CPA Sweaters

This past Friday I received my *PASSING* score for the Financial section of the CPA Exam - my last section!! I am so relieved and thankful to have passed all four parts of the CPA Exam on the first try. I started studying for the first section of the exam last December during Christmas break and it was torture! I studied 8+ hours every day for 3 weeks straight.. not even a break on Christmas day! I had to do something to cope, so I decided to crochet 2 sweaters from the Stitch N Bitch Crochet book by Debbie Stoller. I took the first part of the exam in January, but little did I know that the wait for my score would be 74 days long! I pressed on and took another section before I received the first score. I was also in my last semester of grad school. Needless to say things got hectic. I finally got those two passing scores, finished up grad school, and then took the last 2 sections during the summer. I never stopped crocheting and knitting. It was one of the only things I had to look forward to! I believe that all my projects (plus my friends and family) kept me sane throughout the whole process. And now I am so glad to be done!

Here are the two sweaters I made from the book:

Short & Sweet

Cupcake

Owls, Owls, Owls!

I love this little owl pattern by Ana Paula Rimoli. You see, I have 2 degrees in accounting (BBA & MAcc) from Kennesaw State University whose mascot is Scrappy the owl. Ever since I got her book about a year ago, I knew I would be making a ton of these little owls for my fellow KSU friends and co-workers.

I worked at KSU as a Peer Advocate in the Career Services Center for part of undergrad and all of grad school helping students with resumes, job searching, and occasionally counseling the accounting students that would wander in on my shift. Since I am no longer enrolled in classes, I can no longer be on payroll so this was my last week at the CSC. Over the past year I have been slowly making owls to give to all my co-workers. People have come and gone, and the final count was 19 co-workers.

They absolutely loved the owls and many of them assured me their owls would be proudly displayed on their desks. I am sad to be leaving, but glad that I gave them something to remember me by. Now begins my 4 month vacation until I start my accounting job at KPMG in December - which I got through the KSU Career Services Center before I started working there :)

Crochet Earrings

I am going to have a lot of free time on my hands until December so I am going to start a craft blog highlighting some of my favorite projects.

I LOVE to crochet. Have been doing it for years. Here are some dainty earrings that I crocheted out of cotton thread: