The Joy is in the journey

I wanted to post about my latest project. It came as a custom request from a fellow Etsy seller Bananasaurasrex. She has a lovely shop with pretty hand sewn lavender eye pillows. She asked for a cross between one of my capelets and one of my cowls. The color she requested led me on a journey to a new yarn. Pricey but, DEFINETLY worth it. Besides, if anyone knows me, they know I think nothing of buying a $30.00 skein of yarn if I am in love with it. I consider myself, what is referred to in the knitting world as a "yarn snob" I have relaxed myself a little more lately, knowing that beautiful things don't have to cost a fortune. So back to said project, I received the yarn and proceeded to fall head over heels for it. It is sooooo soft. As a knitter there is always joy (sometimes frustration and swearing), but mostly joy in the knitting. Then there are those projects that are just pure ecstacy to do. They take you back to the first time you got a pattern right, or the first project you completed... bliss..... Well, that is how I describe knitting with this yarn. The feel of it in my hands, delightful!! Anyway, now that those of you reading this who don't knit think I might be crazy, I will stop my ranting and raving. I leave you with a couple of photos of The French Grey cowl :)

Some new stuff

Things have been busy here. I am mostly working hard to prepare for fall. Lots of creativity going on. I am trying some new things and attempting to do some "green" things as well. My new serenity cuff is actually from an old beloved sweater. I was trying something new to take the photos. I wanted to surround the piece with some items that are serene to me...like some of my vintage buttons :) This listing is going to be in one of LADIES of ETSY EXPOSED by VickyDiane designs. She makes awesome treasuries. The first exposed series I spotted was for the Men of Etsy- NICE!!! It's cool to see the face behind the computer screen. I've also been playing around on facebook quite a bit, found some old friends on there which is super cool. I also finished a new faerie scarf I love this one!!! Reminds me of fall and the Cranberry festival. Speaking of fall I also did a "duet" with thirdfloor designs. I thought these would be the perfect accent to that special outfit. Beth and I had fun collaborating on this, and look for more in the future from us and the FDL team. Here's a link to the Copperline necklace. Gorgeous!!!!

Summertime

whew it's hot here in NJ and I found this link on an Etsy treasury, so I thought I would share it . Click stop on playlist before listening to this :)

Ithaca a very Hip spot

So we had our ladies weekend in Ithaca. It was alot of fun~although whirlwindish. Lots of awesome food! We ate at the Moosewood. I have several of their cookbooks so I was wanting to try it out. Awesome!!!! Kiona ate most of my lunch though because she thought it was "pizza", but it was really polenta with eggplant covered with stewed tomatoes and mozz cheese. Hehe, she is so sweet. We also went to alot of the shops downtown. A little warning here. I have a small pocketbook, one of the shops that I was in wanted me to give him my "bag" when I went in the changing room. As in my pocketbook. Uh, no, I don't think so. Accusations of possible theft are such a turnoff while shopping. A) I'm not 16 years old B) my bag is so small that a large hippy skirt would no way ever be able to be shoved in there and C) I think he was going to rob me, or copy down my credit card info for a later identity theft. So people please tell people who try to do this to you that, thanks but no thanks. There are plenty of other places for me to spend my cash. So I got some great pics of Rach in my new newsboy cap. I couldn't help taking them in front of this gorgeous field of wild flowers. She's such a ham :) I also got some pics of mom with kiona at Buttermilk falls. Kiona had fun swimming in the pool at the hotel also. She is the sweetest little girl!The other great thing about Ithaca is that there is art all over the place there. Especially by the down town shops. This one "Art makes everything better" is actually painted on some plywood that is surrounding some road work. They should do that everywhere!! very cool! All in all a nice weekend, albeit a fast one.