Contest Time Again!

Hey everyone - it's that time I know you love - time for a CONTEST!!! Woo hoo!!!

I know I might be a little prejudiced but this contest has some AWESOME prizes and it is so easy to enter. Most of you know we have started up Amia Yarn Company and started our Grand Opening promotion a few days ago. Well, we want to give away some stuff too as a part of the grand opening festivities. Here's how you can enter:

1. You get your name in the drawing pot once for posting the contest on your website or blog. You can use this button with the URL address for this blog post. Just email me at theknitwitch@gmail.com with the URL of where it is.


2. You can get your name entered a second time by going to the website, www.amiayarncompany.com, and then emailing me the color name of any yarn product on the site.
3. You can get your name entered a THIRD time by sending me a picture of ANYTHING you have knit out of alpaca or spun from alpaca roving (alpaca blends are ok too). I'm not going to do anything with the pictures except look at them so no need to worry about your pictures being used for any other purpose. I want to see what kinds of things you have made with alpaca and you want your name entered in the contest three times, right?
4. You can only be entered a maximum of three times.

There will be four prizes determined by a drawing of names.
- First place is 5 SKEINS of hand dyed 100% alpaca in colorway "Butterscotch".

- Second place is a $40 gift certificate for Amia Yarn Company good for any purchase (cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount).
- Third place is a $20 gift certificate for Amia Yarn Company good for any purchase (cannot be used in conjunction with any other discount).
- Fourth place is free shipping on any order from Amia Yarn Company.

So, what do you think? Easy, right? The contest starts now and will go until July 31st at midnight. Winners will be posted the first week of August. Good luck!!!!

You might be a redneck if...............

......you put contact paper that has wood print on it over your light switch plates in an attempt to make them look like real wood.

Oh yes, it's true. I took these down today (lovely as they are) as I just couldn't take it anymore:


And replaced them with these (nevermind the fact that whoever put these in didn't think about having to actually put a switch plate cover over them so I had to SQUEEZE to get them to fit on there together):



Now if you didn't get a close enough view of the faux wood contact paper here's another view. Notice that in addition to being totally tacky it is even a really crappy contact paper job:


Oh, and don't forget to look at the back too:


Niiiiice.

The scarf is pretty much done, I just have to finish putting the fringes on so I will post pictures of that tomorrow maybe. I just got back from Georgia Mountain Fiber and we are getting ready to do some sock yarn to put on Amia Yarn Company - so that is pretty exciting! They have a pretty cool theme they want to do with the sock yarn so I'll share it with you once it's up and going.

In the meantime, have you seen THIS? ESC did this up for me all fancy like. Whatcha think?? Slim and Willow caught in the act. Don't you think she might be a LITTLE young for him? Ah well, seems we like vast age differences between couples around here! :)

PS - Watch for the CONTEST soon!!! I should be posting the "rules" tomorrow.

You won't believe this............

I'm actually going to post some KNITTING!!! Shocking, I know. Hey, we can't ALL be Turtlegirls posting one FO after another - sheesh. Some people just make the rest of us slack knitters look bad, ya know?

I have been working on a simple drop stitch scarf - just to see how some of the alpaca knits up (it is dreamy by the way). Of course I realize 3/4 of the way into the scarf that I should have crocheted it because it would have gone a BUNCH faster!


Remember Mr. Snake that Mr. Man relocated yesterday? Yeah well, guess who's back? I just took this picture out of my office window. See his head sticking out of the water? I don't anticipate we will be having fish in our small pond much longer.


And we had a large toad visiting today on the deck for a while.


Then I guess she has some offspring running around because then Mr. Man found this teeny weenie toad - Sharpie added for size comparison - HEY we had to grab what we had close by ok?!?!



And, of course, obligatory kitten photos.

Slim loves him some baby kittehs!!

Summer Veggies

Check out what we picked out of the garden this morning - YUM!! Tonight is fresh caught trout with homemade pesto (hence the basil and parsley), mashed potatoes, garden picked green beans (from the Blue Ridge farmer's market) and squash. Who's coming over for dinner??? Please make your reservation by 4.


In other news - I think Slim is really starting to like the kittens! They are completely enamored of him. They think he walks on water........This is Goose with Slim and Willow off to the side.


Here's the snake Mr. Man caught this morning. He was in our little pond (trying to eat all of our little fish in there no doubt). He has been relocated to the larger pond where there are many more fish for him to eat and fish that we didn't pay for that he can eat more cheaply! He is a Northern Water Snake. The picture ain't great but we couldn't exactly ask the big guy to pose for a photo shoot now could we?


Here are some other random pictures I have taken around this place lately.



Happy Sunday!

I've been spinning.....................

See??? Look how fast I am.


Haha - RIGHT. Does anyone think that my yarn stash might be getting just a LITTLE out of control??? Nah..............

Actually, I just got a huge batch of yarn in for Amia Yarn Company so I was going through it this morning to get everything inventoried and put on the site. Hopefully, all of this will be up on the site by Monday. We have gotten tons of yarns in! Amazing. We are going to get a warehouse space at Georgia Mountain Fiber soon because this is getting crazy!

Right now we are running a Grand Opening special on the site so be sure to check it out! Also, I will be starting a contest next week so that you can actually win some of this yummy stuff! I will have more alpaca and some VERY nice llama up next week also.

A few new yarn bowls are up.

In other news - Mr. Man finished the base of the deck and we moved the hot tub out onto it this morning. Now he just has to build the railing and it will be all done! Whew! Moving the hot tub sure freed up some space on the patio! I can't wait to get this baby filled up. We sure have been missing it these past few months.

For Claudia

I wanted to post yesterday but I just couldn't. Claudia, I know we were not close friends by any means but I just haven't been able to stop thinking about you. Mine and Wayne's thoughts are with you as you travel this path we call life. Wayne took pictures last week of the morning sun and night moon. I thought they would be most fitting to post here together.

The sun and moon influence the winds of change..................

Weekend Fun

Yesterday we took a drive and we had a blast! We stopped by the Ocoee Whitewater Center and took some cool pictures. We will definitely be going back to this place for some hiking, kayaking and rafting - who wants to come?!?!?! These people looked like they were having so much fun!!!!

Then we took a drive on a forest service road. We got an amazing picture of this beautiful owl. He was really big and his wingspan was just huge!

And we saw this box turtle laying some eggs:

Then this morning there was some hanky panky going on in the pond:

All in all it was a great weekend with almost no knitting accomplished.