Recent Acquisitions

Megaboots Madness: Sock yarn. Not a birthday money purchase. Mea Culpa. I love this yarn, and have two pairs of wonderful socks from it. But it's getting hard to find and the instinct to hoarde runs strongly in my bloodline. Goodies from France: Souvenirs that my sister got me from her summer in France. Chocolates, the requisite Eiffel Tower, a hilarious cheese knife, and yarn. The yarn is alpaca from a place called La Droguerie. The green is 350 yds, and the blue 395. Huzzah for the McMorran Yar

Hand cards: Ashford hand cards, shown here with my beautiful hand crafted spindle and some of the fruits of my first carding experiment.Pandora: Our kitten Pandora. Distraction of the greatest magnitude, plunderer of all things, and purrbox extraordinaire.

It was brought to my attention twice in two days that I have not blogged since June, when I cursed Hemingway and his anatomy. Lots has happened since then, but I think the big chronicle would be a bit dull. So I present you with images of consumerism. (click to embiggen) A bit of a yarn binge on my part, a pyramid of MegaBoots sock yarn, bought for no good reason other than an impulse to hoarde and weakening resolve. A pile of goodies from my sister, who got them during her summer in France. Very considerate of her, don't you think? She even sent yarn, lovely heathered fingering weight alpaca, aren't you jealous? There was tea as well, but it's gone now. New hand cards, shown with some of my first experiment. I'm enjoying these, but it makes me want a drum carder, I must say. Impatience is in my DNA. And lastly, Pandora, our kitten. The main reason for the lack of blogging. She is a fuzzy little timesuck. We've wanted a cat for ages, and we finally gave in. She cost a fortune (apt deposit) but she's totally worth it. She's cuddly and hilariously uncoordinated. I do wish she'd stop trying to steal everything from pens to magazines, but maybe she'll outgrow it. In the meantime, it is pretty funny to watch a 3 pound cat galloping across the room, dragging a shoe as big as she is. I'm going to post what I've been making rightnow, and then we'll see how long this spurt of blogging lasts.