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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 [...]

spinnin’ scorpio floozy

Sometimes I’m really smug about the fact that I am a Scorpio. There, I admitted it. I can be selfish. I can be dark. I can be mysterious. I like the things that your quintessential Scorpio is supposed to like. We’re quite a smug little club of dirt dwellers. Even the tattoo artist who inked [...]

my first Etsy Treasury

Hey now… how did I forget this? I actually got a Treasury! And no, I didn’t sit around and wait for five straight hours to leap on this.

Treasuries are Etsy’s way of letting people kind of… curate a collection. It’s almost like shopping but not. There are a limited number of slots, they’re constantly expiring [...]

i like big yarn

So nearly immediately after putting this creature up for sale at the shop yesterday, I received a convo (that’s conversation for those of us with the time to speak four syllables) from a nice person, who basically was telling me that she liked the yarn a lot and wanted to know if it was enough [...]

forest dwellers

I’m really excited about these two skeins and kind of want to keep them all for myself.

skein the first

skein the second

They are furry creatures and I want to put them in my pocket and pet them. I think the smaller one, Number Two, would be happy in a pocket; it seems a tad shy.

Will [...]