kombucha

Just thought I’d share a little of the fun with you… I took this picture a year and a half ago of my homemade kombucha. Well, the author of Wild Fermentation is looking for input and pictures for the new book he’s writing, so I offered this pic via email. I don’t know if it [...]

drum roll, please!

The drum carder came yesterday and we promptly made a giant green slug of a bat:

I absolutely love that the girls can get involved in this part of the fiber preparation now. They were almost as excited as I was.

After they went to bed I tried again… a little more refined [...]

this past weekend

Top to bottom:

Friday night was the Corn Puppy’s school spirit night at the Stingrays hockey game. Her principal was really jealous that I bought myself a nice, fat beer.
Vic-20 and some motherboard… because my circuit-bending career never took off and I am taking pictures of my random vintage electronics so I can develop the fortitude [...]

giveaway winner!

Well, I just did a very official noodle bowl drawing… and the winner is Jags of Jag’s Funky Fibers! This makes me very happy because she was the first one to respond to my original blogiversary post and had some really kind words to say. I’ll let you know what she picks out!

little slice of heaven, little slice of hell

Of course, the concepts of “heaven” and “hell” are pretty subjective. But still.

the big move (type B)

Again tonight, I’m trying to export this blog to Wordpress, so I can have some static pages (like “About”, “Contact”, “Shop”, etc). That and Wordpress is supposed to be a really intuitive platform with more of an eye toward aesthetics than Blogger. Hence the move.

However, I’m having major problems. I kind of did this whole [...]

it was still there this morning

she just threw a ball of car-hood snow at me
getting fancy with the zoom

found objet d’art: snowman with BBQ chip buttons and Panama hat

spun up, snowed up

For very personal reasons, I don’t have the energy right now to be funny or write a whole lot… but I’ve been pressing the picture button these past couple days, so how’s about you enjoy some photos?

from the Frank N. Furter batt by Desert Garden

three sisters to be listed at the shop tomorrow

aaaand… snow in [...]

Happy Birthday, stars like joe!

Well, some pretty f’d up stuff happened this evening that I don’t want to get into. But on the bright side, I received some raw black wool (Shetland/Suffolk/Romney) from Desired Haven Farm! Just in time for the blog’s birthday. Can’t wait to start including this stuff in the batts I’ll be making with my awesome [...]

New Year’s list… and a giveaway!

It’s the New Year somewhere, right?

here we go:

be patient with my daughters and listen well to them
buy local / sustainable / handmade as often as possible
go back to college to finish anthropology degree
leave the lightest ecological footprint I can in all aspects of my existence
begin Pilates classes
volunteer in my community

I think that’s a pretty good [...]