Kara's Birthday tomorrow...

 While in Carmel, we also celebrated Kara's birthday a bit early...we went to one of our favorite restaurants called Turtle Bay and had some yummy and spicy food!

 That's Ben with Kara...he's got a good sense of funny.  We had a lot of fun.

 Kara finally got her cupcakes scarves!!!  I think she liked them...

 Although they look good enough to eat, uh, you're suppose to wear them...

 My beautiful girl is now a young woman...I sure can't believe how quickly the years go and not too long ago, she was born in such a hurry!!

 I hope my girl has a very happy birthday on her real birthday tomorrow!!

Kara's looking at a crochet book with all sorts of wearable food...what shall mom make for me next??  I guess we will see!!!

One finished Cupcake deserves another...

 I finished putting the beading on to the pink and white cupcake scarf...looks very pretty!

 I hope a certain birthday girl will be very happy with it!

 Next scarf will be chocolate with strawberry frosting!!

 Chocolate "sprinkle" beads for this one...

Looks good enough to eat!!!

Progress on Cupcake Scarf...

 I'm having a good time creating this cupcake scarf...it's progressing very well!

 I also added some cute mini pom poms...soon I'll add the beading too...

 I plan on crocheting some "chocolate" cupcakes as well as some "red velvet" cupcakes...should be fun!

Stitching for the New Year...

 I always make it a point to start a new project on New Year's Day, so I decided it was about time I go back to doing some cross stitch and selected Quaker Faith Hope Love by Midnight Stitching. http://midnightstitching.wordpress.com/

 I'm using The Gentle Arts Sampler Threads in Oatmeal, Freedom, and Cranberry.  The Quaker Faith is done with the blue Freedom color on a more natural fabric than the pattern called for, but I am liking the contrast and think the colours will pop more especially when I get to the white Oatmeal colour in the Quaker Hope which will be the next motif I stitch.

 As you can see, Maggi the beagle dog enjoys it when her mommy stitches as she relaxes nearby.

 My second project is a cute Cupcake scarf I'm crocheting.  It's coming along quickly, and can't wait to add some embellishments.  I purchased some pretty czech glass beads of many colors which I think will resemble sprinkles and mini pompoms for the cherries!

If you would like this pattern, it can be purchased here: http://www.artfire.com/modules.php?name=Shop&op=listing&product_id=1104536

So I hope these projects give me the kick start I need to move on to bigger projects.  I really want to get over my fear of knitting my alpaca sweater.  I think I've become more experienced as a knitter, so we shall see!!  And I don't want to ignore my other love of stitching again!