Ella

Ella is a quiet one but she is in heat. She has been rolling all around the floor and does a quiet purr sound not like most cats in estrous, really loud... She goes for her appt on the 3rd to get fixed. She is a pound kitty and was hoping to get her before her first heat but didn't get there...

Well off to finish a baby set, blanket, hat and booties and sweater for a friend's first baby. It is lavendar and white set and will take a picture when it gets all done.

Just 51 days till NASCAR is back in our viewing pleasure...

Off for now to get some work done...

Just saying hello

Ahhh almost christmas time here. I really don't like it that much lately, couldn't really get into the spirit this yr. It is the 5 yr anniversary that my mom passed on christmas eve, and last yr my grandma on my dad's side passed in december as well. Hubby even said we might have another puppy added to the mix. Not real happy but if it keeps him happy...I won't get another kitten though, too many pets to mess with my yarn. Ella is learning somewhat but it comes with time and getting her to play with what I make her not what I was working on at the time. I have my work displayed at a local consignment shop and it is doing well, at least it is spending money. I finally made a martha poncho in purple for dh's dog friend and she loved it, just forgot to get a picture, maybe when hubby goes back to charlottesville, I will ask him to take a picture of it.

NASCAR will be on in 58 days...yippeee, Soon I will have something to listen to while I crochet away. BTW all you crocheters out there, if you bring your work and work on it, people will watch and I get orders that way, I just got done doing 2 beanie hats, and now that same lady has me making a hat with flaps and a lapghan in red, white and blue for a retirement of a military member.

I like that the orders have kept me busy so I don't have to think about the time and the days that are coming. I normally have been on meds starting in oct but it creeped up and now I have to deal with all the issues I have and not take it out on everyone around me.

So I am going to try and keep up with the blog and hopefully still have sanity if we add another puppy to the mix. Hope to get some pictures of the ##()I)Y#*(^*(@^ animals..lol... I do love them, just they do things to aggrivate me and push the buttons...

School will be back in session jan 2nd too so that is something to look forward to as well...

Ella and her new sweater

Ella has been shivering because it is now getting cold at night so I made her a sweater. it is from crochet n mores site and the version Linda did...

http://www.crochetnmore.com/dogsweater-lindas.htm

I added 2 rows of dc at the beg edge after the fact and row 14 I added 15 chs before I attached to other side so that it would fit my almost 6 pound kitty...

2 new designs are on my pattern page

http://woodhilldesignpatternpage.blogspot.com
My luxury hat and scarf are up on my new patterns pages...

Thanks for all who have wrote me about them.

What your birthdate says about you?

Your Birthdate: March 16

You're incredibly introverted and introspective. You live inside your head. You spend a lot of alone time meditating and thinking. People see you as withdrawn, and at times they are right. You are caring and deep, but it may be difficult for you to show this side of yourself. Your strength: Your original approach to thinking Your weakness: You tend to shy away from others Your power color: Pale blue Your power symbol: Wavy line Your power month: July

What Does Your Birth Date Mean?

Happy Thanksgiving

Wanted to wish everyone a happy thanksgiving and hope if you are traveling somewhere, you take your time and arrive safely.

Be safe on black friday as people are not the same when there is 1 item wanted and 5 of you trying to put your hands on it.

Newest Design

Here is the new scarf design I have made for a special order. I hope to write more but with the holidays and orders for my designs on an up, I have little time to be on here but hope to add new pics as things get done. If the pattern isn't before the new yr, I will get it up and running on one of my blogs.

Thanks,
Bren

my copyright

You can make the items to sell at craft fairs, bazaars, and local areas, but you may not sell the patterns themselves ever and never can sell online at any craft or ebay like situation. To sell online would have to have written consent by me and my company or we will sue to the extent of the law.

I don't mind if you put a link to my site on websites but to let me know so that I can reciprocate the deal for you.

I have and will update as need be on the copyright but don't take someone's hard work and claim it as your own. There are a lot of hard working designers out there and you don't want to bite the hand that feeds your need for patterns. I don't get paid for my patterns and if I wanted to I would myself sell and not have someone else get my rightful profits.

