toad

It’s been a while since I’ve actually sat down and blogged about anything. Life just happened and laziness set in. I had been using the busyness of life to put off writing. So I decided to finally start!

2023 was pretty eventful with the birth of our 4th child. We had a daughter and named her Evelyn. It’s tricky with names because we have filtered through so many names already. I’m surprised the name Evelyn stuck out and we never chose it before. It’s even more shocking that it’s been almost a year now since she’d been born. I can believe she is already 11 months!!! I’ve been planning her 1st birthday and decided to make little bunny keychains for her party favors. It’s always this daunting task because I have to make about 12-13 of them. So far I only have 5 but I still have time. The reason why they are bunnies is because she was born in the year of the rabbit.

Besides making the keychains, I’ve crocheted a few ornaments for our tree last year. I’ve also acquired some crocheted snowflakes from my mother-in-law. I’m trying to create a “homemade” tree with lots of crocheted ornaments. I even made a tree skirt to go with the theme. And of course it is nerd themed. It took me several months to make it. I still want to add to it. I want to embroider some Christmas lights and maybe put more stars. For our smaller tree I made a popcorn garland. I crocheted the popcorn and got beads that represent each of our family members to put in between. I originally wanted to make it for our main tree but it was getting too much for me at the time so I decided to make it short for now. I can always add to it later.

Last year we became obsessed with Super Mario Bros after we saw the movie. It was my son’s first theater movie and when it came out on Netflix we’ve been rewatching it a number of times. I fell in love with the characters all over again. It was filled with such nostalgia and it was written perfectly. I just had to crochet something from the movie. I chose toad. He’s just so cute and I’ve never made him before. There’s no pattern for him. I just made him for the fun of it and didn’t want to stress out about it.