Name: Melissa Jhenine
Info: I’m a 29-year-old stay at home mom of four kids. Life with three boys and one girl can get hectic at times, but it’s all worth it. Some days are harder than others, but we all make it through as a family.

I’m married to a University Lecturer and currently live with his parents. I earned my Associate of Applied Science in Computer Science degree in 2001, and I enjoy writing web pages and playing with graphics production.

We have one cat in our house, but she misses her buddy. Sierra is an 12-year-old brown classic tabby who likes to rule the roost. Hey, she’s got all her claws, so in order to keep our skin intact we keep the cat happy.

I’m a self-taught crocheter and knitter and have been crocheting since fall of 2001; I learned how to knit in early 2006. Since 2002, my yarn stash has slowly multiplied and taken over the house. I think almost every room of our last house had yarn in it somewhere. My patterns have filled a small filing tote and are starting to take over the bookshelves. When we move, I’m getting an entire closet for my yarn and patterns. I hope that’s big enough!!

You may have noticed my patterns. I’m trying my best to keep them free, especially since I don’t write very many. I’m currently writing a few crochet patterns, knitting patterns, as well as a combo crochet/knit pattern. These will soon be moved from the current blog to an indexed subdomain within my site. The blog will remain only until the site is ready to go.

I also dabble a bit into bead work and make rosaries to sell. I’ve made beaded lanyard necklaces from which to suspend my yarn and thread cutters, and I’m working on several beaded crochet projects.

Favorite projects include bags, purses, hats, scarves, granny squares, MAMs, purses, baby clothes, and slippers. I prefer the stuff that moves a bit faster, but I have several afghans in progress as well. Those just get put on the back burner when I get tired of the same thing over and over. I get impatient to get something done, and when it doesn’t go fast enough, I tend to put it away for a while and pick it up later.

I’ve been dabbling in the look and layout of my site. Since I’ve been doing more scrapbooking, I’ve created a scrapbook look on my blog. To make the pages load faster, I’ve reduced the number of images shown and changed to all drop-down or scrolled links.