luxe

well, still rash city here. i feel poopy and moody and weepy because of the steroids, i think, looking gross, and i had to cancel my hair appt because i think the chemicals may not be a good thing for my tender, inflamed skin. so, roots, gray hairs, not good. and i can’t wear makeup to cover any of this mess up because it hurts. so mainly, it feels burned, now, and the rest of me is dry and itchy, but i am scared to put anything on it. so.

i got bloodwork for the second time this week. thankfully, maryanne, the best phlebotemist (sp?) ever, did it both times. she is a maverick! i then went to the post office to get my cards from the yarn museum (thanks so much!) and they weren’t there. so. i had to stop taking my mood meds when this whole rash thing started because we thought that might be the problem, although i have been off of them since sunday and it isn’t really any better, so i guess i could start em back up. anyway, since i have been off of them, i feel weepy and out of sorts all the time. when they told me that the package wasn’t there, i felt like i would cry.

i spent the rest of the day getting stuff tagged and listed for the trunk show this weekend at sugar, which of course i probably won’t be attending, due to the pox. jake is dropping the stuff off for me after work to-morrow. he is the best. ever.

anyway, i don’t have much else to say because i am not really myself, and i don’t want to poop on everyone’s blogreading. i do appreciate all of the kind comments and emails, though. and i must thank my sweet friend barbe for listening to me rant and talking me of the ledge. or curb, whatever.

also, i found a package from ireland in the mail today and one of my customers had made a linoleum cut of my logo and made me greeting cards! and she sent a card she had also made herself with poetry she had written on it, i will take photos and post em, it was a fantastic time to have gotten them. and because i am overly emotional lately, i got weepy, whilst in my car. thanks so much lorna! too sweet! mwah! mwah!

photos of something? um, okay.
here is another color scheme of the poppy scarf. i haven’t listed it yet, but let me know if you want it. i like this one the best so far. it has vintage buttons for the centers.

off to knit. or spin. or something.
sorry to be such a misery.
xo
n.

wow, my rash is famous! is it gone? no. it is all over my face and i can’t wear makeup to cover it, it is on my chest, neck and shoulders. i am on steroids from the dr and they aren’t helping yet, although i feel the panicky steroid feeling in my stomach. i hate that. my bloodwork revealed that my white blood cell count was not elevated at all, and it should have been, whether it be due to allergic reaction or a virus, so that is not really a good thing, because it doesn’t make any sense. so, to-morrow i have to go for a whole bunch of bloodwork, which sucks because on monday i got only one test done and could have just gotten everything then. ah well. hopefully this will clear up before the weekend. i am supposed to do a trunk show this weekend at sugar boutique but i called jamie to tell her that if i looked like this and wasn’t able to wear makeup i wouldn’t be there, because i would scare everyone away. my face is just covered in a rash and it hurts. and the trunk show is two days, i think 8 or 9 hours the first day, i am not sure what the second day was, regardless, i have lots of stuff made for the show, and will get it to her. so. i thought the steroids would have helped more by now, but the fact that my blood counts are not correlating makes me worry that it won’t work at all. so. that is that. i haven’t slept for the last couple of nights. i was up at about 4:30 with a sore throat and got a decaf coffee, and then the garbage truck came, and then just knitted. so. tired.

most all of the stuff i updated on the site got sold (thanks!) and i have a few other things up my sleeve that i need to get organized. i also have some batts to add. here is a preview…let me know if you want them before i list them…

and then this that i made for a swap…it is a combo of commercial yarn and pencil roving knitted up:

today one of my most favorite people in the world, gabe came over and hung out with me for a bit, we worked on some prep for some of his prints and i gave him a white knitted roving necky thing for his birthday. he gave me a drawing and a little painting, i will take photos and show ya, don’t worry. he used to come in and help me when i still had the shop and he just made everyday a pleasure. no matter how bad of a mood i was in, it always made me happy to hang out with him. he is one of those people that is so artistic and musical and charismatic that everyone wants to know him, to be friends with him. and in the end, if he is a good friend of yours, he will be forever. and it is a nice thing to know he is out there.

i am making myself tired, so i am going to try to perk myself up and do some spinning.

oh, did anyone watch big day last night? oh my god, it is so so funny! and miriam schorr(sp?) from hedwig and the angry inch is on it as the slutty/crazy older sister. she sleeps with a dude and accidentally drinks his contacts and he is legally blind.

xoxoxoxo
n.