I welcome pictures and variations of my designs to showcase here or on my blogs and websites I maintain.

thank you,
Bren
woodhill Crochet Design Studio
you can click on my profile to get to my pattern blogs I have.

home spun hats with fun fur

Well here are 2 hats that are of my design and I have orders for more in the pink and some in a white and purple...

yippeee!!!!!!

well I am off on a chat so I will write more later... It is a bummer that the Nascar Craftsman truck race in rain delay!!!! I have so much to do but I am doodling because the race isn't on right now....

What kind of yarn am I?

You are Mercerized Cotton.You are always very crisp and neat. You are very
playful and are happiest while outdoors in the
sunshine. You are sometimes accused of
splitting hairs, but in the end people find you
pretty easy to live with.

What kind of yarn are you?
brought to you by

Two hats I have done

Here are two hats I have done. I just got the heads at Sally beauty supply to show them off as Hunter hates having to model work I have been doing... But one is a purple varigated and the other is grey with a large black stripe.

Cara and Buddy

They are sleeping the day away...Well Cara just got done running like her butt was on fire, kees are notorious for that... But now they are taking a break and relaxing so I can get some crocheting done. Their webpages are www.geocities.com/woodhillkeesies if you want to see them. off to crochet some more.

my baby ripple design picture

copyrighted oct 2005
pattern will come later but it was a pattern I designed based off of Angel Crafts round ripple. I was making so many for friends and family that I wanted some bumps and design to mine.

Hope you like it and hope to get it written to the puter soon, just on paper right now. My design pages are going over bandwidth to where I have been getting ready for some mirror sites and etc to reduce the bandwith on the over loaded one.

well off to work on some more designs and get some more craft fair stuff done.

my 4L kiddos

Buddy is in the top picture, the patriarch, the the middle is Ella, the baby, and the matriarch, Ragamuffin "kitty"(she is the big one), and the bottom has the puppy Cara nosing into one of my yarn bags that the kitten has fallen asleep in. Didn't realize it was blurry, and Ella has found some wierd places to sleep of late too, maybe one of these days I will get a new picture of her.

Cara the puppy has destroyed 3 kitty toys in an hour tonight. Guess I will have to buy some more or get cracking and make some more before she shreds them all...lol... I can't wait till she learns that she is to play with only her toys, hope it will be real soon. As I have been working on crochet and designing, and getting ready for a show in November I have been busy...

I hope to get a picture if the weather is great tomorrow of some of the things I have finished over the past week, I have made about 7-8 hats, baby blanket, booties, shrug from caneylane creations.(shelly shrug), and a few more things.

Well off to watch Nascar qualifying and hope my driver gets a good spot. Go #38...

my kitty

We got her a few weeks ago and she had a head cold, I have given her the name Ella, for a Nascar driver we like, she has already gotten double her weight and size.. She is a sweety.

Well I am going to see how this looks as I am using a different way of getting the pictures to the blog and seeing if I like them this way.

Slowly getting back to normal

Hi, I know I haven't posted in a while, we have 2 new 4L kiddos here and getting them into the swing of how it works, well that will take a while. We got a new kitten during the adoption time at petsmart, and we just got the daughter of our dog too. so it is chaos here. Literally and figuratively, in all sense of the word.

My 6 yo has a girl friend, she gave him her number, and he had to learn how to call her. It was funny, but he scowls at the word that she is his girlfriend. hehhe..

I belong to some crochet groups and well sometimes you have to draw a deaf ear to some of the posts, especially if you really don't care one way or the other on the given subject. Lately it has been about the different yarns, who cares, I use what I can afford and that isn't saying much. I would love to make some of the items in the magazines but balk at paying 6.00 a ball and having to have anywhere from 10 to 15 balls to make one item. I just can't justify 60.00 to my dh to do that, so that will stay in the back burner unless my design business takes off but it is few and far between that things get bought. I just sold a scarf for 10 for the neighbor and have a craft fair to do in November which I have a partner in it so it saves on the cost of the booth.

