New things!

I got some yarn dyed up and pics of some already dyed and created items to add to the store along with some more sale yarns. Here's some previews- go to the store to see more!

Bigfoot, Alpacas, Swap, and Rhine

First up we have my older son's Halloween costume- Bigfoot! I had to put everything else on the back burner the last week and a half so I could get it done for him. Turned out pretty good I thought- I even designed some big feet for him to wear over his shoes. It was fun for him! The girls wore girly costumes again this year. They are the two small ones in purple costumes. The others in the picture are my little niece, my nephew and his friend from school.

Alpacas! A few weeks ago I took an afternoon to drive up to the mountains to a local (at least in our area it's local- 1.5hrs away) Alpaca farm. It was great fun, they even had some very new babies. My older daughter- M- decided that now she wants 5 mommies, 5 daddies, and 5 black babies- too cute. Why 5- I don't know, but that's what she wants :)

Here's a pic of the roving I dyed up for the Spindlers list Halloween Swap. It was a lot of fun and I enjoyed doing it- can't wait for the next one! This was colored in some of my favorite candy colors- Peeps! It was colored after the Spooky Cats, Cocoa Bats, and marshmallow Ghosts. although the cocoa turned out more plummy than I intended it was really pretty!

Now the rhine- yes that's right- RHINE! It's a ranty whine- so if you don't want to hear it, tune out now and thanks for stopping by :). I have a place that I rent out and I'm getting so tired of it. Seems like I only get people in who try to screw me over. There must be writing between the lines of the lease that I can't read and it says "Go ahead and screw her over- she can't afford it and even more- she can't afford to do anything about it when you do" Renters suck! OK- that's about it. I don't like to go off too much- it doesn't do any good for me anyway, but I feel like I let off a little steam. Thanks!

Boo- Halloween Swap!

I got my Spindlers Halloween swap package in today- what a great package! I got Candy Corn roving, a container of candy corn (yum!), peeps ghosts, Halloween pencils and the great little felted Halloween bag. The bag will be perfect for taking along a spindle and some silk- how fun! As you can see in the pic, the girls and I already broke into the peeps before I even got a chance to take the pic! She is a much better swapper than I am for the theme, but I hope she enjoys hers anyway! I love mine- thanks R!
On the other fiber front- I finally began cutting the pieces for my older son's Bigfoot costume. I found this gawd awful brown fake fur at Wally World that was just perfect. I made the ladies at the fabric department veeeerrrry happy when I purchased the only 4.75 yards they had- they thought for sure it would be there forever. I cut around the pattern pieces this morning and there was so much of the fur on the carpet it looked like a Yorkshire Terrier had exploded all over my living room ;) (Disclaimer- no animals were actually harmed during the cutting of this costume :0) Allrighty then- back to sewing- and maybe another marshmallow ghost or three!

Go to bed already!!!

Yes, I mean me! I really need to be getting to bed earlier. I would tonight, but the little muchkin is not interested in sleeping at all right now. What a stinker! I have a ton of things I really need to be getting done, most importantly I need to get my son's Halloween costume made. Argh- and tons of stuff to get taken care of tomorrow as well. At least I did finish dyeing the fiber to send to my Halloween Swap partner from the Spindlers yahoo group. I think it turned out pretty cool- but I'll wait to post a pic until she gets it. Looks like the little man is getting fussy- maybe he'll get to bed soon so I can too. That's all folks (for tonight!)