Adventure Seeker - Crafting Extraordinaire
Thanks Jennifer for letting me know the etsy store link was not correct. Blogger decided to add it's addy in front of the store addy so it was blogger.com/C4G2.etsy.com instead of C4G2.etsy.com . Cwazy blOOger.
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I had a dream last night that my old Geometry teacher, myself, the BF and one other lady were getting together for a seance. It was weird let me tell yeah. My Geometry teach only had three fingers one hand, birth defect, and his fingernails and hair roots were yellow from lack of some sort of mineral. Anyways, so we were calling to a spirit to manifest and I don't think I was holding anything but I cupped my hands and an image of a whale showed in my hands. I exclaimed "It's a Whale Spirit! The Spirit of the Whale!!" I was very excited, but the whale came to warn us of impending danger. Then someone knocked at the door of the BOAT HOUSE...yeah, we were on a river. But when I looked outside, something was not right. There was a dark brown cloud of something on the horizons and it rolled over the land as things burst out into flames. Then I had an overwhelming sense of danger and could not move to open the second door to the outside (patio). When the man with the child became distraught I forced myself to move towards the door but as I did this...a loud roaring noise and then dark red and brown dust and hot wind engulfed them as their screams were muffled by the noise of the cloud. I looked away...I couldn't watch. But then the wind started to suck me into the cloud of heat (ash) and sand so I struggled to grab onto the door frame and keep myself from being sucked out while I tried to pull myself in to close the door. Just before I closed the door, I looked back and most of the cloud had gone, but nothing but charred ashes remained of the patio furniture and the man with the child was gone. I slammed the door shut, locking it tight.
I rain back to the room I had come from and I told the others what I had seen. We headed for the upper deck to get a better look. The land was devastated! A charred wasteland that smoldered! Then a rush of mud came down the river and swept us off from the dock and we went for a ruff ride on mud torrents.
I don't remember much after that, but that is disturbing. I looked up Whale in my book of spirit guides and Whale embodies the deep and ancient mysteries of the ocean and we also tap into her medicine to help us explore the mysteries of our own subconscious minds. Whale is invoked for power, wisdom and the ability to sing your own song and express your own individuality.
I am taking this as forewarning. Something is gonna happen this weekend of the WTI intensive and I will need the wisdom of the powerful, ancient, and wise Whale. Great. Can't I just have a nice weekend?! Oye.
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Pictures!! We have my jar dyeing results drying in the sun *drool!!*, a tarot baggie knit out of the cotton/wool blend I made, a picture of the Velvet Purple Miniture Lilly that is blooming fantastically in my patio area, and the brown yarn is shetland and yack down blend which is superly soft!
Just call me Ms. Fix-it. I upgraded the tank components in the toilet to stop the slow leak because of old and warn seals. The toilet no longer leaks water! Hurray for saving water!! But something must have settled when I removed the tank to replace the seal under there because after I put it all back together, the toilet didn't want to flush right. The water would swirl but never go completely down like it is supposed to. So upon pondering and reading up on removing the whol damn toilet from the floor to clean the gate before the flap inthe floor, found a better way. We live in an apartment building so getting the water turned off is not an option. I have no problem doing the simplier repairs because the man that is supposed to do these things has shit for brains.
So I went to Menards (for the fourth time starting this project) and got a toilet auger and a super plunger. The auger got a whole lot of something stirred up and loose, and the super plunger must have forced it down the drain as the toilet flushes properly now. YAY! Go womyn power!! I really love how when I asked a Menards employee (much younger than myself even) if there was a tool to aid in removing the old flushing valve, he said "It is super simple to get off but there is no specialised tool for it." *eyebrow raised* There is no plumping tools to help me aye? As soon as he walked away, I went one isle down and found a shit load of plumping tools...and oversized "wrenches" for the very job I asked about. What is up with that shit? Don't tell me there is no specialized tool for it...there is a specialized tool for EVERYTHING!!! *snicker-snort* Did he think I would not find the tools or comprehend how to do the job, or that I was not capable of doing the job because I lack a penis between my legs? Typical male bullshit.
