Ask me questions about knitting/crochet/felting/dyeing fibers etc, I will answer them for FREE!!!

I have been asked many many times to share my knowledge about knitting/crochet/felting/dyeing fibers etc.

So here is my question to you:

Let me know what you like me to explain/clarify/simplify related to the above mentioned arts and crafts, by either sending me an email at info@beautifulyeah.com or leaving a comment below.

 

There are no secrets for me to hide. I will explain it to you or refer u to other online content or whatever it might take.

Even if you have a question about a project you are working on, send me the pattern/pics etc and I'm pretty sure I can help you out from here :)

I will work through all your questions one blog post at a time, promise!

So go ahead and ask!!! I'm waiting....

Today the spotlight is on...

Today the spotlight is on:

Super Bulky - Hand spun & Hand dyed Merino wool (hummingbird) thick and thin plied with strong cotton thread and pink flowers

EYESTOPPER available in my Etsy Shop!!!
This is a super soft Merino wool handspun and hand dyed yarn, plied with a super strong cotton thread and 5 randomly placed pink flowers.

The roving I named "Hummingbird" :D

You can wear it as a scarf/necklace as is or work it up in your own designs

Super Bulky
approx. 30 yards - 27meters
weight: approx. 2.5oz - 71 g
Merino Wool
plied with Cotton thread
Artificial Flowers with a yellow wool center



My Etsy Shop is open!!!

All day I worked on getting my Etsy Shop "Beautifulyeah" filled with fiber goodies again...

So here are some examples from my Etsy Shop:

Reopening of Beautifulyeah on Etsy!!!

HAPPY NEWS:
  ASAP I will reopen my Etsy Store (Beautifulyeah) where I will start selling all my hand dyed yarns/fibers and handspun yarns.
  My beautiful friend Kim Brown will start handling all the promotions for Beautifulyeah from that day on so that I can totally concentrate on the dyeing/creating side of the business.
  Thank you Kim!!! You rock!!! ♥

STAY TUNED!!!!

Christmas day in our house...

Right, it's Christmas Day and I had these great plans to work on my poppies wall hanging, relax etc..but...nope, not yet so far.

Since we moved last month into this apartment, I kinda put some in places and said to myself that I would make it work better soon. Well, today was the day!

I was so fed up with looking at some bags with fiber in the dining room that I knew that I didn't have any space in the guest/design room to put it. So the only solution to put my mind at ease was to tackle this problem right now big time! This includes moving furniture, reorganizing the transparent big plastic boxes (in the hope some will end up being empty LOL) etc...

First thing to tackle was to unpack the 3 piece large bookcase in the guest room...ugh...I moved the 2 side pieces by myself to the dining room but I needed my hubby to help me with the big piece that goes in the middle. That done, I had to reorganize the bookcases and walk back and forth with stacks of books from one room to the other.

In the mean time, my hubby and the dog decided that they would be better off to go have a coffee at Starbucks instead of staying around in the house...:) which was fine with me! More "freedom" to move things around and less watching out that I don't trip over the puppy. He likes to know what's going on and check everything again which is very challenging to not step on him.

Now 5 hours later, I am kinda satisfied with final looks of the guest and dining room. Let's see if it's also pratical in the next few days. Here is the (temporary) end result picture:

We didn't exchange gifts this year because we decided that moving back to living at the beach was our Christmas present. It's so good to be back and being able to hang out with friends, visit the beach and enjoy our lives out here. I am pretty sure that our puppy Dr. Snuggles thinks the same.

The Verizon Unit (cable/internet provider) is still peeping it's head off since Christmas Eve, screaming that it needs a new battery, that will be fixed hopefully tomorrow by one of their tech guys that will come out and fix it.

From all of us here:

I finished the CAL for the Christmas Lights and much more...

Okay, here we go....

 

TAATAAAAAA...I finished our CAL today and it's hanging from my covered front porch/entrance.

Simple, easy and fast crochet project to whip up in a few days. Don't forget it is PERFECT to use up those small amounts of yarn that we all have laying around somewhere...

FREE Pattern by Jean Herman

 

 

My friend Tina finished hers too and send me a picture to share. Thank you Tina for sharing!!!

I love hers too, such a rewarding instant Christmas feeling these lights...

 

 

We picked up our first white (flocked?) Christmas tree ever and we love it!!!

BEFORE:

 

 AFTER:

 

 

 

Now I am in the "Christmas" mood :)

 

 

And like I asked in my previous blog post that I was looking for ideas for my windows for you all? Well I got what I wanted...so many responses and emails with pattern (links).

Finally I decided to make the ones pictured below for the kitchen windows.

Pattern is free from Bernat

I will start them soon and I will keep you updated!

 

LOL

 

 

 

Again a beautiful day in my life...

This is the view from my window where I write on my computer the blog posts almost every day. It's in the guest bedroom where all my fiber is stashed in boxes too. Little cramped since I still have to organize it from the move. I know it's been a month but still I like to "live" too and enjoy my life here :)

The beach is only 3 blocks to the left and about a 5-10min walk. We have a doggy beach here too and our puppy Snuggles loves to race next to the boardwalk in the sand to the puppy beach.

 

 

 

Here is the little sand monster (Dr. Snuggles) in his doggy sweater (it's only 55F degrees today), watching the birds at the beach

 

See in the sand NOT on the boardwalk cos you don't get dirty (sandy) on there...LOL

 Here we are on the way back from the doggy beach...

the pace is much slower cos he's getting really tired...little "strikes" every so now and then or as we call it "flat tires" :)

 The locals are playing beach Volleyball so the puppy had to watch for a few minutes :)

 Another beautiful view on our daily beach walk...

Here is a picture of the few homemade blueberry muffins left of this morning...wow they go FAST!! I don't think they will last till tomorrow...hahaha

 

 And a little puppy fight with my mummy on the guest bed...puppy life is soooo COOL!!

 

 This picture I took last night after he walked his last round in the rain. Asked to be put on the bed and dug himself a cozy warm spot under his blanky, while I was reading my book (Nora Roberts - The Search)...

 

So this was a little story about my day, now I have to get cozy and work on our CAL (Christmas Lights string)

I have so far 10 light bulbs ready and I want to do a few more before I start on the connectors and the "cable"

They look so pretty...what do you think we should do at our next KAL/CAL for January?

Crochet Along Christmas Lights update

Today I went to Starbucks for my daily coffee fix

I could feel yesterday that I must have forgotten my coffee fix since my speed of moving around was like ZERO. So today that had to be on my schedule LOL

I took our puppy Snuggles to the veterinarian Monday for his Bordetella shot and today the vet calls me to check in if the puppy is doing fine. How nice is that?

Meeting with my knitting/crochet group yesterday was fun as usual and we are doing a Christmas ornament exchange on Sunday so more fun is around the corner

It’s hard sometimes to slow down and enjoy being retired but more and more I’m allowing myself to relax and do the things I love the most besides taking care of my hubby and puppy.

In a few hours I will be attending another yoga class at my local gym.

So back to last night: I managed, between the laughter and talking, to finish 3 more light bulbs for the CAL.

So here they are:

 

The total light bulbs I have ready is NINE!!! Woohoo!!! I wanna make 2 more and than I will start making the connectors and the “cable”.

I hope that you are enjoying this CAL as much as I do but don’t forget to share your string of Christmas lights too!

How about we do every month a project KAL/CAL? You will have a whole month to finish it

Help me with ideas for patterns crochet or knitting….just leave a comment with a the link to the pattern you would like to see as a KAL or CAL.

Next one will start in January and I will post the pattern link last week of December so you have enough time to get your materials together