Margle bargle

Fridays Love list: (I wrote love lost at first)

-Torani Brown Sugar Cinnamon Sugar Free Syrup. take that Cinnabon.

-Pickleskin rugs and Maxi shakesalot.

-soft soft sweatpants.

-skinny Cow Ice Cream sammiches.

-extra cinnamon chewing gum.

-coffee, sweet sweet coffee.

-frozen snickers bars with almonds.

-hand knit ginormous house socks.

-stuff in the mail that ain't bills and are just for me

-the burn after chipping away the last of the winter ice on the back walk.

As you can see, there has been a lot of not much going on. Chris' recovery is taking alot longer than we hoped and he is driving me going a bit batshit crazy with the slowness. Guess who is not cut out to be a Florence Nightingale? I mean, I think I am ok at it, but the whole doing EVERYTHING for someone for weeks on end? Dishes, laundry, picking up, catering, fetching and carrying? I grow weary. I feel like I need a vacation from this. I am wiped out. :/ Wow the outpouring of wah wah is somewhat unexpected but I shall leave it here for my own shame. I mean dude, I am so not the one who had the awfulness happen, I should really suck it up. Woe is not me right?

Which leads me to Fibre Friday! Last Friday, I was really up in it, dyeing/weighing/skeining/sorting at least 20 pounds of it for our next shop update. So you'll have to make do with a little more than a weeks worth!



Superwash South American Top in JJ's Kool Aid By kfb





Lady Rosalyn by Mama E Superwash BFL (and seriously, it is no where near as soft as ours.. lovely but I think our fibre is waaaaaaay nicer) from my stash.



Merino/Alpaca 50/50 blend can you say yum?




More kfb superwash SA top (can't remember what colour this is. will check)





AND, the start of 2 pounds of natural BFL superfine for ME!!!!







I really wish blogger would stop with the picture problems, FIX IT GODDAMMIT!

Bits and Bobs and random weirdness

Things from the weekend...

Crocheted shawl by my lovely pal Christine who is about to frog it. I needed to immortalise it.

Tofu mess for dinner.

What I was spinning on Sunday.

Sale this weekend.. come on.. skeins... skeins....

Love List? Love list!

Because Meg Fowler told me to.

Things I love more than a throat punch today.

All Bran Strawberry Medley.
The word medley.
Chris when he poops. LIKE TODAY! YAY!*
Pickles when he stands on me and wheeze-grunts.
Max when he buttles.
Finding Evil Dead 2 on Scream.
Hello Kitty flannel jammies.
Knee socks that stay up. Hand knit ones!
Saying fuckit and eating that blizzard yesterday. Mmm kitkat.
Pens that work when you need them.
Comfy cushions.
My pillow.
Ready to eat salad.

Now tell me your love list or go post your own. Friday is a good day yes?







*Good news after gut surgery, not so much on an everyday basis ok?

Fibre Friday

Chris is doing pretty well after his surgery. He is still in hospital, and we think probably for a couple of more days. He got some really beautiful lowers from his work, but they won't let him keep them there (he is on a LOCK DOWN TRAUMA WARD*) so guess who gets to appreciate them?

Now for this weeks offerings:

The cream is a merino/tencel mix that was YUMMY to spin. And really is that shiny. The Blues are from kfb of course. Merino. Gorgeous.

Fridays Finds.. all desirous things.

Sparkly and stunning. WANT!
So clever.
Even I who hates cards, loves these.

Happy weekend possums.

*Not because he needs to be locked down, or was in a trauma. You go where the beds are nowadays. Its a pain in the arse. Buzz to get in, buzz to get out. BUZZ BUZZ BUZZ.

Fibre Friday

Even with the unexpected hospitalisation, I still managed to crank out some stuff. In fact the dogs and I were up into the wee hours for the most part. They were annoying me, I was spinning and watching movies.

The white/multicolour is merino that will soon be available on kfb soon (and at at whopping 462 g for a 2 ply, sorry haven't measured length yet) it is a whole lotta yarn!

The orange is part of a set that will also be up on kfb, and OMG YUMMY. Its the second whack of the the Spunky Eclectic I posted last week. Mmm... citrusy.

I have ended up with copious amounts of copies of the book I took part in last year Not Your Mamas Felting from the publisher. I had never gotten paid and when I did some inquiring, a lovely gal named Emily sent me out a whack of books, an enormous apology that somehow, someone let this stuff fall through the cracks and this is so not how they treat their paid contributors and the promise of a cheque to follow. I hate having stuff from last year hanging around my neck, so in this case the initiative paid off. Look for a contest on kfb soon for some of these copies! You will be expected to work for it though..


Oh Friday...

waves.. like on the ocean man!,
how amazing is this?? ,
I probably would. Just once. So I could say I did.

Paradise city

So the man has ended up in hospital again. This time hopefully some corrective surgery will be done to fix some bad scar tissue. Cause you know, the mouse tissue* works! It really works!! So in my small flurry of oh noes, I had to order some BFL to spin. Cause you know, along with mouse tissue, retail therapy works wonders. I have stuff to show ya'll but am too tired to take pictures. Just picture some pretty for now...






I had to recycle this picture. I just did.











*remicade=made of mouse tissue. My husband and my seeeester in law Miss Ang both squeeeeeeek. Yes they do.

Fibre Friday

Oh yeah show me the fuzzy!!



Hand dyed South American Superwash from kfb of course.

