05. October 2010 · Comments Off · Categories: buy my stuff · Tags: , , , , , , , ,

etsy cover

I can’t believe I haven’t shared this photo yet.  We have such a short summer here, I always shoot first and edit later.  This one is from a camping trek to Fairy Lake that we took in July, and yes, the lake is really and truly that beautiful turquoise in real life.

This is the natural habitat of our wool coozies.  I want to see where your coozies like to hang out.

Don’t have one yet?  You can get an already made one, lickety split like, from Hip Mountain Mama, or you can order a custom made-just-for-you one from my Etsy shop.

What would you like to see emblazoned on your beer holder?

international symbol for geologist

Click here for instant, hassle free shopping (no Etsy account needed and there’s even some with pockets!)

If you’d like to tell me a story and have a custom coozie made just for you, better do it quick.  There are four spots left and you have four days to grab one.  Click here to grab a custom spot.

25. November 2009 · Comments Off · Categories: Uncategorized · Tags: , , , , , ,

Not every day is full of disciplines and tidying up and laundry.  Not every day indeed.  Some days, in fact, are selfishly devoted to what I want to do, and apparently all I wanted to do for the last four days was spin yarn.

Patient Papa, strong and flexible as always, took the helm of the household while I stared at the spin, spin, spin of the wheel and watched fiber fly from my fingertips.

It started innocently with a quick upcycled project using a fuzzy acrylic and some leftover chocolate brown handspun singles…

upcycled in fuschia

and moved into another upcycled experiement (left)…and some handspun wool (right)…

upcycled and handspun

and that was so fun that I tackled a couple more colorways in wool…

painted desert and root chakra

and then I tackled some hemp fiber…

spinning machine

You might notice that enormous mountain of unfolded laundry behind the wheel there.  And you might even see the sweet little shirt with the spinning wheel on it that my pal Heidi made for Annabelle.

Yep, that’s right Annabelle.  Some days your mama is a spinnin’ machine.  Special thanks to the papa and the kiddos for cutting me some slack while I immersed myself in the practice of working meditation.  It was sorely needed.