luxe

well well well. let me kick the post off by saying that jake would love comments. nuff said.

nextly, i have a bunch of fiber to update on luxe and hope to have a bit of time to spin to-morrow after packing orders and such. i did a few dye batches tonight with the 6 different purples i got recently, so fingers crossed on those. i also chucked in a skein of sock yarn for my dad’s birthday socks.

in other news, i was attempting to catch up on my blogs that i am incredibly behind on. shameful, i tell you. and realized that lisa s had deleted her blog after a nasty bunch of arseholes ANONYMOUS commenters (along with some really good ones, too, that stuck up not only for lisa, but artists and craftspeople in general) made her feel so upset about her work and money, etc, the things that we all hate having to think about. it is on the designsponge blog which i am sure you all aware of, as well as the guest blog they have that rocks as well. the people that run it do a fantastic job of it, the amount of love and work that goes into it is very apparent, and then there are these arseholes just waiting to jump on anyone for anything (in some of the communities on the blogiverse, i have come across similar nastiness) and it just speaks to me of how friggin bored and pathetic they must be to sit around just waiting to pick a fight or hurt someone’s feelings. do they jump up and down clapping their hands with glee? there was a converstation about her work being too expensive (c’mon now, this is art, not milk for your baby) and that ANYONE can do it. this. makes. my. blood. boil. this always makes picasso come to mind and the know-nothings that feel compelled to say that he clearly didn’t know how to draw. and he was considered a master at the age of 12. so lisa…if the same arses would say that about picasso, or even worse, gives value to an artwork based on fame. so back in the old days when van gogh was trying to hock his paintings, this same person would say, “who the hell are you?” i am starting to just drift around frothing at the mouth, but i guess i just wanted to say, again…there are several artists that are so open with all of us via their blogs, emails, etc, and give so much back to the world for free. for the love of art and beauty and all that is good. art should not have to have a price on it. we shouldn’t have to be a waitress in order to be an artist, or musician or whatever, but that isn’t the way it is. we have to eat. and if something someone else makes is out of my price range, that doesn’t mean it is too expensive or not worth that amount of money. it just means i can’t afford it. there is no reason to be mean, and all i can think is that these snarky jackasses have nothing good to contribute to anyone. they don’t have a following. they don’t have a passion. they don’t have a job that they love. and it kills them. so, they just go around trying to pee in everyone else’s cheerios. don’t let them. just don’t. let them go sit with each other and call each other names. they are the epitome of losers and they know it. i have got my eye on you, snarky losers. and you better watch out for us art school girls, we have breathed in poisonous fumes and eaten paint accidentally and we are much tougher than we look. i assure you.

ok. i will cut it out, now. wanna see what i made for my french spin me a treasure partner? i got this roving from someone on etsy, and as usual, decided that i need to stop doing that, cause it isn’t super soft and nice like mine. ah well…the blue and burgundy one was only about 70 yards, so i spun another one in the matching pinky color with about 80 yards…

also, i did a poppy hat for my pal at mohop shoes for our swap (squuuuuueeeeeee!) and the poppy scarfaletta as usual…

and then a hat with a yellow one, with a scarf to match not pictured…

poor pinky fluffadaro never arrived. i fear that i will never see her again. it makes me sad. i haven’t tried to do a claim with the post office before, so hopefully that will go smoothly. that was $60-something bucks lost in space. aaargh.

oh, and one last strange thing…remember how the tornado thingy pulled the siding off of our house almost 2 months ago? well! the disaster repair place said they would schedule a time to fix it and then never did. we talked to someone else that gave us a price almost half of what the other place had said, which would then cover our insurance deductible so i called to let the disaster place that never called me or anything to just nevermind. the guy calls me back and says, “natasha? so i got the message that you are going to have someone else fix the siding?”
me-”yes.”
him-”why?”
me-”it has been 2 months, no call.”
him-”well, the thing is that we have all of the stuff we need, we bought it and it was on the truck ready to go and then it rained, so the boxes got wet and we couldn’t come out and now we can’t return the siding…so could you give me the contracter you are using’s name and i can see if he would want to buy it from us?”
me-”um.”
him-”you could just give me the number…”
me-”i will let them know…”
let me say, this is the place that our insurance company, erie insurance told us to call to patch up the house until it could be fixed and give us the price, etc. they aren’t some fly by night place. i think not, anyway. that was the strangest, most bullshite story i have ever ever heard. it was so odd that i called jake at work and then later in the day was still confounded. you know they never bought nothing. i am guessing they just thought they could make a buck anyway. so shady. i can tell you who not to call in case of an emergency.

so, off i go. gotta wash out the fiber.
xo
n.