Are you ready for some football?

I decided that since I made a cute owl hat for my niece, that her brother, Buddy needed a hat, too.  I found lots of cute patterns that I had a hard time choosing from. If this viking hat pattern would have been free, I would have made that for my Minnesota nephew.  But, I'm too cheap to pay for a pattern right now so I made him this football beanie instead.  At least he'll still be able to support the Minnesota Vikings, and everyone knows they can use all the support they can get this year.

Here's Buddy's finished football hat

Homemade Christmas hats for Punky and Buddy!

Mom and Me Spa Retreat

Last weekend, Leah and I went to the Mom and Me Spa Retreat at the girl scout camp.  We were kept busy and had lots of fun.  No crocheting over the weekend, but we did get to do some other fun crafty and spa things.

We painted nails.

Made facial masks

Decorated the Christmas Tree

Painted faces.

Made bath salts for Christmas gifts.

And made Christmas ornaments. 
We also had a yoga workout in the morning, and made tied fleece scarves.  It was a busy 24 hours!

Whoooo's getting better at this crochet thing? Me!

Last night I decided to take a break from the endless granny squares and try to make an owl hat for my niece, Punky.  I found a  free pattern online and was off to the craft store for yarn.  I used a textured yarn, and while I love how it looks, boy was it a pain to work with!  I'll try one more hat with the same yarn, but if it stays that difficult, I'll probably switch to the yarn I used when I made my shoplifting mittens.

Leah modeling her cousin's new hat.

I stayed up WAY past my bedtime last night to finish the owl hat because I wanted to take it to work today to show Ruth (it was her Friday, after all).  Everyone thought it was cute or else they were just too polite to tell me what they really thought.  I think it's absolutely adorable and can't wait to see little Punky in it!
I'm really starting to get into this crochet thing!  Maybe that etsy store is closer to opening than I thought.