luxe

animules
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i had nightmares about the red carpet, a evil limo driver, a wool festival, me not having showered, and my studio being haunted, and full of my fiber. what do you figure that means? i spun before i went to sleep last night, so…hm.

i got some rayon fiber for really cheap, and also some hemp/linen sliver, that i am told is ready to spin, no wet spinning, whatever that involves. the bad part about these veggie fibres is that i don’t know how to dye them. i guess i will have to learn. i will be dropping by michael’s or jojo’s with the coupons that my in-laws clipped from the sunday paper for me, and hope that there is a kit there, that has everything, as it is not easy like acid dyes. sadly. did i hurumph yet? no? hurumph!

gosh. i am tired. i need to go and get coffee. i will post pics later, so check back!

i’ll get you something at the store, ok?
xo,
n.

limeysoysilkysilk2
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wow. what a weekend! was it the weekend? jake has been working 12 hour days 5 days a week and then working on saturday, as well. mainly due to my lack of financial contribution. he doesn’t say that, but that is why. and i feel like a loser. i hope this stuff gets going. and my health has been sketchy, at best, although it is easier to push when i do this rather than stuff i hate. so friday i had bad cramps and jake was pooped, so we stayed home. we were supposed to eat supper with his folks, but i felt miserable. saturday, he worked and had a haircut and i dyed yarn, didn’t feel so hot, but did it anyway, which didn’t go as planned. i thought that if i dyed the ramie and ingeo with acid dyes but nuked them for long enough it would take, like it does with the soy silk, not super bright, but it works, and well, it didn’t. i dyed over and over and the ingeo came totally back to white. the ramie has pastel green, which isn’t bad. so we were supposed to hang out with butter, who ditched, said he had to babysit…ok, so amy came over while i was still dyeing-at which point i realized that 3 or 4 hours had passed and i hadn’t realized it…and jason h came over, and i got dressed to go out, put the ramie in the wash with rit dye and a million gallons of water, not realizing that you shouldn’t DILUTE the dye, so it didn’t take. dur. anyway, i let it cycle, so it looks like a giant animal. so i digress, i got dressed and fixed up, green hands and all and started driving, at which point we realized that the chinese resaurant we wanted to go to was out of business…i started to feel strange and sweaty and told jake that i would go home and take a nap, due to the migraine that was super quickly coming up on me…i felt bad, i know amy gets stressy being with other people sometimes, and i went home, laid down, got an out of control migraine, passed out and woke up hours and hours later. i had coffee and sugar free icecream for dinner. i have my period, so i have the worst cravings in the world, and fell off of my low carb wagon this weekend, but we had nothing in the house and i felt so crummy and crampy and migrainy. is that a word?

today, i spun a bit, made jake some thyme bread, which is really nice and dense and a sweet brownsugar whole wheat bread. jake ran out and got us bbq, which may be my all-time favorite.

i have to go to the grocery to-morrow and try to find some dyes that will work for the veggie fibers. jacey!!! tell me what you used!!! or else!!! and spin. i have gotten some emails from people that have seen my stuff and are interested! how amazing is that! so flattering! and adrian breaking bonaduce? it is an intense show. now, all of you know that i love reality tv. and this. is. real. big time. wow. as an addictive personality myself, it is amazing to see a textbook addictive personality. it is incredibly sad, because he is brilliant and so energetic, and if he could point that energy in a different direction…jesus, he could cure cancer. his wife is a saint, i think. and his kids, especially the baby, is the cutest kid i have ever seen. adorable.

also, we watched a show about feral children. in most cases, had been raised by dogs. not just breast fed, but the dogs shared the food that they found with the kid. it is amazing that animals are willing to take care of one that isn’t even their own. even i didn’t breast feed the kitten. that would be so gross. on so many levels. although maybe jake did. that could be why pavel is so attached to him. no?

