New toys and such

On Friday, I was very excited to go to our local yarn store hang out because our friend Mandy was back!  Yay!  Things just haven't been the same without her!  I was also excited because I got some new toys that Laurie picked up for me on Thursday, a pair of hand carders (pic below).  We are planning on taking some more spinning classes in June, when Laurie will not be working on week nights.  I'm planning on taking a luxury fiber class (learning how to spin silk and alpaca and bamboo and camel and anything else you can think of) and Laurie is taking a class on blending.  Since we have the carders now, I'm going to mess around trying to blend and make some pretty yarn with my lovely drop spindle.  At the yarn shop, we picked out some roving that I want to blend to make a variegated yarn (the roving is shown in all it's color glory below, too).  I'm hoping that it turns out!  I will definitely post when I've blended a little and then again when I begin to spin it.  :)