so…the rash…all over me. the worst part is that it is on my face and looks gross. really really gross. and it feels like a sunburn. i called my doctor rather than the pcp and he said i had to go for bloodwork…right then, and then come in to-morrow for him to read the tests and see the horror for himself. i didn’t take any antihistamines so the test wouldn’t come out funny and now i look horrible. sucks. i didn’t want to go out without makeup and the makeup burns. so. i will let you know what the doc says.

otherwise, i spent the whole day packing orders and looking for a yarn that was sold i think at handmade arcade. i don’t remember selling it, but i can’t find it, so it must have been sold. somehow it takes me hours and hours and hours to pack em up, and i still have a few trades to pack up still.

off to knit and then spin a bit later, i reckon. wish me luck!

xo
n.

firstly, does anyone watch ugly betty? it is such a fantastic show. so sweet, but really smart. one of my favorite things is that they will mock a celebrity and barely change their name. for example there was going to be the first photoshoot of “tim and chloe’s” baby “chutney” hmmm i wonder if they are talking about tom and katie? and their baby named after an alpaca. jake and i were cracking up. and then saying it to ourselves. baby chutney. ha. chutney. hilarious. and the outfits on betty are hilarious. so, go and watch it! i think you can even download the episodes for free for those who (!?!?) don’t have a tv.

otherwise, thanks so much for all of the rash suggestions. it is still raging full on (did anyone get the firehose out of that?)but is moving around from hour to hour. so odd. it is on my neck and my face is sort of puffy and pocked around my mouth, but still nothing on my arms and legs. odd, heh? i imagine it means something, particularly because most diseases or reactions start with your face or your extremities from what i could find online, anyway. i am pumped full of benadryl, so i am sleeeepy.

i did a loooooooot of spinning today. i got myself mostly caught up. i have an update to-morrow around 6ish, i will be sending an email earlier in the day about it with a special deal for you, my little fiber rockstars. i am really hoping to do some dyeing too but i am not sure if that is realistic. monday at the latest.

i hope i look okay to-morrow because we need groceries and i would like to go to joann’s and pick up some stuff i need. so. i don’t want to have to wear a ski mask. you know?

i got a silver x-mas tree last year which i haven’t ever used yet. it will be a hannukah bush if anyone asks…got it? when i was a kid, i was so jealous of all the xmas stuff everyone had. my family are not from america and are jewish, and the huge hannukah thing is american jews trying to make their kids feel better about not getting xmas, but no one in any other country makes a fuss like that. so we didn’t get a ton of stuff because it wasn’t a big deal. but it became a really depressing time for me. nothing to look forward to and then when you go back to school, everyone has all kinds of new stuff and they ask you what you got and…nothing. so depressing. now, i know it is a bit corny to be so into it, it is more about being festive and happy and being with the people we love and admire, sending presents to our far away friends that make our lives so much better and now it isn’t depressing anymore. i have an amazing husband, and family and kitties and friends that are to die for! where was that going? well, i need to figure out what i am going to do about ornaments, i have a handful. literally. i would like to make em, but i am not sure that i really have time for that.

i am getting super sleepy, so i am going to read a bit. i was up until about 5 am this morning itching. a photo? lemme see what i can dig up.
here is yet another snow bride…in purple this time.
she is really gorgeous. i do plan to do one that is really pale purple all plied into the white. i also plan to do a pale blue one. it is a bit addictive, i must say. i also plan to spin and ply a bunch of yarns and then handpaint them, which i think will be gorgeous. after reading about shaefer yarns on someone’s blog (i can think of who it was…so tired, feel free to drop a mean comment if it was you) and i had used them before i learned to spin and they are just lovely. anyway, after looking at their site and the yarns i had from them from a couple of years ago, i thought that i would like to try dyeing that way again. you know, cause i have so much time. but really, it is easy enough to just spin a yarn an then dye it.

sooooo sleepy.
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
and goodnight baby chutney. wherever you are.
n.

