Thread Nests and a little Peek

(my heart pincushion gettin some serious use today)

Hello all,

I spent a lot of time sewing today, I'm so excited to finally be persuing my goal of having an etsy shop in the next couple of months. I've wanted to sell some of my handmade wares for a long time but haven't been quite sure how to approach it, but now, thanks in a large part to the Indie Business class, I'm creating goals and moving forward. I'm going to be creating tote bags, some knitted items, big mixed media collages, and hopefully some other surprises. Here is a little sneak peek...

If you live where the weather is fine this week, I hope you get out and enjoy it. The daffodils are blooming here, the tomatoe seedlings are coming up in their little soil blocks, and it seems that spring has really arrived. I'll be outside all day tomorrow, painting a house yellow, have a good one!

How Could I?

How could I possibly have missed this, World Wide Knit in Public day, are you kidding me. I would have donned my red rain coat and brought some water resistant fibers and sat out in the pouring rain and knit a soggy mess. Or I suppose I could have found a shelter to stick myself under. Alas, I'll have to jump on the bandwagon next year...

Daffodils and Rain induced Rooftop Trills!

Almost a month since the last post. Oh well the wagon with the band on it has to go a little faster than all of us from time to time and we're bound to fall off when that happens you know?

  Starting farming work this week. Knitting, reading, planning, getting sick, getting better...

    I've been learning to sew, the crafting projects that are possible at this point in my life are a little daunting, knowing that I'm mystically attracted to every single crafting discipline that there is. Maybe it's not so mystical actually and it really makes perfect sense, once shown all the techniques and tricks of different crafts how could you not want to know how to do everything?

   Here is the Etsy find for the day. Or really the hour, as the Etsy addiction is just about as bad as the crafting itself, except that you get more instant gratification from looking at what someone else has made without having to go and make something yourself, you can still look at something beautiful and inspirational. 

Inventory

This past weekend I helped out doing inventory at our local yarn shop. Many hours (not as long as some) un stacking, counting, and then re-stacking gobs of yarn. The picture here is of the mission falls yarn. I'm eventually going to make a scarf out of the deep red color pictured. Thebeautiful green sweater that you can only see half of is a design of Norah Gaughn who I love, but do not have the skills yet to knit anything of her design! The picture does not do her design justice so check out the links. 

   The Truckman and I are painting a room in his house together. A simply awful blue put there by the previous resident is horid! This person was a very un-skilled painter and managed to get dark blue paint on the rug, the ceiling which has grout on it, the wooden door, just everywhere. They also managed to paint over stickers and make it a miserable mess to repare. I beg you, if you are painting a room in the place where you live, either do it right, or let the resident do it! 

So we're slowly transitioning this horriffic scene to a lovely pale green color. I'll put up some before and after shots when it's finished. It would be too awful to only show you the before pictures!