new podcast tonight! woo hooo!
so pop on by fluff-a-licious.blogspot.com this evening! what else? well! i did a LOT of dyeing today, including some gorgeous soysilk, plus i am hoping to have time to do some batts that have lots of bamboo and soy in em, plus wool. if you haven’t used soy or bamboo yet….it is like silk without the funny smell. so yummy! and a renewable vegan source of fiber. how cool is that? so i will be updating to-morrow. i have some good stuff. really good. i swear. yum!
jake took loads of pics of me dyeing, which will go up on flickr, (that sounds morbid, eh?) which i will load up for your enjoyment to see my gross overalls of podcast fame, (the non-crotchless ones) and me with wet hair and no make-up, so be kind. and continue to pretend that i look cute, okay? if jake can do it (and he has to live with it) so can you. just continue to be the sweet lying friends that you have been thus far. no one wants to know the truth.
so here is a new version of the poppy scarfaletta, i added this gorgeous fuzzy yarn to the usual grassy one, and i did a braided version with three crocheted strands braided and tons of fringe…they will be listed, i don’t know if i showed you already…
here is a journal page from a night that i was feeling kind of down and actually let myself write it down. i used to be morbid all the time and now, i feel like it is a bad thing to let it sneak in, even in my artwork. i don’t know if that is true or not, but i am actually a fairly happy, if bitchy person now. being grown up (ha!) has really agreed with me. i was rather miserable most of my life, and now i am glad to be somewhat in control, which i never felt i was. anyway, here is what my handwriting looks like. this is only one page of several of this entry. it was late. i felt sick. i had pms. 
okay, i am off to tidy the studio a bit and do some work before the podcast.
xoxo
n.
Anonymous said,
March 24, 2007 @ 4:59 pm
why do you insist on making these hideous pages of shit? they are not art. a child does better work. there is no soul involved, just scraps of color and white-out. and your yarns are terrible too. did you ever even try to form a real skein? you charge too much money for your dyed yarn also, it’s not right. you are just a self-glorified crafter with no genuine ingenuity. I myself know nothing of the art of spinning, but i have seen so much better. you are a critical-of everything, never-give-anyone-a-chance, afraid-to-leave-your-house ass-hole.
Riin said,
March 25, 2007 @ 12:26 am
Anonymous, if you don’t want to buy Natasha’s yarns, you don’t have to, but it’s a bit ironic that you criticize her as being “critical of everything” and then go on a critical tirade yourself. You admit you know nothing about spinning. Then why are you so judgmental about it? Do you know how much work is involved in dyeing? If you had dyed yarn or fiber, you wouldn’t think her prices were unreasonable. Is there some point in coming here and insulting her and not even leaving your name?
Naomi said,
March 25, 2007 @ 12:49 am
Anonymous…so brave you are to hide behind the label of “anonymous” and criticize Natasha’s work. You may not consider her work, art. You may not like her art yarns. That’s okay. Not everyone will. That said, you don’t have to view the work, no one forces anyone to buy her yarns (yet they sell!), and you don’t have to read the blog. Go find something that does float your boat instead of wasting bandwidth slinging insults here. There are some of us who happen to appreciate her work.
natasha said,
March 25, 2007 @ 1:02 am
aw, anon…did you really want to go to art school and couldn’t get in? do you aspire to be more than the sad and lonely person that you are? apparently your aspirations have turned you into a mean pisser who doesn’t even have the backbone to say who you are. if you think i suck so much, why do you waste your time reading my blog? sigh. looooosaah!
natasha said,
March 25, 2007 @ 1:04 am
riin and nomes, you two are so sweet! honestly, the comments make me think this is someone that knows me personally and i have an idea of the lame individual that it is. and i do mean lame. (and not in a handicapped way). so don’t sweat it, it really doesn’t hurt my feelings when someone criticizes something they claim to know nothing about and pick on my…sketchbook? are you serious? sigh. you guys rock. she..sucks.
Nix Sidhe said,
March 25, 2007 @ 8:34 am
Think they’d have the guts to say it to your face? I bet it’s someone who actually could say it to your face too. That’s the funny part.
Anonymous said,
March 25, 2007 @ 8:55 am
any moron can go to art school to study theory and history, but this does not make you an artist.
Alyson said,
March 25, 2007 @ 10:31 am
any asshole can post anonymous judgments from on high, but this does not make you a better person than another.
Agate said,
March 25, 2007 @ 11:36 am
Wow, I’ll never understand why anyone thinks they need to leave such rude and moronic comments. I see this so often in the comments sections for articles and blogs and the authors never realize that it just makes them sound unreasonable, trashy, and totally lacking in any real intelligence or creativity. It takes so little to be so mean. Well, Natasha, I like your blog, your yarns, and your art. Not only that but I have been recently inspired to finally try spinning and I was so stoked to have my first skein of yarn hanging from my drop spindle.
