Okay now that I've got that song stuck in your head (and if it isn't - it just might be now), I'm ready to share a post! It really has been a long time but with good reason. I was pregnant which I had announced in an older posting. Well I don't know about any of other pregnant women but with each pregnancy I became more tired. I feel like this last pregnancy I had slept almost the entire time. Taking care of a husband who works twelve hour swing shifts, a tween, and two toddlers had proven that it could get the best of me. In order to get something accomplished I had to cut out my blog and I scaled back the momentum I had going in my Etsy shop. It worked and we all got through it. By December our little girl (yes, finally A GIRL) had greeted us safe and sound. Another labor that went so fast I didn't they didn't have time to give me anything for the pain. I'm not going to complain though, I was just happy the doctor made it to deliver her in time.
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| Aren't they just beautiful? |
Now that I'm finally getting some sort of a routine going, I felt it was safe enough to start blogging again. We all know how routines go. As soon as you find one you're comfortable with - it changes up again. I've got my fingers crossed! Lately I've even found time to cook real dinners and bake! Yes, BAKE! Anyone that knows me knows I can cook. In fact I consider myself quite a decent cook. Baking is another story. Usually anything I bake will come out tasting really good but the presentation is awful. Especially if it comes from a box. Chocolate chip cookies from scratch usually come out decent. If I have to use already made batter, forget it. I don't know if it's because I pay more attention when I'm making it from scratch. Check out these moon pies I made the other day. My husband brought home the box kit so I felt obligated to make them. The cookies are uneven, the icing is a mess. The sprinkles are everywhere. In all honesty though, by the time I got to the sprinkles I quit trying and opted for "easy". I figured if I rolled these pies in the sprinkles, the icing wold get everywhere and the sprinkles would just stick to the icing that came off. So, I literally just threw the sprinkles at the pies. They stuck, it worked.
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| "Victoria" bfl wool waiting for dye to be set |
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| "Victoria" all spun up and waiting to be listed |
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| The merino that is currently on my wheel |
I've been able to start dyeing again! I haven't done any large dye pot batches yet, just small batches here and there. I had a pretty productive dye day a couple days ago. Most of it was corriedale for felting that had to be done up. I tossed in about four ounces of merino into the session to use up the rest of the dye I had made up. I actually like the color combos. It's on my wheel right now and I plan on turning it into a two ply yarn to enhance all the different colors it has by having the plies contrast against each other. I have a bunch of more merino I would like to get dyed up and set aside as I'm in the market for a new wheel! I am so stinkin' excited. I like the wheel I have now but it came unfinished when I got it. In my excitement to use it and learn to spin, I never finished it or tended to it the way I should have. So now it needs some tlc if I want to keep it for many years to come. Also it's great for novelty yarns and thicker art yarns but I would like something a little more steadier for medium to fine yarns. I'm still searching on exactly which wheel I want and where I want to buy it from. I know I would like a double treadle but I don't know if I would miss it if I got a single. I would like it to have scotch tension since my current wheel is set up for both already and I like the way my medium type yarns come out when I use it. Yep, that's all I got. Would love to hear any input on any wheels that any of you reading this might have. I don't want to jump into anything and I'm hoping to take the next two weeks to make up my mind. Whether I can wait that long is another story.
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| My dye day wools |
Well, I need to go get something productive done before the kids get up from nap. Laundry and dishes, here I come!
