Tilt-a-whirl: Too Bad, So Sad

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Well, NUTS...we found out that the Fabulous Fiber Fest in Santa Monica has been canceled. I am so sorry for the promoter, who says that her health is the stumbling block. I am sorry for all of us, who had found a way to come to the Southern California without having to go through the Expensive PITA that is the Juried Craft Show down there. There are three of us, Sheila and Michael Ernst, Robin Senour of Sacred Laughter and of course yours truly and the Mister who are escapees from that world..well, Robin is still going so I can't lump her in with US. :o) I am sad that I won't be able to see all of the wonderful and loyal people who have waited for us to come back, after we eschewed the two shows at the Civic. Now we have nothing down there. Boo HOO!

I feel a door close and ask where the draft is coming from...last year when I was wait listed for Black Sheep, I figured that perhaps there was something else afoot...hmmm, it was THIS place. One year exactly, tomorrow. I wish Sheila and Michael and very successful show!

Now then. We went to the fair this weekend, Rod and I. We went by OURSELVES as grown-ups and got to see a band from our youth, Pablo Cruise. It was a treat to find them at the El Dorado County Fair and looking and sounding so great. We also got to meet the people that I spent the morning with today. I finally found the members of the Hangtown Fiber Guild and today I went to my first gathering and enjoyed the heck out meeting the people in this group. They did so well at the fair that they one first place of all of the exhibits. Perhaps NEXT year, you will find me hanging out at the fair, too!

Here is some stuff that I have been spinning for someone. It is some Ultra Fine Merino fiber that is dyed in the Petroglyph colorway. This is the first big bobbin (probably about 7 ounces) nesting in pile for this evening's spinning. It is so soft and delicious.

I have another shot here for you. This guy came out of that huge pile of logs that the backhoe deposited in the behind the house this winter. I was working at the computer and saw Rod coming across the driveway cupping his gloved hands and raising his eyebrows at me. Hmmm...who could it be now? Toadalicious. He now lives down by the creek. Isn't he KEWT?

Comments

He looks like a colorway to me. (If you paint it, I will come...)

Posted by: Jan | June 19, 2008 at 06:21 PM

I agree with Jan. He looks like he has an ATTITUDE.

Posted by: Laurie | June 20, 2008 at 03:47 AM

He has toaditude! heehee

At the closing ceremony for Emily's school this month, among all the feet sitting and tapping and coming and going there was a poor lost guy just like that one. I had my hands full of camera but somebody's grandma caught him and took him to where he wouldn't get walked on.

Posted by: CarolineF | June 20, 2008 at 05:46 AM