Gingerbread!

My theme at Christmas 2025 was Candyland. So I decided to make myself some gingerbread people. I found these cute cute patterns on Etsy. I absolutely adore the gingerbread Nutcracker. He is quite big, because I don't have any sport weight yarn and that's what they used. But I don't care because he is so cool! I also made this adorable little gingerbread man. He has a little parcel of cookies!

Dobby!

I was looking through Pinterest one day and saw the cutest "crocheted" Dobby. He was obviously AI, but he was so cute. I just couldn't get him out of my mind, so I decided I had to make myself one. And here he is... The first picture is the AI version… The second picture is my interpretation. He's about 10 inches tall. I really love how he turned out!

Halloween! 2025

I was so busy during the Halloween season, but now it's done. I was pleasantly pleased to have 22 trick-or-treaters, because we had very nice weather this year. I was in a couple of swaps, so I didn't get a ton of crafting done for myself. But I did do this...

I have seen this mummy Snoopy and Woodstock online several places and they were exorbitantly priced. I had a piece of wood that I got scrap at a lumber yard for free, I just drew the picture on and cut it out with my jigsaw and painted it. Snoopy is 21 inches tall if that is any indication. Everywhere I looked they were $50 or more. Mine was free. And I really love it, it's so cute. I also did some crocheting...

The goofy pumpkin and little squash are actually a pattern on Ravelry. The tall one is called Herman pumpkin doll by cottontail and whiskers. But at the time I could not afford to buy them so I just made my own. The skull earrings and pendant, I made several of these. I gave them his gifts. There was a YouTube video. Some of them that I made were white and some of them were black. But all were well received. here are some of the decorations inside and outside my home... and some pictures of my beautiful pups. Rebel was not in the mood to get his photo taken, but Pixie is always in the mood.

Labubu

I have recently discovered Labubus. I think they are very cute, but they are so very expensive I would never buy one. I have been looking around for a different patterns to create my own. I found one that looked almost exactly like a real one. It was a knitting pattern which, I am not nearly as good at knitting as I am at crocheting, but I am proficient enough to do this pattern because it had very easy stitches. There was even a link to get the silicone face and hands and feet. To my surprise when I went to purchase them, they were $1.06! As a first time customer, they are much cheaper and no shipping! I bought the yarn at the dollar store for $1.25 I believe. It could've been $1.50 but no more than that. It didn't even take one skein of this 65 yard skein. It is chenille... super chunky. Anyway, even though I followed the pattern exactly the body was fatter than the video showed, and did not taper up toward the neck as it also showed. And the head was much much much smaller than it showed. I don't know how to "fix" knitting mistakes, so I just added some crochet stitches on the head to make it larger and it doesn't even show. After some finagling, I think she turned out very cute! So I have my Labubu...named Hope...and she cost me less than three dollars!