Someday A.D.

I'm gearing up for the Autumn Drive.

That means three days of dyeing on a gorgeous weekend. 

Will I ever see the light of day from my kitchen? 

Of course! 

Saturday, I have plans to meet up with Carissa of Bumblebee Acres at the Woodstock Farmers Market. 

I hope to accomplish some spinning and much needed down time. 

Then it's back to the dye pots.

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Thus far the day has brought some nifty little colorways. 

I mixed all the dyes for my Hallucinogenic Lipstick! 

Doctor Who fans will love this colorway. 

Everyone loves a woman described as "hell in heels"! 

The remake of Morgaine, Lady of the Lake, did not go so well. 

The blue was not nearly pale enough for woad, and the red is deeper.

The red actually looks like blood as intended, yay!

I'll still mark it as this colorway, but issue a disclaimer to anyone who bought it previously.

Isla Tropicana, is a new colorway that turned out fantastic and amazing! 

Has anyone ever seen the Glade Relaxing Moments Island Escape cans? 

That is where I got the inspiration. 

However, it doesn't quite look exactly like it. 

There are two more colorways to come tomorrow.  (That's 2.5 pounds)

Then I'll be dyeing up close to three pounds of loose fleece and small bits of roving. 

These will be for carding or for sale by the ounce. 

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Things I love about this business: 

1. creating something new
2. exploring and experimenting
3. sharing
4. creating something from a creation (spinning and knitting)

This business makes me feel alive because it is full of passion for creation!

Through this I feel like a deity and creator of my own destiny. 

It makes me who I am! 

I love myself, and therefore I love God! 

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Have a happy weekend!

<3 

Ask. Believe. Receive.

Weekly Wallpaper...

I almost forgot! About two weeks back I changed my wallpaper. For now it's going to stay this way. If there is better then it must be found.

It's everyone of the 10th Doctor's companions! Yeah, buddy! Needless to say I am awaiting the Christmas Special the best any fan girl can. Impatiently drowning herself in everything Doctor Who to fill the void.

We're even going to decorate our Christmas tree in a Doctor Who fashion. We wanted to do it this year, but I don't have the time, money, nor energy. Next year we'll get to it. The T.A.R.D.I.S. will be the star. Of course, we will have some Daleks. My biggest project of all will be making a garland out of the scarf pattern for the 4th Doctor. It will be all knit. Matt Smith's Doctor ornament will be a combination of a fez and bow tie. The 10th Doctor's will be his coat. I'm still trying to decide what to do for the Master besides a drum set or a feast of food. If worse comes to worse we can always do a collage, cut, and then pasted on an ornament. So many ideas to go around. My goal is to create an online show and tell of the process. There will be many who will be most happy about it. The BBC, well maybe not so. Personally, then it's their fault for not marketing it in the first place.

If you have any suggestions to something that is better for a wallpaper, feel free to comment with a link.

Last night, I posted an update to the shop. Everything turned out wonderfully! If you haven't seen the wonders, it's time to.

Many of my colorways were influenced by World of Warcraft. My mind has been on the coming expansion known as Cataclysm. Unfortunately we won't be able to buy it until much later. Christmas is killing our finances. Conjurer, Unholy, and Abandonment are the three I can name off hand. However, Candied Yams could also be considered it as well. The Thanksgiving in game event is my favorite of all the holidays because it's the best time of year to level your cooking skills. One of the recipes is called Candied Yams. It is also the only time of year to throw food at other players. Killing the turkeys is fun, too. I want the achievement of Turkinator. Lol, yes the Turkinator.Winterveil is the second best holiday to level up your cooking skills. That's about 5 days away. There will be gingerbread cookies. :)

Anyways, we have snow. We have a Winter Storm Warning in affect. My friend, caitlinchris, has a Blizzard Warning. God speed to her, and may it not wander over here. The warnings are saying, do NOT travel. Ack! Needless to say I will not be going to work if that is what's going on.

That's the news! Have a great weekend, stay out of trouble, and have fun!

Dye Day Challenge

Status: Complete

This day was a challenge because motivation was no where in sight. I mean no where. The past month as wiped me out completely. I've still got some residual effect going on, too. To try and perk me out of this funk dye day commenced with set up @ 10 a.m. Monday.

The main goal was to replicate my favorite colorway Jellyfishing. Goal was accomplished. Jellysfishing is going to be a permenant colorway from now on. It's not nearly as pretty in superwash as in regular wools. I attempted to do another Spongebob themed one and it didn't turn out as much as I liked...it might be a Mrs. Puff colorway. The other colorways really don't have any rhyme or reason, but we'll see what names I can come up with.

Don't forget that tomorrow is the last day to enter my July give-away. Well part one anyways. The unvieling of part two will be on July 16th. (Hopefully before I go to Midwest Fiber and Folk Art Festival.)

Something new on my blog is the Pepsi Refresh button. I urge you to help our native peoples and vote for this idea. The top two will win funding for their project. Right now we're at 74th place and voting ends on July 31st. I know we can help make a difference in these people's lives. Let's keep voting every day.

