have no practical, hands on know how so I'll be nervous and excited so I figured I should immerse myself some helpful communities!

    Thanks and I hope to make some friends here!

RE: Crafting

Recrafting. Re = again,  crafting = to make

I am quite pleased to say that I am officially back into crafting!

I have two knitting projects going well . . .

 My very pretty shrug, which is temporarily paused so I could . . .

Make my daughter some legwarmers.

 . . .and I managed to pull out my polymers yesterday! (although the end product was an ugly botch that I scraped.)

   I have a consistent output of at least two book pages per day and I'm feeling pretty proud that I'm 27 pages in after only about a week and a half.


Crafty crafting! Wish me good luck!