fibergarden

I dunno…here, there, everywhere. Too busy to blog in too long. Here’s the dirt, quick updates, a few pics:

Home and Shelter Island, shuttling back and forth for weekends by ourselves, with friends, and my parents before they head south to FL for the winter. Up to Rhinebeck for the NY sheep and wool festival in late October, where I bought a ton of fiber, a few tools, and a test run on that Ashford country spinner that is now on my want list for sure:

In laws visited on a weekend in late October for a quick fix to squeeze their grandkids and go home. We got to go to a really muddy but pretty cool halloween display (2000 carved/lit pumpkins!) at the Nassau County Museum of Art…

Working my arse off spinning a selection of yarn to get some into NYC for the first time ever, which is very exciting for me. Some of these yarns can now be found at The Point NYC!! The rest are available at Handmade (my web shop) and/or etsy shop for great last minute quick holiday knits, or just give a skein to your favorite knitter:

Kindergarten…PTA meetings, school, wow. Keeping track of homework, permission slips, school paperwork. Little A is learning so fast and loving K, thank goodness! Also managing the Feingold diet to see how it affects her behavior…the jury is still out on this one, I’m afraid.

Hugging baby O, who is almost a year old now. Time flies. He is currently on a nursing strike and I don’t know how long it’ll last. I sneak him some mama milk when he’s half asleep, but otherwise he won’t take it. He got mad at me when he bit me and I yelled “NO!” at him (not really, more like raised my voice a fair amount, but ouch, he was really hurting me!!!), we’ll see how this situation resolves soon enough, I guess.

My Sister has opened up a gallery in Greenport and has some of my finished fiber art wearables on display there with her beautiful photos of the East End of Long Island, so I’m currently scrambling through all my UFO’s for things I can finish up and put there. This is keeping me busy, along with an ever increasing array of new projects, feeding my kids, keeping the house in order (not really), holiday planning, etc.

Aaaaah…the life of a fiber-artist-mama is busy but fulfilling. Aside from not having enough hours in the day, and no longer being able to keep my eyes open late into the night, I can’t complain really.
xo