Well, since lots of things have happened since my last post, so I thought that I would do three separate sections to get all caught up...
The real estate news is a bit discouraging. The house that we looked at when the Chicago house fell through countered our offer and as we were preparing to counter to come to a deal, they decided that they weren't in a financial position to move out of their current home and into a new one. Big bummer for us because it's one of the nicest houses we've seen as far as wheelchair accessibility. Our realtor is out of town and the person who is supposed to be filling in for her has not returned any of our phone calls. There are 2 places we've seen online that we really like but can't go see them because of the realtor situation... And they're owner occupied so they will probably go off the market fast. Big sigh - I'm sure the right house will come along, it's just rather frustrating waiting.
On to better news - Laurie is staged for a promotion to a "principal" position at her school. She's writing a proposal right now about how to integrate her job now into her new responsibilities, so that's exciting. And she's done teaching anatomy for the summer, so our schedule goes back to normal!
On Friday night, we attended a workshop at our little yarn store, which was a lot of fun. It's called expressions in spinning and basically, it's a way to broaden your creativity with your spinning. Every last friday of the month, we'll gather to spin on a topic. Our topic this month was canyon. What you imagine a canyon to look like in your yarn. It was fun to really get to play with colors - it made me really want a drum carder (but they are soooo expensive...), but I did learn how to use our hand carders and I really like the colors that my is blending to. The pictures are of my fiber before and after blending. The peach and the pinkish blend are merino wool and the purple is a merino/silk mix.
Tempe Yarn and Fiber was having a "stimulus package", we bought a little more than usual for anticipated projects (or stuff that I liked and had the birthday money). The next two pictures are of some yarn that we bought to make fingerless mittens to send as a thank you gift to Tia Marina, Monica's aunt, whom we spent time with when we were in Chile. It's a superwash wool. Also, there is some 100% Targhee wool in a colorway that I really liked.
This year, I'm going to participate in "Le Tour de Fleece", as spinning event that follows the Tour de France! The goal is to spin on the days of the race and to set personal goals to achieve during the race. I'm planning on spinning every day and trying to really master spinning merino. :) I'll have lots of practice with the merino I bought for the expressions group... And a little silk in there to rev the difficulty up! Lastly, this is the pic of my birthday fiber, 6.8 oz of Merino wool, tussah silk, BFL and sari silk - it is even more beautiful that I was expecting!
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