Again??

I know, you have already heard from me today. Just a quick note to let you know that we finally got the ceramic buttons up on the site! Enjoy!

Contest Time!!!!!

Why not make a fun contest out of the guessing game right?? Here's the deal, the person that comes closest to guessing our "secret" will get a $20 credit to the Knit Witch store! That way you can use the money towards a yarn bowl or a spindle bowl or a linen bowl or some buttons or whatever you want. Sound good?!?! I think I will also extend a $10 credit for the most outragous story. That gives you TWO chances to win. If more than one person guesses both parts of the secret correctly then the first person to get the correct answer in wins. This way, even the folks that don't know that much about me can happily participate

You can use your credit whenever you like so if you don't see something on the site right now that floats your boat you can wait until we put on more stuff.

Before I go any further, I do have to exclude a couple of people, unfortunately. Turtlegirl, you are excluded and you need to keep your mouth shut even though you only know a part of the secret! And Melissa is excluded even though she does not remember that I have already told her the secret (gosh darn menopause!). Finally, Hockeymom, you are also excluded because you know too much! None of you know the whole story but it's not fair to include you so - no sharing information! All of you have already gotten previous prizes from me anyway in one form or another.

So, post or email me your best guess and/or most outragous guess. You can enter as many of each type of guess as you like and then we will choose the one that meets the secret the closest as the main winner. The bold words in red are some clues. Look for these clues in future posts. The contest will run until April 30, 2008 at which time I will be able to reveal the secret and the winner! All that anxiety about the contest will then just become water under the bridge. Here are a couple of other clues:

1. This is a TWO part secret.
2. Neither portion has ANYTHING to do with me being pregnant - EVER. Seriously.

Mr. Man will make a contest button so look for that in the days to come so that you can pass along the info in your own blog.

Nuts.

That's what all of you are. Are you kidding me?!?! If you know anything about us you know we have three GROWN children and there ain't NO WAY I'm starting over with that mess. E-V-E-R!!! Ain't gonna happen, no way, no how, uh-uh.

I have absolutely no pictures for you, no knitting for you, no crochet for you, nothing. Why in the heck are you guys hanging around this boring 'ol blog anyway? Well, I DO occasionally have fun stuff here but it just ain't happening right now. We haven't even been able to get the buttons up on the website yet!!!

I still can't spill the beans on the secret but MAYBE by the weekend I can. We'll just have to see what happens. Hmmmm.....I should have a contest and everyone should guess what the big secret is and the person who comes the closest wins!! Hmmmmm..............what do I have around here that I could give away???? I bet you guys would come up with some crazy responses too! That would be fun.

(Going off to think about next contest..........................)

Long absence.........

..............so what do I have to show for it you ask?? A big fat nothing. I have done SOME spinning but not much. Here's the latest 2 skeins. Getting better but the 100% alpaca (the solid one) came out much bulkier than I had anticipated. I was actually trying to spin a little thicker, since I tend to spin very thin naturally, so I guess I succeeded. I wasn't trying to succeed that much though. Call me an overachiever I guess.




That 100% alpaca that I got from Georgia Mountain Fiber spins like a DREAM!

MUST. HAVE. MORE.

I have done absolutely NO knitting on my master's swatches so I have got to get going on those.



I have done some work on the alpaca blanket. I have 5 crochet squares done so far. 58 more to go. These are fast and easy and I can easily do one of them while watching American Idol (don't ask, I have to watch otherwise I have nothing to talk to my dad about on Thursday - he is a total AI addict).



I am EXTREEMLY anxious to share with everyone what has been taking over mine and Mr. Man's life lately but we can't let the cat out of the bag just yet. Trust me, it is great news though! Let's just say that he and I are in for some big life changes very soon - soooooooo exciting!!

A is for Alpaca

Remember that bag of roving my wonderful friends at Georgia Mountain Fiber gave me several weeks ago? You know, this one:

Well I started spinning it today and I think it is turning out pretty darn good! I am actually starting to play with the thickness and the amount of twist I am putting in the yarn - instead of just acting like I meant to spin it the way it turned out. Here it is so far:

This alpaca is SO soft and it is wonderfully easy to spin (yeah, that gets a BIG plus in my book).

And.........drumroll please...........we got some buttons out of the kiln yesterday! Melissa and I worked on these several weeks back. I think most of them turned out pretty darn good for a first attempt at ceramic buttons. Mr. Man will get them on the website soon but here are a couple of my favorite sets:

Mr. Man and I spent the whole day up in the N. GA mountains yesterday. We putzed around for the day and then we visted Deb and Michael at Georgia Mountain Fiber and went to dinner with them and that was a blast. Even though it was kind of rainy it was nice to get out of the big city for a while and slow down and enjoy country life for a bit!

Oh Yes, More Bowls!

There are new yarn bowls up on the site. We STILL haven't been able to fit in any ceramic buttons but they are coming, I swear. They are ready to go we just haven't been able to find space in the kiln yet. We also have new spindle bowls up AND we have linen bowls which hold your water while you spin linen. They are made so that you can tie a string around them and tie them to your spinning wheel. They are too cute! Here's a picture of my favorite one:





I finished 2 more Master's swatches but I haven't taken pictures because that just isn't very exciting to view.


Here's my cute pet photo for the day - We have pets stacked on the stairs. They have a rough life don't they?



Of course, not to be left out - Petey has to get in on the action too:

Remember me?

Yeah, yeah. I know. I have fallen off the face of the earth. We have been so busy these last few days I haven't done much knitting, read ANY knitting blogs, posted (obviously) or even BEEN ON RAVELRY! I know, my husband is thinking this is a serious disease.

Over the past few days I have managed to finish my latest spinning.

And I finished another swatch and did some blocking.

Well yeah, they look great, right!! Well crap because the cable one is supposed to be 4" and after I blocked it I discovered it is 5.5". I couldn't even try to sqish it up enough for it to work SO (sigh) I will have to knit that one again.

I have crocheted a few squares for the blanket I am making out of the alpaca from my dad's. That seems to be going pretty well so far.

Ceramic buttons should be going in the kiln tomorrow so we will have those and several new yarn bowls and linen bowls coming out over the next day or two.

We have LOTS of exciting stuff going on here all involving some big changes so as soon as I'm able to let the cat out of the bag about a few things everyone will be brought up to speed!!