Yarn Swap & Tasting Party

So today I planned a Yarn Tasting Party with some family & friends. I'm setting up now, and these are a few pictures of what I've done so far. At this special event, we'll be swaping some yarns with each other. Each participant must bring at least 3 yarn that they don't want and swap with someone else. Who knows someone may swap for a color that they couldn't find in some craft stores. Say hello to cotton, she wants to participate in the Yarn Swap & Trading party. She's actually the first guest to arrive. Check out her name (cotton), she'll fit in great. Hehehe, I actually have some cotton yarn that I'm going to swap today.

These are some of the yarn (above picture) that I will be contributing for the yarn tasting. The yarn tasting is sort of like a wine tasting. Trying different flavors of wine. I'm not an expert on wine tasting events, but yarn tasting is sort of like that. To use as an example. We don't eat yarn at a tasting. What we do is try different fibers, and weights of yarn with different kinds of crochet hooks or needles if you will. They are different kinds of sizes of needles and yarns or fibers which is the correct terminology. To learn more about crocheting and what's involve of the life of a crocheter, go to Crochet Guild of America at www.crochet.org.

These are some of the yarn that we will be trying out.Some goodies I'm working on to give to some of the guests.

I had left over goodies for Valentines, so I thought it would make a good party favor to give. Since it's still February, this favor will fit right in.

Here is one of the many things that I've been working on. I call this Crochet Art, and I named this piece "Childhood Memories". This piece was inspired when I was growing up. My mom would have milk & cookies ready for us when we came home from school. Those were the days, when there were no worries and everything was as is.

Well I gotta go, my guests will be arriving soon and there are more things that I need to work on before we get started.

Have any of you host a yarn tasting or any kind of tasting party or any party for that matter? Were any of you ever invited to a themed party recently? How much fun it is isn't it?

Take care everybody. Chat with you later.

Peace & Love,

Treasure Ann

I Have No Specific Title For This Post

I couldn't come up with a suitable title for this post, but I just wanted to share with my readers (friends) what I do in my past time. I took up painting about a year ago, and loved it ever since. When I get creative and working on a piece, I'm in my own little world. A Very peaceful world I might add, not a worry in sight or some concern lurking around the corner. I love this painting hobby I took up and I'm still learning about this new craft.

The name of this piece is called, Extended, which means, break out of the mold of things or shall I say the frame that society thinks we should be contained in. Denying ourselves of who we really are.

If you notice there is a small picture frame in the painting with a flower in it, and it looks like the flower extended out of the picture frame. The other impression I tried to give is that, there's a bottle in the picutre in which it suppose to look like the bottle is trying to capture the flower, but the flower is too big to be contained. It blossoms and grows from the different walks of life. That's where you see it looks like little stepping stones in the picture-that means we can only grow through being ourselves and through life's experiences. Tell me, what impression does this painting give you? I love to here some reviews, and critique, but please don't be too hard on me. ;)

Oh by the way, whats the deal with this DTV thing everyone's been talking about? Have a good one everybody.

What I Did Today

Before we get to what I did today, this is a just a little viewing of my shop. Which by the way until I can affford a building is in my home. I get occassional loyal customers, but I do hope word and my advertising of my business will attract more customers.

Yep, I sell retail, and these are just a few items I sell. Of course I have to stock up for Valentines, that holiday a real busy for businesses.

As you can see I do handmade craft items, which people love, and I have gotten quite a few orders for crocheted wash cloths, and jewelry.

Here's some more items, ready to sell.

O.K. Here's what I've been doing today. Making heart shaped iced sugar cookies. I just wanted to practice frosting them. It's beginning to get easy, when I keep up with them. There not the best or professional looking cookies, not like L, but practice makes perfect.

I wanted to do all kinds of styles of decorating and my favorite would be the half of heart with two different colors or designs. I still haven't got the hang of the piping bag. So I took the easy way out and used the Wilton plastic bottle. I tried following the directions on the back of the box with the piping bags, but hey I'm a novice to this. It's going to take some time for me to get it. I'm not giving up, so I'll let you all know how it works out when I get the hang of it.

During this coldness, what have all of you did today, or what will you all do tomorrow?

Have fun, and enjoy life.

Treasure Ann