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Cute Crochet Rug

30
Jun 2010

Hey gals – I have one last car craft for you! We’re home – safe and sound – and I’m awfully happy to be back. But before we get back to our normal crafting schedule :) I have to show you the last thing I made on the trip.

Mom and Dad (who came with us) have been wanting a crochet rug for their half bathroom. Well – car time is perfect for crocheting – not a lot of materials and pretty repetitive – that way I could still work on it and not miss out on the scenery.

I was able to get it all finished and we tried it out at their house and it looks great! They wanted the colors to be brown, black, tan and gold to match their bathroom.

 

I used a vintage pattern I found at a site called Free Vintage Crochet Patterns. The pattern called for 3 stripes at each end and a solid color in the middle but I thought it would make it look a little more contemporary to alternate the colors randomly.

The pattern uses the easiest crochet stitches – chain, single crochet and double crochet – to form shells.

You just repeat the same pattern over and over, changing the colors.

I don’t have tons of pictures cause the rows don’t change. If you don’t know how to crochet, here’s a link to the how-to page on the Crochet Today site. There are also tons of videos on YouTube if you prefer watching someone and learning that way.

Here are a few more pictures of the finished rug. . .

This tile work is right outside the bathroom and the colors look really nice together.

 


You can see the gold on the walls a little here and part of the pedestal sink.
(No, I’m not a giant. This was a tiny bathroom and I had to hold the camera way over my head to get a shot of the rug in place. I think I have 50 pictures of this bathroom taken with the camera at the wrong angle. haha.)

 

That’s a lot of pictures of a bathroom rug. :)

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Winner, Winner, Chicken Dinner

28
Jun 2010

Well, no chicken dinner. But lots of wins! Goodness I’m feeling lucky.

I just had to share some good news with you all about my recent giveaway wins. If you don’t enter giveaways – let me encourage you – winning is FUN! haha.

Check out my good fortune. . .

I won $15 from the darling etsy shop – Big Sister Designs. Maria had a contest on her blog for rainy day activities for little ones.  I suggested finger painting with pudding – we used to do that with my daughter all the time when we lived in Arizona, she loved it. (Though it wasn’t a rainy day activity, it was a “it’s too stinkin’ hot to go outside” activity). And I won!

So I picked out a really darling little skirt for my niece made from a pillowcase.

Reserved Listing for Bev Candy Stripe Eco Toddler Skirt 4T

Isn’t it sweet? She’s going to love the colors. (Mandy, if you’re reading this, surprise! haha)

The next thing I won was a contest (we’ve discussed my contest-entering obsession) that Melissa over at Lilac Lane was having.

She had a contest that was for projects that had trimming on them of any kind. I was completely shocked when my Bright Birdie Dishtowel received an honorable mention. The entries were amazing! You can check them out here. I won two Amy Butler patterns! woohoo!! Thank you Melissa and Amy Butler! :)

And last but definitely not least, I won the most adorable coasters from Laura at Along for the Ride. She was hosting a giveaway from Camille at Mother Lode.

I love them! I can’t wait for them to arrive!

So am I lucky or what?? I’m off to enter more contests! :)

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Travel Log – Entry 3

27
Jun 2010

Wow – this has been a crazy trip. We’re having a great time – but I really do miss checking in with you all! I’m sorry if you’ve left a comment and I haven’t responded yet. I promise I’ve read them all and I’ll be getting back to you as soon as I get home. :)

But in the meantime I have some more travel pics for you.

I’ve mentioned it before – on our road trips we do our very best to not eat at “chain” restaurants if we can help it. It’s a great way to try the local food and go to places that we wouldn’t normally try. I don’t know if any of you are fans of the show Diners, Dives, and Drive-In’s – but there are little places like they find on that show everywhere. People who are wonderful cooks just doing their thing in small towns all over the country.

This is a great example – Jill’s Dairy Breeze in Seagrove, North Carolina. :) Not too fancy and not someplace that you might ordinarily think of stopping at - but seriously good hamburgers. I mean really yummy. 

Plus they obviously had good taste in flower accessories. . . How can you go wrong?

Apparently Seagrove is the pottery capital of North Carolina. There are little pottery shops EVERYWHERE. We browsed through about 10 or so before we pooped out. A lot of them are in very old houses or sheds – really sweet.

We ate at a fun Catfish place in Jackson Tennessee – Catfish Cabin. Cornmeal fried catfish, homemade hushpuppies, and coleslaw. Need I go on?

Skipping ahead to Memphis – we ate at our favorite barbeque place -

And overdid it with the best frozen custard and flavored ice in the world:

Get the Gelati – layers of frozen custard and flavored ice. Have a bite of mango peach ice, then a bite of vanilla custard, then a bite of mango peach ice. . .

It’s true – you can get ice, custard, and happiness there. haha.

And lastly – the White House of Memphis -

Elvis has left the building, and so did we. I won’t bore you with all the pictures I took inside, and my new CD, and all the other stuff – but suffice it to say that we had a great time.

Amarillo here we come!

PS – looking back at this post it’s pretty clear we’re all about the food – yes – we’re eating our way across the country. Me and my scale have made a compromise – I won’t overdue it too much and it won’t freak out when I get home and break. I’ll let you know how that turns out. :)

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