i don’t know if i mentioned this, but on the dyeing list i am on, there is a woman, whose site i won’t list, is that cruel? but if you wanna see it, email me…anyway, she is a “professional” fiber artist and has all the equipment and nice fibers and she has no clue how to spin or dye or anything, really. for example, it appears that she puts a ball of fiber in the dye bath as is. and balls of yarn, likewise and that she does not comb out fiber before spinning, it just goes in, as is. and the result, among other things, is 50 yards of whatever fiber that weighs…wait for it….wait for it…wait for it….HALF A POUND!!!! it must be hard like a rock. what is the point of kid mohair? or cashmere? or baby alpaca? it is wrong. evil. i guess she seems happy. i can only imagine what kind of happy surprise her customers get when the yarn arrives. for those of you who are non-knitter, a half a pound of fiber should spin about 10 times that amount. and 50 yards isn’t enough to make more than a glove, maybe. and it would weigh a half a pound and not be lofty or soft or nice. ug. why can’t someone who would actually have use for the stuff get it? i will stop bitching now. you must see the site. i will photo the stuff i have spun lately, among other things, and post to-morrow, so if anyone wants yarns, check back!

rock out with your cock out!
xo,
n.

nice hair!
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the antibiotics suck. man, do i hate them. i am nauseous all the time. i feel hungry and then when i try to eat, i feel like i will hurl. i have the itchies, and i have spells where i have a hard time breathing. i then take a puff of the ole’ inhaler and get the shakes. really bad. and my mouth tastes like…well, puke, really. mmm. want a kissy? no? why not? and when you open the antibiotics bottle, it smells like rotten eggs. ok, enough complaining.

so, i planned to dye fiber today in addition to spinning. i took the fiber down to the kitchen and felt so dizzy that i decided maybe to-morrow i will do it. not cool. i spun a big skein of silk, which is really pretty. and i crocheted with twine. god, is it boring. man oh man. useful, but boring. i made a small basket for jake to put his pocket contents in when he comes home or goes to work, and a bigger one of jute for the same purpose which he seemed to really dig. despite the fact that it is ugly. it is so 70’s. crochet in general. there are people that make gorgeous things, not me though. not my bag, i think. i said i would learn it, and i did. next is basketweaving.

i also have been really bad about reading my millions of blogs, and the problem with that is that it is my inspiration for the new business, ideas, things i need to do, places i need to submit work to, etc. when i don’t read them, i forget. i also forget that i need to do as much as i possibly can, various things. that is why i am doing it full-time. and i only focus on fiber and forget all the other things i wanted to do. so i need to make a point to set time aside everyday to read blogs, and blog. i am going to write an actual schedule for each day. a to-do list. not that i am lazy, or don’t get things done. that isn’t the case. there are new things i want to make sure to do, in addition to fiber, and i need to make sure to keep my focus. i need to get a couple of my blog-business friends to keep me on track and i them, although i feel like they are super focused compared to me. i wanted to do the sampler, and completely flaked on it. among other things. all of my news about exhibits and craft shows and whatnot comes from blogs and it is irresponsible to not stay up to date on them. sigh.

amy and i went to the biweekly auction. there was a lot of vintage underthings and pajamas that i wanted and probably went for cheap, but i felt so sick and started with the cold sweats, etc that i told amy i wanted to go home. i then showered, dizzy and pukey and got into bed with the chills. i may get back up and spin a bit. or no. i am so pooped. and i still can’t see right. my eye is all puffy and creepy.

god, i am a miserable creature. not to-morrow! i sold some stuff on etsy that i have to send out.

sorry to be so blah. the new survivor started! yay!

xo,
n.

yarnarama
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so i was all stressing about etsy and i sold this sherbiznitz to the hostess of secret pal pgh and a vintage top and another yarn in the works….i am so excited. i actually went through and gave the items more informative titles, etc, and added some stuff…so check it out my store!!! PLEASE!! i am now a full-time artist. of fibre. with every fibre of my being. have we been through this before? maybe.

i had my crochet lesson today at my lys and decided that large sculptures and crochet do not necessarily mix. although i still want to try some stuff. i am going to try to take a class on basket weaving to make some larger sculptural pieces, like the ones in my dreams. but i did figure out where the crochet was going awry. oh, and what i was going to talk about, was that i took my new yarns that i had spun with me and one of the owners asked a lot of questions. i mentioned that it was my income now, and i can do anything they liked, like custom colors solely for their shop? we will see. that would be cool. i could be the mascot. probably not, but whatever.

in other news, i got both of my secret pal’s names, one for the pgh one, who is a middle aged lady who seems really nice, and not lame like someone who i will not name. also, my regular sp is named ursula. sadly she is a LJ person, so there is really no info on her, but she is hardcore fiber person, is allergic to wool, but uses it anyway, so i can give her all sorts of handspun and dyed non-wool stuff, and i know she will be into it. i am excited. both are really good.

