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Say Hello to My Little Friend

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Let me introduce you to one of my cohorts in crochet, the  Styrofoam head . I've had her for a couple of years now, but before we became so close, I would look at others' crochet posts and be envious of their heads. Kinda silly, isn't it? Jealous of a Styrofoam head? Sorta like being jealous of a plastic lamp? (10 extra points if you know that movie reference!) I finally decided I needed one when I got started, in earnest, making hats. Previous to this I would use things like lamps, large balls of yarn, my children. Let me state something here: My children are only Thing s sometimes . (*gasp* another reference! Do you know this one? C'mon! It's easy!) I got my head at Sally Beauty Supply , with a coupon, for about $2.19. Which is nominal when you compare to other places. Now I'm in the market to get her a boyfriend. I've seen some around but keep hesitating to purchase him. I'd rather pay another $2.19 instead of the $10+tax that I keep seeing him at...

365 Hats? Day 17 . . .

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Hello there, again. =D I've been lurking in the background of the Crochet Business Blogger Challenge by Sara Duggan of MomwithaHook . I'm getting the emails and I'm reading them and I'm getting all excited . . . then I stop and think. I don't really have a "business". Sure, I sell a few things at Christmas or when someone wants a baby item, but do I qualify? I'd like to have a "business". So yes, I will jump in with both feet and see what this is all about! Well, lo' and behold, I have to make a blog post every day?!?!? For 31 days?!?!? What the what? I do good to make my weekly blog post and it's a struggle to make it something interesting. Guess what? That's what this whole challenge is about! It's to kick me out of that hole I'm in and help me get better at what I am falling in love with doing; blogging about crochet. And yarn. And whatever-else I happen to be happy about.  Well, after thinking more on it, and...