January 6, 2010

• New Year, New Projects

  I had wanted to create this blog entry about 2 weeks ago so that you could all the the PROGRESS of the project, but instead life got away from me and now you get to see it all finished.

  It’s called my Crisis of Life Afghan.

  This is it halfway completed. The entire center was finished, but the border hadn’t been added yet.

  

  Then this is the finished product!

  

  It was crocheted, and each of the little squares were attached as they were being made. Then the border with the 4 larger crocheted squares in each corner were added at the end. I still have to weave in all the ends, but overall this afghan took me 3 weeks. I’m really proud of it!

  Here are some other projects I completed near the end of the year. They are both earring holders. I have an overabundance of earrings (I have 3 holes in each ear) and the packages the come in were getting a bit overwhelming. I discovered that jewelry boxes and especially earring holders are a bit more expensive and cumbersome than I was looking for, so I decided to make some of my own.

  The first uses black Aida cloth, the kind used in cross-stitching, and a simple wooden hoop around it. You then just push the earring through the cloth and put the backs on the back.

  

  Here it is hanging on my wall in my bathroom:
  

  Then the second is made with that thick plastic material in a simple picture frame with the glass taken off and with a cut out in the cardboard backing so that the earrings can fit through. I just glued the edges of the plastic to the inside of the frame just to make sure it would stay.

  

  And here is a close up:

  

  Then finally, my first completed book of the year. Normally my average is one book every two to three days, but this one took me about 5. It is the third in Jeff Shaara’s WWII trilogy, all of which were phenomenal. If you are into historical fiction, these are some of the best around and I highly recommend them.

  The first one is The Rising Tide, the second is The Steel Wave, and this one is No Less Than Victory. They begin with the paratrooper drop before D-Day and end with the German surrender.

  

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