Happy Monday

Today was a stressful day thus far. But it can only get better. Scheduled to teach in an hour. Got rained out of festival on Sat, but Sun was on and I sold $200 worth of stuff. Janet sold about $165. Not bad for our first time out. There were other women there with knitted stuff, beautiful, but very expensive. They had ponchos for $200 and felted bags for $150 and up. Um, I don't know but, I have a hard time selling a $65 scarf. I can't afford to invest $100 bucks in something that might not sell, and I would rather make myself :) something with that money. Next craftfair is in November. I have a ladies night scheduled for the 22nd, so that's next on the agenda. Should be fun, I asked everyone to bring their favorite appetizer. Just nice to see everyone befor we leave for India. I wore one of my Indian outfits on Sat pm for a party at my mother in law's house. All the Indian girls were dressed in jeans. I like wearing the beautiful outfits my mother-in law brings me back. This stupid thing won't let me start a new paragraph here. Finished another baby hat and a scarf yesterday. I have to replenish my scarf supply. I also bought some ribbon yarn from yarnmarket tonight. All the ladies liked those ribbon scarfs, sold both!!!!!

Wow 2 in one day!!!!

Wanted to post several pocketbooks I made for craft fair tommorrow. Check um out.....
Two are felted, and this is a learning process. I am not completly happy with the purple one too big, and the buttons on brown one... I suck at sewing. But pretty good for first time out. Wish me luck.

Yeah a new day

I'm currently big on reading non-fiction books. I am half way through "Easier than you think, because life doesn't have to be so hard" by Richard Carlson. There is a chapter that talks about his daughter(?) getting up in the morning and saying, "yeah! daddy I get another one of these!" she is of course referring to a new day. I think about this when I get up in the morning. I still after almost 4 years walk down my stairs and say, Thank you God for giving me this beautiful house! One more note on the philosophical side. Has anyone seen "What the bleep do we know?" It's a GREAT movie. Slightly cerebral but definetly interesting. I bought this book yesterday at B&N, it's something that they spent alot of time talking about in the movie. Treat yourself to this flick. There is part of the movie that deals with an experiment with water and how depending on how a regular bottle of water was labeled (with emotional words, such as I love you or I hate you...) the molecule of water changed it's shape..hmmm interesting. Here's the web address http://www.whatthebleep.com .

Now, I couldn't leave B&N without knitting stuff, this holiday book has some really cute stuff in it. And there is an orange poncho in the cast on that I am going to put on my to do list.















I leave you with one final pic of my newsboy cap made out of yarn I bought at a farmer's market, home spun/dyed. Have a great day!

I've been neglecting this blog

I've been neglecting this blog. Too busy, 2 jobs, blah,blah,blah. Janet and I are supposed to do our first craft fair this weekend. An outdoor Octoberfest, tropical rain included. I am trying to let this go, because, it is beyond my control. How many times do we fret and worry over things that we have no control over? This is such a waste of our useful energy. We need to focus more on being in the here and now, mindfulness. I have read so many book and articles that talk about this. So today, pick something, even a 5 minute thing (like washing the dishes) and be present in washing the dishes. How does the water feel? what are the sounds that are made? Immerse yourself in washing that dish. Sounds silly? Give it a try. You slow down your world. Breathe. Too many of us forget to breathe.
Ok enough yogi stuff today. On that note, I can't wait to start my next poncho, I'm going to try to post a pic of this....

excellent, it worked. I also visted a new LYS Ynotknit in pennsylvania. I was at yoga class with Liz my first teacher and I noticed this shop, LOVELY.... Also here is Liz's website her studio is beautiful, http://www.prancingpeacock.com .. Ok here are some of my purchases

The light blues I am going to make a newsboy cap holding the 2 together. The seafoam, probably the same a hat, The colors are gorgeous.