Altered Visions

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Wow Where Do I Start!!

Well here we are..... already in a NEW YEAR and I have finally gotten a bit of time to post here again!! Things have been busy , snowy and cold here!!!  Lots of stuff has happened since my last post so I will try to remember it all and tell you all about it!!

Thanksgiving was uneventful and yummy! We spent dinner at my sisters, now that she is moved down here closer to us ,which has been great fun, we get to do that more often!!!! We then moved into Christmas and lots of fun times with our boys, my sister , her hubby and son and his new GF!! I took loads of pics and posted tons and tons on Flickr!! You'll have to wade thru all the new yarn pics to see some of the holiday photos!! and speaking of new yarn pics! I got myself a New Majacraft Aura wheel right before Christmas and I am having a blast spinning on her!! What a dream to spin on! She's effortless! I have named her Athena!.... More news....our youngest son is officially engaged! He gave her a stunning ring Christmas eve and totally surprised her!! We are thrilled of course!!

Well I thought there was so much more to talk about, but I seem to be at a loss of anything else exciting to say!! We have had some bitter cold weather and lots of snow but missed a lot of what ended up moving out and dumping along the east coast a few weeks ago now! but we have been getting our fair share and not much melting either as the temps have been mighty chilly and below freezing for some time! Oh except the few days we actually got near 60 degrees!! yeah that didn't last long!!

So I'll leave you with a few pics but please go to my flickr or FB page to see them all!! My new yarns are all posted in my etsy shop so stop in to see what I have been doing and maybe you'll find something you will just have to have!!! I will try to do better in the New Year and post more regularly!! Sorry I have been AWOL for so long now, but as you can see there wasn't really that much exciting going on, just lots of busy stuff!! I hope you all had wonderful holidays and may the New Year bring you peace, happiness and lots of creativity!! Stay well and happy!
my new baby!!! Athena!
Christmas at my sisters! lots on Flickr!
our son made the best prime rib for Christmas day dinner!! awesome!
our boys opening their gifts!! to fun!
our GD shouting LOOK DADDY!!! hehehe!
yarn already sold!
yarn already sold!
yarn in my etsy shop!
yarn in my etsy shop! there's more this is only a couple!

Here I AM AGAIN!!!

Not too much exciting to report! Weather here has now gone into the real fall mode. We are cold and windy and most of the leaves have now fallen off the trees and the furnace has been stoked with wood non stop now for a while!! We had snow on the east side of Cleveland but luckily we missed that all! I have added some new batts to the etsy shop last Sunday and today so stop over and take a peek! Lots of pics also on flickr too! There are pics too of my Art Gang meeting with my friends a few weeks ago and yarns I spun as well!! You just have to go back a bit to see them all!!

I hope to have more exciting things to post next time! For now I will leave you with a few pics of my batts, baby dog and the last of our flowers now a bit froze!!Then I'll get back to the last bit of my laundry! Have a great week!!!

 

It's Been Forever!!!

No I have NOT fallen off the face of the earth and I really am still alive! I am sorry I have neglected my poor blog so much lately! I have been busy though, so I have lots to tell and pics to share!! I have already posted all on flickr and facebook too so some of you have already seen them and know I really have been around,just not here on my poor little blog!!

So that being said let's see!.... I have managed to finally take a class with Jacey Boggs from Insubordiknit fame and I even managed to spin a few yarns too that weren't too awful with her fabulous techniques!!! She is truly delightful and so much fun to hang out with! Lucky me it was for 2 whole days!! wow it was amazing!! check out Flickr for LOTS of pics! (all to be exact!) I will only post a couple here so as not to make the post insanely long!

Then let's see..... I got to go to Rhinebeck with my sister, mom, dad, nephew and 2 of my sister's friends! (we all flew in separately! ) There I met up with my dear online friend and buddy Laura and her sister Sarah too! I also got to meet Nicola Brown, Heather Karlhiem, Cindy of Studioloo fame and Steph from Loop!! wow how can you beat that!! It was really amazing!!! So wonderful to make new and meet old friends!! I had the best time!! Please stop and see all the pics in flickr or on FB too!! I hope to finally get back in the swing of things now this coming week and do a much needed shop update! so please stop back to see what I come up with!!

I will try to do better with my posting here and keep you all up on the goings on! The weather is slowly turning more fallish and much cooler temps etc on the horizon so guess time to break out the long pants and warmer tops etc!! I have more pics coming of my BD fun with my friends yesterday too, so see there will soon be another post for you all to read!! have a great week! I'll catch you all again soon!!

the entrance to the Sheep and Wool fest had accidents both days and traffic was insane!!

