luxe

yesterday i was awake for roughly 4 hours. literally. i woke up this morning, after another headache last night, and felt…tired, but ok. okay? what? okay! and the sun was shining!

so, i dyed about 6 lbs of fiber and 2 lbs of sock yarn, which came out super pretty. the batteries on the camera died and took some of the photos with it, so i will post them to-morrow…i am totally out of sock yarn on the site, so there will be 6 new ones to-morrow. what does 6 lbs of dyed fiber look like, you ask? there is fiber hanging to the ground on both sides of my drying rack, on the railing of the deck, hanging on the frame of our swing and then the loose silk noil and icicle top that i dyed is on top of the roving…and somehow some of the silk and nylon came out neon. literally NEON. amazing. i cannot wait to spin it up. i did turquoise, teal, fuschia, pink, a burnt orange, bright green…that might be it. and then the sock yarn.this is one of em. purdy, eh? they are so fun to hand paint. i did a couple of them jackson pollock style and it was fun. oh yeah, and i used the citric acid instead of vinegar this time and jake said it didn’t stink in the house at all. and i just mixed it in the little cups of dye with hot water and it works awesome.

i also spent time in the garden cleaning up whilst the fiber was cooking/cooling. it was so nice to get into the dirt. so nice. i cannot wait to plant stuff. my strawberries leaves are nice and green so hopefully this year we will get lots of berries. yum! also the raspberry bushes are nice and green. the thyme, sage, mint(s) and chives are all back and i imagine they will spread soon. i need to buy new basil and check out what is new at the nursery. yay for spring! i have spring fever! i opened all the windows in the house, and when i went out to do something, peeps followed me. i felt bad putting her back inside. i do have a harnass for her that i will probably try out to let her come out and eat grass. she loves it.

jake and i walked around the neighborhood after dinner and i took photos, so go to my flickr to see our neighborhood. it is pretty. parts of it. we had tuna helper for dinner with peas in it, i always add peas. makes it not taste like a box so much…i need to find out when our local farmer’s market starts.

needless to say, i am really tired and fighting myself not to go spin. i should sleep ok tonite, eh?

ok. off like a dirty shirt!
smoochies y’all!
n.

i had a migraine last night, i am told. out of it. big time. i woke up around ten, was too tired to take a shower, and jake told me that i took a shower at like 3 am anyway, so i cleaned up, and got dressed and fell back asleep. until about 4 p. i took my pain patch off and after 24 hours of the 72 it is supposed to be on, it is empty. so i think i got a wonky patch or something. once i took it off, i feel a bit more alert. but i wasted the whole day. also, at some point last night, i did some spinning. hm.

i planned to do dyeing today and it was sunny and gorgeous, so i was a bit bummed that i missed the day. and it is not quite 7p yet and there is still a bit of light. wooo! rock!

so wish me luck that i am awake to get some stuff done to-morrow. this while sleeping the entire day business sucks. and i am still tired.

xo,
n.

i started working on a shawl last night, unbeknownst to me. i woke up and there it was. i think it is a shawl, anyway. hm. maybe it was kahlo…

my parents will be in town friday evening from iowa, leaving saturday afternoon. my dad has patients to see, but i dunno how it is worth it for my mom to come along. we will lend them the vw, which jake just finally got back from being fixed, bless its poor heart. i found out that my friend who i don’t talk to anymore got into a car accident and all over again, my heart went out to her. and i started worrying about her. and wondering if she had full coverage on her car. like i am her mom. so i just asked a friend to tell her that i was thinking about her, rather than calling myself. i feel so weak. it is so hard. i miss her.

in other news, i was on a pittsburgh artist website and saw some artwork by a friend of mine that i hadn’t talked to in ages. it was kind of a strange situation and he just dropped out of my life, and i had seen him pretty much every week before that. we would go see cheap movies during the week and then go get pie. it was nice. anyway, i sent an email to the site and he emailed me today. i am really excited to see what he has been up to. i have really missed that character. and he is a character.

