luxe

well, i have hideous leg cramps and have taken the 3rd shower of the evening in an attempt to calm them, at least a bit. i had that overwhelming pain thing that makes my face start going nuts and then you realize that you are starting to cry. that ugly crying, like you do when you are a kid, and get a kickball in the face and attempt not to cry. i am such a baby. so. no spinning. plus the lack of fiber. still.

i washed and picked shannon’s fiber and it looks really gorgeous, i am a bit jealous of it, but i dyed some nylon yarn that i picked up with amy and it is really pretty. a sweet deal for a mere dollar and the same dyepot i was using anyway. i learned some lessons about dyes not being like mixing paint, that is for sure. because of the pigments, the turnout when you mix colors can be really unpredictable, so the turqoise i added obviously darkened some of the green and yellow, so i started to actually use my color theory to try to tweak the colors, but they aren’t pure pigment, so you don’t know what they mixed to get that color, until of course, you set the dye and it come out some odd color. pretty. really pretty, but not what i expected. i ended up adding fuschia to try to make it more like teal than green. go figure. the wash water was navy blue. after picking apart all the wet newly dyed locks, they covered thew hole back deck pretty much. a lot of fiber. i hadn’t actually just put fiber in a big giant pot all together with water before, and it really is easier on the fiber, i think. i may start trying bigger dye batches with single colors, or a variance of a single and then blend, instead of handpainting the fiber, which i love, but is the lazy way to do it. is that bad? it feels nice and…

not much more to report. my close close friend who i had to stop talking to called me late tonight to tell me that she missed me and loved me and i almost started to cry. i think about her every day. i hope she knows that i didn’t stop talking to her because i don’t care, but because i do care. too much.

i guess nothing else, other than another apology for my drug addled blogging. shameful! but i knew not what i was doing. in a big way. i had also turned on the airconditioning with all of the windows open, which jake wasn’t so happy about when he got up. i don’t remember it even faintly.

oh, does anyone have a cat toothpaste that they use that the cats actually like? i would be indebted to you forever. and then we don’t have to save up for cat dentures, which are very expensive, especially when they insist on having a “grill”.

i am going to do a small update on luxe this weekend, so keep an eye peeled…

oh, and a really funny photo..this is taken in UFO my favorite antiquey place, eddie put this sign by the fan…i told him how hilarious it was and he told me it wasn’t meant to be funny and that he used to have a photograph of a mangled hand but his wife made him take it down because it was too gorey. did i spell that wrong? anyway, he also has a sign up front saying that if he catches a shoplifter he will break their arms. and i think he really would try, although he says he never catches them. on that happy note…

xo,
n.

This entry was posted on Saturday, June 17th, 2006 at 12:14 am and is filed under Uncategorized.