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Thursday, March 13, 2014

52 Week Crochet Challenge, Week 2

Hallo my Friends! Sorry my post to this challenge is a day late, but I had to work quite a few extra hours in the last few days.

The challenge this week was to either to start a Crochet Notebook, Journal, Scrapbook or Blog. Since I already had my blog for a while I decided on a Crochet Notebook/Journal.

First I was going to use a Scrapbook that I had 
planned on using for some vacation pictures.


I ended up using another empty Journal that
I had in the house.


Than I started by adding my last project:
The Bunting


Wrote down the date,
the project name,
where I found the pattern,
and at the end added a piece of yarn
from each of the colors used.


If I would have still had the color numbers,
I would have added them as well.
Next time.

I am also thinking of having some pictures printed out, so I can add them at a later point. Think that would add the final touch. When I can, I will also add a drawn pattern of it, so I will have a reference for a later time. It's strange, but I never thought about making a journal before, but I think it will be really nice to have to look back on, besides the blog.

Now I thought I would still tell you all a little story. Yesterday, while I was at work my patient went to sleep for a while and I thought I would go and stretch my legs for a bit. They have a huge garden filled with all kinds of flowerbeds etc. and so I grabbed my IPhone with which I take most of my pictures and off I went. I looked at a few flowerbeds to see if anything was popping up yet, when I saw a movement out of the corner of my eye. What did I see? A woodpecker on one of the trees. Well of course I wanted a picture of it. So there I go slowly, trying to sneak up on the bird. It was moving a bit and I thought it would fly off at any moment. Than finally I decided I better take the picture before it was to late and I did. But low and behold, it didn't matter how close I came, the bird still didn't fly off. Well guess what? You are going to laugh......

It was a fake bird.......HaHaHa


Ok, you all can laugh now. I deserve it!

But I did also see some little flowers making their appearances
in the garden.








Are they not pretty?
I was so happy to see them.
A sign of Spring at last.

With that I bit you all farewell
till next time
from my neck of the woods.




12 comments:

  1. Good Afternoon Erika.. hmm never thought of keeping a journal either.. I think pics would be very cool to put in the journal. that way you can see your finished projects too.. might start one of my own who knows.. LOL I really was laughing I am sorry to say with your Woodpecker.. LOL mine have a red cap here . I have one in my front tree that comes and visits my Bird feeders out front.. Love seeing the flowers coming out. I really wish ours would start. See ya next time my friend.. hugs Mausie

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  2. I love being able to look back at what I've written about my progress through my projects. What I write quite often gives me ideas about new projects, you'll be pleased you started one

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  3. I tried to not laugh at the woodpecker story but it was too funny, lol
    The journal looks a fun idea and I think adding pics will be the finishing touch.

    :)

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  4. Thanks so much for showing how you fill in your journal! It's helpful to get ideas about how to organize projects.

    Also, I would totally do the same thing with the bird. And laugh at myself. :)

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  5. A journal is a fantastic idea. It'll help out so much with keeping track of ideas and things. The flowers are popping up here in the mountains too. Night before last we had a front move through here that dusted everything and yesterday the robins were out in full force. I can't wait for the warmer weather to stay.

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  6. I really like the idea of adding a piece of yarn to identify the color. In my binder, I have a list of colors, but when the color name doesn't describe the color a swatch of yarn would be quite helpful. Thanks for sharing! Your flowers are so pretty. Ours are just starting to come up out of the ground. It'll be several weeks before we have blooms.

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  7. I really like the idea of adding a piece of yarn to identify the color. In my binder, I have a list of colors, but when the color name doesn't describe the color a swatch of yarn would be quite helpful. Thanks for sharing! Your flowers are so pretty. Ours are just starting to come up out of the ground. It'll be several weeks before we have blooms.

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  8. I so loved the story of the woodpecker and laughed because I would have done the same thing!

    And thank you for showing pics of your journal, I like to see what info people put into theirs. I love the idea of pictures of the finished object, but I can't afford the ink right now, but it is an idea for when I can! Thank you!

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  9. Hi Erica, I'm glad you're enjoying week 2's challenge, and it looks like your journal is off to a great start! I always like to put the date I started a project and then the date I completed it - it's really neat to look back at all the entries! I love your photos too and I'm hoping spring will get here in Michigan soon - so tired of snow already! Thanks for sharing :)

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  10. Love the idea of adding snippets of wool to your journal. I've really enjoyed my first visit to your blog and feel at home already! Isn't it lovely seeing signs of spring appearing everywhere! I'm looking forward to playing along with the 52 week challenge, I'm just setting up a new woolly blog away from my papercrafts blog! Looking forward to calling again, btw, I have lots of unfinished projects too !! Enjoy the challenge :)

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  11. That's so funny about the woodpecker!! I love to see the first flowers of Spring popping up through the brown, thank you for sharing that! I love the journal you started. I use Ravelry as my journal, but I need to make a paper one, because if the computer croaks then what LOL

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  12. My cousin has a large pond across the street from our house. Years ago I took pictures of mallard ducks on his pond. As I came closer I found out they were decoys. He put them there to encourage other ducks to land there for all of us to enjoy. LOL I was enjoying the decoys.

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