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Last month I had myself a good old fashioned melt down and wound up in front of a doctor. Turns out that pushing all my complex emotions down into a dark seething pit of angst and resentment is not exactly the healthiest way of dealing with anxiety. Go figure.
Through some act of synchronicity I found [...]

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 put it [...]

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 surrounding [...]

When I first heard about the proposed changes to the US copyright law, I thought it was just another internet rumor. I was wrong.
Before 1978 US copyright was an opt in system (unless we go back to the first English copyright laws in which case it was mandatory– because the monarchy wanted to know who [...]

I don’t make New Years resolutions. I know myself well enough at this point to know that I’m a whimsical thing with a very short attention span. Besides, any day is a good day to start something better, why wait until the year passes?
So I wish:
I wish for world peace. I wish people could get [...]

White BFL, spinning wheel, fireplace, and 7 more days until I’m a slave to my schoolwork once more.
Here’s a screen cap of the pics on the auction for my new guitar. Don’t you love it? I like the Sex Pistols-esque “Hello Kitty” on the back. There was much debate on which was better for me, [...]

How can I describe myself musically?
I will never be accused of selling my soul at the crossroads.
I played dulcimer in church and trumpet in school band. I wanted to play violin at church and flute in the band, but as you may have guessed; my parents hated me. Want to get your kid beat up [...]

Since I am spinning the endless cotton I have had lots of time to contemplate this question.
At first it was because I knew I could purchase raw and processed fiber cheaper than finished yarn, and because I knew that I could spin yarn. Having more time than money, it seemed like a good idea. Just [...]

You know when you read a blog, and you read a post, and you *want* to leave a comment but aren’t sure what to say, or five people said what you would have said before you got there, or you don’t have anything constructive to add to the conversation– Opal and I know that situation– [...]

Ooh I’m bad. I went to Craft Warehouse to buy a tool, I was at Wally World to buy poly-fil. Either place I could have bought the paint I need to finish the table– for some reason I had a little too much focus on the eyelet punch and poly-fil (usually my problem is buying [...]