well! we had thanksgiving dinner at my in-law’s house yesterday, which was really good, as always (thanks mom!) and played with the dog there and then went home. i went up to shower and noticed a rash on my neck. big red welts. i called jake upstairs. by 2 minutes later, it was all the way around my neck and behind my ears. i was a bit freaked out. i took benadryl and it didn’t itch as much but had spread onto my stomach and back. today it looked a bit better, but has been different from hour to hour and now it is coming up onto my face. wanna see it? (this was yesterday) and i hadn’t scratched it at all…and here is another shot which looks like my skin is melting… some places it is slightly raised but very red little dots, in other places it is big welts. the benadryl seems to help a bit, but not much. i haven’t used new soap or detergent, the newest meds i am taking are more than a week in use, so i have no clue. if it doesn’t go away by monday i guess i will need to go to the doctor. sigh. anyone with ideas, please feel free to spring em on me. i did accidentally eat MSG from the gravy mix my mom in law buys and it does give me bad migraines, so i think that could be it. i played with their dog that does get sprayed with all sorts of doggie cologne sorts of things, but the only parts of me that touched her were my arms and my face and they are clear. sigh. scratch, scratch, scratch. i researched it online and i think i am right in thinking it is an allergic reaction to something, but i have no clue what. scratch. fleas?

i was really tired all day today, so i got some knitting done and not much else. i got my new fancy digital scale so i plan to get some stuff finished up and packed up to-morrow and sunday there will be a big update on luxe. so make sure you go by and pick some stuff up before it is all gone!

shannon gave me her new book, spin to knit which is really gorgeous and full of info. if you already know how to spin, there may not be a ton of new info in there, but the patterns are nice simple patterns that would work really well with handspun or commercial yarn and there is lots of information on fiber, prep, dyeing and more. if you are interested in learning to spin on a spindle or a wheel, this book is a great start. and even though i love shannon, even if i didn’t, i would love this book. and, she has the swap coming up for that, sign up is on the site, and a new book with her pal heather on making stuff with recycled felt! how awesome is that? i thought at first it was just another felting book, but no! wooo hooo!

well, i am itching. a lot. so off i go to…scratch? i have not been scratching, but since i have been on here i noticed that i have the rash on my whole torso and it is driving me nutso. i will keep you all posted, and take photos if it gets grosser, although it is worse now than it was when we took the photos yesterday.

xoxo
n.

well, i feel guilty about not blogging much lately, not spinning, drawing, or much of anything else. i have been knitting and crocheting as much as i can, to get some things done, but i haven’t had the energy to do much more until this week. praise be! so! yesterday i dyed a bunch of fiber and some sock yarn for secret pal 9 peeps and the site. i plan to do a big update on friday. i will keep you updated. so wanna see the special sock yarn for sp9? the yarn yenta made suggestions on colors and names, and it is called hawthorne.

i still need to let it completely dry and wind it off into skeins, so i will of course take photos at that point because it makes it look so much purdier. no? i also did this one, called “see-green”

i am doing all of them in both fingering and sport weights, and of course it is superwash merino. what else? more to come, for sure.

i am a proud member of the board for the new yarn museum started by linda of stone leaf moon yarns. you can contribute to the museum with pics of your own creations, or just go and check it out. it is really exciting, and linda is one of my heroes. she pushes the boundries of art and craft, in addition to being one of the sweetest women ever. of all times. and did i mention that she is amazingly talented? well, she is. anyway, the museum has different online exhibits and i think they are hoping to do a non-virtual museum at some point, as well! woo hoo!

i made these wristwarmers for my mom, and if she doesn’t wear them, i am taking them back. no, seriously. once i get some of my other projects out of the way, i will make some for myself. i love them! i used some yarn from the joann’s fancy collection that is a blend of wool, cotton and a bit of nylon, and it is so so nice, i must say. jojo’s has loads of yarn marked 40% off at the moment, and it is really nice quality. i am impressed. and that, from a yarn snob! wanna see the armwarmers?

i made up the pattern and do plan to post it soon. i swear. it was easy to do, i used the magic loop method. anyway, i will do it soon. soon. i am sure no one believes me anymore.

i was pleased to hear that oj’s deal fell through. and i was proud of britney for telling kfed to stuff it up his arse. good for her! next thing you know, she will learn to knit!

what else? i made a few hats for my niece, maddy. i used brown sheep and then some manos i had from ages ago, when i used to buy yarn (although i have been buying yarn when i get a good deal for handspun or for little projects)…anyway, i remember how fun it is to make up hat patterns as i go.

kid’s stuff is fun because it can be over the top and they will like it even better. plus, they love the intense colors. so, i also made a pink hat, i need to embellish it, still. so i just added the little poppies to this one, with vintage buttons, of course. chic!

in other news, i finally ordered a digital scale and managed to have it and every other thing i have ordered from amazon go to my mom’s house in iowa. sigh. i need to go now and check out if i made the mistake or amazon did. i swear that i remember sending the different items to different places. we will see.

