LMS Studio Arts is 2 years old!

Happy Birthday!! Starting, Sunday March 11th I'll be having my 2nd year anniversary sale. Save 20% through Saturday, March 24th with coupon code "2yrannisale" at check out. We will have special deals on Tuesday, March 20th, which is our exact anniversary date! That will only be available via our facebook page.

The shop will be updated on Friday (3/9/2012) at 7PM Central Time. There will be some lovely handpainted combed top, new handspun yarns, and hopefully a new batt or two.

Coming soon to the show, is a trivia contest via twitter! I'm really excited about this one. My friend, Carissa, came up with this one. She's a brain, that one.

Have a stupendous day!
<3

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!

Shop Update

It's been a busy weekend. I'm so glad things are starting to slow down. On the bright side it gave the roving plenty of time to dry. :)
This evening I was able to update the shop with roving. Tomorrow will be the scrap inclusions. ^_^



Just look at it! ::sigh:: Abandonment is my favorite colorway! It looks so rich!

This time I tried a different way of braiding the roving. It's a chain all the way down the bit of roving. It works really well and is easier to pull apart than regular braiding. :)
Today the shop has been brought to facebook. You can become a fan by visiting http://tinyurl.com/y4aw4o4 and clicking the become a fan button.

Right now, I've got some SW Cheviot on my wheel. It's flowing swimmingly. My hand carders came in the mail. So it's been practice time with several fibers. The hand carding technique is coming along well. By the fold, not so much. However, the inchworm technique with my right hand is better than the left with the fold. There is still a lot of play that has to be worked out. Rob will help me out with that.

Tomorrow we're doing laundry. It's also the second of four advanced spinning classes. Hopefully there will be more time to mess with the techniques. For now it is bedtime.