Monday was our 24th anniversary, so we have been celebrating 🙂 We took off from work this week and are having a staycation – trying to mix getting some house projects done and getting some relaxing in. Sunday night we went to our local theater pub, Bear Tooth, for a movie. Going to the Bear… Continue reading Anniversary!
A little while ago, I wrote about my Halloween yarn countdown sets and showed off the first mini of set #1. I’ve been posting each day’s minis on Instagram, but held off on showing them here until I was a little further into the set and had a reasonable feel for whether I liked the… Continue reading Halloween Yarn: It’s a Thing
I tried out a new-to-me tea company this week – David’s Tea. They seem to be based in Canada, though they have a few shops here and there in the US. However, you can shop from them online, and they have quite an interesting array of teas. What drew me in though, was that they… Continue reading Tea for Two: David’s Tea
Earlier this year, I wrote a bit about getting involved with the Livestock Conservancy’s Shave ‘Em to Save ‘Em program. SE2SE encourages fiber artistists to buy fleeces, wool or yarn from farmers of endangered breeds of sheep. I bought a few skeins earlier this year, but then got distracted by a couple of other projects.… Continue reading SE2SE: A Few Skeins More
On my way home from work Monday night, I stopped at a nearby pharmacy to get a flu shot, and while I was there, decided to get a shingles shot as well. As the pharmacist said – “May as well get them both over with!” And moreover, I decided to get them both in the… Continue reading A Shot at Organization
Mom’s sugar skull mug is done! It really is hers this time, and it turned out really well 🙂 I made sure to look for all the benchmarks – lime green interior, little hearts in the heart eyes and on the teeth, spider on the back of the head, and butterflies – check, check, check… Continue reading Skull Daze
I am a crazy Halloween lady. It is my favorite holiday by far. October 1st is the official start of the Halloween season for me, and it goes on until a couple days into November. So when I found out that yarn dyers were starting to do Halloween yarn advent sets, chaos ensued. So many… Continue reading Crazy Halloween Lady
We have a couple signs that fall is here in Alaska – it gets colder, the leaves turn, the fireweed flowers finish blooming, and we get termination dust on the mountains. It’s called that because it’s the termination of summer. For the summer, we don’t have snow on the peaks we can see in Anchorage… Continue reading Termination Dust
Quite A Yarn 