What follows is one of those long rambly over-thinky work posts. I will probably, next week, edit it down a little and post it over on my work blog, so think of this as the… rough draft? Since all this started a few weeks ago, all the talk about Covid-19 …
There’s a new Limited Edition HaldeCrate in the works, to be released in May… introducing….. (drum roll please) … Under the Sea. Under the Sea will be offering four different things: yarn (available in all eight base weights); a mug; an incense burner; and a set of small nesting dishes. …
How’s your week going? I’m feeling very… I don’t know if I should say lucky, or privileged. I already worked at home. I live on 15 acres so there’s no-body within half a mile of me, let alone six feet, so I can go outside into the sunlight and walk …
I’ve been listening to a lot of Simon & Garfunkel this week. Not directly on purpose, although I do like them. I have a Spotify playlist that has some of their music, and another playlist with some covers of their music, and I guess because of that (and I’ve been …
Yeah. So. Right. How’s everyone doing? It is powerfully, heavily difficult to not feel like this is some sort of horrifying social sea change. If the entire world could take a two-week vacation right now, and let all of this blow over? Let the disease die out by not giving …
So. Hey. How are you doing? I’m running the gamut from totally fine to completely tharn. I’m just going to assume that you are, too? Psst — come closer, I have a secret — that’s OK. It’s OK to not feel OK right now. (It’s also OK to feel OK.) …
No matter how scruffy-looking you might be, or whatever type of weird animal you might herd, you’re going to love this colorway! Go ahead, grab one first; then go tooling around the galaxy in some hunk of junk. Smuggle some things, become best friends with a walking teddy bear, maybe …
Granted, mostly what I read was post-nuclear war fiction, and not pandemic/epidemics. But still. Alas, Babylon and Farnham’s Freehold were my two favorites. Babylon was set close to my area in Florida, so I always felt a connection of “holy shit, this is what I could do to survive” with …
Day I think it is because it can’t possibly be the 12th: the 2nd. Day it is in my head because I plan so far ahead: the 23rd. Number of times in the last week the steering on Truckenstein gave out: 1 Number of dudes it took to maneuver Truckenstein …
My focuses this week are trying to focus, writing, dyeing yarn, making ceramics, and trying to focus (ha!). Anyway. Let’s get to it! In ceramics, I have two main things going on this week – playing with shapes and textures, and making a new set of magnets involving the word …
We used to have a thing we said in our department when I worked at the Enginerding company… when everything is important, nothing is important. I feel that way right now – everything that’s on my list is something super important and shit needs to get done… so I think …
Ha! Me neither! It looks like it’s been 95% work around here since… oh, at least November. I feel like I’m always working and yet when someone asks me what I’ve been up to I kind of just stare at them. Uh, I’ve been… working? I mean, I guess I …
Last week was so busy I didn’t have time for a blog post, and this week I’m just now getting my feet under me for the week. So…. Where does that leave us?! In ceramics, I’m playing around with piece designs for the upcoming May Limited Collection/HaldeCrate, and I’m playing …
Wednesday! It’s the new Monday! I think it’s hilarious that over the years we had the yarn store open, the only day of the week Hanks was closed was Tuesday, and that lead to many a “who’s closed on a TUESDAY” question from people who would show up mid-week needing …
Tatterhood. Let me tell you a story. A childless queen who wants children gives birth to two daughters. One is fair and beautiful, and the other is gray and hideous, and is born riding a goat and waving a wooden spoon. The sisters grow up to be the best of …
Good morning! As I’m writing this, I’m also watching Stargate SG1 — a little over a year ago, two friends and I started watching Babylon 5 when it began streaming. We did four episodes a week, starting early in the morning before work. After we finished all five years of …
What a week, y’all! I wound up postponing today’s dentist appointment just so there would be one day this week I didn’t have to drive into Gainesville, and I could put in a good strong day of work instead. In ceramics I’m doing some slab-work this week, getting ready to …
I sat down to write this blog post first thing in the morning, but noticed that last night I’d closed up shop without finishing the sort of comparison sheet I was drawing up for different mapping programs (I need some maps and would like some ship floor plans for my …
Everything for everyone in December seemed so busy, I know I didn’t have time to recap recently restocked items (and you probably wouldn’t have had time to read about them anyway). So let’s do a small recap of some recently new things that haven’t sold out! Colorful bowls – Inspired …
Most perfectionists and workaholics can agree with me, a lot of the time I don’t feel like I do that much — I feel like I should be always on the move, and everything I do, I should be doing at 103%. It’s posts like this that look back at …
Whoo-hoo! First full work-week of the year! Do mid-week holidays mess you up as much as they do me? I mean, I already have – at most – a tenuous idea of what day of the week it is. When everyone else I know is suddenly off work Tuesday and …
Let’s start the year off with a sale! For the entire month of January, get 20% off your $30 or more purchase of anything in the Tiki Collection (I’ve also added the coconut tumbler from the Monkey Fart crate to that collection for the sale, so, bonus!). That’s right – …
A “one hit wonder” is a non-repeatable colorway that happens when there is dye testing going on, or an accident happens in the dye-pots or something just doesn’t go quite as planned… BAM! Instant One Hit Wonder! This is your chance to snag a one-of-a-kind colorway, because these are not …
A year ago, I bought a new/used treadmill. New for me, bought it used at a weird used equipment sports shop that is hilariously in the same plaza as the best ice cream shop in town, haha. I didn’t really start using it on a regular basis until about April, …
