Day 6 - Eggnog & Rum

As it's Christmas tree day!!!

Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree,
Such pleasure do you bring me!
Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree,
Such pleasure do you bring me!

For every year this Christmas tree,
Brings to us such joy and glee.
Oh Christmas tree, Oh Christmas tree,
Such pleasure do you bring me!

Day 5 - Captain Morgan

Spiced Rum with Coke.

While discussing with Chris about how to spice up rum, we just noticed that there is actually no detailed ingredient list for alcohol. Because manufacturers don't want people brew their own alcohol at home? All of a sudden I thought of those huge jars of home made rice wine with all kinds of weird stuff in there, scorpios, snakes, seahorses...yikes!!!!!!!!! Well they call it healthy alcohol... my oh my...

Cheers, as it's Friday!

Day 4 - Stella Artois

Another stella day, Chris says!

Day 3 - Deconstructed Long Island Iced Tea

Absolutely not tea!

I still remember the first time when I had this "iced tea" in a bar and was totally like "yikes why the heck it's called iced tea?!" Lol.. Ever since then I don't think I've ever had a sip of that until tonight. Simply mix a little bit of vodka, a whole lot of ice tea and some ice cubes, now it tastes a bit more tea-ish. ..

Day 2 - Innis Gunn Bourbon Stout

Day 2, beer time!

I know nothing about beer and definitely not a fan of beer. When I was wandering in the liquor store, I was just amazed by the varieties and was so fansinated by the design of bottles. One day I'm gonna persuade Chris to keep one each of any kinds of beer he drinks and create something fun!

Enjoy!

Advent Calendar " Drink Towards Christmas"

It's the most wonderful time of the year! It's my favorite season of the year! 

I decide to make an advent calendar this year to give December a little bit more fun and excitement: an advent calendar of a drink every day towards Christmas... feeling warm and dizzy already? 

It's a super easy project with a little bit of creative thoughts and a lot of patience. I got all the drinks from LCBO and grocery stores, yes, grocery stores. I didn't say all of them are alcohol, did I? Here's where we need some creative thoughts.. ;) . Lots lots of wrapping paper, ribbons, tapes, some cute labels or tags and a gold color marker. I crocheted a few wine bottle covers in the theme of Christmas. It's a very simple pattern and I love the idea of using corks to attach to the strings as decorations. It takes a bit time to make these bottle covers, but I mean I'm a stay at home mom, what else do I do all day except for looking after a baby that just managed the skills of crawling and potentially walking? Oh well..LOL!! Ok, what I'm saying is that it's really not that complicated if you enjoy the crafty part of the whole thing. Then all you need to do is wrapping each bottle (or maybe not a bottle) in a different way with a same theme and write the number of the day on individual tags. So much fun and it makes a beautiful decoration for the holidays!

Here's Day 1, Holiday Bubbly - sparkling wine with a splash of lemonade. 

Cheers!

Crochet Pumpkin Hat For My Little Pumpkin

Crochet Pumpkin Hat in soft baby yarn

Fall is the most beautiful season in Canada. Layers of layers of colors make everything look like an oil painting, from dark burgundy to vivid red, bright orange to golden, greenish yellow to light brown. It makes me tipsy eye tasting the natural deliciousness that mother earth provides.

It's also the season of pumpkins. This year, I decide to make a little pumpkin hat for my little pumpkin Sebastian. It's a simple crochet pattern with a dark brown stem on top. It can be made to adjust different sizes from newborns to adults.

I put the pumpkin hat on him when Chris and I took him to the pumpkin patch. So adorable!!! We picked a more than 30lbs pumpkin, cleaned it and carved it into a teacup to make this pumpkin in the pumpkin picture. AWW... he's just so so adorable!

Pumpkin in the pumpkin field

Crochet Pumpkin Hat - size for 6 months old

 

You will need:

BERNAT Softee Baby Yarn (Orange)

BERNAT Softee Baby Yarn (Dark Brown)

Crochet needle: 4mm

Pattern:

Pumpkin Stem

Ch 4. Sls into the 1st ch to make a loop.

10 sc in the loop. Sls into the 1st st.

Sc all the way around for the next 13 rows.

Row 14: Ch 1. 2 sc in each st all the way around. (20 st.)

Row 15: Ch 1. 2 sc in the next st. * 1 sc in the next st, 2 sc in the next st. Repeat from * (30 st.)

Row 16: Ch 1. 1 sc in the next st, 2 sc in the next st. * 1 sc in the next 2 st, 2 sc in the next st. Repeat from * (40 st.)

Row 17: Ch 1. 1 sc in the next 2 st, 2 sc in the next st. * 1 sc in the next 3 st, 2 sc in the next st. Repeat from * (50 st.)

Pumpkin Hat

Start: Ch 28

Row 1: Half dc in the next 5 st. Dc in the next 18 st. Sc in the next 5 st.

Row 2: Ch 2 and turn. Sc in the back loop of the next 4 st. Dc. in back loop of the next 18 st. Half dc in the back loop of the next 5 st.

Row 3: Ch 2 and turn. Half dc in the back loop of the next 4 st. Dc. in back loop of the next 18 st. Sc. in the back loop of the next 5 st.

Repeat row 2 & 3 until you reach the desired length (about 17in., 43cm for my 6 months old). End the yarn on the half dc side. 

Sew together the starting row and the last row with a yarn needle. Only sew the outside loop so that the hat looks seamless. 

Carefully close the whole on the top of the hat by sewing the sc side together. Place the pumpkin stem on the top center of the hat and sew them together.