Water Bottle Carriers for sale from my Mom!

Hey y'all!

I just wanted to tell you about some really cool/cute water bottle carries that my Mom is making and selling. She is raising money to take us on an out-of-state field trip, and she doesn't have much time left, so be sure to check these out! I took mine to our youth camp-out in May, and it works great! Here are the specifics:

This first type is called The Sling, and it's $8:

This next one is called The Carrier, and it's $12:

Mom said she'll ship for free and will discount $1 per carrier if you order more than two! If you're interested, please email us at ken@well-equipped-family.com. :) Thanks! ttyl!

In Christ alone,

Buttercup

Crocheted Hair Scrunchy Tutorial

Hey Y'all!

In the random post that I wrote a few days ago, I mentioned that I figured out how to crochet around a hair rubber band, and said that I'd post a tutorial if anyone was interested. Someone was. :) So here we go! If it doesn't make sense, please just ask questions! I love to hear from y'all, and would love to help you in any way I can!

Step one: gather your supplies.

What you need:

1. yarn. I have used fuzzy, hairy, and soft ones. just have fun!
2. scissors. any will do.
3. hair rubber bands. I got a pack of 36 good ones at Dollar Tree for a buck. not bad!
4. a crochet hook. I used F some of the time and G some of the time. But feel free to experiment!

Step two: start your crochet. put your slip knot on the hook, grab your yarn, and get ready! Hold it like this - with a few fingers holding your rubber band, and the yarn over the band, and the hook under. It's easier than it sounds, trust me.

Step three: Grab the yarn with the hook like you are about to do a chain stitch, and pull it under and through.

Step four: do it again and again and again...

If the yarn is over the hook, go under. If the yarn is under the hook, go over. So that you have yarn going all the way around. The movie should help you. No need for any sound, it doesn't have anything worth hearing. lol. I hope it works, it's not working right now...if it doesn't I'll try to re-post it tomorrow.

Step five: crochet around the entire rubber band, and keep pulling all the stitches closer together until you have it the thickness you like it. Just remember to keep your stitches pretty tight, so they don't come undone!

The finished product!

Questions are welcome! So don't be shy! :)

In Christ alone,

Buttercup

VBS - Days 4 and 5, garage sale fundraiser, and more!

Hey Y'all! Sorry I didn't post the other days of VBS but I was so tired! Those kids just wore all of us leaders out. But that's good. :) I think they learned a lot and had fun, I know I did!

VBS went well, we had an average of sixty kids per night, and the last night I think we had about a hundred and thirty people total at VBS! That includes kids, workers, and parents. The last night we did our "Super Spacey Sundae" and that was fun! But sticky! So, after the kids and parents and most of the workers left, some of us stayed to help get the church back to it's normal look, I got to help with that, and it was a blast! I can't wait till VBS next year!

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The garage sale fundraiser went okay, we raised over $300 dollars so that was good. :) Some friends from Co-op came over to help part of the day both Saturday and Friday, so it's not like we were alone the whole time. lol. We are hopefully going to do another one in September or so. So, please be praying that we can raise more money for the well next time. :)

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I figured out how to crochet around a hair rubber band! They are so cute! If anyone wants me to put a tutorial about it on here, let me know! :) They're super duper easy!

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Don't forget about my giveaway! I thought I made it fun, but I guess y'all don't think so. lol. Even if you just get my blog emails, you can enter! And don't forget to tell your friends! No one has entered for the "digital giveaway" part, but I don't really blame you, there are a lot of other bloggers who are a lot better at that than me! lol.

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I am almost done with the July issue of Go Ye Therefore! So, just as a reminder, if you want to subscribe email me! (helpnm@embarqmail.com)

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Well, I think that's all for now. If I think of something else I'll be sure to post! :D

Until then my blogger friends!

Buttercup

Masquerade Ball dress

We went to a Elizabethan Masquerade Ball on Tuesday night with some of our Grandparents. It was so much fun!!! My sister and I made our own dresses out of a kind of satin fabric. Mine is blue and hers is a nice, lime green. Our Mom did our hair for us, as well as directing us and doing part of our dresses. Thanks Mommy!!! The back is laced up and then tied at the bottom in a bow.



Our Grandma found us some nice cord to be the belt, if you can't tell, it is gold and white twisted stripes.

It was both a lot of work and a lot of fun!

Crocheted Dish Cloth Pattern

Here is the pattern for the Circular Crocheted Dish Cloths:

Materials:

1 Skein acrylic any color yarn

G Hook

Stiches/abriviations used:

Chain-Ch

Single Crochet-Sc

Slip Stitch-SS

Double Crochet-Dc

Ch 6, SS in the first Ch, Sc all the way around.

Row 1 - Sc in every Sc all the way around.

Rows 2-4 - Ch 3, Dc in the first stitch, Dc in the second stitch, 2 Dc in the third stitch, repeat pattern all the way around (1,1,2,1,1,2).

Row 5 - Ch 1, Sc in the first stitch, Sc in the second stitch, 2 Sc in the third stitch, repeat pattern all the way around (same as rows 2-4 but sc instead).

Pull enough yarn out to make a loop, and cut. Tie the loose end of the yarn to the dish cloth to make a loop.

