Again, I'm writing on the eve of an out of town trip. Tomorrow, Laurie and I head for Nebraska for a wedding reception of a cousin. I'm really looking forward to this trip. Rachel and Andy are taking time off work to show us around and possibly go to a pioneer museum on Friday and I really love spending time with them. We all hit it off really well a year ago, camping and I am looking forward to this visit!
In other exciting news, we purchased a new addition for the bedroom tonight on craigslist. It's a secretary that will be serving as my bedside cabinet/desk/drawers. We've been thinking for awhile about what we wanted to put there and nothing really looked good. We went to Ikea on Monday and looked around, a little while ago we had seen that they had pretty nice sized wardrobes in their kid's section but when we checked this time, the choices were pretty slim. I was really bummed, so I went a-looking on craigslist and low and behold, a beautiful secretary in just the right style popped up. We went and looked at it last night and a friend with a truck brought it home tonight. I'm loving it! It's not a huge and menacing piece of furniture, like a lot of armoire/wardrobes that are popular right now. No, we cannot fit our 46" tv in it. (Not that we have one...) But it is perfect, the top cabinet has a little light and the glass doors lock with a skeleton key. The key also opens the desk, which has all sorts of little nooks. And the key locks the dresser drawers! I love the drawer pulls on the drawers, too. I've always dreamed about having a lockable cabinet like this (since oh maybe childhood) and I'm very happy. So here are the pictures:
My spinning is going well, I'm finally mastering the "long draw" technique that I've been practicing. This yarn isn't going to be particularly even but I am enjoying spinning it. I have 2 more russian spindles coming in the mail soon. I have been hoping that they will come before we leave tomorrow but I'm not sure if they will. I got some camel down to try them out on (more long draw practice). I'm almost to the plying part of spinning the silk for the last expressions in spinning gathering, I'll be excited to see it finished. Today, I also did some wool washing of the fleece. I didn't wash much (and I hope it will dry so I can take it with me tomorrow) but I'm looking forward to trying to spin it! I didn't realize just how dirty that wool was. Anyways, tonight's a busy night - still have packing and cleaning to do - so I better get back to that :).
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a-looking, huh? were you drunk on the secretary? ;)
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