New Project?

lifted from Lynette Anderson Design

Is this the next distraction? I know I keep on about it but it is taking me a helluva long time to recuperate from this 'flu thing that I had. I am just not up to dyeing fibre or painting yarn which was my next intended dabble project. I need something that will occupy me peacefully without boring me but not be so challenging so as to fry my poor brain...

Just a day or two ago I stumbled across Kate Quilts in Australia. I know nothing about quilting, the design and colour sense needed to quilt just does my head in, but she has a pretty blog with some very cheerful Celtic/folk music on a little widget. And while wandering around I found a link to a Noah's Ark Quilt which really caught my eye...
I have been thinking about it since then. I used to be pretty good at embroidery when I was younger though it has been a long time since I did anything of note. But these little rabbits are speaking to me and they are saying "Go on...give it a go..."
Watch this space...

New Find

Through Pippa I have found an amazing blog. Wayfaring Wanderer Stunning photography, go and check it out.

Fibre Swap!

I've never done a fibre swap before.This one is organised by Spindle and Wheel, a spinning e zine but is open to fibre crafters and artists of all description; knitters, weavers, felters etc. I am plotting possible goodies to send already. What fun!

A New Game

This is not for the fainthearted mind, so if you are at all uneasy then don't go, okay?

Right, that said, when I found this, I laughed so hard in shock that I was crying. This is not something that a good Christian woman should do in this situation is it? But, if you have been reading here for any time at all, you will know by now that I foul up regularly, even spectacularly at times. Okay, enough warnings. Now... if you are so inclined then I recommend that you go to see Patois and have a laugh. I did.

Another new find!

Just pootling about cyberspace and came across a fantastic little site, a spinning e zine! And they are having a fibre swap! Cool... I've never done one of those. I am thinking about signing up. Linked below and on side bar, go check it out.

Oh deary me...

Check out Hobgoblin Music here

Did I say that retail therapy had to stop? Well colour me changeable 'cos I'm off to Bristol on the morrow with long suffering V in tow to try out a mandolin from Hobgoblin. I don't know...I've just always wanted one okay? I'm alright on the guitar, but my hands are so stupidly small ( seriously, I can just about stretch an octave on the piano) that it is very hard for me to play well. Thus I reason that a slimmer neck will suit my literally child sized hands rather better.
And this one is so funky, don't you think? It is a little more expensive than I was prepared to pay considering that I am a beginner, but well, you don't want to scrimp do you? And it can always come out of the Christmas money that my dearest MIL has promised to bestow on me, ostensibly to get a new coat ... but I wont tell her if you won't!

Nos da cariad

Okay, now I know ...

Your Bumper Sticker Should Be

Come to the darkside, we have cookies

What Bumper Sticker Should Be On Your Car?

Friday's Feast - weekly meme

Thanks to Clockwork Chris for the link to Friday's Feast.

Appetizer
What do you consider to be the ultimate snack food?

Either sweet popcorn or lightly salted doritos with mild salsa

Soup
On a scale of 1 to 10 (with 10 as highest), about how popular is your last name?

I don't know. I don't like it much, its rather plain.

Salad
Who is your all-time favorite sitcom character, and why?

Niles Crane from Frasier, because he is so witty and so dotty at the same time.

Main Course
Do you shop online? If so, name some sites you like to browse for goodies.

Yeah! Amazon, Posh Yarn, Wingham Wool, the chocolate tasting club, the early learning centre

Dessert
Fill in the blank: I think... hunters who hunt for sport...should be... hunted, (just once, just for them to know what it feels like.)

See, this is why I Love Blogging

Check out this fairycon found through Laini found through Sunday Scribblings

Opening up whole new stratas of fab stuff to be mined.

Love

I wondered what I would write for this, my one hundredth post and surfing around this afternoon I found this site and liked the idea. Post an image of love on your site every Thursday. Spread a little true love around - we can all do with a just little more.

Project Spectrum

The idea of Project Spectrum is simply a celebration of the colors around us, and taking the time to notice them. Each month over a six month span will be devoted to a color group - participants can knit, dye, crochet, weave, spin, stitch, paint, scrapbook, sew, quilt, cook, grow, photograph, bake, or bead items in that color group (of course all arts and crafts not mentioned here also count!).

It is really about expressing yourself creatively - making something beautiful, and creating something unique with your hands. It is also about thinking outside of the box - perhaps taking up a new hobby, or a long neglected one, or finally dabbling in design.

Text above is lifted directly off the Project Spectrum Page.

So, there are three colour groups that you get to paddle in for two months. I am taking as my key words: Thinking outside the box.

April/May colours are:Green, Yellow, Pink. These are not colours that I customarily work with. I think pink is a difficult colour as so often it looks twee or saccharinely cute. Yellow I love, but I can't wear and neither can anyone else in the family. Green is one of my favourite colours but I like it best on trees. Having said that I like lime a lot, but lime doesn't mix easily with the other two. Like I said, if I were a designer then I'm certain I would see a way through this, but I'm not.

Oh dear, just realised. This is the point of the excercise. Break out of the box, girl!

I get very bogged down sometimes and I end up restricting myself. I like to have a project in mind and produce yarn or what ever with that objective. Outrageous creativity doesn't often happen to me.

So I reckon that I must relax, card up fibre and see what happens...I think beads will come into it somewhere down the line too.
Craft on!

Another new find!

I have found One Deep Breath, a site for Haiku poetry. (See Sites I like)
I love haiku, they are so clean and spare. Writing them really focuses the mind and encourages a writer's discipline, cuts out wordiness, which usually means adjectives. It's a useful habit when writing anything. Keep it simple, it stands out amongst all the outrageous fuss. So I'm giving this week's challenge a go. Might as well now that I've got the poetry juices on the go, shame to waste it isn't it?

New Find!

Sunday Scribblings
I love writing but I don't often do so without some kind of cause, which is why I love blogging too. But this site well, it's one great bundle of writing prompts. Like assignments but of course utterly voluntary.

What fun!
This week's prompt is rooted and I think that I will give it a whirl. Haikus are a favourite. I might be posting something later on.

Iceberg Ahead Captain

Ah, I'm warning myself now so that when, in a month or two, I am weeping and tearing my hair out I will look back at this and know that I knew that it would turn out this way.

Knitting I cannot do,
I know I can't, I'm sure I can't.
I cannot knit.

So answer me this. Why on earth do I want to try lace knitting of all things and not a scarf, OH NO! I want to do a big son of a gun Icarus shawl!

It is gorgeous admittedly and I already have my eye on some cashmere yarn for the project. But Lord God (and I am not blaspheming here 'cos only He knows what is going on in my tiny mind right now and I think even He is scratching His head) what am I thinking?

And yet I know I will try and it is largely due to two yarn stores that are tantamount to yarn/fibre porn. One look at Posh Yarn and Hip Knits and I was a goner. Woe is me, I am the Lady of Shallot, doomed I tell ye...doomed.

Just found these

Catharsis
Mad dragon comic




Count Your Sheep - cute imaginary friend comic