i went to the dr and found out that i have a sinus infection, which i had gathered and some blocked ducts in my eyes that may require a knife. i could do it myself. i really could. hold your horses! i won’t. i promise. so i am on antibiotics, so excuse me if i need to run out of here clutching my ass or puking or covered in spots…it happens. it is hard to know. we will see. i do feel itchy. but that could be my scorching case of herpes. did i say that out loud? oops. anyway, i have more stuff to put up and hope i can actually get some spinning done to-morrow. i have made some kiddie hats for the boutique but that is it. and my yarn didn’t come yet. i got a cryptic message from discount yarns saying that i hadn’t been billed yet and i would be when it was sent which could be in 3-5 days. or not. okey doke. thanks guys.

ok, must eat food and take pill.
chirp!
n.

1. Are you a yarn snob (do you prefer higher quality and/or natural fibers)? Do you avoid Red Heart and Lion Brand? Or is it all the same to you?
-i do use cheap yarns sometimes for projects, but i certainly would not want to give it, or get it as a gift! blech! i am a snob indeed.

2. Do you spin? Crochet?
-yesssssity yesssss!

3. Do you have any allergies? (smoke, pets, fibers, perfume, etc.)
-smoke, plus it shtinkssss. i can’t wear cheapy jewelry, i get a gross rash. and i have sensitive skin, so i can’t use perfumey skin products.

4. How long have you been knitting?
-a year in november.

5. Do you have an Amazon, Knitpicks or other online wish list?
-no, but i will get one together…my amazon is natashafialkov i believe.

6. What’s your favorite scent? (for candles, bath products etc.)
-i love fruity things and foody things. ginger perfume used to be my main scent, now i have a tropical thing going on. i don’t like flowery stuff.

7. Do you have a sweet tooth?
-yes, but i only eat sugar free candy.

8. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do?
-you name it, i probably do it. i spin, draw, make stuff…make dolls, purses, stuffed animals

9. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD)
-i think it plays mp3’s. i am tricky on the music front. i like unusual music. i am not into top 40, rap, country…i am a bit hard to choose for. i think i have a list on my blogger account.

10. What’s your favorite color? Or–do you have a color family/season/palette you prefer? Any colors you just can’t stand?
-i love color. i look bad in yellow, but i do like it, look best in jewel tones…i love pink and brown or pink and green together. i love really bright greens, ok, most greens.

11. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?
-i am married and have 3 kitties.

12. What are your life dreams? (really stretching it here, I know)
-i am doing it! i just quit my job to pursue full-time spinning, dyeing, knitting, sculpture, etc…

13. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with?
-probably silk or really soft wools.

14. What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
-anything squeaky or boring.

15. What is/are your current knitting obsession/s?
-hm…i love really crazy yarns. my last sp, who rocks! got me yarns from habu made out of paper, silk and stainless steel, ooooh. also, i just started crocheting sculpture and i like using rope and unusual fiber, like i am looking for paper string…

16. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit?
-i love it all…

17. What are you knitting right now?
-some fingerless gloves of my own pattern, baby hats to sell at a kid’s boutique, breast cancer scarves for a boutique, booties for boutique, leaf cravat from teva durham…

18. What do you think about ponchos?
-i make em, but don’t wear em. i prefer wraps.

19. Do you prefer straight or circular needles?
-circs, but i use both. i am in dire need of dpns in wood in sizes above 10, does that exist?

20. Bamboo, aluminum, plastic?
-baboozle. i love bryspun circs too.

21. Are you a sock knitter?
-not yet. maybe someday.

22. How did you learn to knit?
-i basically taught myself.

23. How old is your oldest UFO?
-a couple of months.

24. What is your favorite animated character or a favorite animal/bird?
-i love kitty stuff or any sort, well not garfield or something and i really like sheep and llama stuff also.

25. What is your favorite holiday?
-valentine’s day, my birthday, which is oct 6, btw

26. Is there anything that you collect?
-i like cat things, sheep things, vintage knitting things, notions

27. What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?
none yet. i normally buy em on the newstand. i have free copies of all the interweave stuff. i would love to get rebecca, don’t have any copies of it, but am too cheap to buy it. i love selvedge, also and the craft magazine from england that is from the craft council. fabu!

