More Autims Awaneress videos

Aside from the videos I made, I found this made from a dad that really moved me! 

Hope you will enjoy!

 

Stuck in my head

Everyone gets that song stuck in your head for days, I believe. 

This time for me it this beautiful and sweet song form Christina Perri, A Thousand years.

Someone pointed out to me that it was somehow related to the Twilight saga. 

I'm not a fan of it so I wouldn't know. 

To me the song speaks of love, at every level, and makes me recall of the movie "Brave". 

But that's just me! 

Hope you enjoy! 

Good morning!!

Every time I cheerfully say good morning to mi kids in the mornings, this song pop in my mind

I can proudly say that after few month of tap dance classes I recognize *some* of the steps......I recognize them, didn't say I know how to perform them lol!

Good morning everyone, have a wonderful start of the week!

Mondays!

Do your Monday feel really crazy as mine do? This song really sums up my MANIC beginning of the week!

RIP Whitney Houston

Amazing voice, the musical world suffered another irreplaceable lost

Favorite song of the week!

Someone like you by Adele!

I think her voice is fantastic!! Too bad that the criticism she received for her figure are pushing this artist away :(
Hope you enjoy like I do

Halloween collection 2011

A little video to illustrate the new items available at Crocheted Little Things for this coming Halloween.

Take advantage of my sale: Use coupon code HALLOWEEN2011 and get FREE shipping
Expire 10/15, so only few days left, don't miss out!

Life in songs

Couple of songs that lately really recap how I feel about my children

Something in my mind.....

What's in yours this morning??

If I die young.....

.....nope I don't intend to, just letting you hear a song I like a lot lately.


Weird as usually I don't like country or songs with a sad theme (like dieing young lol) but I LOVE the voice of the singer and the banjo is a nice touch.

Hope you enjoy too :)

A singer I love: Rob Thomas

Every now and then I get a song in my head that I heard at the radio and can't get it out of my head. The above is a good example, I think it stuck with me for the positive bright message it it.

"Sometimes we don't really notice just how good it can get

so maybe we should start all over

start all over again"

Those words really left a mark inside.

And then I felt silly, completely silly, 'cause I thought Rob Thomas was kind of a new emerging singer coming out this year, instead a bit of research showed me that there are at least 2 albums out.....and I want them all!!!

This is of course the new one with the songs that I already love, but I'm sure the old one is just as good!

"and maybe someday we'll live our lives our loud, we will better off somehow, someday"

Friday Giveaways Love

My latest you tube video about gluten-free products.

I had a very good response for this, so I think I'm going to do some more about the subject :)

Now just link your giveaway and enter mine :D

Crocheted Little Things Newsletter #9

Happy Fathers day!!

Hi there to all, this is Lu. Here it is newsletter #9.

Thank you for all the well wishes and concerns about my surgery, all went well and my little wound in my mouth will be completely healed in few weeks.

I'm starting with greeting you with an little giveaway sponsored by a fab shop that I bumped into lately:Shop Sakura!

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Shop Sakura giveaway (Click here to go to the contest page)

• Prize; Prize Value: Cupcake mold, $5


• How Many Winners: 1


• End Date: 05/31


• Can Be Won: Worldwide


• Prize From: Shop Sakura

The sponsor's description of the giveaway rules: Many entries available, see blog for details.



Plus a special deal from Shop Sakura: 15% off your purchase (excluding shipping) valid from now to 2 MONTHS!! Yup, 2 months, this offer will end July 17th, just tell her you find her shop from Crocheted Little Things' blog or name my blog during check out.

Click Here to go to the contest page!

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What happened?

Crocheted Little Things is now on you tube with my own channel. Check out my first video and let me now what do you thing about it :) Hope to see you all there!


I will upload more videos and tutorial soon, so check back often!



Also, cute little samples are now available on my Artfire studio!



What's coming up?

Summer is getting hotter and hotter here in Florida and new fresh items are here to refresh you, like my new ice cream pincushion. Hope you like it!

And don't forget: I'm raising money for the "Locks of Love". If you want to shop for a cause this is a good time, since 10% of my profit will go to the children in need.



Have a wonderful Memorial week end :)



Until next time....

Randomness Saturdays

Here we are for another randomness Saturday!

♥ Today I went to take my last 2 tests needed for my child care training. I'll have the results by Monday, but I think I did ok. I treated myself with a Starbucks coffee (3 years since I had my last one) and....some NAIL POLISH. Sounds silly, but it's been ages since I put some on! The only aching note is that I woke up with a stiff neck and back pain.....arghhhh!

♥ I want to thank you my first subscriber to my youtube channel: THANK YOU Mandie from Taking Time for Mommy: I was starting to get lonely on youtube land, but you came to my rescue!!

