Springtime Crochet

I am making cupcakes for my get-together tomorrow night. It's my first EVER totally-from-scratch baking attempt. I am very nervous. Currently waiting for the butter to soften. It takes FOREVER!

I feel very behind getting ready for tomorrow. I have a LOT of cleaning yet to do, including freeing my home of all the fur tumbleweeds that Yoshi has blessed me with, just since Sunday (the last time I did a major fur removal). I lost my car key yesterday- the reason for my being behind. It just slap fell off my keychain. I realized it around 10:00 last night, and spent 30 minutes with a flashlight looking up and down my street searching for it. And thirty minutes this morning. AND thirty MORE minutes this evening when I got home from work (late). I felt SURE that I had given Glenn my spare- but he couldn't find. I had basically resigned myself to calling a locksmith and paying the $150 for a new key, when I thought I'd just check a couple of unpacked boxes I hadn't gotten around to to see if I could find the spare. And lo and behold, in a box full of stuff from my "Pens and Pencils and Other Spare Items" drawer- there was the spare!!! Miracle of miracles!! And as soon as I opened the car door and sat in the driver's seat- there was the original key, wedged between the seat and the console. I felt like celebrating by spending $150 on something frivolous. But instead, I will spend that money to FINALLY get the transmission fluid flushed. I guess. Grumble.

So, long story short, I am way behind. And butter taking forever to soften is not helping.

So in the meantime, let me share with you some springtime crochet!! I got on such a role with my crochet over the winter. Scarf after scarf after scarf- two winter hats, a set of gloves (none of which have I shared here, come to think of it), and I felt a little stuck once the weather started to warm up. What could I make now that I didn't need to keep any extremities warm??

Stitch n' Bitch The Happy Hooker came right to the rescue. A purse! So I grabbed some super green yarn (I am in a very green place right now-although, working in advertising, if I hear ONE MORE company use the word "green" in their campaign, I am going to lose it), some fabric, a few other notions, and whipped one right up. Here's the final product:

Glenn is going to help me build a light box for my photos. The green is so much greener in real life! Like, super healthy GRASS green. This was made using almost exclusively HDC- leaving an eyelet row in which to weave the ribbon. Here's the snap closure:


And as you can see, I used the same fabric for the lining that I did for the backdrop in the photo. Here's a better look at the inside of the purse:
And a navy ribbon detail:


One more look:

I like to think it's smiling at me. :)

Tomorrow I'll share some pictures of my cupcakes (hopefully NICE pictures and not pictures that indicate utter disaster...)

BTW- the Braves are up 6-1. Go Bravos!