Well gotta go get some dinner and check on the animals as they are a bit on the quiet side and have to see if they are tearing up the house while I have been writing this long passage of air..lol...

My website is www.geocities.com/woodhilldesign pictures soon or www.geocities.com/febmommy free patterns

Talk later,
Bren
Woodhill Crochet Design Studio

Arggg...

Hi, hopefully I will get back to posting soon, been very busy with all that the holiday season has brought forth that there are a million and one things to do and not enough hours in the day to get it done, and now we have 2 new 4L family members to boot. I love animals as long as they know that my yarn except what I give them is mine and mine alone..lol...

I have been designing and hope to either put them here or on my other site, some might be paid patterns or sent to publishers first but am still in the deciding if they are good enough to be in print in a magazine.

I am awaiting the notice of when a pattern of mine will be published in a book but it hasn't been finished yet to get a date on it...

Well hope this finds all who read this fine and well and going to try and get the bogus comments off this blog that are spam and not a real comment. Hopefully it is as easy as it is with yahoo...

Night night,
Bren
woodhill design
www.geocities.com/woodhilldesign

Thursday blahs

When is it going to be the weekend, when will the kids get back to school...It won't be here fast enough for me...hehe.... My neighbor was asking how my grass is so green and looks pretty...I tell them, lots of water and letting it grow a little to get the weeds out...along with the weed and feed and etc. My new neighbor's grass well, not grass, a weed garden..lol...the old neighbor never did anything and I have the side to see it as we have weeds on the side due to them not growing grass, but letting it just be...but with the newbies, hopefully I won't have to work on that side so much to get grass growing without weeds...

As for crochet, I am starting to try tonight and start something cool with some new yarn I picked up...

Sad, my son Brandon who is visiting family in IN, isn't missing us and is more busy with hanging out than talking to his mom...boo-hoo. at least he is having fun, right? My youngest, Hunter just noticed his first loose tooth so he has been gingerly trying to get it out...So hopefully it will be out in a week. He also got his tonsil and adnoid surgery set for July 15th...yippee!! I wanted to get it done before we went to get the oldest...so he will still be recooperating when we go up for my 15 yr class reunion...Can't believe it has been that long but hey I don't look like it has been that long. I went to get the oldest from a skating party and the teacher thought I was his sister...makes you feel young and the kids go ugh...

Well I think I am going to try and sit and do some crochet and see if it bothers my arm to do it.

Good night stay safe and GOD bless you or whatever you believe in.

New day coming

Hi, I think I have this fugured out and I don't know if I plan on putting some of my designs here or only on my other website. but will post later on this.

I have been having several people want items designed for babies and or more clothes so I have been drawing up some designs to get some items set up when I am feeling better. I haven't been sleeping well, my dad is in the hospital and my oldest is up there with him in IN, and he is just learning to stay home alone, he is 12. So hope my dad gets out today so that I can have some peace of mind that he is going to be fine and I don't have to make the 15 hour trip to IN...

My youngest who is 6 is really into racing and we went to see Herbie fully loaded last night and he liked it. His favorite drivers are #38 M&M's car Elliott Sadler and #20 Home Depot Tony Stewart. He is hoping his dad will take his brother and him to a Nascar race next yr. We will see...

Well off for a little bit, going to mow the lawn and then hang out in our pool in the backyard today.

my baby hat design that I gave with the baby ripple. Hope the pictures go thru, still a learning process and new to blogs. 

Round ripple I made for a neighbor's newborn daughter. 

I'm back for a little while

Well what has not been happening.... I have started designing again and getting published, it is harder to do than I thought. I love that I can design different and new and never thought of items but I have been having to deal with our home and dogs that it has been getting sidetracked. I have been busy crocheting designs by the many talented ladies and gentlemen out there in cyberworld too.

I have been having issues with the puter too, seems when something gets fixed, money has to get put on something else.

I am still trying to figure out how to add pictures to the site but I do have a website of my designs and it is www.geocities.com/febmommy I need to get it more updated but for now it is fine.

Well I will go for now and read up on uploading pictues to this blog.