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Look!  I made booties! I have made booties before, but it has been a while, and there is a special and new sense of happiness and satisfaction when you take string and turn it into something with form and cuteness.  I have to give all credit to my mom and her parents and their parents for passing down a very satisfying and enjoyable skill. Thanks, Mom! My silil, or sister-in-law-in-law, that is to say my husband's brother's wife's brother's wife, is having a baby.  I found this out when she started posting baby items on her Pinterest.  One of those items was these baby shoes, found on the Crochet Dreamz blog, the pattern designed by, well, whoever it is that writes that blog.  I can't find her name. If you like to crochet things, and you might be invited to a baby shower in the future, i recommend her site.  It has lots of super cute patterns, and she sells the patterns by PDF, for $5.00 or so.  I might have purchased the PDF for these slippe...

A heritage skill that i have been given by my mother and grandmother is crochet, and i am very grateful for it.  I love having it.  In addition to having a great (and cheap) hobby for relaxation, crocheting is a great source of homemade and often very appreciated gifts.  Not to mention, again, cheap. Right now, my crocheting hobby is very cheap.  Over the past two years, i have accumulated an entire chest full of free yarn.  Two different people gifted me with entire trash bags filled with old, unused yarn...one a friend, and one a freecycle member.  This makes it very easy for me to give inexpensive, unique, heartfelt, hand made gifts that cost me nothing but my heart, thoughts, and labor.  A labor i love. This weekend, i had a one-year old's birthday party to attend.  While i love this particular one-year-old, i had a hard time deciding what i should give him for a gift.  One-year-olds are tricky like that.  I started looking and cam...