i don’t know if it is ethical to disclose your customers, but the author of a pretty famous blog bought some sock yarn from me, and i was so jazzed. i know yarn sales have been slow for everyone i know lately, but it still bums me out when i have a slow week. that sale really perked me up! thanks l! you rock! and tought my how to do short rows! woot!

otherwise, not too much. i plan to dye yarn and fiber to-morrow. after sending shannon fiber for felting for her new book…woot woot!…i researched wet felting a bit and found things you can do that incorporate all sorts of things and can be super thin and gauzy, so i am really eager to try it for a more fine art vibe. i am so excited to see her book. i am hoping to go visit the land of cleves and their snb and fancy spinsters soon…

so. strange day. tired and out of it. i have been having issues with my pain patches tearing the crap out of my skin. and they smell funny when i take them off. which is a new development. it burns. and itches. driving me crazy. it sounds like i have patch herpes. ew.

in super exciting news, my friend john and his adorable wife diana invited jake and i to come out next month probably. i don’t think jake can do it, because we go away for sheep and wool and then to hilton head with the parents, but i may go out for 5 days or a week. i am so excited! i vowed to have a detailed email to them every week, hopefully talk that often and diana did design for me, all my logos, etc, and cards, and for free! and she is a real designer. the real deal. so, i sent a bunch of yarn back with john last time he was in town, i will post photos of the things she made with it. amazing. really creative. and i sent her some of the muffy’s favorite beehives that we all know and love, and she made a baby hat that is so cute. it is self-striping yarn, and where the beehives are are all the same color, so that flat part is one color and the beehives are another, so it makes these raised stripes. it looks gorgeous. i need to knit wiht it more often. i sound like i am blowing my own horn, but i feel like i do with most creative things i do that it comes from somewhere else, not from me. otherworldly. anyway, she hadn’t used lots of handspun before and said that she felt like she had been ruined for regular yarn. it seems boring. and it is true. you look at crazy handspun and think what the hell will i do with this? but the yarn does all the work. whatever you make looks amazing. in fact, you have to make it simple and let the yarn do the work. and it is fun to knit with, to see what it will look like, because you don’t know. so pdx, here i come. for those of you that live there, let me know, maybe we can catch up. i am thinking of doing a saturday market with diana. woot woot!

on a really sad note, i ran across this, which blew me away, because i didn’t realize they had been in prison for so long.west memphis three have been in prison for 13 years, now. and echols is waiting in solitary confinement to get lethal injection. insanity. and it is so scary to realize that if people don’t want to hear the truth, they won’t. and even in america, the land of the free, you can die for something you didn’t do. and your own tax money might just pay for it. so if you can afford a few bucks to donate, do it.

that is about all. i feel a bit out of it. sorry. but hey, it’s spring! maybe i can hang my fiber up outside!! wooooooooo hoooooooo!

hugs and smooches all around,
n.

i had to take the mazda in to be inspected. amy graciously picked me up and went to ligonier because it was super nice out and we opened the sunroof and did some zoom zooming. we popped by kathy’s kreations to pick up yarn i needed to dye for kriya, at long last

we then decide to go to the tavern for a light bite and to pick up the awesome bread that they have there. a few minutes in, we hear a thump, thump and then someone freaking out, so of course, those of you that know me even a bit, know that i am always in the middle of the emergency to see what is going on. this 84 year old man has fallen off of his barstool, where he is eating lunch with his daughter, wacked his head a couple of times and is passed out. blue lips. she is pumping his chest and has his head at a strange angle. she doesn’t know cpr. he is breathing, his pulse is weak, clammy, but i think he just passed out. then, people that know them happen to show up…4 or 5 i think in all. the ambulance finally comes and it appears that he felt lightheaded, because his blood pressure was super low and took some nitro, which made him go down. it was strange, because his pulse was almost nothing in the left arm, but pounding in the right. the ambulance came like 20 minutes later, so it was fortunate that he didn’t have a heart attack, first because i would be trying to give cpr for that length of time. with asthma. no good. and next, because he would likely be dead. so don’t have a medical emergency in ligonier. just so you know.