♥ And with the first subscriber, along came the second one and a blog feature on Andrea Wagner blog! Thank you so much Andrea for picking me up after a lousy month!

♥ I was handpicked in an awesome treasury: Cafe Light by Deborah from Moonlightphotography

Isn't that beautiful?? Thanks Deborah!

♥ Don't forget to enter the giveaway for a sweet cupcake mold from Shop Sakura! I got mine and I LOVE IT!

♥ We had a death in hubby's family: one of his cousins died after 19 years of pain. Your prayers are needed for this Mother and the half brother (Hubby's aunt and his other cousin), thanks!

♥ All in all I feel grateful for this past week and that's why I choose the song: Thank you from Dido (I love her!). Enjoy!

Crocheted Little Things on youtube!

Trying this one out right now, making little videos that I hope will help you get to know me better.

I'm writing, what I'm saying below.

Hi, this is Lu. I'm going to start a series of videos on youtube to help me promote my business because times are tough right now, money is tight and I really need a boost to help arrive at the end of the month.

I hope you can understand my accent: I came from Italy and English is my second language and I'm really not used to talk in English in public. So, If you have any difficulties understanding me, I will make a close captioning on my blog and post the link in the details of this video for you to click on and read what I'm saying if your cannot understand it.
I want to talk a little bit about my business. I opened a little shop called "Crocheted Little Things" and in the very beginnings I really didn't know what I wanted to do with it, just wanted to crochet and sell something, but then I started crocheting cupcake and I had lots of fun making them. Everyone likes them and I'm trying to expand my line, including more food-related stuff and I hope you're going to like it too, so I'm going to show you something that I made.
Those are good examples of what I make:

This is a red velvet cake, with a turquoise blue top frosting and this

is one of the cupcakes that I made for Easter. I think the light is really bad and I don't think you can really see the colors, but the yarn is really rainbow looking with sparkles of white, pink, green, blue and yellow and I think was really cute for Easter.
I make those with a little weight on the bottom, so they can stand on a table and they can be used as pincushions from seamstresses, so they can have all their pins in place.

Another example, and this is really new and I'm really proud of it, is my birthday cake that I made with a candle on it

I think it's really cute for when you want to give a little gift for a birthday but maybe you don't have a real cake handy or time to bake one or don't wanna make a really big cake for a "2 people" celebration, you can still blow on the candle and make a wish: maybe it will come true! I thought they are really cute and I made them in several colors and this is the only one I have in stock right now, but I'm going to work on it and make more of them in more colors. So far I made a lots of pink one, I think I'm going to make some blue and green for boys.

And another one that I have in stock right now, it's really small and I called them the mini cupcakes.

They have a little stretch cord on the top, and I sold a lot of those like Christmas ornaments. This is the only one that I have in stock right now because Christmas is not here yet, but I'm definitely going to stock on these because during Christmas time they fly off my shelves.

I hope you enjoyed looking at my cupcakes. I'm going to make more videos eventually, showing you more products and I think I'm going to show you some other handmade goodies that I've got from my friends, because there are really really a lots of talents out there (sorry for the beep of my dryer LOL) and I think people don't even know. So, I hope with this videos to give a chance to someone to get noticed and known.

I hope you enjoyed and you can understand my accent.
That's all for now, I see ya later, bye!!!

I didn't have a speech prepared and I was kinda of stiff, again I apologize for my accent and grammar. Hopefully with time I'll be able to take better videos and I've few idea for tutorials that you all can enjoy!

Randomness Saturdays

We're all in health (or almost) so I'm here tonight to post few random facts :D

♥ Here's what I got for Mother's day from my kids, on the left is Gabriel's work (a little plant, the red paper flower, the round pink flower and the paper butterfly), on the right is Michelle works (the pink paper flower, a mug, a sprinkler with her picture in it)

Since they both were sick last week end, those gift came during this week, but still they are much cherished and appreciated!

♥ My half doily earrings where featured on Artfire main page as the "Item of The Hour" early the past week

They didn't sell, but still was a great honor being up there!

♥ I found the cutest little shop on etsy: ShopSakura. She accepted to sponsor a giveaway for all of you readers, so be on the look out for the next days :)

♥ I think (actually I'm pretty sure!) that I'm going to start a series of you tube videos to promote my shop and my friends.....would you watch me? Please don't let me feel like I'm talking to myself LOL

♥ Pretty soon I'm going to cut my hair and I'm going to donate the to "Locks of love". In the package with my braid, I'd like to send a little check.....would you help me raise the money? 10% of the profit from my Artfire studio will go to this cause. Don't let those children (and me!) down!

♥ I don't have any music or movie recommendation for this week (SORRY!!) since I've been studying for the last 2 tests that I will take next Saturday for the Child Care Training.