Why yes it’s the ABC along catch up post :) So there’s many, many pictures.

This past weekend was an awesome fibery type weekend. Saturday was spent spinning with my guild, the Elmendorph Spinners, on Clermont’s beautiful grounds during the Chancellor’s Sheep & Wool Showcase.

A little E for Elmendorph, and a bit of F for friends.

Numero uno, is of course Tina. Wonderful friend, confidant, and spinner extraordinaire :) She wasn’t there spinning with the guild that day - she was there vending her goods, and her goods are good. Just saying :)

Now here are a few more of the wonderful people that are in the guild.

So that’s E and F, I guess G would have to be goods. I actually did not buy that much, but the bit I did get makes me very happy :)

I bought a lot of soap! I love this stuff so much, and they all smell so delicious. It’s from Clove Valley Soapworks and their stuff is so good. My favorite product of theirs is their Boo-Boo cream. They had already sold out of it by the time I got there on Saturday, but luckily I still have some left. The stuff is good though, and all natural, and we do go through it like crazy in the summer so I’m going to have to contact them soon for some more. The four square bars will be teacher gifts and the round one on the wooden soap dish is some kitchen soap that I picked up for myself. The yarn, oh the delicious yarn, is some lace weight of course acquired from Tina and I can’t wait to get my hands on it. The little guy trying so hard to get in the picture might be my favorite buy of the day, but it’s hard to take a picture with a puppet on your hand while trying to get him in the picture. So here he is all alone.

Is he not the cutest thing ever? I bought this under the pretense that it was for the kids, he’s not. He’s mine, all mine! He’s an incredible lift to your day. I mean it’s hard to be grumpy when you put this guy on your hand. I think everyone should get one :) To bad I know nothing of his origins, gosh darn it.

E, F, G, now for H

Well that would be our Sunday trip to Webs to see the Harlot.

It was so funny to watch the regular folks in downtown North Hampton that day looking at the sign, then looking at all the people, then back to the sign. Who is this rock star the Yarn Harlot? Scratch, scratch, keep on walking :). You see, the Calvin is a place for music usually. The night before the Harlot the Hanson Brothers were there (mmmbop, you know you want to sing it)

So me and missy left the boys at home for a day of girl only yarn frolicking. There were more yummy goods acquired but I already used that for part of this ABC along, so me being me we of course have our feet. Because you know how I love my feet pictures.

First we have missy and I waiting in the theater for the Harlot’s arrival.

We of course waited in line afterwards to have our book signed and a photo opportunity with the Harlot herself.

I’m thinking I should have had my toes done for such an event. Oh well, next time.

E, F, G, H! I’m all caught up now - yeah!

Oh, just one more picture, to make the circle complete. I see you too!

Missy did all the picture taking on Sunday, and she didn’t do to bad!

I love how Earth Day’s popularity grows every year.

The other week missy made some ear rings out of soda pop tabs and I thought they would make perfect fodder for an Earth Day post. Well, yeah, then I totally missed it, but it’s never to late for such creative masterpieces :)

Not much to look at when they are lying on the fence post picking up the sun, it’s when they are in the ears that they really shine.

What I love most about these is the simple fact that re-using and looking at things from a different perspective is so instilled in my missy that she came up with these in no time flat. The posts are from some old broken ear rings, the black hemp from the craft box, and the tabs from the recycle box.

Recycle, reduce, re-use, oh yeah!

Again the days are zipping by - I feel like I say that all the time - but it is so true. Zip, zap, zing, before I know it two weeks have gone by. Thankfully, it’s been more the fun type of busy for the most part. Then again who knows, because do I even remember last week? Well parts.

It’s another sun shiny day so I’m attempting to do this quick like because I made the mistake of mentioning a trip to the lake to the kids yesterday and now they are raring to go. Honestly so am I - but I’ll keep that to myself :P

wasn’t done with this before taking off - and now we are back :) It was a beautiful day to be at the water! Even if all I got wet was my toes because the water was like ice and my feet were numb within moments.

