Shrek Baby

Well, here is the first part of Charlie's Halloween costume! I finished it up yesterday. It's crocheted. I used a size N hook, Red Heart super saver from the stash, and did a ch2, 6sc in ch. Then I worked out doing 2 sc in each sc, then 1 sc, 2sc in next sc, and repeated that around. Each row I made 1 more sc in between where I increased with the 2sc. (Like the next row was sc in next 2 sc, then 2 sc in next sc; sc in next 3 sc.) I did that up until about 9 in between increases, did a couple rows of just sc, decided it wasn't quite big enough, did 10 between increases, a row of sc, 11 between increases, then finished the sc to the bottom. I did the final row DC. For the ears, I chained 10 and joined, did sc in each ch around. I did 7 rows of the single crochet. Then, I did 2sc in first sc, sc in next 5, 2sc in next sc for 1 row; then 4 in between, then 3 in between, then I did just a row of sc to keep it less trumpet-y and more Shrek-y. I sewed the ears on, and voila!

Also, here is a pic of our baby snapping turtle. You can hardly see him (new camera, still figuring out how to use it.) He will either be going to the in-laws or the Wilderness Center this week. He's too hard to take care of, and we keep our house too cold for him to be comfy. At least we saved him from dogs and getting squished in a parking lot!

New pets!

Well, we've acquired 2 new pets this past week. We got a woolybear caterpillar that we're going to try to over-winter and watch turn into a Tiger moth in the spring. (Directions on how to do so can be found here:Capture a Bear for the Winter.) We've only had it since Saturday. It was fine this morning. This afternoon, it's on the bottom of its jar. I hope it's doing it's "sleeping-on-the-bottom-after-being-tired-of-perching-on-the-twig" thing and not it's "dead" thing! I think we'll keep our eye out for some more, just in case!

Today, Dan was up at a friend's shop doing some work to some of the Herbie pieces. When he was leaving, he found a baby snapping turtle in the parking lot! He didn't know it was a snapping turtle. He came home and shoved a Taco Bell cup in my face and said look what I caught you! I looked and said "a snapping turtle!?!?" He said, no it's not. I found it on Google images. I was right....na na na na na. It's really cute, though. He's only about as big as a silver dollar. He's in our old hermit crab cage. When he gets too big for his cage, we'll see about setting him free at the Wilderness Center or taking him to the Sanders Center. We've named him Woodstock. That way, he can be Charlie's and we don't have to get Charlie a goldfish right now, since he's the only kid without a goldfish. I'll try to get some pictures later. I took some with my new camera, but I think it's too fancy for my poor picture taking skills, and I couldn't get it to focus right. I'll try again later when I don't have 3 kids bouncing off me asking if they can just touch the turtle one time.

My yarn is looking good. It's still drying. I got about half of it untangled. It's looking alot more brown now. I've got it hanging above my dryer to hopefully help it dry a little faster. I'm antsy to get knitting with it!

Oh, and for our grand finale......no tardies! In fact, the girls were even ready early for school this morning. Dan took them for me, and he brought me home a maple cream stick! (There is an AWESOME bakery right by the girls' school.) Yay! It's been a good day. Now, I just have to clean tonight and FINALLY get out my Samhain decorations for our "reunion" tomorrow!