Fiber Filled Weekend

A few weekends ago my darling partner and I drove down to Florence to meet a lovely family of alpacas and score some new spinnable fluff.

This gal had the best buck teef.

They don't think we're interesting... they want food!

Cute Littles.

Then we drove down to the Sand Dunes where we star-gazed, soup-cooked, and bundled-up for cold-camping.

We didn't get a chance to explore the dunes, due to a bout of (pregnancy induced?) altitude sickness. But I did get to puke into a jar as we drove away!

(I've only had altitude sickness one other time, when I first arrived in Colorado, and it is a very distinct, unmistakable kind of ill!)

 

Fortunately for me, we stumbled onto a HUGE fiber-destash-yard-sale where I nabbed a few skeins on the cheaps. 

And THEN ran into the Salida Fiber Festival, which I totally meant to go to anyway but completely forgot about!

Needless to say, it was a very unexpectedly fiber-filled weekend.

Wherever life takes us

What do you say after a year of silence?

Let's get a little personal... Where have I been this past year??

I lived on a little farm near the Delaware river. 

I witnessed the birth of a beautiful little lamb (as well as a complicated struggle between an ewe who birthed triplets and the ewe pictured, who stole one of the babies and then had twins, herself!) 

I fell in love with an incredible boy!

And I asked him to marry me a thousand times...

Finally, he asked me! (The rings are from his father's wedding band set, engraved with "forever and always")

We packed our world into the car and traveled 1800 miles, through six states, to get from my home-state to his. (New York to Colorado)

This is the highest elevation in Kansas... mhm, flat.

  

Explored the Colorado mountains a bit.

 

The incredible boy and I created a life! (sometime in March we'll have a little human to share our lives with)

And here we are now, happy, healthy, and silly. (Disclaimer, we woke and dressed at different times. Totally unplanned, totally hilarious.)

Travels

Hello!
I'm not writing as often as I would like, so it's time to change that.
It's been nearly a month since I left for my cross-country adventure,
with my boyfriend, tons of wool, and my spinning wheel -
buckled safely into the back seat.



I'm staying in Florida for a bit.
Since I have a bit of free-interwebs time,
I'm re-opening my Etsy shop!
n e s s a l a n d
Next week's adventure entails only the essentials.
We're strapping our camping supplies onto two motorcycles,
and heading north on the scenic highway.
I think we're going through Georgia,
and possibly into Tennessee
(if the weather allows it).

If you happen to purchase something woolly from my Etsy shop,
please be aware that I won't be able to snail-mail it right away!


(via) kittybabylove

But I will be able to answer questions!
I'll try to connect to wifi
from discreet locations
every few days with my iTouch.
Feel free to inquire about anything your heart desires.
:-)
I'll be back tomorrow to post about our adventures at the Luray Caverns in Virginia.