Friendly ghost and other stuff

Well all the stuff I dyed up the other day is just about dry and I am posting it as I notice that it's completely done. I've gotten a spin a yarn kit up and I am working on another. I posted the yarn that I spun from the friendly ghost batt. Yesterday we went out and scrubbed every inch of the bunny shed, the cages, the walls, the floor, everything. It took about 4 hours because I wanted to be thorough and it is so nice and clean now! I had been putting it off but it was totally worth the effort. Trying to finish up xmas shopping but I've had some issues figuring out what to get my little phinny... What do you buy an 11 month old? He likes to eat.... He likes to put things inside of other things..... He REALLY likes to swim in our giant dog water bowl, other than that his sisters and I keep him pretty entertained and I really don't like many of the toys that I have seen and what I do like is so overpriced! Feeling uninteresting today, my whole kitchen table is once again piled high with wool and I am slowly getting it pictured, posted, packaged, and put away. There just aren't enough hours in the day and the weather has been cold and wet and unmotivating. Maybe I just need more coffee. Oh well, today was good even if I didn't finish too much. The girls are perfect, phinny is a five tooth owning, smiling little monster, my bunnys are snug in thier shed and the husband does not have to work tommorrow which means that I can beg and plead and get him to sit down and help me pick the vm out of the alpaca I just finished washing (not his favorite activity). A few more days and we will start baking and that is always so much fun and then the holidays will be over and I can relax and just enjoy the winter weather and the opportunity to sit around and spin, or play with the kids, or just bum around in my robe and slippers all day because it's cold and the garden doesn't need me.

Not too much

Not too much going on, my little terrorists have been keeping me pretty busy but today I got our water bottles and food bowls sterilized and hopefully when I clean cages tommorrow I will scrub down and sanitize cages. I got another one of my girls plucked today and it's some pretty good stuff, will hopefully get it in the shop in the next few days. I have a bunch of angora that I am getting ready to dye up in neat colors and some alpaca in white and black and... actually I have a room (yes, a whole room) of stuff that I should be posting... but I am sooo lazy! I have started crocheting again, it's been a long time since I messed with it but as usual I put it down for a few months and when I pick it up again I somehow have improved. I actually hadn't planned to do anything but spin for a while but the other day I ordered a set of bamboo crochet hooks from 8seasonknitting. They are shorter than most of the hooks that I've seen but not by too much, the perfect size to stick in a purse or something and I really like them, they are smooth and wonderful and inspiring! I plan on ordering another set because these were actually supposed to be a gift but the shipping was surprisingly quick so it shouldn't be a problem. trying to decide what recipes I want to add to the list this x-mas. We have our staples: white chocolate cranberry oatmeal cookies, eggnog cookies, buckeyes, caramels, butter mints, cakey bites, and margarita balls and every year I like to try something new to mix it up a bit but this year my neighbor (and most favorite person in the world) and I are going to split the cost and make goodie bags for her family and friends too which means that I can try at least 2-3 new things !!! Now, she's not really the baking type but it will still be nice to have help with all the clean up and such and I am thrilled about the new recipe options, I am considering some sort of chocolate drizzled/or flavored carmel corn/popcorn ball things, and a bunch of stuff that I've seen on etsy has been inspirational but I have decided that this year I absolutely have to have an apron. I'm serious, I've never been an apron type of girl but it's become a thing and now I just feel like I need one. Funny thing is, every time that I find one that I like and add it to my favorites list to come back and look at later so that I can make sure that I love it, it ends up getting sold. Oh well, just gives me more excuse to shop...

Bunny's on the way!

Well, I had tried to breed my favorite English doe and my Satin buck but she wasn't willing and I've always wondered if maybe he wasn't just a few fries short of a happy meal so it just didn't happen. So last night I decided to throw grumpy old Cass in with my Sam and see what they thought about it. Sammy is such a good boy! and it is always so comical to watch. I was jumping up and down and clapping and yelling yea sammy! and Cass was none too pleased but the deed is done and I will now be expecting a litter of purebred, pedigreed french on Jan. 2nd. Cass is a broken and Sam is a siamese sable with brokens in his background so I ought to get some colorful bunnies out of these too. I only have cage space for five more grown ones so if the litter is bigger than that I will have babies for sale at some point. Other than that I have not accomplished much, I am supposed to try out a new cresent roll recipe tonight, I am supposed to clean the house, I am supposed to pluck a rabbit, I don't really feel like doing any of it today. It is noon and I am still in my robe. I was planning on getting some more angora dyed up, and maybe some more spinning done, or some of the mountains of fiber washed.

