Archive for July, 2010
One of the vintage toys we received in the mail from Immi & Ashland’s grandparents is a little sheep from the Fisher-Price Family Farm set. It’s a strange thing how knitting/crocheting has ultimately made me appreciate sheep as unique and wonderful creatures!
Here’s a close-up. I’m guessing this sheep is about 30 years old.
…And just for fun, here’s a modern sheep toy:
Granted, these two sheep appear to be of different breeds (the first one is a domestic sheep? and second one merino maybe?) its amusing to me how so different they are!
And as long as I’m posting pictures of plastic sheep, here’s some totally lovely fiber I got for spinning:
It’s very soft and fluffy:
And I’m trying to make something with the yarn I finally finished spinning. I guess it’ll be a light scarf since I only have 2 ounce.
Salad I had at the market was totally delicious! Lettuce, wheatberries, and chickpeas topped with lamb. I think I’ll try making wheatberries at home, I haven’t only because I know that they take long time to cook, but they are totally yummy in salads — I think it might be worth it!
For some reason, I’ve been in mood to organize these past few days (I’ve also been feeling less tired finally!). I took advantage of this to excavate my desk in our office/studio (Todd and I share this room though we each have a desk) which was buried under random *stuff* — I hadn’t been using this space since I’ve moved my big studio computer out into the living room for the time being (due to my laptop dying…). And even though it’s missing my computer for it to be a functional music studio, I now have organized crafting space for the first time since we moved to Portland!
These are my little crafting friends who hang out on the studio monitor under the scraggly tree: Craftie-Demon, Miss-Yarn-To-Be, and Sew-So-Pretty-Pony (she has a pink button tattoo on her hip). The sheep and pony were Immi’s I snatched for myself.
I got a totally comfortable and very pretty summer dress at a serious bargain price…which of course meant that some minor alteration was required. I don’t have the skill to do this for a more complicated dress but for a simple one like this, I got it to fit me well just by taking in the side seam a bit at the top of the dress (did this with sewing machine to save time) and shortening the strap (by hand, some things are much more neatly done this way!).
I made some soap because somehow we didn’t have any more left in our supply closet! Soap making is more of Todd’s craft, but he’s been really busy so I whipped up just a few by my self. This one smells like citrus.
…And this one smells like lavender.
It’s all natural except for color blue and green in the first soap. The clear soap base is soy and the white one is goat’s milk. The pearly-ness in the first one and the gold shimmer in the second one are both cosmetic grade mica and they are both scented with natural essential oils.
Perpetuated by:
Socialize & Share:
By Shana
By Shana
By Shana
By Mary (Walker)
By Kimberly Anne King