November 9, 2009

Daily Update!

Today has been a really busy, and a REALLY Productive day!!!

I have started making Crystal Rock candy – I hope it turns out, but I won’t know for about a week or so, so I will keep you posted!!! I think it would be a ton of fun if I could do like a live webcam, but then maybe watching sugar crystals form on a string in a jar really isn’t THAT exciting – GO FIGURE!!!

However, I do get to actually cross something off of my list today, and that is my desire to crochet a wrag rug!!! YEAH! IT IS ALL DONE!!! This thing was soooo much harder than I thought it was going to be. I had taken yards and yards of red fabrid – from my apartment renting days (I covered walls in red fabric because it was my favorite color, but I couldn’t paint as a renter). Anyway, I spent quite of bit of time tearing the fabric into long strips, knotting the strips together, and then creating a “yarn” ball that grew to be a little bit bigger than the size of a basketball!!! It was soooo heavy!!! Now, I realize it may sound like I am complaining, but I am just soooo happy that all of that hard work paid off, although I may now have a definitely noticeable larger right arm from all of the muscle crocheting this thing has developed!! This rug now lives in my kitchen, and it is about 3 feet wide, 2.5 feet deep, and is sooooooo sumptuously comfy underfoot!!!! I know it will be a nice change while standing at the sink washing vegetables or doing dishes!!! Even my husband was pleasantly surprised to see the finished product – he wasn’t sure what to think of the idea of crocheting a rug out of rags!!! FUN!!!

Anyway, I have a big day tomorrow, with lots to do: