Making Earrings and a Baby Hat

Hello, thanks for visiting.  :-)  I've been wearing some yellow gold hoop earrings that I made so long ago that I can't even remember the year.  All the earring drops I wear I hang on these hoops.  I have 2 pair as I think I lost the original pair so made a new set, then found the first ones.  It's nice to have 2 for switching out earrings.  Last year I got a pair of rose gold earrings with a black pearl and since then I've been planning to get some rose gold wire and make a pair of hoops and did so yesterday.  I use 16 gauge gold wire which is sturdy and a nice thickness.  I make a little loop on one end with my round nose jewelry pliers then bend the wire around my wooden ring sizer, then cut the end, use my jewelry file to round off the cut end, bend it up slightly and.. voila.. a new earring hoop!

Here they are with the pearl earring drops.  They look so much nicer with rose gold hoops than the yellow gold!  The earrings have little diamonds around the center green diamond. 

I also got a new rose gold wheat chain for the matching pendant.  I'm all set for my trip to Ohio now.  :-)

In other crafting news my brother's youngest daughter Jessica just had her second child, her first is a darling little girl and now she and her husband have welcomed a baby boy.  I wanted to make a hat and asked her what colors she would like and she suggested gray and navy.  I was very pleased to find this yarn which is designed to be the color of denim Jeans.  It has some fun flecks is the yarn.

I got 2 different blues but only used the darker one as it's closer to navy.. but this yarn will not go to waste as I can already see some winter hats for my grandsons using it.

Here is the design I created for his little hat - I don't usually like this hat with double crochet as it's so "hole-y", so I did a half double crochet which gives it a nice sturdy feel to it.  Then I am making a roll brim in a ribbing.  It's done by chaining 16 stitched down and then single crocheting in the back stitch up and back down, connecting to the hat in two stitches.  I think this is a perfect boy hat!  Plus, with the roll brim, it will fit him for a long time, rolling it more or less to fit his little head.  :-)  I think some booties to match would be good.. don't you?  

Meeka, our son Shawn's dog, was watching Dayle intently, he must have been eating something.  But I snapped this photo of her, isn't she a beauty?

Our internet has been down for 4 days so some drawing was in order.. lol.. Hayden proudly showed me this drawing of "Cup Head".  Have you ever heard of this?  I hadn't.  He said it was from the 30's.  How he found this is a curiosity to me.  :-)  The Comcast tech is here now and fixed it, thank goodness.

We're in another heat wave but Dayle is keeping the flowers and pots watered and this is my view from my chair.. so colorful!

And here is Dayle enjoying his little green paradise.  :-)

Well.. since the tech was here I'm running late to go swim so I have to rush and pack my swim bag and hit the road.  I hope you have a super week!  ((hugs)), Teresa :-)