Saturday, August 12, 2006

More Baby Pics

My firstborn (who is now 21 yrs old!), just loved to get attention and was always willing to pose for a shot.


Here he is at about 10 months old, making a face ;)
He always needed something to occupy him and he loved books ever since he was a baby.






Its obvious I was obssessed taking pictures of him!
He enjoys playing with stuff toys, but I can see how much he longed to play with kids of his age. (He didnt have a brother until he was 4 1/2 yrs old.) Sometimes his girl cousins visit and they have fun playing together.



He was between 2 and 3 yrs old in this photo, taken when we had a beach outing.
Look he's wearing a nautical outfit I had sewn for him! I had a hard time finishing this, as I wasnt really into sewing. I just followed the instructions and patterns in this book. (Here is the model in the book.)

Crochet Strap

I just finished the guitar strap for my son, but it was far from perfect. The holes were a bit big (but I can crochet 1 small round in it to make it smaller), and it was quite longer than what he wanted, so I will have to fold part of it and sew it to secure.


I told him I was going to take a pic, but not show his face but just focus on the guitar, but he moved away so this is what I got :p




I just wanted to show how it looks. I used 2 balls of Cannon thread on this, one row of dc on the front loop and another row on the back loop, then joined together the two rows with one row of sc, it was a pain! But I like the thick texture and the feel of cotton. He didnt like the color pattern so much (though he was the one who picked the thread). Now he wants a blue and white stripe one!

Sunday, August 06, 2006

21 years ago....


...obviously, he wasnt ready for the shot, but mom is...

This is the main reason why I wanted to have a scanner...Most of our old photos had turned yellow, and are just hidden somewhere. We had hundreds of photos when the kids were babies up to the time they were in elementary school. Most of it needed to be cropped and edited to be appreciated.
I hope I can accomplish this difficult task, I know my sons will love to have this, especially later on to share with their own family ;)

For now, here's a small tribute to my son, who was born this day 21 years ago. Happy Birthday, my dear son!


...learned to crawl, walk and talk quite early...


...loves action figurines, but also soft, cuddly toys (see the alf and ninja turtle, those were his faves...)


...at five years old, emceeing in pre-school wearing our national costume ...


...a solo number with the choir...


...more on next post...

Saturday, August 05, 2006

...21 years and more to come...


with younger brother, just graduated from High School, class of 2003

at his cousin's halloween debut party.

in action

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Crochet and more...

I guess you've had enough looking at my scrunchies so I wont be showing you any more (but here's a closer view you'll be surprised to see)...hehe...
I know that there are tons of scrunchie patterns out there, it is really hard to choose, so I stick to my own pattern. The colors and the assorted beads some of which were recycled from bracelets and necklaces, make each piece different. I also like to say that it is in the wearing, that a scrunchie pattern is put to the test. Those who got my scrunchies loved wearing them =)

So aside from my little WIP's, I have some patterns to test for my designer friends. One of it is a purse made of WW yarn and its details are still secret for now, until my friend is ready to announce it.
The other two patterns that I cant wait to test is for Kathy. I'm really looking forward to wear one of Kathy's designs =)

Lastly, I finally bought a scanner after thinking about it for several months. My son immediately said, "where did you get the money?, we could have bought lots of food with it" :p I told him he still gets to eat his favorite pizzas and chocolate bars, so he shouldnt say that. Besides, am I not working hard to justify this pretty good investment??