Getting into the swing of Halloween and Christmas

Welcome to another week! Here in New South Wales, Australia, it's a long weekend. So with my hubby home for the extra day we decided to head off and see The Smurfs. It's offered in the movies as a 3D or a 2D movie, and we chose to do the 2D version. In the past we've gone and seen 3D movies, but back then I was the only on in the family inconvenienced by having to wear 2 pairs of glasses - my prescription ones and the 3D ones. Now that my 3 year old son has glasses too, we figured 2D was just SO much easier! I find the 2 glasses thing irritating, I can only imagine what it would be like for my son!

This past week I got busy with my crochet hooks and created some new Halloween offerings. A couple are already available in my Etsy shop, with a couple more to come!

I think my favourite so far is my spiderweb bunting. It was inspired by an image I saw on google images when I went searching for Halloween crocheted items. The one I saw had a bit bigger spiderwebs and was a bit more "random" looking. For someone who's crocheting has been compared to a dot-matrix printer, "random" just isn't me! So I sat and made this little pattern (and ripped out the 4 I attemped before this one!).



When I get a chance I'll write up the pattern for the half-webs and share it on here. They're a little bit fiddly until you get used to it, but they look so great!

I also got an order for one of these from a friend on Facebook:


This exact one was offered up on my Facebook page as a prize, but she saw it and liked it and asked me to make her one of her own. I just haven't taken a photo of Santa number 2 yet! :D

What kinds of things would you like to see in the Yillup Designs shop for Christmas? Decorations? Presents? Hair accessories? Any new suggestions? Feel free to comment on this post and let me know...