28. Any books out there you are dying to get your hands on?
-japanese knitting books, craft books, yarns to dye for!

soooo, i feel much better today, although i still have a gimpy eye and foot. but i don’t want to kill anyone, or myself, so that is a major improvement! yeah!

i have a crocet lesson today, and plan to spin for a while before that happens. i made some really cute fluffy baby hats that i will put ears on, as well as a pull-on adult white fluffy headband with ears that go on it last night, that i need to add elastic to. i think it will look really cute. also, if anyone has any advice on my starting a store, or who can set it up for me at a reasonable cost, please email me!!

off to shower!
smoochies!
n.

yarnarama
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let me preface this blog by saying that anyone who doesn’t want to hear moaning and groaning may want to skip today’s post.

that said…my feet have been hurting. enough that i think i limp. how attractive, huh? in addition, i have some sort of eye infection that makes me feel like i have a sinus infection. which is what i thought it was. since last night, it has started to really really hurt. i can’t see very well and i feel like i have a migraine. my foot is the equivalent of foot carpal tunnel. did you know that there was such a thing? tarsal tunnel. dammit! so, before going to my dr’s appt, i watched a few minutes of dr phil, who was in new orleans, and i felt so bummed out, that i cried.

it gets better, briefly. tearfully, i leave for my appt, and my awesome wonderful fantastic secret pal has sent me a kind and sweet and inspiring card, on a day that i feel really scared and worried about everything, and send me the very yarns i was looking at from habu, i wonderful japanese yarn company that makes very unusual things stainless steel and silk? yes. paper and silk? yes, yes! and they were instrumental in making me want to learn to spin. the japanese fiber artists, where actually it is considered art, can you believe it? are so amazing. if i had been into fiber when i was younger, i would have studied in london or japan. they have wonderful things there. anyway, that is what i got, and while feeling really depressed, i felt really grateful, and felt connected to humanity in a way other than feeling helpless. in a way other than realizing that loads of people would be happy to have a wonderful house, friends and family that are safe, pets who are warm and fed…and have lupus. or a stupid sore foot and an eye infection. you know? i am going to donate more yarn and scarves to crafter’s united. i would really like to give some money to the humane society out there, as well. i cannot even think about that disaster. ok, enough. i promise.

so where i was going with this, is my secret pal, erin, who is a high school english teacher who seems to be very into teaching, which is so fantastic. many days that i felt really cruddy or sad, i got either and email, a card, or a package from her that made me smile. i know everyone says that their secret pal is great (well,except for my secret dork pal who never responded to emails or let me know that she got the package) but it has inspired me to do sp6, as well as a pittsburgh one, and to try to live up to the standard that she has set. i have a gaggle of people that i owe handspun to, and she is on that list. so i swear i will.

my stuff on etsy has had lots of looks, but no buys, it has only been not quite 48 hrs, yet i feel really alarmed. what if no one thinks it is as amazing as i do. maybe i have a really big head, which may be shrinking soon…i guess we will see. i can’t find anyone to do a website for me and the people i have contacted don’t reply to me. which is not a good sign, right off the bat, no?

ok, my eyes are really throbbing and i am sweating. i am going to do non-eye-related things. whatever that is. having a book read to me. not cool.

i swear, i will be my excited self to-morrow. i have an hour crochet lesson from eileen, my amazing spinning teacher and am planning to ask the yarn store if they want to carry any handspun. we will see. the pittsburgh crafty show is coming up in a couple of months, and i imagine i will sell ok there, but you know. i feel broke and stressed. i am broke and stressed, i mean.

byeya,
sniff.
n.

quilted heart…awwww…
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so, at long last, i set up my etsy store and the name of the store is LUXE. i only had time to list 6 things, because it takes a bit of time. does it ever. after running errands today, i plan to add more stuff, lots and lots more stuff….so check it out..and buy it! do it! now! i have yarn, fiber, knits and some vintage aprons and purses and tops coming. everything is really cewl or i wouldn’t sell it, right? right.

i ordered 2 different yarns totalling 250 bucks for the boutique scarves. i am so stressed that they will screw me over. who knows? i don’t really have a reason to think that, but, you know.

i don’t feel evil today, but i did have zombie nightmares again. is it normal to only have nightmares?

there is an estate sale that we are going to that said on the ad that they had “craft items” which included a kiln. is that really a craft item? so i thought they may have spinning stuff or something. who knows? fingers crossed, people.

so please pop by etsy and check it out and buy something. email me and let me know what you think.

have a fun day! i will!
xo,
n.

kittyporn
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i feel evil. like when you are 15 and everything irritates you. you know what i mean? no reason. not really. well, i am sore all over, so that doesn’t help, but you know.

