Plain and Practical

My Husband is My Hero!

because without his help I never could have gotten this vistaprint order out.  Stasia and I shot the pics and started the cropping, Husband configured the print to specs, I made the back of the card, Husband sent off the order and did the rest.

Hope I can sell some of the sculptures and make him proud!

I've been sorta keeping busy

My allergies have been smacking me in the head lately, if I want to get rid of my snots and sinus headache, I have to take a decongestant.  The decongestant makes me drag and sometimes I have to take an afternoon nap or go to be early.  There's no winning solution, you just have to put up with it some times of the year.

Yesterday, I did the farmer's market as usual from 7 a.m. until 11:30ish, and after a rest in the AC with a 30 minute Boo-permitted nap, I took the 400 pounds of planting soil and the five wire cages a friend helped me put together, and lined them with landscaping fabric, and here's some cukes in their happy home under the end of the clothesline.  They can climb on that structure, with a little help and a couple of strings down, as they grow.  Other cages have squash and pole beans, so far.

and I've been spinning, carding, plying, and sorting wools for Sauder stock, which gets packed and I leave on Friday--that yarn my fingers are in, is a two play spun from natural almost-black wool--

and here's today's carding--the yellow on top is onion skins and alum mordant, the peach is actually black walnut sans mordant, the brown is the second go-round with black walnut and alum mordant.  It will all get carded for the Sauder gig, and I hope to get a little of it spun, too.  Wednesday will be the last day for plying so time is running out fast.  Peace.

Kitchen is Stinky, Fingers are Pruney

because this is Use All The Water week at the Hibbard House.  There's dyeing going on--here's the yarn spun from that batch of onion skin-alum dye a couple days ago--four ounces, 300 yards, but it will be bigger once it's plied:

and here's a hot dyepot of black walnut with another pound of roving:

and here's two natural greys in the sink, one soaking, one draining ready to be rinsed:

so there's wool on the picnic table, and almost-dry stuff from yesterday on a sheet on the freshly mowed grass, two colors of roving dripping on the clothesline, and a batch of our laundry out there too, waving in the slight breeze in sunlight.  Soon, I'll go get change for the farm market tomorrow, pack up my tub, and hubbin is volunteering to spend part of his Friday night fixing my old wagon again.  Today is for spinning and continuing to wash wool to get that lovely barn odor out of the house, and let me just say THIS fiber artist is lovin' all the fuzzies.  Peace.

Keeping Busy

Here's more sprouts, if I haven't shown them to you already, I've been making four trays a week and putting them in breads, salads, on sandwiches, stirred into potato salads--nice to have your own greens, year round:

and here's onion skins getting made into a dyebath:

and I went to the wool mill yesterday to get natural colored wools for spinning for sauder village, the show is only a little over two weeks away!

and here's nine pieces of thrifted linens--dresses, skirts, tablecloths, and a curtain--all but one will become clothing for me.  Aprons, blouses, and maybe a new sunbonnet, and a couple of kapps for around the house to save wear and tear on my stiff mesh caps I get from Bayley Thompson:

be good!  yarn and fiber pics tomorrow--the onion skin dyed stuff is out dripping on the clothesline, so a photo of that, tomorrow, also.  Peace.