So I have also fixed the sagging chicken wire on the garden. I dunno why it was sagging but I added another peice of wood to the center to keep it up and support the center of the wire incase we get anymore hail this year. Last year the hail made a huge dent in the wire and it has sagged ever since. While I was outside with the electric staple gun, I also fixed the sagging fabric on the bottom of the patio above us. It's there for more privacy than anything, but it helps contain his mess of bird seed as well.
Today I am ficxing a cabinet door that needed new hinges. I need another set of hands for that one so I have to wait till the BF comes home from work to help me. One of these days I will look into fixing the damned leak in the kitchen shink drain. I drained a gallon of water out from the bucket under the sink. A gallon in three days...sheez!
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I did it. I finally did it. I had the BF call and cancel the cell phone service (he opened for me because my credit was not impeccable enough). I have been paying $60 or more a month for a service I rarely use anymore. Originally it was so I could call Mom without racking up a HUGE long distance bill. We now have charter broadband phone service and it comes with free long distance so the cell phone is now obsolete. My Best Friend in Indiana finally got a computer at home so there is no need to text me anymore. Now I just gotta pay off the $165 bill! I am gonna start getting rid of things like this that I do not need or can live without. I am gonna payoff and close my book clubs as well (only 2 but they are tempting because of the Bill Me feature).
I have a new friend to help me sleep, called Brandy. HA! I have about 4 ounces of Brandy before bed and I am set to sleep like a flippin rock man! Makes it hard to type though...oye...and the drawback is that it tends to make me sweat....a lot. Yuck! Can you say morning shower?!
I am finally getting around to cleaning the Mohair that I have, but I cannot stand the texture nor the allergic reaction I get from even the cleaned fiber. It is even a pain in the ass to card!! So I am gonna list it on my Etsy Store and see if I can get my purchase price of $35 back. What a waist! I have am cleaning and carding just a bit over an ounce that I am selling in carded batts for $6. I don't want to charge too much, but this is a lot of work and takes a lot of soap to clean!
My jar dyeing results are ready to post but I can hardly see streight enough to type, so posting pictures will have to wait till tomorrow! I also made a tarot baggie out of the cotton and wool blend yarn I made. The yarn came out bulky at 9 WPI so the baggie knit up quickly. You can see it here: http://spunstitches.blogspot.com/2007/07/tarot-baggie.html
I also bought 7 raffle tickets from Insubordiknit for her yarn club. The winner gets three months of art yarn free! Check it out, click on the Raffle Waffle link. I am not usually into the yarn scene, but she provides humane roving so I'll buy tickets. If I win GREAT! If I don't, then I am supporting another ethical being.
Wow, the room spins around me....till tomorrow...
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WTF?! LMAO!!Until next time...
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Have you EVER heard a cat scream like that?! Poor thing has some serious psychological issues towards humans probably through abuse or neglect.
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Lots of photos! We found a frog, A FROG, in our water oasis for the birds and other critters. Can you spot the frog? There are literally frogs coming out from the woods! We spotted another one, smaller one, yesterday coming out from the woods. Weird. I didn't think these frogs were terrestrial.
There is a closeup of that loverly pink cotton and purple wool batt, and the resulting yarn. BTW, I am starting an etsy shop, this is listed for limited time for $5 at C4G2.etsy.com . I will probably have more on there in the coming weeks.
The little miracle is that a Monarch laid an egg, right in front of me, on the milkweed skins I was stripping for the fiber. I do it outside because the sap tends to stick to everything. The Monarch comes out of nowhere and flutters all around us (the BF was being curious about what I was doing so he saw it too), acted like it was gonna land on the stripped skins, then fluttered about some more. When she finally landed, she laid a single egg on a stripped skin hanging out off the edge of the container I had them in. Then she fluttered around and around acting like she was gonna land and do it again but never did. That single egg, the one I call Little Miracle, hatched Saterday and I am now raising one more Monarch. I though the Monarch breeding season was over. I guess not! I feel it was a special gift from the Monarch...and I wonder if she is one of the five I released several weeks ago? I'll never know for sure, but I can dream!
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Holy smokes! I looked down as we were walking around a water hole in the local public golf corse (originally we were there to look at the dinner plate size bullfrog) and there it was barely still attached to the twig it was on. I found it on a River Birch. How cool is that?! Sweetness! Now to degum it and see what texture this silk has.
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