soooo…i wanted to set up an etsy account. despite the fact that i am a registered paypal user, i had to have a credit card to verify blah blah. well, my check card had not been updated and i had an expired one. so i called for a new one and got it more than a week later. ok, so i go on to get my store set up and realize that the username is the name of your shop. and you can’t change it. and you can only use your email addy for one name. and i put natashafialkov, which is too long. i hate that i did that do my blog, but also realized too late that it can’t be change. blogging has taught me much. i didn’t know about publishing. you know? so everything i try to do doesn’t go. i took about 200 pictures of vintage aprons, my knits and yarns and fibers to go up on etsy and my future website and want to start posting them, now that i have edited the photos, which look fabu(lous) amy helped dress effie, who looked oddly fat in some of the aprons (?) that says something about a garment, huh? that a mannequin looks fat in it? so i got out the tripod and the photos look really great, really. i am not tooting my own camera, i swear it. it only took a few hours, with amy’s generous help. i told her that it was like dressing dolls, oddly fun. so, i will let you know when i have it up, hopefully at least some of the stuff to-morrow. here is the other thing. i abandoned la pee la. i feel that it is too whimsical and silly. and while i am not the gloomy gal that i once was, i take my work seriously. i love it, and want the name to reflect that…so i am up between my favorite word of the moment, (luxe.) it will have the period or lustre..spelled that way, because with an “er” it seems like someone who lusts, no? both of which i like a lot.

i do not much other than try to get my business going and feel like nothing gets done, i am exhausted at the end of the day and i feel frustrated. i try to push, but there isn’t anything to push. at all. so, the people i looked at to do my website were too busy and recommended someone else, who hasn’t emailed me back yet. his price was great and his work was very cute, but i worry about no response in 3 days. i am a psycho that way. i try to respond within 24 hrs, personally. if i care, anyway. but i really need it. and this guy will do a card for ya too. which is really good.

in other news, the new selvedge came out, amazing as usual. also, i have a crochet lesson on tuesday to learn to do the circular thing. eileen, my spinning teacher, of course. i need to ask her if she knows how to basketweave. i think that may work for the sculptural thing i have been dreaming about all the time. and drives me crazy. craaaazy. where do you learn to do that. i got a 3 buck book from amazon on how to do it. and i looked online and it appears that seagrass and willow and stuff is really super cheap, so that is good, plus i could crochet it, i reckon, right? i will find out. but like 1000 yards for 5 bucks. after knitting, wow, that rocks! yeah! anyone know how?

we went to the ligonier market today and then to the yarn store to get yarn for the breast cancer scarves, which reminds me that i have to order the rest of it online. oh…also, for those of you who have joann’s and michael’s nearby, i found out that michael’s takes ALL competitor’s coupons and you can use many all together like 40% offs per item. are you kidding me? so i may need to do that. big time. i like craft supplies! don’t you?

i better go do that…first, the picture is of pavel, our almost year-old-kitten who lays under the covers and kicks his legs like so, if you tap his feet he will fight you thru the covers, but he is sometimes sleeping with his legs in the air like that. maybe he likes the tent effect? he also wants to use the water button on the fridge. he is super into water. he may be a dolphin. he is really smart. it can be a problem.

i must say that i miss you guys a lot. i feel bad that i am too tired to blog as much as i would like to…but i appreciate your comments and emails, it makes me feel really special. so sappy. i am a sappy kind of gal. and that is ok! right?

smoochies y’all…
n.

baby hats for the boutique
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gosh, i feel so bad about not blogging more lately…you miss me, right? i thought you did. i really missed the hell out of you.

so, at the boutique meeting, you know the one that i made an APPOINTMENT for 3 weeks prior, ended up being on the day they were having an open house for people who like cheesy expensive poo. whatever, let me point out that they picked the date of the meeting, and appeared to have forgotten that i was coming at all. okey doke. so i waited 40 minutes, while being trapped in the midst of the country club women, my favorite sort of people, and even though i was dressed professionally, i was gawked at. i love that so much. i laid out the scarves, paced back and forth, went outside and vented to my husband, waited some more, and then once she came back, she walked away in the middle of speaking to me to deal with a customer. “i have a lot going on today…do you want to do this another time?” i ask…oh no no, just a minute. or 40. and anyone who knows me, knows that i don’t appreciate my time to be wasted. it really pisses me off. 5 minutes is one thing…and since i have been doing my own thing, i am more busy than i was before, just a bunch of stuff that i could or should be doing. they didn’t want almost half of what i made, but what was sold got a decent amount. i made 6 different breast cancer scarves, the yarn was almost identical in color, but different actual types, to mix things up a skidge, although now i realize that those sorts of ladies don’t want to be different. at all. anyway, she only liked 3 out of those, so i need to try to sell them on etsy. argh! they want two dozen of the breast cancer ones, and that works out to a decent lump of cash. i have a month to get them done, which is fine, because it only takes me maybe an hour to do a scarf and fringe.

