It's a Birthday Celebration!

1) I finally got to substitute again.  Man, I've missed being in schools.  And since it was at the school that I student taught at (and subbed at last year quite a bit), the kids, teachers, and even some of the kids' parents were excited to see me.  If that's not a confidence booster, I don't know what is! Now if I could only get a steady job....

Oh well! In the meantime, I'm preparing for Mr. IT's birthday.  He's turning 28 this year, and claims he already feels like an old man, and tells me that I shouldn't do anything for his birthday. Unfortunately for him, I LOVE birthdays.  Lots of things in the works, and everything is *almost* done! Pictures when I finish everything up.  I'm excited about it though.

And I wish the smoke would go away.  I want a downpour of rain, or even snow at this point, just to put out the rest of the wildfires.  I cant remember the last time I was able to breathe CLEAN air.  :(

Yarn Bin!

Well, that bright funky granny spiral throw isn't done yet... (and why should it be?! I've got terrible craft-ADD.) (And also I'm out of the navy blue color that I've been using. Need to get to the store to buy more yarn! hooray!) In the meantime, I've been crafting up other things, like these crochet winter headwraps!

One is done in Red Heart  yarn, the other in Homespun (I love homespun yarn. It's SO cozy.) And also various flowers to go along with them... I'll be branching into other shapes/patterns etc soon, I want to try stars.  Maybe make some sports team color corresponding wraps! These will be available in my (hopefully soon up-and-running) etsy shop.

I love quick projects like these.  Keeps my short attention span happy, and still allows me to keep working on big projects.  I'm also working on a shrug sweater, and it'll be my first clothing project I've done! Excited to see how it turns out.  Pictures when it eventually gets finished!