luxe

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.