5 hour stocking and tinsel purse

Okay, so I am the first one to tell you that I'm a little disorganized.  I'm a creative-type, not an everything-in-it's-place-type (I know that it's possible for some people to be both, but I am not). So I have no idea where I put our Christmas stockings from last year.  I know, I know, they should have been with all of our ornaments and decorations, but they weren't.  I was going to buy Mims a new stocking just to have it done and not have to worry about it, but when I went to the store I just couldn't bring myself to pay $25 for it, especially since I was just being lazy.

I found THIS pattern over at RedHeart.com that I really liked, so I grabbed my hook and 2 skeins of yarn and streamed a documentary on Netflix.  I wasn't done with the stocking when the documentary finished, so I put on another one.  And then I watched a movie.  5 hours later, the stocking was done.  It wasn't quick, but it was easy and it turned out really cute.  I added a butterfly that I made with an I hook and worsted weight yarn.  

That got me in a crafty Christmas mood.  I saw THIS post over at Aunt Peaches (it's the Citizen Kane of craft blogs... Which I am so jealous of.  I think I'm the Breakfast Club of crochet blogs... Milk WILL be made available...).  It's a tinsel purse.  It's sparkly and fabulous, and I desperately needed one.  Mine cost $2, because I got clearance Target tinsel instead of dollar store tinsel, but it was worth the buck to me to not have to go to another busy store...  I grabbed a purse that I hadn't used in almost 2 years (see, disorganization in action!  A normal person would have donated/discarded it by now.) and my trusty hot glue gun and decorated away!  I added a Holiday Gift Bow for extra beauty.

This picture doesn't do the purse justice.  It's so blindingly sparkly, one might call it Disco-Ball-esque! 

And last (and least, because alas, it didn't include crochet) I made some Reindeer bottles for the carolers that came to visit us this year.  They appreciated not having to eat another giant plate of cookies, and I appreciated that I could get them done in less than an hour with materials I had in my craft stash!  Win, win!

What kind of crafty fun are your guys up to today?

xoxo