Single Scoops!

Introducing Single Scoops! Don’t you just love mini batts? These are my new line of approximately 1oz (.9-1.1 oz) mini batts! Mix and Match to create a project all your own or get one to add a punch of color and sparkle to another project! Batts are available in Repeatable blends, One-Of-A-Kinds and Happy Scrappy mini batts! Now available in the shop!

Michigan Fiber Festival

Yesterday was the MFF and it was tons of fun! Here's a little rundown of the day:
1. Watched the sheep show for a bit with Erica and her hubby (of course we were partial to the Windswept Shetlands!)
2. Had a delicious Olive Burger for lunch with Kathy, Jillian, Karen, Karen, and Beth.
3. Watched the judging of the skein competition (I should have entered a skein or two, maybe next year.) Congrats to Erica for the Blue Ribbon on her Baby Alpaca 3 ply!!!
4. Karen and I bumped into Lisa in the bathroom so we all headed over to Mike's booth to chat for a bit.
And then there was the shopping...OMG...I got some amazing things!!!

Here's the whole loot!
1 lb. 10oz. 2ply Alpaca Fingering weight yarn from Zeilinger Wool (show special $1/oz! Plans are to use it for corespinning or dyeing at this point.
Last year's tee (I didn't care for this years and this one was on sale!) and a spinning caddy, matches my Lendrum Denim carry bag! So cute!
Kid and yearling locks!
.8 oz Silk Hankies
8oz. "Fine Wool Blend" from Linden Lane Firestar
2.5 oz. Scrap Bag. One of the vendors had all their scrappies out and you could get as much as you could fit in a sandwich baggie for $2!!! I'm quite happy with my 2.5 oz fill :)
4 oz. "60% Polworth, 30% Alpaca, 10% Angora" from Linden Lane
4 oz. "Cormo" from Foxhill Farm
4 oz. "Polworth" from Linden Lane
8 oz. "Celtic Sea"" from Psalm 23 Farm, 61% Shetland, 31% Mohair, 8% Silk Noil and Glitz
8 oz. "Fireworks" from Psalm 23 Farm, 80% Shetland, 20% Sari Silk
4oz. Natural Black and White Shetland from Windswept Farms (I picked this to spin 1st, it's wonderful!!!)
1+ lb. Natural Moorit Colored Shetland from Windswept Farms (Mike has the best shetland!!!)
LOTS of Glitz

GREAT day!!! Can't wait until next year. I hear the rule is you have to use / spin everything you bought the year before or you can't buy anything next year. Eeek, I better get carding and spinning!

Babies

Hubby surprised me this morning by saying "I'm ready to have a kid." I on the other hand am NOT quite ready to have a kid yet. We both agree that our magic number is one, although right now our number is two...our two dogs that is! So I thought I would share some pics and the story behind our (current) babies!


This is Buddy. Buddy was rescued from a home that kept him in a medium sized kennel ALL the time. When Eric got him he really didn't know how to stand up straight for a few weeks. Another case of someone seeing a cute puppy but not really considering exactly how BIG he was going to get. Buds is now about 4 years old and 160lbs (about 10lbs more when he doesn't have his summer shave!) He's my big baby and I love him to death!


This is Miss Sydney, she is 2. I got her shortly after Eric and I moved in together. Talk about personality, this dog has it! I knew I wanted a small dog but not a chihuahua or yorkie. After some breed reasearch I knew a mini dachshund was the dog for me! I found a local breeder and put together a little presentation to take home to Eric. I started with "Eric I want to get a dog..." I never got the chance to go any further, he said ok and that was that. We went and picked out Syd from her litter when she was only a week old. Waiting the next 5 weeks was tough but finally bringing her home was awesome! That was 5 weeks, how am I going to handle 9 months when a real baby is in the works?!


We we're exactly sure how HUGE and LITTLE were going to get along. We both kind of figured they would just co-exist. Oh no, not the case, they LOVE each other...well I guess it's more like Sydney loves Buddy and he tolerates her. Isn't that the grossest and cutest thing you've ever seen?!

A Clean Craft Room = A Happy Crafter

I cleaned and organized my entire craft room! YAY!!! I've fallen in love with my room all over again. It seems there comes a point in the messiness that you just dump and run and I was there. Minus a box of 20lbs Alpaca fleece that needs to be sorted and then sent out for processing and the box of items to make my Christmas Presents for my friends and family everything is in place! I bet you want to see pics of this fabulous space don't you??? Well I wouldn't disappoint, here ya go!

This is my favorite part of the room, my fiber stash! The bottom row of cubbies hold all my personal stash items and I even organized it all by fiber artist! The rest of the cubbies are all my various fibers for blending batts!

The boxes on the shelves hold all my add ins for batts like locks, glitz, firestar, silk, etc.

The star boxes hold all my "stuff" for other crafts (collaging, candle making, etc)...there is that pesky box of alpaca fiber, and behind that are the Christmas Present making items.

"Uniquely Yours" finished items are stored in the sealed containers, current works in progress are in the laundry basket below.

This is my display area for my recent handspuns. They are beautiful pieces of art so why not display them?!

Hope you have enjoyed your 360 tour of my CLEAN Craft Room and I also hope I can inspire you to organize your crafty space as well! This room in and of itself inspires to me create beautiful things. I'm so happy I have rekindled my creativity with a little bit of cleaning!

And the Winner is...

KitKatKnit!
Congratulations to our winner and thanks again to everyone for participating! (The lucky number was 16.) I love all of your color combos so don't be surprised if you start seeing them show up in the shop real soon!!!

Be sure to check back for the next FREE FIBER FRIDAY on September 5th!

FREE FIBER FRIDAY - August 1st Edition

Can you believe it's August already? Here we go again! This one is a favorite color combo of mine...Bright Red and Light Blue! LOVE the colors and this batt, and although on the small side at 1.2 oz, it is amazing! Fibers included in this batt are Merino, Wool Blend, Bamboo, Firestar, and Glitz!!! As for the contest this month, let's go with your favorite color combo, be it for fiber or otherwise! To win just leave me a comment and please be sure to include a way to contact you (if you win), either an email, Ravelry SN, or a blog url. This giveaway is open worldwide and will run through Sunday evening, winner will be contacted and posted on Monday August 4th! (Comment number will be chosen randomly by my hubby again!)

I would also like to take the opportunity to again thank Deborah from Comfort Joy Designs for her recent interview with me about my Free Fiber Friday giveaways! Be sure to check out her blog for other fabulous giveaways as well!

Thanks again for your support, be sure to keep visiting the shop and look for some new things coming in the next month!!! GOOD LUCK!