I look at the beauty of the autumn day, with the glowing red and yellow leaves and say that I am thankful, thankful that it is a beautiful day and that there were no tornadoes roaring up the court at 2 in the morning. What in the world is going on, people? Mother Nature, as a certain Danish Woman that I know sez, is Weely pizzed ouf, Leeza. I agree, Helle. I am still back on my heels about how Oprah was so unaware of compact flourescent bulbs and how they can save energy and money. Is it only California, the land hated by ENRON, where we use these things on a regular basis? Come on, people...Change Those Bulbs.
Stepping off of my soap box (must be the impending dentist appointment this afternoon...jumpy) I can say that I spent the morning photographing cinnamon rolls of fiber, throwing a goopy tennis ball for some wacko dogs and then photographing new and orphaned skeins of yarn for the website. I did my part and clicked, cropped, blah blah'd and sent them on to the Canadian Queen to sandwich onto the site. I have no idea how long we will wait to see them appear but in the meantime, here is proof that I have done the work on the Emerald City Biffle and also slipped some other fibers into the respective Mahogany and Petrogyph pots. Here are their portraits so that you know that I am Knot Lying.
Oh yeah, I am happy to report that Sheila and Michael had a lot of fun at SOAR and came home with a much smaller bucket o' fiber...well worth boxing it up and sending it on. Interesting to see that the Can You Guess This Fiber was a hit.
Dentist.
Wowee, Lisa. Amazing how the different fibers take the dye. All beautiful. -Jan
Posted by: Jan Clark | November 17, 2005 at 04:51 PM
Gorgeous cinnamon buns as always! Oprah didn't know about those? Don't suppose she knows about natural light bulbs to increase seratonin either! I've been using those bulbs ever since they were first marketed! Now that it dropped from 72 to 24 in 36 hours, our pup is in, too. (Pup = 18 month old collie male.)
Posted by: Nancy J | November 17, 2005 at 04:59 PM
Love that Emerald City... So, any more news about the baby??
Posted by: CarolineF | November 18, 2005 at 05:10 AM
Well, I have you to blame :o) of course, Caroline. Sheila said that what I gave her for SOAR all went home with people. Woo hoo. Now I have 2 pounds of it to spin for a yarn customer and just sent 2 pounds off to Barb for birthday spinning. You made a lot of people happy by pestering me into doing the impossible, which requires two stages of dyeing...sigh.
The baby is "just chillin'". He gets measured again on Monday and when he is ready to hit the atmosphere, his narrow mama will be thankful if he is not enormous.
Posted by: Lisa S | November 18, 2005 at 06:05 AM
lisa, which color is the cinnabon on the bottom, i love it ;-)
Posted by: vanessa | November 18, 2005 at 07:03 AM
Are you trying to kill me, with all those nasty pictures???*GRIN*
Yeah.....Mother nature, has her own will........she is cleaning a bit up on the Earth....!!:-(
Hehe...well, i can tell you this..that the bigger those kids are, when they arrive to this earth.....the faster they come out.......at least when you are me. The last one, weighted 4330 grams.......and was blowed out....almost ended up on the floor, but she caught him in a leg!*GRIN*
Posted by: Helle From Denmark | November 18, 2005 at 07:23 AM
Thank you, Vanessa. Jan asked me to do Petroglyph and Mahogany in Wensleydale and so I did those colors in that fiber as well as Biffle. The one on the bottom is Wensleydale Petroglyph...it is a complicated colorway and much like the colors of the desert rocks and hills after the first rain, when a tiny 1/4 inch of green is showing through the old stuff. Thanks to you and Terri for noticing. Jan in North Dakota (brrrr) will have some amazing spinning ahead of her.
Posted by: Lisa S | November 18, 2005 at 07:27 AM
Really, two stages. This dyeing stuff is so much more complicated than I thought. Me, I just stuff fiber in a pot and go away. Heehee.
Posted by: CarolineF | November 18, 2005 at 08:55 AM