second day of advent

December 2nd, 2009

lights

Every day of advent I will be posting a page from my coloring book for you to download.  On the second day of advent you get a string of lights to color. Do you have lights up yet? Time to get out those crayons and pencils. Click here to download the page!

If you are extra proud of your work  feel free to show it off in the elsie marley flickr page.

first day of advent

December 1st, 2009

mittens

happy december! Every day of advent I will be posting a page from my coloring book for you to download.  On the first day of advent you get a fancy dancy pair of knit mittens to color. So get out those crayons and pencils and click here to download the page!

If you are extra proud of your work  feel free to show it off in the elsie marley flickr page.

advent calendar coloring book!

November 30th, 2009

I am super excited to tell you about this project. After much help from my computer genius of a husband, you can now buy (for the super cheap price of $2.50) and download my Advent Calendar Coloring Book.  Then check “make advent calendar” off your list.  Done and done. All the pictures were drawn by yours truly and I had a fine time doing it. We all should draw more often. And color more often too! Because of course after making a coloring book, I had to break out the crayons and pencils and color!

My daughter, who is my little tester, has colored three whole books already and advent hasn’t even begun. And really, you could print out a coloring book a day for advent, instead of coloring one picture a day.  My kids are coloring fiends, so that much coloring wouldn’t be unheard of. And of course you don’t have to use it as an advent calendar, but just color all the christmasiness to get in a happy holiday mood.

And as a special treat, I am going to have a page to print out and color everyday for advent on my blog. So be sure to stop by tomorrow for the first one!

wip wednesday

November 25th, 2009

just a few pictures of what I’ve been working on, before everything I’m working on is for christmas.

I guess this qualifies for braid wednesday as well!

santa hat

November 23rd, 2009

I think it’s pretty easy to go crochet crazy. I had a great aunt who crocheted anything and everything: toilet paper cozies, sombreros for the tabasco sauce, ear cozies–not ear muffs, just two circles that fit around your ears! And now I see how you can go down that road. It’s just so easy to make up shapes as you go with crochet, increasing and decreasing wherever you choose and if you need to rip it out, it’s no big deal because it comes together so fast anyway. Which is why after only a few weeks after learning, I can crochet on the fly. This super ridiculous santa hat is a mash up of two other crocheted hats: the pointy hat I made for my daughter and the mustache hat on instructables. I can write up a pattern if there is enough interest, but really, if you can crochet you can probably just wing it.  Ho! Ho! Ho!