in other news, my mom told me today that my gran, who lives in australia, fell down and hit her head. i hate the fact that i can’t afford to fly out to see her. my grandfather died not long ago, and she is not a social person, so she is alone all the time. there is stuff to do nearby, but she is too shy and backward to do it.

not much else going on. i just feel really tired and headachey, despite the fact that i got nothing done today. what can you do?

i saw an animal police show on animal planet and i was really pleased to see that in florida they not only give you super harsh fines for animal cruelty, but they will throw you in jail, too. there was a guy who tries to help out wild animules that get stuck in bad situations. they had to tranquilize a deer that was tangled in wire, and it died. i guess that the drugs are really hard on animules, they die really easily. i usually don’t watch stuff like this because i sit and cry. even when they have happy endings. even more.

so that is all. new yarns on both luxe.etsy.com as well as http://luxefibre.com.
so go, check ‘em out. and buy stuff. i mail stuff tomorrow, so hurry up!

smoochies (with furrowed brow),
n.

i have gotten my new wheel, and a BUNCH of fiber, and silk yarn to dye all in a few day period, and really good stuff and i am too tired to use it. i spun with the wheel yesterday, and it rocks…here is my gripe with her…the orifice on the bulky flyer is 7/8in, the yarn guides are not nearly that big. i would actually guess maybe half and inch. what is the point of the giant orifice? and i also had some issues with the yarn tangling on the clippy yarn guide thingies when i was doing a bulky textured ply. but that might be something i was doing. and i packed a ton of fiber onto the bobbins, so that was good. oh, what else is bad? the regular bobbins are miniature. i wouldn’t probably use them for anything. teeny. i am used to an 8 oz bobbin as the regular bobbin on the louet, and then the bulky one is huge. on this one, the bulky is normal sized, to me. so. it spins super duper smoothly, it is really easy to change the bobbin without messing with the driveband. and it is gorgeous. i love it. i do. i sound like a whiny bitch. i kind of am a whiny bitch. oh, i am looking for a name for lendrum…any idears? the winner will get a little something something.

i got tons of fiber, beautiful ecru baby alpaca…yum! and i actually have lots of yarns to add to my site, which i plan to do to-morrow. i will be adding more spinning batts, as you seem to really dig em. i will keep em coming. and always feel free to ask for stuff…i need to round up the energy to take photos, which tires me out because i have to get up and down and up and down. i hate that i even have to think about that. that i have to consider what i need to do, want to do, and how much energy i have available to do it. and if i push on one day, i will be completely bankrupt of energy the next day. i am trying really hard to stay positive and not get upset about it. i need to just find stuff that i can do when i am pooped that is creative and productive. that is what keeps me from really getting upset and feeling worthless.

last night i saw an article about people suing the company that makes the sleeping pill, ambien, because they have been sleepwalking and sleep eating. i do that. some of the people ate really insane things, raw bacon, for example. also, there were people driving in their sleep. i have had sleepwalking issues forever, i talk, all sorts of crazy things. and other than sometimes saying insane stuff, i seem awake. eyes open, not slurry. for that reason, i don’t talk on the phone late at night. i never remember what i say and it can be dangerous. ask amy. she knows. i also had a stint of waking up in the kitchen in my underpants. not the underpants i went to sleep in. for real. freaky!

what else? i got that strange “yarn” made out of strips of fabric a while ago and started a purse and a skinny scarf made out of it. i ordered a big lot of vintage handles for em, and i will see how people like them. it looks very retro, but cool. i like em. i will take photos of the heap of stuff i have gotten recently, i swear it. and the site will be updated hell or high water on sunday.

