Small crocheted happiness

Good morning all! I love having Monday mornings off! It's my second one in a row, being a third year student is great! We have the most wonderful laid back schedule this fall. It's simply awesome! :) The sun is shining, the coffee is plentiful and I can spend all day crocheting if I want to. (or I could do some school work now instead of later...lol)

Here is some randomness before the crochet reveal...

Simple pleasures of owning a cat: kitty paws. They are toooooooo cute!

Simple pleasures of a beautiful old white bed with gorgeous pillows. I loves. (both the pillows were flea market finds and there is my strawberry!)

My Saturday's work... I finished it Sunday morning when the hubby left to work on his mushroom table (coming along nicely!). It kind of reminds us of a dreamcatcher because of the circular shape, doesn't it? It is really the bottom of a basket that the naughty bear-boy ripped up in protest of us leaving last week. Nothing nicer than coming home to a pile of sticks. (Grrr.) The shape of the bottom caught my eye though and I salvaged it into this! The patterns are from Lesley Stanfield's books, the mushroom is her cep mushroom pattern but I used white and red instead of browns. I really ended up liking the sunflower, even though when I have paged through the book before I've thought it's ugly. I gave it a shot though because I wanted a fall flower and it seemed right for the basket bottom too, glad I did! :)

The circles weren't included in the pattern, but I made them by making a magic ring and then crocheting 4-6 sc into it and then closing with a ss. It worked out rather well.

Here's how it looked after it was hung on our front door! The picture's not the best, but you get the idea!

I also crocheted this Irish rose, pretty isn't it. I just don't know what I should do with them so I gave this one to my mom to admire. She loves pink!

This is my failed half apple. I spent probably 2 hours trying and unravelling this. I swear I must have started over at least 5 times. I was SOOO MAD. I could not figure this out for the life of me. I can't decide if it's the pattern or me with the problem! It kept coming out lopsided like seen below. Anyone have any tips where I went wrong???

I would have crocheted more yesterday, but we took a trip to Ikea for some dishes and more importantly, a bathroom cabinet. We've had an awful time with this bathroom, as in hate is mild expression for my feelings towards it, but things are starting to look up with it. 

White dishes --> better looking food --> better food photography. :)

We bought the Fullen cabinet because while the Lillangen model had a door and was slightly larger, 39e beats 99e in the eyes of poor students any day of the week. If we owned this apartment and reaped the benefits of home improvements, I'd have gotten the god morgon series, which you drill into the wall (speaking of drilling, see the old holes they have yet to come and patch argh), it costs 199e though! Way out of our budget!

For the open shelves, I have to look for some cool tins and containers for things like q-tips and cotton balls. Hopefully I find something nice in the flea markets!

Having a kitty in my lap cuddling is making it rather hard to type (one-handed), so I think I'll end it here for today! Thanks for reading! :)

Happy Monday!