This cold weather

This cold weather has got me in a spinning kind of mood! I have spun a mini skein of a really wonderful camel/alpaca blend. I got it from I sagefox on etsy and I honestly didn't want it to end. It was a dream to spin and I love how it came out. It's only 50 yards but it's a good 50 yards! My first experience with camel and I
LOVE it! Will definitly be buying more! Oh! my camera is dead! I had planned to post pictures of the batt and then of the yarn but for now it will just have to be a picture of the batt. Tommorrow when the batteries have recharged I will post some of the finished yarn. Then I was in such a good mood from spinning that, that I started on another batt this one from squambo

it's a sparkly wonderful mix of goodness with blue being the most predominant color. It was called friendly ghost and is made up up merino, alpaca, icelandic and tons of firestar and angelina .Plus it has the most awesome strands of novelty yarn cut up and added in and it makes for some really neat spots of extra color. I am almost finished spinning it upand it is soooo pretty and sparkly! On another note I am starting thanksgiving prep tonight..... as soon as I peel myself away from this computer. This is MY holiday, all the rest I could take them or leave them but thanksgiving, that is my day. It's just the five of us and my best friend and her two and my mother in law and I cook for two and a half days straight ( and eat for the next five) but I love every minute of it! Keep an eye out in the next few days, I will be posting at least two new handspun yarns to the shop and if I have time I will be plucking one of my girls and posting her wool too. Also, I will be sending samples to be included in the phat fiber box! hopefully for feb. if I can get moving and get a few more things done.

Oh Yeah

Went out and got some more fleeces today! Beautiful wonderful dark brownish ones! There is a wonderful woman not too far from me breeding her own sheep, they are columbia x rambouilet x corridale crosses. The fleeces are nice and I can't wait to play with them a bit! It totally made my day!

My sinuses are acting up because of the weather and I am getting behind on everything again. I have rabbits waiting to be plucked and wool to be dyed and other various things to do, but I feel so horrible that I am not making much progress.

ugh, I am sick of being sick!

Increasing my stash

Found a wonderful little yarn shop yesterday, Heavenly Ewe Yarns. They are right in Arnold, tucked away inside of Parable Christian Store. An unlikely location maybe but here's hoping that they grow and grow! While there I bought somenice kaleidescope yarn and then decided to hit joanne fabrics on the way home. OMG! They were clearancing out thier Red Heart Symphony Yarn, all the colors. This stuff is awesome, an acrylic mohair imitation. It was on sale for $1.00 a skien so I bought 15 of them. Oops, kinda had to sneak them in the house to get past the husband! I got one of my french does sheared today and will hopefully get her wool posted on etsy today. Getting ready to handpaint some yarn for a friends crocheting project. Got the house cleaned and all (or at least most) fiber related stuff moved into it's very own bedroom.

Still behind

Well, I am still behind but trying to catch up. Maggie turned 5 this month, thankfully her party is not for another two weeks so I still have time to finish up the various projects that will be her presents. I am doing my version of fall cleaning, which means getting rid of the stuff that we have accumulated over the summer. I started yesterday and have two giant trashbags of clothes to take to the resale shop already. I have fallen behind on my shearing schedule, started my bun cass last week and she is still sitting in the cage half done. Reorganized my wool stash and have a bunch that I need to get posted to the shop. On a good note the kittens we took in are doing well, growing bigger every day and getting into everything. Litterbox training is going well. I haven't felt very interesting lately. I guess that explains the lack of posts. Sometimes I get so overwhelmed that nothing gets done. Life just goes on and I can't seem to get back in the swing of things. Today is better, I have a mild sense of accomplishment and a giant cup of coffee.