I'm still here...and a few projects

No, I have not fallen off the bandwagon...well not totally anyway. The past few months have been very busy around here, which doesn't leave much time to sit and blog. I'm hoping to get a few different posts up this week. One updating on what's happening with life in general and one to share what I'm studying in God's Word.

I did want to share some of the crafting that I've been doing. We have 21 kids (including ours) that will be receiving gifts from us this Christmas. Six of those kids also have birthdays within a month of Christmas so things can get very expensive very fast. I have a pretty good stash of yarn so I decided to see how many gifts I could make.

I decided to try my hand at making some dolls. Each one will be a bit different. So far I have made two. One for a Christmas gift and the other is actually for Keira's birthday present. She kept trying to take the other one so I decided to just make her her own. I'm also working on some slippers as gifts for a few of the other kids. So far I have 1 1/2 pairs made. They work up very quickly but it's just finding the time to sit down and work on them. Here are the two dolls I've made so far. For the first one I followed the pattern as written. For the second one I made a few changes so that I could change the look of the dress and also gave her some "bloomers" under her dress.