Or, a story to tide you over until I’m past the craziness of trying to buy a house.

So Maryland Sheep and Wool festival dawned this year and I attended with a dear friend, husband, and daughter in tow. Although I adore all the people with whom I attended, it reminded me that [...]

My husband and I have neither of us ever had especially fabulous credit. Back at the beginning of our relationship we were fleetingly pre-approved for a mortgage, but ultimately everything fell through and we ended up not being able to purchase a home of our own, after all. Given the state of the market [...]

1) That I will always have something to say, 1a) but seldom have photographs attached to the words actually available.

2) That I will have daily ideas for Things I Should Blog, but do nothing because of items 1 and 1a.

3) That my blog shall always lay dormant should I keep preventing [...]

I know, cheap excuse.

Here’s what’s been going on: My eldest stepson moved out about a month? two months? ago. My youngest stepson joined the Army (!!) infantry (!!!!), graduated from basic training two weeks ago, spent a week with us during which he got his first tattoo (see below), and then flew [...]

It’s another of those times where my inability to be faithful to a single project at a time bites my blog in the ass. (Sorry, blog! Neosporin should clear that right up, though. Wanna bandaid? We’ve got Dora and Hello Kitty, but we’re out of Transformers…)

I worked on several different projects this week, [...]

This is another of those posts that my friend SSB should skip, presuming she doesn’t want to see what parts of her wedding shawl will look like. Continue reading Progress!

Well, here’s a first try at using a cut tag/jump-link to prevent spoilering folks for stuff. I’ve joined a few fiber and sock club things that ask that you don’t spoiler folks who haven’t received their kits yet, and I’m also working on a wedding shawl for SSB, who reads this blog, and who maybe doesn’t want to see her wedding shawl until…you know, her wedding.

So this is where we give that a shot, mmkay? Ready? GO! (ATTN: SPOILER for Rockin’ Sock Club January yarn after the jump. Be thou forewarned.)

Continue reading New Tricks

I have started and stopped projects from my own handspun maybe a handful of times, and I have one really massive project that’s been floating around in my head ever since I got my first spindle and fiber in hand, but I had never actually completed anything from my own handspun until [...]

Our household has seen quite a bit of change since the holidays this winter. December 29th, my youngest stepson packed a backpack of approved items and took himself off to Army basic training. His goal is to join the Infantry and make the Army his career. Thus far, he seems to be [...]