ok, must get something to eat.
smoochies,
n.

so, i feel pretty good today, knock on wood…let me preface that story with saying that yesterday i didn’t blog or anything because i was so exhausted that i didn’t do anything at all. nothing. i think i got so excited and hyper giving the lesson, especially flashing the stash to jess, and quickly because she wanted to leave earlyish, that i tired myself out. i really was hyper. and on that line, i think that the spinning and dyeing class is going to happen, i will keep you up on it, especially for locals that want to come. or people from a different country that want to come too. jess, can they stay with you? so needless to say, i did nothing yesterday. nothing at all. and i actually fell asleep last night at like 2 a-ish and didn’t wake up until 11:30a. so i must have been really tired.

i am so scared that i won’t hear the ups guy at the door with the woolery package that i may spin in my bedroom instead of the studio which is in the back of the house. i need to dye, but i can do that to-morrow.

i am nervous that i won’t like the new wheel, and also, i guess i feel really guilty about deserting louet. i wish i could keep her. she is a good wheel. and teaching a lesson made me extra sad because she really is an awesome wheel. i get like this when i have to update anything, when we get a new car, i get really sad about the old one. especially if it gets into an accident, i feel so nostalgic and guilty about changing.

jake drove the mazda to work yesterday and realized that the inspection expired in january. i think i have never ever realized that the car needs to be inspected before it is up ever, maybe. i have been lucky to not get a ticket, knock on wood, but i will not be going anywhere today, that is for shizzle.

i am sure you all know that i am terrible about answering my phone. especially if i am busy. and butta bitched me out about it last weekend. and it stung, although i joked with him about it, and i have been anwering my phone when i can, even if i don’t know the number. and when i don’t know the number, it is usually someone calling the shop, which i hate answering. but i have been answering anyway. so there butta…i did listen to you. i felt like an arsehole.

i had this nightmare last night…i always have nightmares…that my friend heather’s old house, which is really haunted, we went to get some stuff out of it, and it was in nola. me, butta and jake. and it was super scary and then they left me there to wait because we didn’t have enough room in the car to take everything. so they left me there whilst they tried to find a truck. and it was really scary. also, we went to taco bell, i think that was due to boo’s post about taco bell and there were whole little fish in the food. nasty. gross. with heads and tails on and everything. so see boo, you would not want to eat that! gross! grody!

ok, i am off to get dressed and do some work, while i have the energy. take it where i can get it.

smoooooooch!
n.

last night, couldn’t sleep. i carded up some stuff for my lesson i was giving jessica(give jessica a woot woot! she hung out with me for her birthday!)from pittsburgh who is super cool! it was really fun. although i fear that i was a bit more hyper than anyone should be whilst teaching someone anything, particularly someone who has never met you in person. i am normally a dead duck, except when it comes to stuff i am into, in which case i am an utter maniac. i guess i didn’t have anyone to really introduce me to new stuff, until i went to camp, and even then, i had to learn what i could and then get it together once i got home. so i hope i can help her out. she is involved in the union project which is the coolest thing i have ever seen…and i hope to get to work with her in the future there. and if anyone is doing an event or party, you can do it there…in a restored church! so go check out the site! it is always so inspiring to meet people that make such a big difference in the community. so, another woot woot to jess! soon after she left, two big packages of fiber showed up. the one from littlebarninc…only took like 10 days to come! that might be a record. was the order correct? of course not!
what did i get, well, tons of angelina, as usual. you would think that i eat the stuff, i go through it so quickly. also, tussah silk, ecospun, which is made out of plastic soda bottles, but is soft, but white, and i dunno if it is dyeable. i called dharma and asked them and they said probably not with regular dyes, maybe with the vat dyes. blech! i got alpaca in white and also what was supposed to be brown, but is actually a really gorgeous caramel color. a mistake, but it is so pretty! and alpaca is so awesome to spin. so i spun some teal roving with the alpaca and peacock sparkle in strips. and i will ply it texturally, methinks and it will be super pretty. and soft. yum! i also got some merino from rhlindsaywool.com the best bulky wool roving supplier in the world. only natural colors and black, but the prices are awesome and the service is so fast it blows my mind. and always correct. it comes ground from across the country and shows up 2 days after i order it. rock! i ordered some dark brown falklands 54s, but it isn’t choco brown, it is sort of heathered. i dunno if i should just shut up and use it, or try to dye it a nicer brown. brown is so damn tricky to get. and then my usual big ball of merino. the luxe staple.

