The ramblings of a thirty-something wife of a tree hugger
Some new pretties in my etsy shop:
I have a thing for orange lately.
Superwash Merino roving! This wool is incredible. So soft and easy to spin. It feels softer than cotton candy. I didn’t think that wool could get softer than my regular Merino, but this is it! I see lots more of this in my future.
Peace.
No, not the kind you eat. The kind I play with. I have been working on my spinning skills lately, getting prepared for a custom order from my shop that has me incredibly excited… So, I am working on single ply yarns lately. I adore single ply. I love the smoothness of it, the simple twist of it.
Conn modeling single ply “Lime in the Coconut” from my shop. I am working on a hat using this yarn and loving the way it is knitting up. I have just a little more decreasing to do before I can show a picture of it. The thing with single ply hand spun yarn is the self-striping! Every row that I knit, I am amazed with how the striping is working out. So neat!
And, I got to play with dyes this weekend. Working on the custom order and a teensy bit of autumn inspiration to go in the shop later this week.
Peace.
I miss reading. Really reading. The kind of reading where you lounge in your pajamas most of the day, totally engrossed in a book, forgetting to eat, letting the phone ring, with one goal in mind…finishing the book.
My reading lately has been snippets of stories I can catch online (we don’t watch tv), random flipping through Parents magazine while trying to make lunch, and children’s books read to the babes before naps (Papa does bedtime reading). I long to feed my brain with written word.
I have a running list in my head of books that I want to read. When I hear of new movies coming out that are based on a book, I instantly add that to my mental list if I haven’t read it before. A friend loaned me “The Time Traveler’s Wife” and I cried. I cried while reading it, I cried at the end. I am torn about seeing the movie. I highly recommend reading it. Although, there are a few parts in the book that will make a grown woman blush…don’t say I didn’t warn you.
One movie that I want to see is Coraline (I know, I am a little behind). But I wanted to read the book first. So, I did what I always do, I got on the library’s website and put a hold on the book. Library websites are a life-saver for Mamas. You can put holds on a gazillion books and then go down in a few days and pick them all up in one trip…no more chasing kids down while searching for books, getting distracted and leaving with far fewer than you had planned.
I put a hold on this book, not realizing that I wasn’t holding the “real” book. (Why yes, that is a vodka gimlet in that frosty glass, thanks for asking)
What a refreshing change! I came home and opened it up and saw the comic book format and laughed. Know what? I really dig it! I haven’t read a comic book in decades, people. Decades. I was long overdue.
Even if it was a crazy freaky comic book-book. I started reading it while making dinner and finished it in bed later that night. I think that it was about 3 hours of reading, all told.
Peace.
I have had a couple really great weeks of mail lately. Did I ever tell you that when the postman delivers the mail, it is my favorite time of day (helps that I don’t pay the bills!). Yep, it beats nap time most days.
One totally awesome thing that showed up in my mailbox (out of many) was this new hat…
I adore it. It is a smidge too big, but that didn’t stop me from wearing it to knitting group on Saturday. The colors are so me. It was hand knit by my friend, Phoe. I have come to realize that all of my handknits that I wear (minus socks) have come from Phoe. She is an exceptionally kind and generous friend.
Another really cool thing that came in the mail are these..
Signed bookplates from Anne Rice. Yes, the Anne Rice. I adore her Mayfair Witches series, The Witching Hour got me hook, line and sinker addicted to New Orleans. I only have one of her books in hard cover (The Witching Hour, which I am overdue to re-read), so I am offering the other two up for anyone that may like them. If there are more than two people, I will draw numbers.
Peace.
I am blogging from my iPod Touch! I was browsing through iTunes last night and found a WordPress app. This is incredible.
And it totally makes me want an iPhone now. That way I could have everything on one device instead of an iPod and a cell phone. A girl can dream can’t she?
I pinky swear that I will have knitting photos tomorrow. Or at least yarn. Now back to the app store to see what other snazzy new apps they have.
Peace.
