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Just outside of Salem Oregon is one of the great wonders of the Pacific Northwest. It’s called the Enchanted Forest. This is not just an amusement park. There are rides, but the main attractions are fairytale and western themed walk throughs, mazes, tunnels, and slides and tons to see so the kids actually end up [...]

I ordered some custom stitch markers from Opal and she surprised me with a whole box of goodies along with the markers. But first– the markers. Lets just linger here for a moment to let the glory that is handmade goodness sink in. Just breath. Relax. Try not to covet. It feels like warm sweet [...]

Adsense ads are gone. I’m done with them until the kids at Google realize they are breaking that whole not being evil thing into little tiny bits of irony and cold harsh reality. This is the latest Google Adsense notice. Its one thing to look at my blog and say “Oh hey, there are references [...]

I am off the caffeine free tea for the moment and back onto the coffee. I have a serious love for the coffee. Lets remember this in case of future mind controlling alien invasions. Bad parasitic aliens may take temporary control of a human’s nervous system and use them as a pawn in all sorts [...]

I woke up, had a cup of caffeine free herbal tea, sat at my spinning wheel and listened to Eric Clapton unplugged as I plied yarn. What have I done with the real me? Obviously, I am not me. I just can’t be. Look at my poor dog. Georgia knows that I’ve been taken over [...]

Things couldn’t be better. The Black Coffee roving from FiberOptic is almost sock yarn now. Please excuse the greenish hue, my camera does that under fluorescent lights. The greenish hue doesn’t exist in real life and I’m sure it could be corrected in Photoshop except that my attempts at correcting it turned out far worse [...]

I’ve been trying very hard to avoid the whole daylight savings disgruntledness that has been going around. Very hard. I have managed to lose my gruntle after all. Mainly because I work very hard to not suck at the guitar, and although its meant to be complimentary, it seems like when people attribute my non-suckatude [...]

Water, electric, phone, internet access– bah! Who needs em? All I need is tasty handpainted roving. My family disagrees, for some reason they think its more convenient to have food and running water. I’ll never understand them. This a sport weight that I made from spinning Moonlightbaker‘s Blue Steel roving. 40/60 bamboo/merino blend. I was [...]

I just don’t like waiting for it to dry when the torment is done. I’ve shocked it in hot water and cold, thwacked, soaked, and snapped the snot out of this yarn so that it’ll be as tough as the hubs of hell. All the torture has felted and blossomed it just a little, forcing [...]