Doll Hat, Vest, Backpack, and update

Last night while watching television I picked up my crochet hook and yarn and just started crocheting. After a minute I decided to make a doll vest and asked my youngest daughter for her doll. Still wanting to crochet I played around some more and came up with the hat and then the little backpack. Guess I just needed to crochet and let my mind create. None of the projects were started with any idea of what I was going to make, I simple just stared and decided after I had something to look at. I think it helped me sleep too, which is a good thing.

I wish I could say that I have been so busy that I have not had time to craft or update my blog but I can not. While I did have plenty to do for the past while I have not had all that much to do. I managed to have a rather calm Thanksgiving and Christmas which in itself is amazing. I think I may have just been avoiding doing things so that it seemed that way or something. I did get some Christmas gifts made and embroidered Christmas stockings for another family, and help a friend get some of her Christmas gifts started and done. I did have a post of a purple afghan that was given to my husband for Christmas all though he did steel it a few times to use before then. I also posted an embroidered pillow case that I helped my friend with. (Proud of her for finishing the bags that we started for her girls, the embroidered pillow case she did, and the toy puppy that she made for kids too.)
Since those posts, I managed to make the pajamas that my kids got for Christmas this year, it is the one present that they get to open Christmas eve. I will have to get pictures of them posted later since I don't seem to have them on my camera card. Either I have taken more pictures then I thought I have been or I forgot to get the pictures of them and have to scan though the Christmas pictures to see if I have any good pictures of them on the kids or just go get them from the kids and take some. One way or the other those pictures have to get put up later. Just better get them posted before New Years since they were made this year, ha ha. Over all this year has been good, a few ups and down but over all good. Still hope that next year will be better then this year but it has been a great year.
Chicken update: Shortly after building the Chicken a play yard my husband bought four more hens. We have let one of the hens sit on a few eggs, two of which hatched. One two days before Christmas and one Christmas eve. My daughter and other kids are taking good care of them but now and then I am the one being left to care for them, it usually only lasts a day then my daughter remembers that she forgot to take care of them the day before. So over all she has done a great job with them. Though she will not be getting any of the other animals that she keeps asking for, my husband seems like he is more then willing to add to her flock of chickens. This coming year we will be building them a proper permanent coup so that the shed can be torn down.