My first handspun, dyed yarn

I got a sample of some raw alpaca fiber last week from a local alpaca farm. I carded it with some teeny tiny cat brushes since I couldn’t find dog brushes and my LYS was closed so I couldn’t get real hand carders either. Then I spun it on my spindle (quite messily, I might [...]

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Are You Sick of Me Yet?

Yes, I moved Jonah and Nadia’s blog AGAIN. Having a blog for the biz and a blog for pics of the kids was bogging me down and I was starting to avoid both. So now, you can have a wham bam three-in-one on this blog – family, photography and knitting! Okay, there’s spinning and dyeing [...]

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On The Fly

Just a quick post of Nadia jumping in the jumperoo. I’m going to try and upload of video of it later on.

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Oh my

We’ve made it up to New York. It was a long and hellish trip with two unhappy kids for 7 hours in the car for 5 days but we’re here. We’re unpacked and we’re loving our new community. I can walk downtown with the kids in the double stroller and go to the farmer’s market [...]

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Remembering

I don’t *think* these have been posted and I’ll have more to come as the months go by. I have somewhere aroun 8-10 color rolls of film from the beach that have yet to be processed so even though we’re up in the frozen north, we can still remember our lovely last days at the [...]

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We’re Alive

I’m sorry this post is so long in coming. Our trip up from Clearwater to Potsdam was long and grueling. Jonah did wonderfully in the car but when Nadia wasn’t sleeping, she was screaming. We learned at the very end of the trip that she does okay if her window is opened a tad. I [...]

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