Now back to our regular blog post.

Last Tuesday after reading Kirsten’s blog, and seeing her linen stitch cowl, I knew I too was a follower. All during knit night that cowl was stuck in my head, and when I realized I had the perfect yarn for it I became a little obsessed. Yes Jess, that’s the reason for my glazed far away looks (the excuse I’m sticking to at least). As soon as I was home it was cast on time. Then I became totally excited with linen stitch in the round, there may have even been mad laughter, but I absolutely could not stop, and before I knew it - it was done. I was happy and oh so satisfied.

And I’m loving the inside just as much - it’s reversible too!

One lesson learned: When you ask daughter to model neck wear on our first over 80° day you don’t get smiles.

I actually started and finished this before Kristen had a pattern written up, but it’s the same as her Chikcadee Cowl which is now available. Which I highly recommend. It’s quick, it’s easy, it’s lovely, it’s linen stitch in the round! and so much fun. All the details can be found on my Ravelry project page.

Because I am a true follower, and honestly had to find out if I could still, here is my cartwheel.

I had to do like a gazillion cartwheels for that one photo! and why I never thought to change out of the skirt to make the whole process easier - who knows? Most of the photos were not so elegant looking (if that’s what you want to call it).

There’s even video but I’m not posting them here - you’ll have to hunt those down on my flickr account your darn selves :)

Have a great weekend all!

This past month I’ve been so lucky with winning blog contests I find it mind boggling. Love it. Totally. Yet it all still boggles my mind. First up, long over due blog appreciation goes to Jess. Who’s blog contest I won a bit ago.

What’s all there? A wonderful bump of natural colored merino, some really cool postcards (not showing that well on top of the merino) from pictures taken by Jess herself, a little sheep Pez dispenser (that I know Jess finds surprising that it’s still in the packaging - had to keep it that way until I was able to snap the darn picture), and a skein of Seacoast Handpainted Yarn in a wonderful merino/tencel blend. Her prize also included a $25.00 gift certificate to the Loopy Ewe. Yes! We all know how I hate that place :) So with my loopy money I picked up two skeins of Malabrigo lace and a little Namaste accessories tote.

Thank you so much Jess!

As if that wasn’t enough I also just recently won a blog contest Sarah of Perfect Day Yarns ran.

What we have here is one skein of Beat Sock in Midnight Iris, a Piddleloop Piddly bag, a mini skein of her new Free Verse Sock, some small purple stitchmarkers, and a bag of chocolate peanut clusters.

Thank you so much Sarah!

I’m thinking now might be the time to actually buy a lottery ticket instead of just contemplating what I would do with the winnings from the tickets I never buy. I’m on a roll :)

Man I meant to do this so much earlier, but time keeps slipping away from me. I don’t know what is up with that - but life is zipping by at the speed of light, and I’m having a hard time keeping up.

I managed to actually finish something just in a lick of time to add to littlemans bucket of goods for todays holiday festivities. Just pay no mind to the down and dirty but darn right quick night-time photography :)

It’s Which Came First? by Anna Hrachovec and all the details can be found in my project pages on Ravelry

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter day!

I guess I’m going to go with the chicken coming first. Well at least that is what I knitted first

Daughters daily drawings.

Originally I was going to use Dunkin Donuts, after all that is the fuel that keeps me going, but with the house of sickness last week I never really got the opportunity to gather all the props and then take pictures. Missy though, with one of her daily drawings was able to capture the letter “D” quite perfectly.

Just about everyday Missy manages to draw something. Often it’s a still life of where ever she is at the moment, then other times it’s your regular rainbows and flowers of a dreamy 13 year old. This is one of her drawing from last week that pretty much captures what I was going for anyway (there’s the DD cup after all). This was her view of my nightstand while sitting on my bed, and I love how she captured all the details :) There’s the fall out card from Spin-Off magazine, my flowered coffee mug (it had tea in it), and of course the always present Dunkin Donut cup.

I love Missy’s daily doodles and drawings :)