To make it bigger just add more rows in the "rows 2-4" area. You don't have to do just Sc and Dc, I have done plain Sc, and I have substituded Double Crochet with Triple Crochet. You can do tons of different patterns.

The Square/Rectangular ones are really easy, you just chain however long you want it and they you can do whatever stitchet you want.

I created the Circular dish cloth pattern so please do not sell it. :)

Baby Quilt #1

Today my Mom, two of my sisters, and I are making a baby quilt for our baby sister. We are making it out of old baby blankets that Mom cut into squares, first we laid out the squares the pattern we wanted. It took a little while to do because we did not have the same amount of each color or pattern of squares. After we put it out the way we wanted it, we took turns piecing it together, one square to another, then those two squares to another two squares, and so on.

Now we have seven rows, and we still need to put the rows together to form the top of the blanket. But we still will not be done :) After that we will put the edge and the back on (and maybe some batting). We have 49 squares. When finished it will be 56" x 56" square. I'll keep you posted on our progress :)

Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking is one of my most favorite things to do! I probably could not live without it! I love scrapbooking because: I love crafts, it is a fun and cute way to preserve memories, and it so much fun! You don't have to have experience to be able to scrapbook, but I admit that is does look better when you have had some practice:) Scrapbooking is a hobby of mine, so I do it just whenever I want to. Like yesterday, we have not started school yet, and I was really bored, so I did some scrapbooking, I did two and a half pages.

You can get scrapbooking supplies at most craft stores, I get most of mine at Hobby Lobby, they always have great sales on scrapbooks, paper, stickers, and other page elements. For my birthday a friend gave me a scrapbook with about fifteen pages, I think, and I have already filled it up! So next time we go to Hobby Lobby I am going to get a pack of refill pages. There are different kinds and sizes of scrapbooks, so you can't just get any scrapbook refill pages, you have to know what kind of scrapbook you have(the different scrapbooks are bound differently) so all you have to do is take your scrapbook and lift the flap that holds the pages in and see : #1 how many holes there are , #2 see what shape your holes are. It is really easy:)

Scrapbooking is so much fun! I hope that if you have never scrapbooked that you will try it, and if you have I hope that I did not bore you too much! :)

Interior Design

Interior Design has been just a "cool thing", now it is becoming a interest and hopefully a hobby of mine. Today I did some interior designing to my bedroom, now keep in mind that I share this room with two sisters, so I could not do exactly what I wanted to do with it because they did not like me changing the room very much. But I did do a little.

My sisters and I have Polly Pocket dolls that we make cardboard houses for, it is really fun to design each bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, etc. I use scrapbook paper to paper the walls, and sometimes the floor. We also sew our own mini blankets , pillows, couches, etc. Designing these mini rooms is really fun, and it does not cost much at all! If anyone has any ideas on where I can learn more about interior design, please comment on this post:)

Getting Ready

Remember how I told you about our family project? Well, since it is this weekend we are working hard this week to make sure that all of the kinks are flattened out in time for the sale, we are hoping that everything runs smoothly. To make more money for the Well I am making some crocheted items to sell at the garage sale this weekend. I thought of the idea on Monday, so I have not had much time to make things but I am working on it:) I hope to make 20 headband, 10 round dish cloths and10 rectangular dish cloths, and if I have the time I am going to make a couple purses. My oldest, younger sister is making 18in. doll clothes, my mom is making coasters, and another sister of mine is making bracelets.

Today we are going to be working on our crafts and baking! For our last garage sale we had lots of baked goods and drinks to sell, and they sold pretty good, so we are going to make more for this garage sale. Please pray that we will be successful in this garage sale :)

Crochet

Crocheting is one of my most favorite things to do! I first learned to crochet at a craft day last summer when a homeschooling mom offered to teach me how. And she taught me the first stitch, but I was so anxious to learn the rest( the next time I was going to see her was the next week) that I borrowed a how to crochet book from the library. And I learned the next few stitches from that. There are a ton of different stitches in crochet( slip stitch, single crochet, double crochet, half double crochet, chain, etc.) so I am still learning new stitches. Other tools I used to learn new stitches are the Internet, movies and DVDs, and other crocheters.

Crocheting is done with a hook on the end of a long skinny rod and some yarn, you can find crochet supplies at craft stores, such as Hobby Lobby, or at main "all around" stores, such as Wal-Mart. There are different kinds of yarn, there are acrylic yarns, they are the most common and are used most anything and everything. Then there are cotton yarns and they are used for making dish cloths and towels. There are also wool yarns that are very soft, and they are used for making winter coats and accessories. Of coarse you can always try different things with different yarns. That is part of the fun of it!

You can find patterns for almost anything you want to make and more, at the library or on the Internet are where I find most of my patterns. But I really don't like following patterns, I like to make my own! I have made patterns for purses, hats, headbands, bracelets, and more. After you know the basic stitches you can start crocheting, and if you get stopped by a stitch you don't know how to do, then learn it! By doing this over and over again you will really increase your knowledge of stitches!

I love crocheting! It is so much fun and you can made really cute things out of just a small knowledge of stitches, such as baby booties, hats, then after a little practice you might be able to make a whole baby or baby doll outfit! I don't always just crochet for fun, I make things for gifts, for charities, etc. I think crochet is a worth while skill to learn for anybody!