Merino/bamboo handspun. Fibre from Spunky Eclectic

Unknown fibre from luxe

More undyed superwash from kfb

seriously, I canna get enough of the spin.

And hey since I love etsy and Kathy and all her awesome ideas, here are some etsy yummies.

certain signs of spring
something my morning latte would LOVE
A little Danager!!

Chunky funky

His and hers socks out of handspun BFL. A bit twee but so so so comfy.

No Pickles, you can't have any

mmmm... socky goodness..

Chop Chop

Holy haircut Batman! I finally found someone who is so not afraid of the SHORT hair! I brought him pictures of Jean Seberg (in Breathless BTW) and he was all.. yay! So there it is. Nice quasi snarly face I know, but Chris never gives me any indication of photo time. I am THRILLED.

Weekend weekend weekend, where did you go? My breakdown of this past one:

Friday night. Um. Don't remember. Not because of anything whoa... just old age I reckon. Oh yeah! Haircut!!

Saturday. Chris went to play a tournament (OF CHAMPIONS!) for like all day (8 hours or so) so after french toast, watched 3 movies*. Spun, knit, generally chilled. I am officially off some meds I was taking for some serious anxiety last year (day 3 today!) and was having some wicked brain shocks etc (and still am.. this shit is bananas! BANANAS!) so was chillin'. Chris came home not (sadly not a champion in anyones eyes but mine) and brought pasta and chocolate cake. WHATTA MAN! No kidding huh? Watched Gone Baby Gone. Oh. My. God. I now love Mr Casey Affleck. Yup. LOVED IT. But really I love Dennis Lehane, so no surprise. OH! And was kept awake until 4.30am by some psycho guy who had OCD about MASS EFFECT.

Sunday. Oh Sunday. Went out, got greasy Spicy Hut, ate so much meat! mmm. Lollygagging was the main theme of the day.

So yeah, this brain shocky thing is interesting. VERY INTERESTING. As the kids say I feel a little like I'm tripping balls. But holy hell.. it will be awesome to to be all cool with no assistance. We'll see right?

Oh Jeezus DANA IF YOU DON'T STOP POSTING AWESOME BLOG LINKS, I'LL NEVER GET OFF THIS THING!!! Meg Fowler, Jezebel.. sigh. You rock the cool missy. Oh yes you do.

*Equus! Holy full frontal.

Fibre Friday

As suggested by someone somewhere...

What have you been doing this week?

Some yummies I have found on the internets this week...


Dead from the unbearable cute

EARS!!

Honey pot sweetness.


Go buy some stuff from these craftsters. Really, isn't it about handmade babies?

Bad Hair Day

Presents? Its not MY birthday, but here, have one anyways!

Bad Hair Day!!!

Two versions! Get to it.

Happiest

Two boys, one birthday. Jake is 16 (OMG I HAVE A 16 YEAR OLD) and Pickles is 1. Happy birthday my sweethearts.

Beauty and the beast

I have been thinking about beauty and its purpose in life. I mean I guess its different for everyone, and everyone has a different opinion on what beauty is. All I know is I feel like if you surround yourself with beauty, it improves your life to some degree. Whatever your definition of it is. I will be the first to admit I have a ridiculously shallow end to my gene pool. My family is a nice looking one I have to say. Yeah yeah, whatever right? But I find I am drawn to what I find attractive. Really who isn't huh? You know how attitudes can make people you never thought of as paticularily good looking can all of a sudden make them really desirable? The opposite is true as well.* I find my life has gotten considerably more beautful in the last couple of months. The absence of ugly is a fantastic thing innit??

In other still sick news; I'm still sick. OMG Alana, if this is what you have been dealing with for months at a time, I may cry myself to sleep for you for a year. This stomach flu/virus/affliction caused by voodoo man or bad mangoes or whatever is NOT FUN. My energy is gone and (deep breath) I have not knit or spun for 3 days now. Chris says its how he knows I am sicksickSICK. Well that and the house looks like hellinahandbasket. WAH! I wants my Mummy!!

SNOW. **

Oh yeah. Snow. Pickles loves it:

Max does not:

The floors, not so fond of it either. I think its a great way of getting some clean-ish water on it. Pickles isn't so sure about the clump thing though...

*Ridding oneself of crazy, draining, scattered conflicting energy beats the shit out of any cleanse from a box.

**Fresh this am. Yay.

Urgh

Ok so the shop update is a day late, but not a dollar short! I am feeling really damn sick* and was pleased to have gotten this up.

This is a random sampling of the goods, go see for yourself!

*sick like no eating, stomach hurty, skin hurty, head hurty badness. You know like the cleanse with no pills. :(

Compliance

Ordinarily I would not shave my dogs when it gets cold like whoa, but due to some unforeseen circumstances...

BALD DOGS!!!!

Poor baby Max has to wear his sweater outside and Pickles won't leave me alone. In fact he is sitting on my lap as I type this one handed* licking my hand intermittently. Sucks. I am pleased to report that Pickles took a page from Mr Max and just sat there and let me shave him down really calmly. I have such good boys!! Such good boys!



I went to Shoppers Drug Mart to get a restock of my favorite face cream to find out it has been discontinued. ARGH! WHY?!? This is why I stopped shopping at the Body Shop. Oh well.. back to the drawing board.



So with the cold/warm/cold weather it has been perfect spinning weather. See??

These and other yummies will be up for sale probably Monday at the Etsy shop. More fibre and yarn will be up then too. Go on.. you know you wanna...

*DIRTY MINDS.