Whew! Sick of my own whining and ready to quit wringing my hands and get back to work! I have a busy day today (hence the procrastination blogging) because tomorrow morning, we’re heading of the the Missouri Fiber Retreat, yippee! I am incredibly excited about all my classes! I’m taking: Indigo Dyeing–We’re dyeing samples of [...]

My current WIP, soon to be a nostalgic sweater pattern on Craftzine. We’ve been re-watching (well, me re-watching; Ron watching for the first time) old episodes of Buffy. Right now we’re on Season 3 and I’m getting to see a lot of old eps I haven’t watched since they aired, which is great fun because [...]

I have a lot to do. Under no circumstances should I deviate from this–SQUIRREL! Last weekend’s To-Do list did not get to-done. Instead, I moved everything from my room out into the hall and scrubbed it all down and rearraged it so now I have two big roomish areas instead of one giant room. It [...]

Yesterday, I got so beguiled by the beauty of a 70° day in February that I decided to take the afternoon off. I didn’t even open my calendar, just grabbed a book and headed out into the sunshine. I read The Golden Compass and ate an apple and shared the core with the chickens, and [...]

I’m super-awesome because I just resisted a very tempting elann.com update. Naturally Natural Wool 200g hanks under $5 in both aran and DK. And you know how much I love the natural browns. And earlier this week, I resisted this very cute tablecloth on clearance at Target even though I was dying to buy it [...]

A while back, I decided to go through all my old patterns and clean them up and make nice, tidy pdfs to sell. The free patterns will stay right where they are, but if you want to shell out a few bucks can get a nice, printer-friendly pdf that can live in your ravelry library. I [...]

There was a long-range (450 ft, longer than the 300ft remote weather station I use successfully in the chicken coop) video baby monitor on sale as Amazon’s deal of the day today. Is it wrong that I briefly coveted one for the barn? (And by “briefly,” I mean that I am still coveting it, but [...]

I started this sweater while waiting on some yarn to swatch for another sweater I’ll be knitting this month. It’s worked by using 5 different yarns and alternating yarn every row. It’s super fun to knit, but managing 5  balls of yarn is a little annoying. But I’m happy to solider on because I do [...]