Me, Heather and Nicola!

Steph and I!!

Laura and I

Laura, Cindy and I!!

my sample yarns from Jacey's class!!

Jacey and I!!!

Good Grief Where Does The Time GO???

Well here I am back at school/work already a month and I haven't posted here in forever!! All is well, just trying to get used to getting up at the Butt Crack of Dawn. The work day is a bit longer as well and always seems to be so busy and me so tired!! I still have several fleeces to dye and new prefelts as well as some silk! I hope to still accomplish all that, now esp as we are heading into fall and the temps are cooling down!(well that said we had record highs in the 90's just a couple of days ago!!) so I am hoping for a bit of Indian summer and maybe clean up my messy garden!! I am also working on some small knitting projects for Christmas that I can take with me to work and even if I only have a few minutes I can get some done and relax!!

I need to get some felting time in too! Thanks to Pam McGregor I really have the felting bug and if anyone ever gets a chance to go to one of her classes and/or her studio you will NOT ever be disappointed!!! What fun I had and she is such a dear!! Here is her Web site Tarvey Cottage Studio so you can drool over some of her wonderful work! I posted pics on my flickr this summer so take a peek! She will be teaching again at Woolfest next summer (I will be there for sure!) and also at the Gathering too and I hope to make that as well, but will be right when school starts so will see! Her work is amazing as you will see at her website!!

Now in Oct I am taking a spinning calss with THE Jacey Boggs of Insibordiknit fame!!! I am so excited!! She is coming thru the Medina Spinning and Weaving guild and I signed up 1st thing this spring!! Then on the 14th I am heading to Rhinebeck and meeting my little sister for the big fiber fest there at the Dutchess Co Fairgrounds!!! YIPPPEEE get to meet my online friends too as well! I am so excited about that and even my folks will be there! too fun!

So that is my excitement for now! Sorry no pics right now but I will take some for you soon!! Have a great week to come and I will try to be more dilegent on posting so you don't think I am dead!!! hehehe!

A Little Sad My Summer Is Over!

Well as of tomorrow my summer will officially be over and it is back to work again for me!! :((

I did have a great summer despite all the heat and humidity here and very little rain!! We finally had a nice shot of rain last nite and my brown crispy and crunchy grass is a tad bit happier!! As is my poor garden which is slowly going into fall mode and starting to look VERY scraggly!! still a lot of tomatoes starting on my plants as well as some peppers so I hope thy will still make it! My cukes have since gone along the way side though:(( but they were great while they lasted!! Happy that I have the Amish produce stand just a tad south of us so I can get a few more things still till fall really sets in and we have a frost! (yikes can't believe I said that!!) So I hope you all had a lovely summer and I'll be posting more etsy shop updates and spinning now again and also hope to do a lot of wet felting as I have lots of locks and fiber to play with!! Here are a couple of pics of my little wet felted bowl I made and the etsy shop has some fun batts and goodies there too!!

I will try to be back soon! I am hoping this will be a good year at school!!




and last but not least the baby!!

Another Hot and Humid Day!!

This has certainly been one hot and very sticky humid summer!! I Can't remember having the AC on this much! I am really not liking it at all!! Also sad to have to be going back to work in 2 weeks and realize my summer break is now coming to an end!! Sadly I didn't get everything done of course that I had hoped to do, or thought I would but then that seems to be par for the course!! Never enough time or energy!!

Today we ended up sleeping in way too long after a long nite worrying if my sister would get home from her KY trip safe and sound after her van decided to die on her!! Happy she made it home and her and hubby are safe!! She is also packing and getting ready to move into their new (new to her anyway, pretty little ole farmhouse with some nice acreage) house very soon and be closer to me!! VERY HAPPY about that!! esp in the summer and all we will actually get to spend more time together and only 15 min apart! So all in all things are going well! Plus to top it off I was so excited to learn I am also in an Etsy treasury!! here is the link! Thanks to Junktique for including my locks in her fun treasury!! take a peek at her shop too while there!! Cute handmade cloth diapers!! Can also stop in and see some of my goodies as well in my Etsy shop which I updated and will add more soon!!

