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My kitchen prowess approaches legendary status.

Tad may say (and he might be right) that this is nearly as bad as the time I set the oven mitts on fire.
Had I the good sense to turn off the burner before snapping the shot, I would have prevented the sizzling milk from spattering all over the adjoining [...]

An update in list form

Things are busy my friends – general work insanity (to be expected at this time of year), and lots going on in real life too, which equals less wordiness from me as most of my energy and attention are drawn elsewhere. So, an update on the activities of the last week (two, actually) in list [...]

Spinners Rock!

You are master spinners!

I learned a handful of new tricks – all of which were tried in succession and will come in handy again in the future I have no doubt (Thank you!), but boy, that end was stubborn. I thought I was going to have to resort to breaking off a new end, but [...]

Sidetracks

Spinners, please help me!
I was struck by a sudden urge tonight to spin on a project I haven’t touched in months (with the exception of a brief and ill-fated attempt at the last spinning guild meeting – I blame the plying flyer I was using instead of the normal one). Middy joined me for a [...]

Belvedere

I attempted an indoor shoot of my new socks yesterday in the afternoon light, but someone decided to be a camera hog:

This was actually quite an unusual turn of events. Middy is usually quite prissy & standoffish when I pull out the camera, but since I was using stealth mode (aka the camera remote) she [...]

A meme…

I’ve been tagged for a meme by Gudrun of the Shetland Trader, who I’ve really enjoyed getting to know through her blog, and a couple of these questions inspired a slew of happy memories and dreaming (actually… I have a couple more meme’s waiting in the wings from the Rooster and one of my other [...]

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