Archive for January 2009
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Gray was wrong all wrong
I’m usually not so cranky with my color choices. Hindsight being what it is, I think I should have chosen something a little more uplifting than heathered gray merino to put on the wheel. During our morning errands I grabbed a set of paint brush pen things and a sketch pad for Lexi. I’m undecided [...]
I need more time
Days really should be a bit longer shouldn’t they? (Pictured at left is the former Evil Clown roving, transformed into the kind hearted gypsy princess yarn.) It’s still winter and I live in a valley. I should know by now that the day light will always be a little shorter for us, I just wish [...]
Lavender and old lace-weight
I ran into an old friend while cleaning out my cosmetics drawer. A bit of Tish and Snooky’s manic panic hair color in a shade called “Ultra Violet” I remember buying it a few years back thinking that violet would be a good change from my usual mandarin orange. As it turned out, I was [...]
I was born late
and never quite caught up. I haven’t put forth any serious spinning effort in a while, every once in a while I grab my spindle and work on the reddish brown baby alpaca but the wheel has languished in the closet since August. Opal knows what it takes to get a girl spinning again and [...]
Scary soap
I made a batch of soap just before Christmas and it’s fully cured now. I am very pleased with the final results (the lather is really nice and my skin smells so good.) I used coconut oil, virgin olive oil, dried senna, and some pink lime essential oil. This was one of those batches that [...]
It’s true
I don’t do New Years resolutions. I just don’t. Knowing that most people fail to keep their resolutions past 4 weeks is depressing enough and I once read somewhere that February is the busiest time of the year for mortuaries. I’ve connected these two factoids in my mind and have developed a loose conspiracy theory [...]