crotchet-a-thon!!!

My fingers are going to fall off!!! I've been doing nothing but crocheting for the past few weeks...I'm going to a baby shower and when I found out about it months ago, I decided to crochet a baby blanket which I finished (first blanket I've ever finished btw! go me!!) So since I finished that I decided to make another one...and now I'm so tired of it!! I'm almost done but I'm really just tired of looking at the thing....I hope she likes it...I have to get back to crocheting think positive thoughts for me!
This is the first blanket I made:

This is the one I'm still working on:

And this is what Josh and Devin do while I crochet:

crochet--my new thing

So crocheting is not really new to me, I've known how to do it since I was about 5.  I'm not sure who taught me, it was either my grandma or my cousin Angelica...or maybe it was both.  But this past summer I picked it up again...and I haven't quit yet!!! This is pretty big because I always start some project and quit half way through it.  Case in point-I have an afghan that I started 4 years ago that is only about a foot wide...I hated it, I got sick of looking at it, and I wanted to burn it...so I quit.  This summer, around the anniversary of my grandmas passing, I got nostalgic and I started in on it again...I still hated it so I stopped.  I did start something else though...I discovered amigurumi...and I'm in LOVE!!! This was my first attempt at amigurumi:

His name is Frankenbunny...and he's kinda scary.  I had to give him away because he was creepy.  And the person I gave him to had weird dreams about him...but I persevered! and I'm slightly better now! this is my latest project:

Kitty Octopus :) it was made especially for my friends daughter who absolutely loves the movie Coraline and LOVES this special gift that I made her. 

I'm so proud of what I've been able to create and I feel that even though it's not the type of crochet my grandma did it has brought me closer to her.  <3

Welcome

Well I thought I'd get my first post out of the way.  It's 1am and I can't turn my brain off because sometime between watching The Simpsons and Sister Wives I decided to start this blog.  The idea wasn't mine really, my cousin called me at random about a month ago and told me to start it....so I did.  Maybe now that I got the first post out I'll be able to sleep....more tomorrow...maybe that one will be about something.

-V