Creative Days

A lot of days in my house are creative days. If I'm not crafting on something, I'm creating with recipes and foods in my kitchen. I enjoy trying new things, cooking included. Although my family is probably less enthusiastic about the cooking experimentation than I am!

Today's crafting has been a reminder of many things for me.

1. You never know what you could use for creating at the time that you find it.
2. Procrastination gets you no where, except for maybe lying down with a stress headache
3. Finished is better than perfect (this has been a theme in my life here lately).

Every Christmas, we have a few times where our family celebrations and traditions remain fairly steady but a few get together's don't have regularly planned dates and varies every year on when we can all manage to get together (I remember one year, I believe it was close to spring break by the time we got together!!) So being unsure of the date of the get together, I procrastinated on shopping and creating. Okay, so I didn't JUST procrastinate because of the unverified date...I procrastinate because that's what I do. All the time. And it's really, really, annoying. I'm sure it's more annoying to others than it actually is me but it causes me a lot of stress. (One of the many reasons for my new binder I talked about here.)

So here are two of the small gifts I made today. My little sister just got a new handmade bed for Christmas and her bedding is mostly red. She's a lover of horses and ranch life, so I wanted to make a few cute decorative pieces for her room. 

I was able to find everything I needed in my crafting cabinet! The horseshoes were a lucky find on a trip to the dump one Saturday. My husband took a load of stuff and came back with a bucket full of horseshoes! (Hey, one man's junk...) I'm so glad I kept them! I've used a few others around the house but was glad to use them as part of a gift.

My second gift in the making is a basket for my other sister! This is where procrastination really comes into play. I've had this pattern picked out for months and have had the yarn on hand for several weeks. As you can see, I've not gotten very far :/

I got this adorable pattern at Yarnspirations. They have a TON of really cute knitting and crochet patterns to choose from! I will continue working on this for as long as my head will hold out and not explode (I feel a headache coming on as I type).

And last, I had talked in a previous post about finishing projects up. I had to move this cowl out of the way so I could take pics of my other two projects in this post! I had picked up this Malabrigo yarn and wasn't sure what I wanted to make out of it. I decided on a simple cowl (eternity scarf really) and a hat. Almost done with the cowl! I will try to revisit posts with updated photos of projects when I finally get them complete!

Hope everyone enjoyed their Sunday! Tomorrow is the start of a brand new week! Make it a great start :)