Well, today’s as good a day as any to do a little writing. It’s been a month of ups and downs, but such is life!

For now, some positive moments… because as deeply as I feel the darkness at times, I understand that you, dear Reader, don’t necessarily want to hear all about it. You’ve got [...]

Again with a visual recap of the past month. Apparently it is much easier for me to snap pics, hoard them for a long time and turn them all loose in one big, incohesive mish-mash.

Enjoy!

winning little battles in the war on amblyopia

look what the Faux Pa dragged in

Rather than editorialize about this past weekend’s trip to Penland School of Crafts and downtown Asheville, I’ll just give you a whole buncha pictures to look at. We had a really good time… and got to do a lot more than last year.

Last weekend the girls’ grandpa moved in! He brought his cat and his library:

I finally bought the Corn Puppy a twin-sized bed:

I got to trade kapok fluff for some “mini moonbeams” from Moonwood Farms:

free sample of handpainted milk fiber included:

I also received my first top-whorl drop spindle and have spun a lace-fingering weight single out [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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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 [...]

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!

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

I thought I was going to write a long post this evening, but I’m beat. This was the first Thanksgiving where I’ve prepared an entire meal… and it felt so wonderful to serve that good food to the people I love the most.

In the spirit of the holiday, here’s a list of things I’m thankful [...]