It’s Friday Again, a Few Tips, Another Bag Holder, and More Crochet Edged Washcloths

Gosh this week has seemed to fly by and once again I struggled to write another blog post. Maybe I have writers block? Then I remembered my friend Kat shared a few helpful tips with me and I thought I would share them along with a few of mine too.

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Here are my two tips:

First of all never let your garage get to this level of clutter (or as you’ve seen on tv “hoarding”). I can’t believe I’m actually showing you this, but hopefully it will shame us into cleaning it out the rest of the way and continue to keep it that way.

Sometimes it’s nice to get rid of everything and I’m so glad I didn’t throw these fun boots away,

or this hat from John’s Navy days (he was so excited about finding this hat and had to call me at work just to tell me he found it),

or this baby yarn, Heaven knows how old this stuff is with a price of 99¢ a skein from Hobby Lobby and it’s still in perfect condition. Thank goodness I had sense enough to place it in one of those zipper bags (of course I couldn’t throw that away either).

Here’s another box of goodness. Size 10 crochet thread all in the same color except that one pink one. I think they were going to make a tablecloth or bedspread. No. I didn’t buy it someone found it at a garage sale and gave it to me; and yes I will be bringing that back into the house with me. I just love it and I know there’s more thread in another area of the garage too. I just haven’t run onto it yet.

I’m sure by now you probably figured out that we decided to clean out the garage. Mostly John decided to clean it out. He wants to have a garage sale and I told him not to throw anything away before I could go through it. So that’s what I’ll be doing the majority of my weekend. Obviously I can’t complete it in one evening. I have a pile to go to the Goodwill, a pile to put in the garage sale, and a pile to throw away. It should be quite a sale, since we haven’t had one for 20 years.  😉

Now onto crochet; I received my new printed labels, and I love getting this little box of labels in the mail with all of those interesting stamps on the box and

I love opening it and seeing all those little labels crammed into that tiny little box.

Oh by the way I did crochet a little. I made another bag holder and this time I sewed buttons on the top of them right in front of the hanging loop. I think it adds just an added touch of texture to my design.

I also finished 5 more washcloths. I have one more from that package to make a total of 18. These were so much fun to make that I think I’ll be purchasing another package and this time I’ll make sets of 4 of the same color and sell them as a set wrapped with a ribbon around them. So what’s going on in your part of the world? Do you have any cool tips to share? And I hope everyone has a wonderful weekend and I’ll talk to you on the other side of mine.  🙂