… but when we get to them, we bear them. — Ning Lao T’ai-t’ai Yarn: my own handspun Pattern: Knitted Goddess Pattern by Michelle Simkins Notes: for a friend who stumbled but did not fall, and will get back up, swinging.
I love how Fat Cat can give such great BitchFace even when she’s the one who instigated the snuggle. Old Dog gave me quite the fright this morning. You probably know if you’ve been reading my blog a while that Old Dog likes to be wherever I am, which makes …
My friend Beth must be psychic because I just about a week ago had started to make more of an effort to get some spinning done; she happens to watch an AlpacaCam and bought some fiber from the Alpaca farm. Mmmmmm, alpaaaaaaaaaaaaca. I do love to spin me some alpaca, …
I actually have no idea what this song is, but if the video doesn’t make you smile and sniffle at least once, your heart is even more bitter and black than mine.
Yarn: Sunshine Yarns for the warp; my handspun for the weft.
This was just a few days ago. Compare to…
CSI: I never, ever, ever in a million years thought I would say this about Ted Danson (am I the only one who didn’t like Cheers?) but I actually kind of enjoy him in this. His character is just quirky enough that I find it charming. And I also never …
The day before Tim got back, I got a package in the mail. The return address was The UPS Store in South Bend, and since I wasn’t expecting anything from South Bend, I figured it must be something from either Tim or his family and that it must be something …
After …. what, four years? How long have we had Backup Dog? She’s finally realizing that the growly noise Old Dog makes when another animal is trying to snuggle her isn’t really a growl, but Old Dog’s attempt at the purr that the cats do. They’ve been snuggling a lot …
Here’s Tiny Kitten (not so tiny any more, truthfully; but the nickname has stuck) showing off how she’s totally not about to take a nap, even with that sunbeam coming from above her through the skylight, warming the cardboard of the box she’s on. Nope. No napping. Not a nap …
In spite of what this photo tells you, I did not in fact order a potter’s wheel while Tim was away on vacation. Seriously, y’all; I know I’ve been thinking of it but it’s not like I could say, when he got home, “oh, that old thing? It’s been out …
I’m the type of person who, if I have a question about something, and there’s a helpful forum for that something, I will search the forum for an answer before I ask my question. I figure that for the most part, if I need help with X, chances are someone …
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed for both warp and weft; “Irish Coffee” for the warp, and a skein where I was testing colors for the weft.
Mmmmmmm. Ice creeeeeeeeam….
New planter! Harder to make than I thought, but my hope is now that I have one finished, I’ll feel a little more motivated to keep trying with others. Last night I had people over for Game of Thrones (are there seriously only two episodes left?!) and since Tim wasn’t …
So I got off my lazy ass the other morning and took Backup Dog on a 2-mile walk. It made me think two things… one, that dog poops a lot in the morning. The other thing is that I really need motivation to walk more, I felt horribly out of …
There are a few disadvantages to working at home (although, as my friend Lucy told me once, “you can’t beat the commute!”). Those disadvantages come from the type of person you are. I’m an only child, so I have that drive to take care of everything because there’s nobody to …
Yesterday was full; put orders together, took Tim to the airport, ran errands, worked, brought restocks into Wild Iris (where I took yesterdays photo, of a pair of mugs that I can’t believe haven’t sold yet), and then hung with the spinners and knitters until I was yawning every other …
Feed the cats. Feed myself. Get cat litter. Check the mail. Take out the trash next Tuesday night. … who wants to take any bets that by Saturday, I’ve remembered to feed the dogs, but both I and the cats are very hungry…?
Yarn: HaldeCraft HandDyed in “Berry Jam” Pattern: Fissility by Lorena Haldeman
Yesterday’s daily photo would have been of what I took out of the kiln after Monday’s firing, but I have decided to save those instead and use them as something to post about on the new HaldeCraft blog. So. I guess that means I need to find something else to …
You can find my recent blog post on Etsy treasuries in which I’ve been included over on my HaldeCraft blog. Enjoy!
I stuck to my lack of guns yesterday and only fired the kiln and finished dyeing June’s sock club yarn. It was hard not to try to pick up another project in there somewhere, but instead of trying to tell myself I could totally wrap soap while I was doing …