i also got an order of undyed silk yarn from india, that the shipping was more expensive than the yarn, but it still worked out moderately ok. the yarn is really gorgeous silk. i cannot wait to dye it. woot! i took photos of it, i will upload to-morrow.

i have a list of colors i will be dyeing stuff to-morrow i will be seeing exactly how much fiber i can put into an oven bag and do semi sold colors. i normally only dye a few pounds at a time, while that might seem like a lot to you, ok, not all of you, but many of you, that is a lot, but i run out of fiber and have to dye every week. i figure this way, i at least have the basics and can just dye yarns weekly, or fiber as i need it.

in a semi-lucid sleepy state, i sent one of my favorite people an emotional email and he sent me back a really really sweet one. and it meant a lot to me to know that i am still important in his life…i think i seem cold to a lot of people i am friends with. i hope i don’t, but i think i do, and i tend to shut down when i feel hurt, and not talk about it. it is really hard for me. i don’t want to open up and get slammed. also, i am able to just shut off in situations where someone acts nasty to me, although, once i see someone for what they are, that is it. i am done. and that can be percieved as cold, i think. maybe it is cold. i can’t unknow things though.

strange news? oh my. dude shooting pigeons. downtown pittsburgh shut down. nice.

not enough wierdness for the pittsburgh area? this girl was missing for 10 years since she was 14. she says that this dude, who was 38 at that time, kept her prisoner in his house for the last 10 years. he claims it was consensual. charming.

more, you say?does scientology freak you out? it should. i have an intense fear that it will make sense to me someday. and i will sell all my fiber in order to give them all of my money to take the top secret classes on their flagship. which is actually a SHIP! whoa! jews don’t have no ship! not even a bus! or a pony. nothing.

last night, i think i blogged(i am a bit spaced out late at night) that i put bread in the machine for jake to eat when he awoke, still hot and fresh. the first thing he said when he woke up was, “mmmm…bread…smells so good…” he told me that he thought he was dreaming. or that he smelled it and was dreaming. but it was no dream! it was a lovely oat bread. hot fresh…and yummmmmmmmy!

i need a snack. and then off to do some work. i have some orders to get caught up on. keep the baby names coming for diana and john, diana actually commented! which is really something, she is a bit shy…so woot woot to diana! and she loves lots of the names, ellis, ainsley, and more…really nice names…and jess k, put in your daughter’s name again for me…

ok. off to snack. and some photos for your enjoyment….
smoochies,
n.

i am tired and have a headache, but can’t sleep. and i don’t want to start a knitting project. and i am tired. and i have a lesson to teach to-morrow. why. can’t. i. sleep? huh?

i straightened up the studio and i carded some fiber for to-morrow and left the studio sniffling with fiber stuck on my eyeballs. and it still is. ah well. i never wear wool, and i think i am mildly allergic to it.

i put some white oat bread to bake in the bread machine so it is ready for jake when he wakes up, and i may eat a little when i wake up, too.

i took a shower and talked to amy at thet same time, by putting a shower cap on my phone. and on me, too. and she could hear me ok. what do you think of that? and yet, no one can hear me when i use the speakerphone feature and hold the phone 2 inches from my face.