i had my medication changed and i have been feeling better. still tired, but different, because my mood is better, so i can push through it more. it only got changed late last week, so we will see.

xoxo
n.

just a quickie, for those of you who have sent me emails or just think i am a sucky blogger as of late (i am, admittedly). i have been really really really exhausted/feeling poopariffic as of late and getting nothing done. at all. nothing. i think it may have been a medication issue, and went to the doctor today to adjust it, so here is to hoping that i feel a bit better now. the worst part is that i feel really really guilty. i am super behind on blogreading, i have gone a couple of days without touching the computer and have forgotten about things that are super important that need to get done. asap. and i feel really guilty about it even though i know that i don’t feel up to it. any of it. i forgot that i was out of my sleeping pill (even though i had to go to 3 pharmacies today), which is why i am awake and blogging. but i digress.

i haven’t even been knitting or drawing, i have just been too tired, but i have finished the handmaid’s tale which was amazing. i know i rant and rave about how much i love margaret atwood, and i know this book had a huge amount of notoriety, but somehow i didn’t read it, and it is just amazing. it has such a historical feel too, as her books always do. it feels so real, it always does. and it reminds me that it is really easy to let people take away your rights. it is really easy to not get involved, to not know anything, and to take all of the amazing things that we have here for granted. in the book, there is a period when women are not allowed to work anymore, or have their own bank accounts. it reminded me of one of my women’s studies professors in college that told us about when she got her doctorate and got a job at a university, she went to open a bank account to deposit her first paycheck, and they told her that she had to have her husband or father open it for her. granted, she is an old(olde?) lady, it would have been in the 50’s or early 60’s, but isn’t that amazing? in america. something that always seemed ironic to me was that her last name was “mann”. not only was she a devout feminist, but also a lesbian and a women’s studies professor.

whilst in the eckard today waiting for scripts to be filled, i was looking at makeup and saw lipsmackers (the flavored lip balms that we all loved as little grrls) and started laughing to myself. i remembered when my friend john (whose wife diana just had the adorable baby) asked me if i had some lip balm and i had a mocha flavored one from the health food store i think that i thought had no color to it. actually, it was brownish and had sparkles in it, and was…glossy. it was so funny. i realized hours later that it was not clear, or matte and he had smeared it all around his mouth with wild abandon, so he looked like he had been eating chocolate. it was funny. it doesn’t seem funny typed out though.

anyway, i am really hoping to get some photos taken and finish all of the sock dyeing that i need to do. i feel so damn guilty about this crap week i had. it wears me down.

did you guys hear about OJ’s book? about how if he HAD killed his wife he would have done it. total piece of shite, he is. in case the few people on his side had any questions. i am hoping it will bite him on the arse, that he will get busted for some other crime. sigh.

also, i heard the brittany spears soon to be ex was blackmailing her to give him the kids and a huge monthly stipend or he would release a sex tape of them, she said no and he released it. i feel sorry for her. i wonder if she will ever be able to trust anyone again. it was a dumb move, yes, but it must be hard to always have to wonder what someone really wants from you. and the kids, so she is tied to him forever. unless he does the thing that you would expect him to do and offers to be bought off to drop out of the kids’ lives. dirtbag. he is “that guy” that everyone knows, that smacks his girlfriend, cheats, has herpes and has given it to dozens of people, is multiple baby’s daddy, has no job, no skills, pants falling down, has underage girlfriends…i will stop and attempt to sleep. kahlo wants to sleep on me and snores like an old man. i don’t know how such a sweet little kitty snoot can make such a sound. she purrs nonstop, too, which is actually really soothing. also, i have cramps. wooo hooo!

oh, and since i got vonage, the tivo won’t update, so i need to call them and figure out what to do. all this wireless gear and i don’t know what is causing what. sigh.

man, bitch and moan, bitch and moan. i have a couple of links for ya…mohop shoes these handmade shoes that have rubber rings that allow you to add your own straps! really really cool idea! a new use for art yarns anyone?

and! for anyone who wants to make a lightbox to take their product pics with, i found this awesome blog all about photography, which has a tutorial for everything you can think of. i told my pally barbe st.john who said, oh yeah, i have a light tent. what does she not have? tell me! tell me!

