Crochet tagged FrankenJetta

Last summer, among the many things that I had went through, I took it out on my car. You see, this wonderful lady donated a ton of yarn, most of it was like from the 70's or something. While being inspired by the tagging of downtown Traverse City by a crochet group called Hookers, I decided to decorate my car:)

Sweet colors, my favorite was the musturd yellow. This is all
done with single crochet, and I just did one long chain and
sewed it in half around the steering wheel.

My steering while was kinda jacked, flaking and during the summer, kinda sticky. Gross, I know. For this, I just measured how long it was and thought for sure I got the gage right, buuut I didn't. I'm not very good at determining the gage while crocheting, but mostly because I don't take the time to do a small motif to measure stiches/inche. It turned out to be like 4 inches too long so at first, it moved around while I was steering but now that it is worn in I don't even notice it.



I was inspired by a pattern I used from Lionbrand.com, it is
simply worked with double crochet for 3 stiches or so and then
a popcorn stitch. Looks complicated just because I used many
colors, but it wasn't hard.

Next, the passenger side door handle. Nice and cushy.

I actually started with the headrests, and then decided to tag as much as possible just to make my car super cute.

I very much love disco. Shut your mouth. <front>

Yo. <back>

Tagging my car was a great experience because I dabbled in things I wasn't too familiar with. Like not following any pattern what so ever, just had a vision, and then 'Jerry rigged' it in my favor. This one, I just did a long panel, again, not worrying about gage or how it would fit, I just wanted a plain 'canvas' to write something on. I slipped stitched the word DISCO on it, and went back over it to make it more bold.

The panel I made fit around the head rest just fine, but I was short some width so I added the sweet two toned spiral on the side. I love it.


Drivers side

This one, I started with a chain and worked it as if you would if you were making a rug.. I'm not really good at describing patterns, but it is worked in a continuous round, increasing on the 'four corners' until it was wide enough and then just worked in single crochet with out increasing- that is why it gets longer and not wider.


Rear Passenger

Drivers side passenger

Crochet Flowers, Yippee!

   Today, I shall show you the many ways you can wear a crochet flower. I generally put them on my girly hats, but you know, you can add one to your too! Seriously!!:) I could even do it for you if for some reason you don't trust yourself with a needle and string.

  I have sold them separately to people who have used them to pin to their jacket, and one lady bought them to add to the fabric she was using to make new pillow cases.

Crochet flower attached to an elastic band. Fits most
little girlies and people like myself, grown.

I have also whipped up flowers attached to clips, and crochet bands to wear around your skull like a hippie. Like this:

I tell you, these are perfect for long hair and short fly aways around your
face, holds your hair out of your face.

You can attach them to your purse, well I think you catch my drift. You can attach them to anything. Could even glue them to a wall if you really wanted to.
So here are some more pictures of what I've done with flowers:)

Headband

Flowers flying solo

Clutch

Yea, this one is sweet.<3

Bored Board times

Those how know me, know that I stay interested in way too many craft stuff. The last two weeks, I've been thinking of letting people in on cool one-liners that I find super funny. Today I was like "I'm bored, I'll just cut something in half."

By day, I am just this long haired weirdo who smells of incense and happy things...

But by boredom, I become the next power tool crazy...

Yea, be scared because I literally don't know what I'm doing. But oh well.

As you see here, I am wearing one of my fine Ear warmers as a shield from all the noise this fucker makes, and protective eye wear OVER my glasses. Genius. Turns out, all you have to do is push this 'safety' button and squeeze the trigger and the fun begins. I only needed to cut two pieces of pallet wood in half. Took a total of 30 seconds. Boooo.

I made this one during the weekend. I think it's cool.

So stay tuned to what I end up making today because it sorta looks like I may be stranded here:( The weather looks scary.

Finished product:

I looked up the lyrics to see how he spelled something, and he totally says 'yo' instead
of your. So the next one will be not so correct.

Side note:
         I woke with the urge to hear Neil Young. I shall influence you to love him also.

10 Life Lessons

I received this in a business newsletter. I see these often, well I sorta look for them I suppose to kind act like a mental checklist on "How to be an adult"

I added some wisdom too.

10 Life Lessons

by Ryan Allis

• Surround yourself with people you like and admire. You are who you surround yourself with. It pays to choose the people you surround yourself with carefully. (Hanging out with smart people will make you smart over time, true story. Absorb all their smartness)
• Put positive thoughts into your head. The internal message that you tell yourself over and over becomes reality. Thoughts become things. Don't be insecure. Be confident. YOU ARE AMAZING! You are all here because you are brilliant. Life is a wonderful opportunity. Believe in your power to do good. (The one I have been repeating all day today:" If you build it, they will come." Cheezy, I know, but whatever, I'm tryin')
• Take time to think about and write down your goals and frame them!!! Set bigger goals than you think are actually possible to achieve and try to hit about 50% of them. If you're hitting more than 50% of your goals, they're not ambitious enough! (Framing them might be kinda dumb, but definitely write them down, even daily goals. I find that if I write down things I wanna see, I usually finish the list by the end of the week.)
• Laughter is the best medicine for stress. Laugh at yourself often. Find what is funny in whatever situation you're in.
• Don't worry about what other people think about you. Just be yourself

It took me a long time to not judge myself if someone else's eyes

Sally Field

• Travel the world at every opportunity you get. Take an interest in what's going on in the world. Know about the tremendous opportunities in Asia, Africa, Central America, and South America
• Build authentic relationships in which you give. Don't build fake relationships.
• Find something you're passionate about that you love doing that you enter the "flow state" when you do it, then figure out how you can create value (and maybe make money) doing that!
• Save and invest money whenever you can and never ever go into debt for something you don't need. Make your money work for you.
• Spend more hours reading than you do watching TV! Book recommendations: Think and Grow Rich, Rich Dad Poor Dad, and How to Win Friends and Influence People. (Agreed.)

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Ryan Allis is the founder of iContact, one of the world's largest email marketing companies. Starting from nothing at the age of 22, Ryan has raised over $45 million for iContact and has grown the company to attract over 1 million subscribers.
Ryan is also the author of "From Zero to 1 Million" a book on entrepreneurship published by McGraw Hill. He is also involved with two non-profits: The Hunger Campaign and Nourish International.