11.09.06

Hello Ladies! (& gentlemen of particular interest and refined taste)

Posted in Shop Updates at 12:20 am by wendy

Our street was completely missed by trick or treaters this year, which was fine with all of our four legged fiends, but odd. The streets on either side went all out, with strobe lights and haunted houses, but down our street it was all dark. We didn’t even hang up the usual basket of candy from the tree.

And check this out, ladies:

Yep, toilet paper on a roll on the holder, and placed there by the husband. I nearly fell off the toilet when I realised it.

(When Nick saw this post-to-be he said, “Wha? I put the toilet paper on all the time!”

“No you don’t! “

“Well, I do it at as often as you do.”

Which while still not true is at least a little less false…we buy that toilet paper that seems like 8 sheets to the roll, so we go through rolls so fast I now really only put it on the holder for special company. So if you’re ever at our house, and the toilet paper’s on the holder, feel special. ‘Cuz you’re special company. And we cared enough ’bout what you think about us to pretend we weren’t savages who just set the roll on top of the holder. )

I have no interesting spinning or knitting content. Next time. Tomorrow, I promise I’ll have something more interesting.

I missed the Wednesday midday spinning group because we brought home another foster dog, Kilt. He’s a good boy, a bit shy and still figuring out the stairs and the house rules. Belu is now walking around with a big ol’ chip on her shoulder.

***************I wrote the above last week. I just kept waiting to have something more interesting to share than another dang dog picture and A ROLL OF TOILET PAPER, fercryin’outloud. Um, and I do, really, I swear. Tomorrow, tomorrow, mañana, mañana, siempre digo mañana…No really. De verás.Until tomorrow then, more pictures of dogs. Meet Kilt, our newest foster dog.

We still have Snuggle, silly bugger, but there were dogs that really needed to get out of Caliente (the cesspit that profits from them) but we didn’t have room for them at the kennel. We had to make room, some dogs went to foster, some dogs went to boarding. I guess it takes two big dogs to even try to fill the hole in our home left by Pomona’s defection. :p

He looks like a knobbly ratty-eared alien in these piccies, but believe me, he’s a very cute, very sweet, slightly shy, very mellow four and a half year old. He sticks to Snuggle pretty closely and watches him for cues on how to behave. It’s pretty funny since Snuggle is Goofus to Kilt’s Gallant.

We are definitely at max capacity, in fact, Belu is at Grandma’s, getting a long walk in the morning, nap, dog beach in the evening, getting a full measure of lovies. It’s like Fat Camp, but with more snuggling.

(Belu, cleaning out the dregs of the foodbin before I refill it with fresh stuff.)

I have been doing some crafty things…I’m trying my hand at stamp carving:

Let me know what you think of the design please–is it too blah? It seems familar, but maybe that’s because I’ve been thinking about it for a while. It’s very tricky to carve out the little curvy bits, I may end up taking the design to some professionals. But I reserve the right to mess it up first on my own.

I’ve been doing some dyeing:

Some sock yarns and cobweb cashmere/silk (at 45 wpi, a total PITA to skein up, I am looking longingly at Fricke’s electric skeinwinder/counter)

that I put up in 600 yard skeins, and I should have them all reskeined up for sale pretty soon, the shop’s pretty bare and needs fresh blood. I’ve been waiting to do an update, to have a new shopping cart system, but just haven’t got ’round to it. I’m afraid of totally messing everything up.

I’ve got a fair amount of new fibers in, and the naturally colored fibers page has been updated, with smaller amounts available for purchase, good for sampling and spinning for small projects.

I’ve really got to gather up all my UFOs and make a list and power through them…I’ve started a sock though, to avoid that painful reality.

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