So have a great week,stay cool and be happy!! I'll be back with more woolie pics and also have all my goodies gathered to hopefully wet felt some bowls and bags even!! stay tuned!! here are some latest dyed locks in the shop now more coming today still or tomorrow!! stop back and see!

Yikes It's the END of July!!

Wow can't even figure out where the month went!! I have been staying some what busy and also goofing off with friends and such too!  We have had some really HOT weather and VERY humid, certainly not fun for me!! I truly do NOT like the heat or the humidity here! From what I have heard from friends all over though this is pretty much the norm all over including where they are as well as far as Europe and even China etc! So guess will have to just suck it up and move on with it!

I have been gathering felting supplies and such and hope to actually create some fun pieces soon! Today we are going to a retirement party soon so don't want to get started on anything I can't finish so hoping for tomorrow! Need to also get my shop updated as well and do have some new wool pics to post of a lovely Wensleydale fleece I did in natural shades of grey! so pretty! have more batts and all too but need pics of those so that is next on the agenda since have gotten 2 loads of laundry done am off to move on to more fun things like cleaning the bathroom!! oh yeah that's fun!! I have managed to pick quite a few cukes from the garden but the tomatoes and peppers are being elusive and slow in growing so hope they will still produce a lot but has been a rough year for them and our grapes too! So it goes here in OH! Today is lovely and cooler and a great breeze going so am happy! No sweating or feeling gross! so more soon and pics too!! Have a great weekend all!!

Have some pics of my baby dog and almost forgot that the kids were here with our Granddaughters! It was so much fun! silly me, see forgot to post those! duh! of course all are on my flickr too!!
Lindey with her fairly wings!
Ella picking up crab apples in the yard
our cannas and hollyhocks!
  pretty little Wensleydale curlsand of course the "baby" always hanging with mom in her art room! she reads all those books I have!!
 

Having A Fun Time!!!

I have been busy washing and dyeing fleeces and I hope to update my etsy shop soon, but I have also been busy learning a new found love to use all my fiber I have!!!

I have always loved knitting and felting bags and bowls etc, well now I have gotten the wet felting bug and hope to progress into and onto more fun and bigger projects! After my class with Pam MacGregor at Woolfest in Kirtland at the end of June, where I made my fun cuff I posted a picture of in my last post, I decided to contact her and take her up on her offer to have classes in her studio at her home!! I can not even begin to describe the fun I had , what a lovely home and of course fab studio Pam has!! I learned so much in 2 days my head was reeling with all the techniques and ideas going on in there! Not only that but all the eye candy in her studio and home was just sensational!! She is a wonderful teacher and so delightful to spend time with! I was made welcome by her, as well as her husband and the wonderful menagerie of 4 legged friends/"family members" she has!! Her dogs, cats, chickens, pot bellied pig, and llamas too!! Sadly I was so in love with all the wool fun, that I didn't get pics of her lovely home and gardens etc, but I will next time!! I have pics of some posted in my flickr you can take a peek at! Also some of my pages I did in the technique book I worked on plus lots of pieces from Pam that she has created!! Her work is wonderful!! I had the best time!! I hope to get to go back again soon!! Below are just a few pics!! check out my flickr for more! Thanks Pam!! I truly loved my time with you and hope I'll be able to come back soon!!! I will be embellishing all my "book pages" as well so I will post pics as I complete them! may be in the fall as now I want to keep trying new things!!
front of one "page" in my techniques book!
this is the start of the back of the above page using resists! I did 3 layers sorry no after pic YET!! I will!
what Pam's page looks like when using resists!
some of Pam's pieces she has created!!
just a corner of the studio with some of the goodies I got to play with!!
front of one page back will have a cut out design!! not done yet!! this was the last page I did using some awesome Finn batts!!

Happy 4th Of July!!

I hope everyone will have time with family and friends to enjoy their day and to honor all our troops here and abroad!!

I will be with my hubby, friends, sister and BIL so lots of fun to be had there!! I have gotten myself a new camera and am attempting to figure out how it works!! (which has been quite a challenge for me!! it's so hard to teach old broads new tricks it seems!!) I have posted pics in my flickr of some of my new dye pots and updated my etsy shop with some new locks!! A bigger update tomorrow with hopes I have now set the camera correctly so as to get the right size pics!! hehehe!! So have a fun day!!  we are once again in the heatwave mode so I am thankful my friends have AC as well as I do! I was really enjoying the cooler, less humid days but, will hope for a weather change soon!!!

the "baby" sunning herself!! and new colors of Lincoln locks