okay, i am actually feeling a bit sleepy. so. here goes nothing.
xoxoxoxo

i will blog later about handmade arcade for those interested, although, let me say that the highlight was seeing my internet friends and acqaintances, and getting to be reminded just how wonderful they are. in addition, i saw a friend from years back (10?) from around here, adam macgregor, who was always an intelligent, sweet and amazingly talented guy. i look forwarded to hanging out and chatting in the future. i don’t know that many people from the olden days that i really want to know still, and catch up with. so hi adam! it was awesome to see you and your flaxen locks!

in other news, after a really long day yesterday, i was wiped out and depressed. i have said before that after big projects i get really bummed, and i guess that the show was sort of that. a lot of build up, plus i was thinking that i didn’t have enough stuff and ended up with an utterly ridiculous amount of stuff, as per usual. anyway, i woke up at 6am and the tv and my light was on (christina aguilara(sp?)’s video for hurt was on and it was really gorgeous. the song wasn’t even bad at all) and i didn’t remember falling asleep, which is not me. i turned it off, and when i woke up, it was 1p, and i was exhausted and felt like i had been in a fight. with 20 kick boxers. jesus. headache, which is the usual these days. maybe i drink gin in my sleep? anyway, i spent all day in bed, jake got the groceries, i called my mom to let her know a few things and told her a bit about how i felt, etc, and started crying. i got off of the phone, she doesn’t really know how to deal with me. i got in the shower and cried the whole time. sobbing. and i just feel depleted. i started knitting a hat for my niece, and the steady tempo kind of relaxed me, and my headache eased up after i took my meds.

i am ready to do some paintings and drawings. i have been so stressed out that i haven’t even done any drawings for the last few days. i am eager to make some things, work on projects that i have been thinking about. and i have a bunch of swaps that i need to get packed or knit up.

i did a swap with sara lechner, an AMAZING artist from germany. she asked for a poncholetta and “maybe” a hat in exchange for what ended up being a GORGEOUS mixed media painting, one of her angels, some old photos and when i came home from the show last night it was in my mailbox and despite my exhaustion from the day, i was blown out of the water. her work is gorgeous on flickr, but in person…wow. her blog is quite gorgeous, too, with a link to her flickr account, too. and she is building a studio which will be huge and has enormous windows, but due to the size, will be cold, so it makes me feel wonderful knowing that my stuff will keep her warm whilst she is creating things. i love that. thank you sara, it was just what i needed. i haven’t found the yarn to make her things that i like. the one she really like was striped with rowan big wool and handspun, i am thinking i will put pink and burgundy together, but maybe i will make it all handspun and use something that sort of has wide stripes on its own.

anyway, i imagine i have pms, and that is why i have a big gross bump on my cheek and feel like i got start blubbering at any minute. i also felt like i had a kidney thing coming on, and that is a thing that happens, too, for pms. sigh. and headaches. all the fricking time. boo hooo hooo.

i was kindly invited to crafty bastard(s) next year in dc, which i plan to work, and also bizarre bizaar(sp?) in the land of cleves, which is at the beginning of december. i have the trunk show at sugar for a couple of days mid-december, so it might be a bit tight. especially when i get so tired from these shindigs. speaking of sugar, the proprietress, jamie popped by at the show and she is the cutest, best dressed pregnant vixen of all times. she looks so cute all the time. tight long sweater, jean skirt, knee socks, cowboy boots. are you kidding me? too cute! she should be on cute overload! seriously.

i got some good trades there, plus good loot, which i will reveal to-morrow, i need to take photos. badly. i will. i swear it! i have much stuff to show you. i got jakie’s birthday pressies there, like i did last year, a few screened tshirts and a chocolate filled chocolate pillow from my punkrock pal heidi. that girl…i don’t know how she does so much. crazy. and little kids. amazing. i wanted to pick up a toy from friend or foe, just a little guy, but i didn’t have the cash on me and my booth was 20 miles away, so i forgot to go pack. ok. loot to-morrow. nuff said.

well, i am going to knit a bit, read a bit, and back to work to-morrow.
thanks for all the well wishes, it means a lot to me. i hope you all know that. okay? okay.

a photo, dated may 2005, when i got a drop spindle at sheep and wool and sent nutso with it. i think by june i got my louet, so 17 months since i caught to the bug. so odd. and the november before that is when i learned to knit. this yarn was dyed with koolaid, fiber from a local farm, yarn you could haul logs with. woah.

and a photo of pavel squeezed into a skinny basket filled with said yarn to sleep with it. cats seem to love sheep. hm. this is also from may of 2005…

xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
n.

