Being crafty, that is.  I spent a lot of my weekend at home for Easter doing crafty stuff. My mom, grandma, and I sat around the kitchen table knitting and crocheting:

Mom and I are working on sock-knitting, Grandma is crocheting.

Grandma Rita originally taught me to crochet when I was about 7 or 8, I think.  This past weekend, she taught me how to crochet dish-scrubbers made from strips of nylon netting.  They’re seriously the best dish scrubbers ever! (I’ll try to post her pattern later.)  The nylon netting is a bit hard on the fingers.  I made three of the scrubbers: the first one was pretty bad.  I never realized I crochet so tight!  I switched to a bigger hook and had a lot better luck.  By the third scrubber, they were starting to look pretty descent.

I have really talented (artistic, crafty) friends too…

Check out the felted monkey that Melanie made for me!  (I actually got her to pose with it — she hates having her picture taken.)

She needle-felted the head and body and the arms, legs, and tail are wet-felted.  It’s about the cutest darn thing ever!  I need to find a fun place to display him — somewhere on a high shelf or something so the cat can’t get to him.

And I have to show off one more thing…

My mom finished the double wedding ring quilt that she made for Nick and I.

I love it.  I’ve wanted a double wedding ring quilt since I was a little girl and my mom quilted a wall-hanging version for herself.  I remember my mom telling me that it’s a traditional wedding gift.  I’m not sure if it’s an actual myth or if I invented it in my head, but much as I wanted one, I told my mom not to make me one till I was married because I considered it bad luck.  So finally, here’s our quilt!