Here, Let Me Make You a Hug

Would you like to hear about some girly craft project I'm doing? Oh, come on, it's not like you're doing anything else.

But first, let me ask you this: have you seen this commercial?



Isn't that just adorable? A little cheesy, yes, but it still kind of makes you feel warm inside. It also made me think, "You know, I bet I could crochet one of those little hug things."

And so that's one of the things I've been doing for the past few weeks. Allow me to share my progress with you.

First, I watched the commercial very carefully and then drew a fancy plan.

I'm a profeshnul.

THEN, I crocheted some stuff:

I've got two of these. Now what?

To be honest, this is a pretty ridiculous undertaking on my part, since I've really only been crocheting seriously for a few months. Also, usually I have a pattern to work from, a pattern which has been written by someone who knows what they're doing, and not just some nonsense I scribbled on a scrap of paper.

Anyway, I've created the front and back of the Hug Creature. Now all I've got to do is just figure out how to connect the two sides, stuff it, and give it a face and arms. I'm practically finished!

Things I Need in My Life, Right Away

There are some things I've really been hurting for lately, and I figured that since Christmas is upon us, I would go ahead and be all "I want I want, gimme gimme."

Number one thing I need right now: a dog. Ohhhh how I need a puppy. Except I can't have one, because I live in an apartment and I spend 5-10% of my time in Chapel Hill with my significant other (who doesn't have a dog either, so why I keep visiting him, I don't know). Therefore what I really need is someone close by to get a puppy, and then let me name it and play with it and cuddle it all the time. And/or I need a house with a yard, preferably in Chapel Hill.

My second request has a backstory. In my efforts to become the most boring 23-year-old on the face of the planet, I've taken up crocheting. (Other efforts include: considering taking a class on cake-decorating at the community college. Who's with me??) My grandmother taught me how to crochet afghans a long time ago, and a couple months ago I spontaneously decided to teach myself again. So I went to A.C. Moore and bought me a hook, some yarn, and a short booklet entitled "Teach Me To Crochet!" It had pictures of extremely happy looking 10-year-old girls on the front, all of them wearing hand-crocheted hats and scarves in eye-searing colors. It seemed to be about my speed. Thus, I have successfully taught myself how to crochet again.

My current problem with crocheting is that there are two categories of things you can crochet: 1) things that at the moment are too difficult for me to make, and 2) hats and scarves and blankets. I have already made a scarf and some wrist warmers for myself, so now I have to find other people to crochet things for. But crocheting things for grownups takes time and is not nearly as fun as crocheting things for babies, because babies have special, very soft, very pastel yarn reserved just for them! And so, we've come to my request: I need a friend or family member to have a baby, ASAP, so that I may begin crocheting them things. As a matter of fact, if you have a baby or know a baby, leave a comment and maybe we can work something out where you give me their address and I anonymously mail them 3 dozen cute little hats and baby blankets. 'Tis the season, after all.

(By the way, I would love to post photos here of the things I've crocheted, but everytime I ask my camera to PLEASE JUST GIVE ME MY PICTURES, it just folds its arms and stares angrily into the distance. So why don't we also add a new digital camera to the list of things I need?)