just kidding. i am not going to handmade arcade. i will just be naked. oh, reverse that. so, i will be there, and will be wearing my blue apron thing top with the tulips on it because it has a deep all the way across pocket. and the bonnie raitt wanna-be hair that seem to identify me so well. or the xmen girl…anyway, i boxed up my wares, and holy shit is there a lot of stuff! krike! lots of yarn, lots of knits, some of the wire crocheted jewelry and even some spinning batts for the spinners in the hizzy. if you read this and don’t know me in person and are going, please please please introduce yourself! i look mean when i am nervous, and shy, so don’t take it at me actually being mean (not to you anyway!) and i have a gorgeous pink table cloth with graphic dandilions on it, really purdy. although no luxe signage. a bit of an oversite, but there is nowhere to hang it but on the front of the table (and no one will see it there) or ON the table taking up room. i have cards, and tagged most stuff, so that should be sufficient. oh, i need to bring used plastic bags even though they are ugly just in case, as well. ooooh, and the 15th person to introduce themselves to me will win something. seriously. i don’t know if that is a high number or a low one? are there lots of pgh lurkers? hm? are there?

lots of great people there and super vendors from all over the place, so it should be a rockin show! so come. okay. i saw they have the free haircut thing again. that seems like a bad, bad idea. and my hairdresser tammy would kick my newly mulletted ass. i hear that the mullet/rattail thing is what the hipsters do now. and moustaches. not good. i do like handlebar moustaches on jake. it makes him look like he’s mean…grrr! but he will never keep one, sadly.

so nothing else, it was jake’s birthday today and i am so scattered that i didn’t even blog him something nice, but i will, belated, but nice. i always get his pressies at handmade arcade, so that is fun, plus we are going to iowa to see the family after xmas so i am going to pick up stuff for the kidlets and maddy there, too. an excuse! yay! lookout stuffed animule crafters, here i come!

i am so excited to get to see some pals like heidi ala my paper crane and shannon okey the knitgrrl in the flesh and mrs lampe and her lumps…and more more more!

so come out! there are loads of vendors. but eat first, the food there is normally not so good. at all. savvy? (hear that lynn? pirate talk, again!)

so sleepy. and must get up at frickin 8 am, which is not good. i am not such a morning person. lupus and morning…not good friends.

xoxo
n.

guess what i have? a migraine! woo hoo! i woke up feeling hung over (moreso than usual) and spent the day catching up on paperwork and emails and stringing sequins for yarns and crocheting some of them up for the show. i made a crazy yarn out of bits and pieces, sparkle and then used all of the teeny scraps of felt from projects strung onto thread, then plied with several threads and the one holding the scrap and it looks amazing. jake described it as a stuffed animal carnage. and it crocheted up sooooo cool! i used a big hook and then made the loops even bigger, adjusting as i went to make sure that the flags didn’t get caught up. i will post a pattern after the show. it is easy peasy, but is great for the really unusual lumpy yarns. and i made a long skinny scarf with about 36 yards super bulky, so that is really nice, too, as that is all that fits on a big bobbin, it is so bulky. i have two other skeins of it. i will make sure to post photos. it has just been so dreary, i really need to make a lightbox so i can take photos anytime!

i let jason know about your kind comments and emails and he said a big THANKS! they kept him today, as well, because he will be on crutches and his other foot is really sore, so he isn’t able to get around without being in horrible pain. his girlfriend is flying out from LA to help take care of him, so he won’t be staying with us, which is super sweet of her. he has an amazing family and i imagine they would have wanted to come out if he had wanted them to. so thanks again, everyone!

i got a sequin order today from cartwrights, my favorite sequin place. i got through them pretty fast.i use a whole packet for a skein of yarn, which is about 750-1000 usually. i string them by hand whilst watching tv. i like how it looks in conjunction with clusters, or just the singles all over the place. it is so sparkly!

i got to talk to linda today for the first time and i was so excited! she is one of the biggest sources of inspiration and kind words. and awesome hats. don’t ever forget the hats!

i will close with a kitty tummy. this is my sweet kahlo. she is a bit OCD about licking and has licked the fur off of most of her underside. her tummy is the softest thing you have ever felt. she is the most cuddly, sweet girl you have ever met. she sleeps on me, or on my pillow as much as she can, especially if i am doing something that makes it inconvenient. and if i am sick, she always comes to watch over me. velvet tummy?

pics in the next post, i swear!
xoxoxoxoxo
n.