Cher, Cher, Pumpkin Wear.....er?

The results are in from The Great Pumpkin Poll!

BLOG
Pumpkin 1: 1 vote
Pumpkin 2: 1 vote

FACEBOOK LOLALAND CREATIONS PAGE

Pumpkin 1: 2 votes

Pumpkin 2: 2 votes

FACEBOOK PERSONAL PAGE

Pumpkin 1: 4 votes

Pumpkin 2: 2 votes

*Picture included for proof since my personal page is not public.  Last names and faces covered for privacy.

OFFLINE FAMILY POLL

Pumpkin 1: 2 votes

Pumpkin 2: 1 vote

*I have only my word for proof, but it's unnecessary at this point, since Pumpkin 1 is already winning.

So the winner is PUMPKIN HAT 1!  Pumpkin Hat 1 Pattern designer Danyel Pink has graciously granted me permission to sell finished hats based on her pattern.  Once I have adapted the pattern to make additional sizes I will need testers, so please stay tuned!  If anyone wants Pumpkin Hat 2, I can make it for you (this was my personal design), but Pumpkin Hat 1 will soon be the standard hat offered in LolaLand.  Thank you to everyone who participated in The Great Pumpkin Poll!

The Great Pumpkin Poll

Refreshing fall weather has finally made it here to DFW, Texas!  It's about now that I start getting excited about sweater/hoodie weather, hot apple cider, camp fires, crunchy leaves, and pumpkins.

This year, my initial excitement has been crocheted up into a hat!  A pumpkin hat!  Well... two pumpkin hats actually.  Here is where I need your help.  I am trying to decide which pumpkin hat should become an official LolaLand Creation, so I have decided to hold a Great Pumpkin Poll.

Check out the two pumpkin hats below from multiple vantage points, and tell me which pumpkin you would prefer to see on the heads of the little pumpkins you know.  Once a pumpkin hat is picked, I will start making them in various sizes and will need help testing fit.  So be sure to stay tuned!  The winning hat will be picked mid day of Wednesday, September 14.  Please comment below or on Facebook to let me know your favorite: hat 1 or hat 2!

Note:  A vine and maybe a leaf will be added to the pumpkin hat later.

250 Facebook Fan GIVEAWAY

Well, dear fans, new and old, I would like to take a moment to say, "Thanks!"  Thank you to my personal family and friends for all your support and encouragement.  LolaLand Creations would not exist without you!  Thank you to all you wonderful fans with whom I've never had and may never have the opportunity to sit down and chat with over ice cream (I don't like coffee, hehe) in person.  Your kind words and interest in my creations have meant so much to me!  Thank you all for being fans!

For those of you who are less of words of affirmation people and more of gifts people, I would like to express my gratitude for you in the form of a small giveaway!  I will be giving away two different items.  You may enter to win one or the other but not both, please.

Item #1:

A sweet and soft crocheted flower baby/toddler headband, ornamented with a simple pearl bead.  These will be offered in the shop soon.  The winner may pick yarn color and headband size.  They are so light weight and gentle that even my daughter who loves to rip off headbands and play with them will leave them on!  :)

Item #2:

An adult three-strand headband with a large flower accent.  This headband pattern came from a young woman in Rome who blogs her work at CreativeYarn: Zen and The Art of Handicraft.  I made this for fun, but am still undecided whether or not I will offer it in my shop (the pattern creator has issued a generous commercial license to use her pattern).  If you would like to see it in my shop, please let me know.  I will warn you however if you don't normally have any luck wearing any sort of elastic headbands like me (my head is shaped funny and my hair is slide-y), your results with this headband may be fairly similar.

Have fun choosing which item you would like to try to win!  To enter the giveaway, please fill out the form below:
***Giveaway closed.  Form has been removed.  See winner announcement here.

Ladies and Gentlemen, Lend Me Your Heads!

Presenting a new hat coming soon to LolaLand Creations:

I am in love with this chunky aviator style earflap beanie!  My husband thinks it's hilarious.  Additional color options will be posted on Facebook and the website in the near future.  This hat can also be made with buttons instead of yarn stitches holding up the front flap and/or ties hanging down from the ear flaps.

The problem I seem to be running across often these days is my lack of heads at my immediate disposal, hehe.  I actually called a friend the other day, who graciously acquiesced to measuring her daughter's head for me for a different hat.  If you would be willing to help me out, I'd love comments on this post with your child's age, head circumference (measured as if it were the hat brim around their head), distance from the front of one ear to the front of the other ear in the same spot the circumference is measured, and the distance from the back of one ear to the back of the other ear in the same spot the circumference is measured.  At present, I don't have much incentive to your helping me except that my hats will be more likely to fit your child.  *smile*

Another small problem I have run across at present is that taking pictures gets a little tricky without a variety of little kiddlet heads around.  So sometimes, you've just got to improvise and have a little fun!

My first model found it difficult to 'bear' {<- haha, see what I did there} the weight of her job.  But watch out hubs, I think I'm in love with my next little model!

He wears it so well, doncha think?

The Pixies Are Coming!

Maybe it's because my husband and I are reading Lord of The Rings together {That's right, we read out loud to each other.  :)  Judge us all you want; we readily confess our nerdiness.}, and I have elves on the mind.  Maybe it's because I adore tiny little persons and think anything that enhances tiny little cuteness is irresistible.  Or maybe it's because I never fully grew up and still require a bit of whimsy in my life.  But. I. can. not. stop. making. these. hats!

{Squeeeee!}  These little pixie hats make fabulous photography props, especially for newborns.  The long tail enhances the cuteness of baby's teeny tiny body without covering it up.  And what a fun hat for slightly older babies!  They are whimsical, unique, and imaginative.  Be forewarned, they may even elicit a smile from that grumpy person in the grocery store and beckon to baby-crazed grandmas everywhere.

This pixie goodness is coming soon to the LolaLand Creations Shop in three different stripe pattern choices and in two different yarn choices.  These fun pixie hats can be made from 100% acrylic yarn for more vibrant colors and a fuzzier look or in a 50% acrylic/50% cotton yarn for a more muted color palette and a cleaner look.  Both yarn options are super soft.  Here are a few more pictures.  I told you I couldn't stop!

Chunky Stripes in 100% acrylic yarn

Mixed Stripes in 100% acrylic yarn

Skinny Stripes in 50% acrylic/50% cotton yarn

Suggestions of descriptive names for the three different stripe patterns are welcome!  Wouldn't you love to see the name you came up with on this eye candy? Until then, you're stuck with the literal descriptions above.