Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Secret Pal Package Goodies!

I was having a pretty crappy day, shouting at children, grumping at husbands. But when I got home, there was a fat package waiting for me on the kitchen table. It was from my Secret Pal!!!!! YIPPEE! Fibre goodness!




Inside I found some brandy beans, yum, a peace angel as well as a tiny fireplace cross-stitch kit. Very cute. But the best was the hand painted roving! She had read that I had a spindle, but couldn't draft to save my life...I guess she had faith that I could figure it out, so I had to try. After consulting many Youtube tutorials, and finding out how to pre-draft, behold my first attempts at spinning!


Not too bad, and good thing I like thick-thin yarn (haha). Now, what to make from it??? Oh, and she also included another very funky 3-D card. Love it! Thank you so much!!!!!

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Happy Imbolc!

I know that I'm a day late, but the season is still the same. Actually, with the warm temp yesterday, you could almost believe that winter wouldn't last forever.



Today, after school the kids and I are going to make candles and Bridey cakes...just little things, but enough. I wanted to clear off the mantle to make it into an altar, but not yet. *sigh*



I have to frog the sweater I'm making - grrrrr. Stupid provisional cast on!