My first 2 baby blankets made for friends!

The pin wheel was fun, made it for a church friend. The outdoors quilt was made for my husbands friend who loves to hunt when his wife was expecting!

Some of my first crafts!

Some of my first crafts.

Knitted Purse

Here is a little purse I made on my Knifty Knitter. I love sying that! I am going to make a matching hat and scarf and it will be a little girls birthday present in December.

Baby Books

I enjoy making these baby books. I find them at our Wal*Mart. I like to make them as baby shower gifts. Here are a few I have made my boys.

Toys!

I made this suede bear, plaid donkey, and red eyed tree frog fo my boys. They love the frog, it is their favorites.

Little Boy sock doll

I don't have a little girl, but my boys like dolls too. I tried to make this one look boyish. It was fun!

Knifty Knitter hats!

These are probably the neatest thing in a while I have found to make. I made my boys some cozy winter hats and my son's Kindergarten teacher a gift.

Blankets

I think my favorite thing to make are blankets. I have made a few in my time, but don't have pics of them all. These are some I made for a friends kids for their birthdays. The Clifford blanket fits a toddler bed and was given for a 1st birthday. I included a pillow.
The care bear blanket is a doll blanket and was given for a little girls 4th birthday. I included a pillow and purse made from the same fabric. This was all from my scrap basket! :)

Little pants for my little man!

I made these pants for Korbin. My grandmother had given me a whole bag of old sweatshirts and sweaters. They were a tad too small for me and I just did not want to throw them away. I saw a book about new clothes made from old. That's where I got the idea. I cut the sleeves off the sweatshirts and used some of his pants to cut the crotch right. Sewed them together, and added elastic. Voila, new pants for little man and they didn't cost me a thing. I had everything I needed here at home.

There are 5 pairs I made from sweatshirts like the one pictured. I made one pair from an old sweater, but my husband thinks they are too girly! LOL

In Loving Memory

I am writing this tonight with a very saddened heart! A good friend of ours was in a horrific accident involving a log truck. He was taken to Erlanger hospital in Chattanooga Tn. He showed no brain activity so Tn state law says they can't stay on a ventilator more than 24 hrs. We were all praying for a miracle. He was a very young man, just turned 21 last April. He was married with a 9 month old son.

His family decided to donate his organs. They let his wife lay with him on the hospital bed before they harvested the organs. Most people thinks this is strange, but if it were my husband I would have wanted to. Another lady said, just think, she got to hear his heartbeat and fell his warmth beside her one last time, even if he were on a ventilator.

This is the saddest thing I have ever had to deal with. We did not see the young man every day, but when we did he was always smiling and went out of his way to talk to us anywhere. He was loved by the whole town. We live 2 hrs away from the hospital he was taken to. My husband said there was more than 50 people from our town there.

It is fitting that this young man who was so nice and would give you the shirt off his back,that his organs will go on to help someone else. I like to think that this evening someone got phone call telling them to come to the hospital because someone has donated a heart, lung, kidney, liver, you name it. Someones life was made a whole lot better thru this tragedy.

Rest in Peace Dustin Dwayne Gourley "Bubba". Born April 1988. Died August 2009.