while i am glad to be busy at the shop, i am stressed by the lack of yarn in the store, plus the big order for kpixie, which i need to get cracking on. i am thinking that i should pick some of my yarn up from pgh knit and bead, although they sold a lot, so maybe it is better to leave it there.

any of you who read my blog and have bought stuff from me, please send me photos of finished objects…ok? please! especially the sock yarns. i plan to do dyeing on thursday and i would like some suggestions for socks…colors? pick two colors and send in the suggestion. i have been doing them half and half so it has a stripishness to it, although i blend it so it is more interesting. i think i may do one that is totally crazy though. jackson pollock collection, if you know what i mean. action jackson. that is me, sitting on the kitchen floor. dyeing is so fun! suggestions! ok?

i have to say that they lack of need to retaliate in any way against the mean email lady…jake used to be the laid back one, and i was the reactionary…he got so mad about that email, and i was just shocked, really. baffled. but i imagine that she has some sort of bee in her granny bloomers that she took out on me, and whatever. in fact, in my email back to her, i apologized and told her to have a super day. super. i should send her a gift. although all of you know how bad i am at sending trades and presents. for example, i need to dye spun yarn for a couple of trades and ran out of said yarn, so i think about it everyday, waiting to make my whole order, rather than just ordering two skeins. and my memory is terrible, so if i owe you something, please feel free to harass me, i probably have forgotten, despite the fact that i am into it. further, i have been having problems getting the pink and brown that i really want, and it is very frustrating. although, i think i have an idea. so. we will see in the next couple of days. and i will get the yarn and send it off. i don’t even have enough fiber to spin and then dye until my order(s) come. although, i tracked the littlebarn package and it has actually been shipped and should be delivered to-morrow. maybe i should just buzz over to somewhere and order some undyed worsted now. and then, go to sleepies.

i will take photos of my lesson with jessica, if she allows me, and post what she makes….yay!

oh, also, i ordered the lendrum tonite…and they said they had them in for the first time in 3 years, so hopefully all will work out. when i get it, i will be sure to post photos. jake let me put it on his credit card and i need to repay part of it with the income from my wheel’s sale. but yay! i need to get another skeinwinder to skein socks from a skein. fun fun.if anyone has one that they love, tell me what it is.start working on names…and keep the girl baby names for diana’s mini…remember, unusual, but pretty.

also we will be starting an ask lady diana question segment on the blog…that is diana’s full name. really. anyway, so if you have a question of any kind at all that you want answered, either post it, or email it to me and it will be answered on the blog. and a prize may be involved. she is very knowledgable about design and fashion and art and it preggers, so babies…loads of things…

just a quicky…i wanted to post an ad on one of the free spinning equipment websites…i sent my ad, in the format i was told to use and i am gathering that the email program she uses opened the characters up in an odd way or something…this is the email i got from the lady that runs it…

“Your ad as sent below is not acceptable. Ads must be clean of additional characters (>). I will not have my time wasted cleaning ads which is the responsibility of the sender. DO NOT send me anything like this again.”

let me say that i have no clue what she is talking about because on my version of the email there are no strange characters. at all. anyway.

i am going to wait until the weekend to see if my wheel sells. if it doesn’t i will be trading it in for the other one. so if you are interested, please email me asap. ok? i am a but flexible on the price.