i sold a baby hat, which is cool and have more to take up to descendents. i just wanted to have tags to put on them. i may just do a tag with the lettering on pretty paper and nice string and the phone number for now.

the people that i had hoped would do my website are too busy to do it, but recommended a guy from ny, who has an amazingly good deal, including art and a business card and webhosting. very nice. i am waiting to hear back.

i talked to my mom who was psycho because they need to do some things to pass the home inspection and being that she hasn’t had a job since singing in a nightclub in college, she doesn’t handle, uml, anything well, and is a drama queen to boot. the tone she spoke to me in with “fucking” preceding every word reminded me of how she was when i was kid, what i always that was the real her. i am still not sure what is. is it the you that comes out when you are stressed? we have to drive her car to iowa and then fly back, so it will be a really nice vacation to drive 12 hours away with my husband, or rather he will drive whilst i sleeo, get there, fly back…how fun! she probably wants us to help unpack. nope. maybe i am a bad person. and when she is in that mood, i can’t be around her. i cannnot do it. when i was a kid, i had no escape, no one to protect me from her. now, i do. and i can’t submit myself to that ever again. not my cross to bear.

i got some good vintage pillowcases at the thrift store and some really great vintage note cards and notepads, which i may be listing on my website once i get it up…any opinions on that and the vintage aprons and clothes?

i am getting super tired, i know i complain all the time, but my lupus makes sure i know she is there, i just get so exhausted. too tired to do anything at all. not even get through alden amos’ book. i am trying though. it is really funny and packed full of spinning info and then some. ok…sleepy time…

i will blog early to-morrow.
i love you…

n.

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so, i sold my first ever skein of handspun and dyed on etsy for crafters united!! i wish i had a dollar to frame!! what a nice way to wake up, you know? i am going to spend the day spinning and dyeing, and plan to put some more up…

so yesterday, beyond having the headache still, i got spraypaint and painted some baskets and my spinning chair and a kitchen chair thing that was all rusty and they look awesome. i will take photos, they are outside. awesome!

i have my meeting with the boutique to-morrow to get paid and find out what new stuff they want, if any, so i plan to knit as much stuff as possible. i have used just about all of the 400 bucks of yarn they bought, and plan to pitch spinning my own yarn for the stuff i make for them so i can get ALL the money, cause i am GREEEEDY!

i talked to my mom yesterday, and she has nothing but excuses about everything, and is soooo stressed out about moving. i mentioned that i have moved approximately 15-20 times since i was in college, and my family didn’t help my any of those times, and she expects jake and i to move them. she tells me that it will be much harder on her. that they are so broke, they don’t know how they will manage, oh yeah, readers, my dad, he is a doctor. anyway, after constantly saying how poor we are, she then said that we have no bills(we don’t? we must have a drug problem? gambling?) and THEY are more broke than us, even though they make 7x more than us. my heart is breaking for you mom! i suggested that she cut back on the shopping, she has no budget, and i have a feeling that she has no clue what she spends. none. and she was pissed. everything i said, she had an answer for. not my problem. just like i am not her problem. she hates my gran and she is my gran. she has an excuse for everything. a justification for everything. that is fine, but i am not in a position to be manipulated. she wants us to drive their car to iowa, instead of having the movers do it, and fly us back, and jake will have to take time off, plus, with gas and tolls, it has gotta be costing a lotta dough. not to mention wasting our time. i know we seem like pleebs, but we do have stuff to do, which doesn’t involve driving her lexus (the poor woman’s car, right?) to iowa. i am done ranting. done. not my problem. does that sound cold? can i remind you that they didn’t come to my wedding cause it was inconvenient, even though they knew 3 or 4 months in advance?

ok, i am gonna go do stuff…art stuff! yarn stuff! thanks for listening.

smoooooooch!
n.