Crochet Afghan

What I started on my birthday in March, I finished last night on Mother's Day...an Afghan for my father-in-law and his wife. It's a very easy granny square design using Ultra Pima Cotton Yarn in Lavender, Sunshine, White and Primrose and a Clover F/3.75mm hook.

I didn't follow a pattern, I simply made 49 basic granny squares (10 rounds) and attached them together with a one row border. If you would like to know how to make a granny square, click here for a simple tutorial with excellent photos.

I love using all natural fibers such as cotton. It's so soft and great weight for afghans.

As I was photographing the blanket, my assistant Oreo had to come see what I was up to. :) 

Mother's Day weekend was awesome! My boys really spoiled me! Dan did the grocery shopping and brought home some gorgeous tulips and filet mignon for dinner....he cooked too!

We went strawberry picking at Vollmer Farms. Same farm where we get a weekly box of produce as part of our Community Supported Agriculture program.

Just look at these red ripe berries! A great crop this year! 

We can't go to Vollmer Farms without indulging in some of Farmer John's famous homemade ice cream! The strawberry one is mine...I can never wait for the picture to start eating! ;) By-the-way, we save our cups and spoons, keep them with our berry-picking buckets and bring them back for a refill...conserving where we can! :)

Hope you had a great weekend too and a good start to the week!

Sweet Birthday Card

Hi! How are you this fine Thursday? Are you looking forward to the weekend? I keep forgetting today is Thursday because my hubby took yesterday off and we went to pick strawberries. So all day I kept thinking it was Saturday! Funny how something like that can mess with your internal calendar!

Well, since I was out playing yesterday, I didn't have a project to share with you today! And I felt bad! Can you believe it!?!? So I've been playing this morning just to make you something! I hope you like!

Since I'm on a roll with birthday cards here's another! ;)

I got to play with some new goodies I've been buying lately...the 5 & Dime

line from October Afternoon, the Basics

from Basic Grey and my new flower die cut from My Favorite Things. Love how you can easily make fabulous looking flowers with felt!

This yummy little desert menu came from one of the 5 & Dime papers. I thought that adorable slice of cake would be perfect for a birthday card.  The die cuts that I framed the menu with are Spellbinders

. Those die cuts always get a work out in my office!

The sentiment was created with a Papertrey Ink stamp from the Tiny Treats Birthday set and the scalloped boarders were made with a Fiskars

border punch.

There you have it...a crafty good share for the day!

Oh, and before I wrap up this post I'd like to share a picture of Christopher picking strawberries yesterday.

We picked two five pound buckets of these beautiful, red, sweet and delicious berries! Life is good! And sweet! Have yourself a beautiful day! :) Kathy