i love grounded for live, which has been taken off of the wb. and fox. and is on dvd and now on abc family every weekday, to the point that the same episodes are on almost weekly. but who cares. i lurve it. hilarious. and we saw a kid whilst on vacation in sc that i swear was brad. i swear it. and jake thought so too. we also saw trent reznor at ikea before. i used to live in mercer county, where he went to high school, so knew him from there. and our bit of knowedge of each other had to do with him being a creepy stalker towards a girl i knew and telling him that. and him calling me a mean name. so my only reason for thinking it might not have been him is that he didn’t punch me in the stomach. i seem pompous? everyone should remember me, you ask? well, i have looked the same since i was an infant and have had a bad attitude, methinks, since then, as well. so yeah. people do remember me. wouldn’t you? although, they tend to remember me in a, “didn’t that bitch briefly go to my highschool/college/elementary school/do a dive off of a platform and conk her head and never dive again/say something rude and make me cry/break her arm playing kickball/bust her nose playing dodgeball/get chased by an ostrich/or some such thing? i am a bit of a local celebrity after having the tattoo shop, and then at the yarn shops that i sell to, i am a bit of a celeb there, as well. and i don’t like the attention most of the time, so avoid going to highly populated places like that. in fact, i needed to pick up yarn to dye because the yarn i ordered from a shitty business that i will not name has not come despite the fact that i ordered it more than a week ago. arseholes. and i had my hair done and thought i should go, but i hadn’t eaten and if i went i would be kept forever. and didn’t even have yarn samples to take. ok, back to donal logue…he has an uninformative but funny little website with funny letters on it. here is one of them…i think this might be someone i know…

Dear Donal,

I think you’re incredibly hot. I don’t know why, since you have red hair and fair skin and are kind of pasty, and I normally go for the swarthy Clive Owen types, but I want to have your babies. Can we work something out?

Love,

amy r./n. huntington, pa

Dear amy,

Look. I’m a happily married man. But I can tell you that I get this a lot. It’s true that in a world of wimpy WB pretty boys, I’m one of the only real men on television. Me and Anthony LaPaglia have to carry a big burden.

Now, before you start to feel bad about your very natural desires, I’m a professional, and I’m used to it. It’s always flattering when young, nubile women want to make sweet love to you, but it can get pretty hectic. Sometimes I don’t even want to leave my house because I can’t handle the number of women who will be throwing themselves at me- not to mention the underpants and room keys.

There’s no shame in wanting to physically express your love of Logue, and I know how many women have impure thoughts about me, thoughts I applaud whole-heartedly, but I would ask that you try to respect my boundaries. If you’re following me around a supermarket, it’s totally okay to stare at my rock-hard pecs and shout “Donal, you’re a sexy mofo!” It’s even okay to drop a nude picture of yourself in my shopping cart. (Don’t do this if I’m with my kids.)

But I draw the line at girls who break into my trailer and strip in front of me to NSYNC songs. That’s just uncomfortable for everyone.

Look but don’t touch,

Don

what else? i got my hair done today, which is awesome because it looked bad, and i think i am giving a spinning lesson to-morrow. i look less like an old lady now.

i did my every third day patch change today, and it is fun because it rips some of my skin and any peach fuzz underneath it, like a pore strip, but painful, and normally it just smells like the alcohol in the patch, but it smelled…bad, and my skin was really beat up. so i hope i don’t have a strange skin thing going on. or rather, another strange skin thing.

i prepped a zillion sequins for spinning last night, until i almost fell asleep and then posted crazy stuff…and when i woke up, they were stuck all over me and are all over the place. but i have loads of sequins to spin, and i know you all enjoy that! sequins rock!

i added spinning fiber to my website as well as some gorgeous silk yarns, among other things. and some new things on the luxe.etsy.com store. and, let me ask you guys your opinion on something…do you think i should put more knitted things on the stores? i have been making super duper skinning loop stitch scarves and baby thing is for every season, right? and i am thinking about making some purses, too, the kind with cool handles, not crappy knitted handles. what do you think? what sorts of things do you guys like to knit for spring? what sorts of yarns would you like for spring? any special fibers? let me know. inquiring minds…

thanks for all the interest in my wheel…which is the s15 with extra bobbins and a bulky flyer/3 bulky bobbins/fiber/extra drive band and is finished with a clearcoat. i am asking 500 hundy for everything. or make me an offer. it is a wonderful wheel. it is a good deal. i looked around to make sure.

off to make supper for my sweetie.
smoochies.
n.