Bear's Birthday!

Today my little sister Bear is turning 18!

It feels incredibly weird to realize that my sisters and I are all officially adults.

This year Bear will start college and begin to have lots of new experiences and I will have to learn to step back and let her go.

She has really become a stunning, intelligent young woman and I am a very proud older sister!

So to mark the end of her childhood and the start of the rest of her life I made her a teddy bear :)

This is the pattern I used, and it worked wonderfully! I did add the embellishments from my imagination, but I would highly suggest it this pattern!

H A P P Y    B I R T H D A Y    B E A R !
xoxoxo

Cheers,
Cristyn

A perfect shawl day

I finished my cloudy day shawl!

Well I actually finished it a few days ago and have just been waiting for a sunny day to take it out for a photo shoot.

The weather, however, does not want to cooperate...

It has been cloudy for days and they keep calling for snow, though we have yet to see a single white flake.

Though the weather has been really great and has given me plenty of opportunities to wear my shawl.

Needless to say I couldn't wait any longer to show you my work!

I based this shawl off of a pattern on Ravelry. I apologize that I cannot find the pattern now :/ , however most of it is my own development and is a repetition of  three rows of dc ch (dc into hole created by chain of last row) and two rows of a similar sc ch.

The lace edging is bases on the second pattern here.

My parents also came this weekend to teach me how to drive the newish (aka not mine so I've never driven it) manual car, because my car is at school with Lemur.

They also took me to get real food and we walked around CW with Lucy,
 who made a friend Mr.Grey one of the CW cats.

Here he is ignoring us like a cool cat, but he let me pick him up after I took this and he is so soft and squishy! Man I really miss having all my kitties to snuggle with!

Cheers,
Cristyn

Head in the Clouds

Today breakfast was not a reward for showering and getting dressed!
What a relief!

This weekend I taught my mom to crochet!
With a pair of glasses and some guidance I think she might get the hang of it.

(Unfortunately I won't be here to help her out)

In other news:

I have finished phase one of my Cozy Clouds shawl.

All of the grey portion is finished now I just need to do the white border and edging when I get back to school!

Here is what I plan the edging to look like.

The pattern is free! I found it on Pinterest the other day and I feel like it will be the perfect end to this project!

This weekend at home was beautiful!
The weather was decent everyday and I got to take my puppy dogs on a couple (muddy) walks. There is nothing like tiny muddy paws to put you in a good mood.

I also did some Goodwill shopping and snagged my self a lovely floral skirt that makes me morn for Spring all the more.

Seeing everyone here and being at home was a true comfort and a much needed stress cushion, I am now prepared to face the deluge of homework, quizzes and papers...
I think...

Cheers,
Cristyn