I started spinning up some batts on the Kromski Sonata this past Saturday at the Castle Gardens Nursery Craft/Antique/Flea Expo in Richmond. It's amazing how much differently the two wheels spin. It's like night and day. For now I am going back to the Sonata. I've been able to spin up two batts so far. There is still more work to be done. I'm blending two different batts together and there two more of each to go. This Saturday (7/17) I will be at the same location peddling my wares. The new colorways from this past dye day will be there and three new yarns. Also, I intend on setting up a better display than before. This expo is free to the public. If you're in the area, stop on by. We're in booth 18.

Hope you guys are having a cool day.

Sneak Peak de Fibe-er

I wanted to give you all a sneak peak of all the fun handpainted fibers from this week. My favorite is Boudica. It turned out perfectly. 

 Agate is my second favorite (picture 1). It is a messed up version of The Magrathean (picture 2). For some reason the superwash fibers took the dye different. The olive became more orange and the grey a blue pink. It still turned out great. 

 And what kind of Sailor Moon fan would I be without some colorways from the show. This is Love & Beauty Shock. It is a really nice mix of the Sailor Venus costume. The more I look at it the more I get attached to it. ;) 

That's all for the sneak peaks here. For more peaks you can go to my flickr site.

Windy and windier

Photos Friday was canceled. Unfortunately the wind kept me from going out and taking pictures. I really wanted to go to the local conservation park and take some shots of the ducks, geese, trees and anything else that struck my fancy. Don't worry. I'll make it up to you with photos of tomorrow's Beltane festival.
For those of you who don't know what Beltane is, I've included a link to Wikipedia's version. However, our celebration has a few differences because a Grove ADF Druids. Here is our take on the festival of Beltane.

Having that said, we have a load of things to do. After the two dye days, which is a lot of clean up, we have to ready the food and put finishing touches on the ritual. Peter and I will be officiating this ritual so the work load for that is double. We'll be heading out a lot earlier than normal so the may pole can be dug out of the garage and set up. Hopefully the weather will cooperate with us enough to set it up and dance around in the side yard. This maypole is going to be much smaller than the one used at our friend's Beltane celebration. All the maidens had to move a telephone pole to its hole in the ground. Let's talk about heavy! Just think we'll be doing it again on the 8th this year. Ready the muscles!

There is still a whole lot of wool on the drying racks. When I'm not readying for tomorrow, it'll be the wool braid-a-thon. And again, tomorrow will be a braid-a-thon. There are some great colorways that turned out. Some of them will not be repeatable. :( I'm wondering how on Earth this Agate color came out. Most of my experimentals will not be available as a repeat, either. It will be noted which colorways will not be repeated. More than likely "LIMITED EDITION" will be in the title. I'm introducing two different types of fiber this week, too. The first being a Merino 64s. Then the long awaited Rambouillet. There will only be four braids of the Rambouillet for now. I'm hoping on a line of credit to order a full bump of it this week. ::crosses fingers::

The fifth colorway I created is another Sailor Moon colorway. Think Sailor Jupiter! Yeah, buddy! It will be out in Rambouillet and Merino. The other mix and match colorways still need names.

Rememer there will be another shop update on Monday or Tuesday. I'll twitter and facebook when the shop is being updated. So, stay tuned!

Busy Busy

Last night I experimented with the att U-verse Video on Demand service. There was a free Cardio Hip Hop and a 10 minute ab program. I tried the Hip Hop program, but never found the rhythm. The 10 minute ab one I could do in my sleep. It's a bunch of the things we did in the military with a few more twists. It really worked, too.

This morning after some much needed Spongeboob Squarepants I did 30 minutes of free step aerobics and the 10 minute ab work out. The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was a great movie for the background. It gave me some more colorway inspiration for today.

After loosing steam for two weeks my body volunteered to start building the dye day set up around noon-thirty to one o'clock. (Yes, noon-thirty. O'dark-thirty is 12:30 a.m.) I've got 4 new colorways coming to the shop on either Monday or Tuesday evening. It all depends when the roving has finished drying and when I'm working the day job next week. Here are the colorways:

1. The Magrathean - Slartibartfast's cloak/coat has been a favorite of mine for quite some time. So I wanted to make a colorway to match.
2. Boudica - She was the Queen of the Iceni Tribe during the Roman invasion into today's United Kingdom. Queen Boudica was the only woman to ever stand up to the Romans and win. She had some big balls!
3. Capital Offense - The gnome race of World of Warcraft is a peculiar one indeed. That is all I have to say regarding this explosive colorway.
   
4. Love & Beauty Shock - My favorite cartoon growing up was Sailor Moon. Now I'm not a morning person, but I'd wake up at 5 a.m. to watch that show. The title of this colorway is the name of an attack Sailor Venus uses in the end of the SuperS and throughout the Stars Season.
   

One of the Magrathean batches were screwed up. I've got to come up with a name for it and come up with a new way to dye it with Superwash roving. It'll probably kept in my screw up pile. I'm hoping to have more in Rambouillet. There may be more colorways tomorrow, too. So far it's been 3 lbs of wool dyed. (Merino 64s, SW Merino and SW BFL)

My hands are drying out from all the acid in the presoak. Hooray for the Bee Bars! Wednesday will be the last day for the raffle for one of those little beauties. So if you haven't found something at the site, keep an eye out for Monday and Tuesday.

Have a great night and stay tuned for another photos Friday.