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I always have this internal debate start up when I spin silk. There’s a part of me that just wants to keep it, hoard it, pet it, and drool over it as eternal yarn. The other part of me begs to see it worked up into something delightful, because for all the world spinning silk [...]

Um. Actually no. However I did enjoy the delusion for a little while. What actually happened is that I switched from the default permalink structure to the friendly (title generated) permalink structure and didn’t fix the shopping cart to understand the new urls. As a temporary fix I switched back to the default and all [...]

Oh, the mail man brought good stuff for me from Opal! The cookies and macadamia nut chocolates were in serious danger once Lexi saw them. She grabbed the boxes and ran (for kind of chubby 3 year old that girl is fast) yelling “Opal cookies!” (Think she might remember the last box?) I recovered most [...]

Now I lay me down to rest– a pile of lace upon my chest. Should I die before I wake– that’s one less yo, k2tog I’ll get to make. Amen.

When I woke up this morning to find my 3 year old daughter with my basket of sock yarn, snippers, and a ball winder. 13 small neat balls of yarn sat on one side of her, and a pile of tangled (and snipped) skeins on the other. “Hi Mommy. Good morning!” Lexi chirped, very proud [...]

Please everyone can’t we all just get along? I’m begging now, this yarn snob thing is going too far when people are being told that they can’t learn to spin unless they learn on wool. Don’t get me wrong. I love wool too, and I’m a little sad when someone for moral, geographical, or physical [...]

In the kitchen, when you bake a cake you probably give little thought to the ingredients. The baking soda helps make little tiny bubbles, the flour gives it bulk, the eggs glue things together, the salt does something else, and so on– you know that you throw the stuff in the bowl while preheating and [...]

At least if you are heading over here from Live Journal I am. Or Get Crafty. I started to suspect that there was something awry in “she-who-shall-remain-unnamed”s (SWSRU) “feedback” and that it wasn’t totally meant to be helpful, so I posted in response a rather long message about what I was feeling and going through, [...]

Dear Safari users, I give up trying to make my site work with Safari, something has to give. You (poor Safari user) are less than 7% of the population of the web, and from what I have today learned about trying to code websites for your browser with good reason. You are also a fraction [...]

I so had to search out the color chartreuse because for the life of me I knew there was a thing named Chartreuse where the color was the same as the color chartreuse but I couldn’t for the life of me remember what it was. Turns out that it is a brand of bright green/yellow [...]