Ready, Set, SOLD!!

So I'm terribly far behind on doing my own explaination of how to crochet. I'm just so swamped with things to do before the big move I'm fairly certain I won't be able to give it a good enough effort before I leave England so I may temporarily postpone it and replace it with lots of good links to other blogs and youtube videos that  can help you learn.

I will make my own in the future though!! I will study all the other videos and try to figure out what is vague and what I can simplify for you.

But for now my big news is that we closed on our house today which means we are one step closer to England! It makes it a lot easier for us to not try to manage a rental property from across an ocean so it was the best choice, but I'm getting tearful thinking about the day when I walk out the door and I'll never see my baby's nursery again.

Growing up my nursery remained untouched, at least the wallpaper and shelves did. My sister and I grew out of our nursery and into other rooms. Until the day my mother sold the house the nursery was always my nursery and I don't think I'll ever forget the soft yellow and the circus animal paper on the wall.

I'll take lots of pictures for Chloe so she can always see her room and the perfect shade of purple we picked for it. We agonized over the color, looking at probably 100 shades from bluish to pinkish purple and finally deciding on the perfect shade. Her room is perfect and I love it.

I always knew that it was very likely we'd get orders, and it's not that I'm not excited to go to England because I really am, but a big part of me imagined Chloe growing up in that room, at least for more than a year.

But we move on, and we'll have new adventures, new rooms to decorate, new friends to meet and a whole world to explore!!

Right now I'm working on custom blanket orders. I love the one I just finished and the one I'm working on now is very special indeed. When that is all said and done I'll be rushing to finish up my baby's first birthday blanket! I fully intend on making a birthday blanket a tradition from now until I'm too old to crochet. She'll have so many by then she won't know what to do with them but I'm sure the years will destroy some of them.

I just think that if, God forbid, anything every happen to me I'd want Chloe to have something personal, something that I made with my own hands that you can just feel the love in and knowing I made it with all that love for her. It's a bit of me she can keep long after I'm gone.

So I think I will share some pictures if you care to look now.

This blanket went off to meet it's new baby not too long ago. Buttery soft and ready for years of snuggles!

And this is Chloe Jane's First Birthday Blanket it!! I'm much further than this now I just haven't taken pictures. It would have looked so gorgeous in her room, but unfortunately it will only get to live there about 3 months. But then it will find a new room and just be a part of her life, so it's all good!!