Labors of Love

I've always know that I have a moderate to strong ability to be able to crochet things, but I haven't realized until recently how I can extend that ability be able to bless people with the ability that God gave me.

Over the past six-ish months, I've been making baby things for my sister (which I have loved doing)!

I started by making a blanket for the new baby. I made Shane a square crib blanket when he was first born, but I wanted to try to do something different. So, I was hanging out with a friend one day, and she showed me a absolutely beautiful round floor blanket. As I was making it, several people asked me to make one for them because they wanted to thank someone for doing a big thing for them. I turned out amazing, and I will be making one for myself in the future! It was very much an honor to be able to make it to bless my sister and her future child.

I then started making baby booties from a book, and made several for people, but then realized that my sister is due in less than a month, and so I started frantically working on a couple things that she wanted for the baby immediately. I was very gratified when the pattern for the hat worked out without a hitch. I got the pattern off of a great website for free patterns (I unfortunately dont remember the web adress of the site). I cant wait to see it on my future niece!

I had a baby onsie pattern that, again, I had found for free online, and discovered that for some reason I kept having problems with the width and length of it. So, after making several to perfect it, I think I have finally figured out the pattern. Any recommendations, of course, are more than welcome. I made a pair of matching baby booties ( I love free patterns, just saying), and found some darling buttons to attach for closures. I'm going to make a skirt out of white, with a pink border, but am currently working on braiding string together for a sturdy waist. So, its not quite done yet.

I have realized, as I am making all of these things for people, that it is my passion to crochet and Tatt things for others. Only by making things for people can I best show the love that God had instilled in me for service. I'm just a little ashamed it took me this many years to fully realize it!

You know how sometimes you're just having that bad of a day? Let alone that bad of a week? And sometimes you dont know of anything to make it all better?

This past week was one of those, where every single thing that could go wrong went wrong. All the chemicals that I have to use at work were clogging up, I was being absentminded with my crocheting and had to rip things out three or four times, and it just kept going from there!

Well, I came home one day and was cleaning up the bedroom, when i heard an odd chewing sound, and I turned around to see a very peculiar sight that I normally am not allowed to see!

The kitten was watching me clean, and got bored, and then decided that hay tastes good. Normally we cannot catch the cat doing this, but the cat was clueless while I snuck into the living room to get the camera, and when I came back, the rabbit was eating on her side of the hay holder (in the cage).

She hadnt joined in into the picture yet, but she came up just a second later. It was just one of those moments that brightened my day and made cleaning and the whole week infinintly better just watching them interact and the kitten stupidly eating hay mindless of the fact that we actually feed her twice a a day! It was and is still a good chuckle!

On friday I had been trying to juggle bills, and finally finished and was tired and cranky, and looked over to see this sight. Both cats (who normally dont sleep near eachother) had fallen fast asleep with heads touching, in the exact same position, and both were purring. The sight of those two fast asleep for at least fifteen minutes in complete peace and cuteness just whiped away all reason for my being cranky. Of course since then they've not been as peaceful and have been "playing", but, you do what you can, eh?