Summer's Over!

Here are two Amis that I made last month for swaps, and DD modeling a shawl I made for a shawl swap. The shawl is from my own pattern. Both amigurumi patterns are from Gourmet Crochet pattern books, and were pretty easy to make.

Summer is over for the kids here, school starts tomorrow. DD is going into the 7th grade and very much into her "Look". I think she tried on 30-40 pairs of blue jeans on Saturday when we went school shopping and only wound up with 2 pair of Jeans and one pair of jean capris!

I permed her hair yesterday. She's been begging me for 2 years. I finally broke down and did it for her LOL. It's really cute.

Lots of swaps this month, and I am beginning to host swaps on swap-bot. It's really nice there so far and I love the people there!

Secret Pals at the 'Ville

My Spring Secret Pal Kim aka happybunny was wonderful! She sent me all of these amazing things in these two pictures below. The shawl was stunning and made of Moonlight Mohair...AMAZING!!! The pattern books were fabulous!!! She even sent gifts for my daughter! She sent a pile of beautiful KnitPicks, that I think I am going to make myself a shawl out of. She also sent me two Gourmet Crochet pattern books for Amigurumi, which I used to make the Amis shown below, which my family quickly acquired LOL. I made the blue shawl for the Secret Pal that I was sending to JenC using the Easy Breezy Wraps book that Kim sent me! It's a great book! Kim was an amazing Secret Pal, and I was luck to have her! Thanks again Kim!!