Black and white and red all over!

So the theme to my new house is black, white and red.  I've never been able to completely decorate my own house with whatever colors I wanted because I've either been living at my husband's parents house, or in one of their rentals which his mother decorates in her own colors, and then you are left to coordinate with that.  Not much fun if you ask me.  The whole point of moving into a new house is to make the space your own, am I right?  

I was so excited to find my carpet in this new house to be a neutral color because I have been obsessed with black, white and red.  I had already started the afghan for our bedroom, but then started on the table runner which is taking longer than expected but is almost done, and now I am working on a pattern for a center piece for my kitchen table.  

I found this really cool picture of a rose set on a black background at the Goodwill which is a perfect accent to the walls.  All we have hanging right now is our family pictures from this year.  Surprisingly we did our pictures in black, white and red.  It wasn't intentional either, we had just bought this really cute dress for our daughter that was black and red, then found a white, black and red sweater for my son, a red dress for me, and black and red sweater for my husband.  When we were putting up the pictures I laughed when I noticed how perfect they were going to go with my whole theme.  

To me it's so funny how my life falls together.  By no fault of my own I feel like sometimes the things that happen in my life are just magical.  The "I HAVE to have that" moments in a store, or the OCD freak-outs I have about making sure everyone matches and coordinates, that make absolutely no sense at the time, but seem to be absolutely perfect later on.  I love it.  

People used to tell me that I have no sense of style.  I don't care what other people think are cool.......it's true that I don't keep up on the "latest fashions" because I am not worried about that kind of stuff.  I'm a Mom.  I have two kids who take up the majority of my time and energy.  However, I do think I have a pretty good sense of style.  I walk to a different beat, but that beat is up tempo and exciting.  I love creating new things, and making things beautiful.  I am a beautiful person (inside) and I love to show people the beauty that can be found in this world with just a little imagination.  

I leave you with this thought for today.......

If everyone looked and acted the same, this would be a boring world.  Be COLORFUL!!!!

Little Girls Mint Green Fingerless Gloves

For the most part I wanted this set of gloves to be elegant and stylish while serving the purpose of keeping your hand warm while your fingers are free to do whatever.  I think in a way I achieved my goal because they are absolutely adorable!  The mint green of the yarn has a shimmer to it that sparkles in the sunlight, and then adding the sparkly black bow to match the hat's I have in my Mommy and Me sets just made them perfect.  I was thinking about splitting up the hats, and making the child size a set of gloves and hat together and then doing the same for the mommy set, but I want to be able to take a picture of them on a little girl together for my posting before I do that.  So far I have just decided that the gloves are perfect on their own.  I have found that the bow needs to be untied before the gloves are put on though because if it is left tied, you can't slip your hands all the way in.  It's not a difficult bow so it's pretty simple to just re-tie them after you put them on.  A little girl would need mom's help of course.

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Moving is putting a chink in my creativity!

So I'm in the process of moving and it has made my ability to focus and think of new ideas for yarn creations extremely difficult.  I'm not sure why exactly except that my focus is on getting everything cleaned up, packed up, and moved.  Not strung out everywhere matching up colors with pattern ideas in my head, trying stuff out, taking it apart, trying something else, until finally I have something that I am happy with.  I'm in a bit of a slump because no one is buying or really even looking at the stuff in my shop as much as they used to and I don't know if it's because I haven't posted anything new in a few days or if it's because it's just a slow time of year because it's now AFTER Valentine's Day.  I just hope that when I get the pictures up of my two new hats and get them posted it will make things better.  I guess I could post on here some of my fingerless gloves.  I have a new pair that I have made but haven't finished the Mommy set of the pair so they are a work in progress.  In this post you see my purple fingerless gloves.  They are simple but super warm and great for those of us who use our fingers for everything so you need them free.  I hope you all like them.  They have gotten a lot of admirers on Etsy.  I'm always open to making these of any color they are just mostly a made to order kinda thing.  You know how it is.  I can make them to match ANY of my hats, and when I say that I am not joking.  Just ask.  If you want to buy the set I can list it and you will get a discount!