Ahoy Matey!

Hello!

I am stopping in to show you a card I made for my Dad for his birthday. As a younger man, he was in the Navy in Germany for a while, but his sailing is pretty much limited to Ferries now, and that's barely ever. 

Still, I thought it made for a good masculine card and he really did seem to like it! :)

I used a card from flourish.com as inspiration. You can also find it on my Pinterest account.

This is a corner of the inside. 

Here's my Dad! Looks pretty good for 79 eh?

Other than that, I have fallen for the crochet bug recently.

In the last month and a half I have crocheted 5 hats, 9 pairs of baby booties, 2 pairs of adult slippers, a few coasters, and I'm working on some crocodile stitch booties right now. I can't seem to stop!!!

I may as well show you a few of the most recent ones I made...these are for my granddaughter.

The ones below are for my DIL's. 

I removed the buttons off of these ones, sanded them and did a color wash on them. Then I coated them with a varnish. So the buttons are a darker color now, which I like better!

I did another one with a different color combo but forgot to take a photo. 

Oh, I made the soles non-slip as well! 

If you're a crocheter and would like the patterns, you can find them at TwoGirlsPatterns on Etsy. So worth the money!! Clear and easy instructions with lots of pictures.

I want to update our parents 8x8 albums with all their grandkids and great grandkids in them soon...so I'll be sharing that here once I get some done. 

Hope you had a nice weekend!

Blessings,

Carmen