Custom Made Crochet Fedora!

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I'm excited to ship out this fun fedora, custom made for an Etsy customer of mine!

I hope her new owner wears her well and often!

Check out our Etsy shop HERE!

I hope everyone is having a great week so far!

xoxo

My First Crochet Sell!

I sold my fedora crochet pattern on ETSY!

This is so exciting for me!!!

I typed up this pattern for a couple of fellow crocheting friends who wanted to know how I made these hats.  I thought, I have this pattern typed out step by step now, I might as well list on our Etsy shop.

Tonight, someone from Arkansas bought and downloaded my pattern!
I feel like an excited child on Christmas Eve!
 

See listing HERE!

I'm happy to make a custom hat for you too!

See Woman's Fedora listing HERE!

See Man's Fedora listing HERE!

Thank you all so much for your support!

XOXO

Destruction of Self Doubt

Last week I was having the most horrible feelings of self doubt, fear, and depression.  I know everyone goes through this from time to time, but I sure wish we didn't have to.  These feelings are dangerous and I think they're rude; an unwelcome guest to anyone's mind. 

Honestly, these feelings are what drove me to crochet three hats in one weekend.  Projects I'd been working on earlier in the week were not going well, and I've felt other things in my life haven't been going in the direction I want them to; or I should say, other things in my life aren't going quickly in the direction I want them to.  When I tried THIS pattern, and the first hat didn't turn out as the picture, I thought to myself, this is stupid, I can make this hat, and I CAN make it how I want it to look, dammit!

I became a bit obsessive I guess; I felt that it was important for something to go right, and I wasn't going to let those horrible feelings of self doubt win!  I have a few too many hats now (anyone want a cute crochet hat?), but this project was about more than a hat.  It was about me putting my mind to something and changing the outcome.  The pattern wasn't giving me the end product I wanted, so I changed it.

The Great Hat Challenge of 2014!

Hat No. 1 - Following the Pattern.

Hat No. 2 - Changing the pattern a little. Cute but not quite what I had in mind.

Hat No. 3 - Changed the pattern and the stitches altogether.

I'm so happy with how the third hat turned out that I even made my husband one.

Plus, he looks really cute in a fedora!  I'll make him several more I'm sure!

There is so much in the media, our great American culture, and in our own heads telling us we have to keep working, keep moving, stay motivated, focus more, be better, change, keep progressing, and all of this pressure is enough to give anyone a heart attack!  Ultimately I am in control of my life regardless of outside pressures, and I'm definitely in control of my own negative self talk.  Sometimes I have to  remind myself of this, and if all this reminding means I make a few too many hats, than so be it.

XOXO

High/Low - A Sunday Ritual

I had such a great week, I'm going to find it hard to think of a low this week.  Here goes nothing:  I made spaghetti and meatballs last Sunday, and we've pretty much been eating off of the left-overs all week; this kind of cooking makes me happy!  I wrote THIS post Monday, sharing my friend's adoption story.  If you haven't had a chance to check it out, take a look, if only to see cute pictures of their family.

My husband finished a knit scarf he's been working on and gave it to me!  

 

Thursday we woke up to what I call "snow globe snow", I was so happy to see actual real snow, not just frozen rain or frost.  The snow falling from the sky was just slowly floating to the ground, hence my calling it, "snow globe snow".  This was the perfect snow storm in my book; we had enough to cover the ground, but it was all melted by the next day.  I love the first day of snow storms, but the dirty muddy snow that hangs around days after isn't so pretty.  

On Friday I woke up trying to remember the last time Joseph has had a real live weekend to himself to do whatever he felt like, even if he felt like doing nothing.  I couldn't recall, so I asked him to take a real weekend and just chill with me, and that is exactly what we did!  Having an at-home business is totally awesome, other than you never really leave your work and you spend every free moment working on orders or other studio related projects.  Having a creative business is fun, but sometimes the studio needs to close; even if its just for a few days.  I do miss a regular job working Monday-Friday.  I remember feeling so excited as soon as I clocked out Friday evening and thinking I have the whole weekend to myself and my family!  I'm sure as our business grows and stabilizes we'll get back to those regular working days and hours.    

Joseph and I have been watching movies and working on crochet projects we've been wanting to try.  Joseph has been making a hat for a friend of his, and I made two hats!  I'm going to make a third:  I'm determined to get it exactly how I want it.  The pattern I found is made for women with small heads; I have a big head.  Also I don't care for the double stranded crochet because I want the hat to be thin, so I can wear it during the spring time too.  I've found I've had to alter the pattern which isn't easy as a novice crocheter; third time is a charm as they say!

First hat!

Second Hat

Last but certainly not least, Joseph and I spent some time at our favorite state park 30 minutes away from our home.  The park is called Ray Roberts, and the side of the park we go to is in a small town called Pilot Point.  I love the park and I love Pilot Point!  We drive past the most beautiful horse ranches on our way to the park.   I absolutely love seeing all the animals and beautiful green pastures!  Today was a cold and gloomy day, but there is a certain beauty and stillness to days like this that I love. 

There you have it!  A rather thorough report of our week, and all of it was good!

How was your week?

XOXO

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