Down with stupidity!
Agate
Anonymous said,
March 25, 2007 @ 12:37 pm
heh heh. IT’S NOT RIGHT! IT’S JUST NOT RIGHT, YOU GUYS! that’s good stuff. how people like this even register on anyones radar is amazing to me. this is so far from what the people who read this blog are like. i don’t respond much, but this one called for a little action. anon, with so much to say, the least you could do is post your name. clearly you have something important to say. TAKE CREDIT! anyways. thanks for increasing n.’s hit counter. oh, and we looked last night. for someone who makes fun of people not leaving the house, you sure did check back a lot to see if there were any responses. you rock. no, really, you do. loser. IT’S JUST NOT RIGHT. i think i may pull some political strings and get a congressional inquiry started on the prices my wife charges for her products. why? you may ask? CAUSE, IT JUST AIN’T RIGHT!
oh, and everyone else. i love you guys. thanks for stepping up. you truly do rock.
down with stupidity, indeed.
jake.
Vickie said,
March 25, 2007 @ 1:22 pm
I think “down with stupidity” is just an all-around good slogan for everything.
There will always be an “anonymous” heckler in the crowd of known admirers and you can consider me one of the known who admires you.
Keep up the good work Natasha. Don’t give “anonymous” one speck of your self-confidence.
Vickie
natasha said,
March 25, 2007 @ 4:09 pm
hey guys, seriously, no sweat. i have an oddly unshakeable love of what i do and am pretty okay with who i am, the only people that can really shake that at all are people that i admire and respect, and even then…this “heckler” is from my area, i checked the stats and has come to check out the blog around 10 times since last night! i am fairly sure that i know the loser that it is, clearly, they know i don’t go out a lot unless i have to (shopping,post office, dinner with friends and family, bookstore) and know what i studied in college, and are so lame as to keep coming back to post new comments. i think that they have a blog that no one reads and are a person that no one remembers. so they are pissed off. and pissed on. so sad.
anyway, you guys are very awesome to have my back! your opinions mean a lot more to me than the wannabe’s.
mwah!
Nix Sidhe said,
March 25, 2007 @ 5:04 pm
you’re an inspiration, natasha.
susan said,
March 25, 2007 @ 5:31 pm
you rock missy, anon is just a bitter person with nothing else to do it seems. sigh! onward and upsward.
xo
susan
natasha said,
March 25, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
nix, thanks! i am the hermit’s hermit! the james bond of the hermit artiste (hehehe) world.
and susan, you are so right. it is strange to me to be so incredibly pathetic that all she has to do is sit on her computer in some coffeeshop and act like a dork all day. le sigh.
Emily said,
March 26, 2007 @ 11:50 am
Ooh, is it someone from school? I want to know who it is! Everyone was jealous of you, so I’m not surprised that someone would be all butthurt and stalk-y. I would take it as a compliment.
Oh, and I think it’s so sweet that Jake posted here to defend you. You do have the best husband ever!
Emily
(ps, I don’t know if I ever told you, but yes, I did get my yarn, and I loved it. And I don’t think I paid too much for it, either!)
natasha said,
March 26, 2007 @ 7:02 pm
emily, nope i don’t think it is anyone from school…everyone was jealous of moi? are you serious? if i wasn’t at one of my poopy jobs, i was in the studio, or the other studio, or the other studio…i had the worst most boring college life ever! butthurt? that is the funniest thing i have ever heard.
jake is pretty good, indeed. in more ways than one. hee!
you and i need to hook up soon, we live so nearby each other!
n.
jenifer74 said,
March 28, 2007 @ 4:55 pm
eee gads! lame-o indeed. why waste one’s time? sigh. you are fierce lady who is a tough fighter. i respect that.
xx.
natasha said,
April 4, 2007 @ 12:33 am
aw jen, you are so kind. i am not so tough in the end, but it is hard to have your feelings hurt by (a)someone who is so lame that they stalk your blog and site and pop in 10+times a day and then think that you will believe that they truly think you suck. it doesn’t really make sense. (b)someone too lame to even leave their name (c)someone who i don’t know or don’t have any respect for. if someone that i really admired told me i sucked, that might upset me. and knowing that super ladies like yourself pop by means a lot more than anon’s dorky behavior.
Nichola said,
April 6, 2007 @ 8:27 am
Why do people like this insist on being so damn rude, don’t like it? then don’t read it!
You know you can change it so they can’t leave anonymous comments right?
natasha said,
May 16, 2007 @ 1:32 pm
nichola, thanks! i don’t care, honestly. i know not everyone has a blogger account and i could delete her post if i wanted, i just don’t really care. i actually had someone tell me who it is and she is a looooooooooser. what is more sad than monitoring the blogs of people you hate 10 times a day?