Another Art Yarn is Born

I had a play date with my Majacraft Aura yesterday and this is what we came up with.....

I call it Celebration Yarn! Sure felt like a party when I was making it!

~ ♥

What do you think this handspun want to be next?

Puppy Bling and Art Yarn Challenges!

I not a big football fan ~ but I was a very good sport yesterday while my boys watched the game. In the meantime I decided to entertain myself and decorate my puppy with some handspun bling!

Check her out! See how she is smiling ;)

Recently I was requested to create some Art Yarn from a very wonderful etsy customer of mine. The challenge was... "I would like the final product to look kind of like someone reached into a wild garden and picked up a handful of flowers and leaves and dirt and grass and birds and bugs and made a crazy skein of yarn out of it!"

I had so much fun playing with her idea and this is what I came up with...

I call it 700 Flowers!

And since it is Graditude Monday ~ I would like to say, I am so grateful to get to play with the qualities of playfulness and whimsy! To get to flirt with joy and the often unexpected delights that are born out of "just playing" and watching where that brings me.

I bet my puppy could teach me tons about this ;)

Happy Monday!

All Tucked In

It's been a busy last two months... wonderful busy, but not so great for my blogging aspirations. So, as I get ready for Christmas and listen my favorite seasonal songs, I thought I would take a moment to check in.

I did manage to get my garden tucked in for the year. I hope my dahlia friends overwinter well. And believe or not it will be time to plant sweet peas again in another couple of months!

Yesterday was the shortest day of the year. Now the days will start to grow again, bit by bit. I love the yin and the yang of nature. How in the coldest months the days start to grow and visa versa. We have a long way to go, before the flowers will show is their happy faces.... and in the meantime we can tend the light within.

And now a quote from one of my favorite children's book called Frederick by Leo Lionni.....

"Close your eyes", said Frederick,

as he climbed on a big stone.

"Now I send you the rays of the sun.

Do you feel how their golden glow...."

And as Fredrick spoke of the sun

the four little mice began to feel warmer.

Was it Frederick's voice?

Was it magic?

Simple Pleasures!

I never knew it was possible to love "knobs" the way I looooooove these knobs.... what a sweet luxury to have these sweeties on the drawers of my dye cabinets. They feel so deliciously smooth and cool in my hand and the colors are so bubbly and yummy, they remind me of candy. Every time I open my drawer! ;)

I am really excited to share with you all that I am beginning my second round of Fiber Club.

The title is Auspicious Autumn. I am grounding myself and getting ready for a holiday season full of joy, love and delight! Thought I would set my intention with the title of this club!

Wishing you a colorful weekend!

~♥

Gratitude and Levity Wednesday!

First of all I want to express my gratitude and admiration to all who post to their blogs with consistency and predictability. You hold the "bar" high for me! I admire your dedication aaspire to have the same continuity. I thank you for your inspirations!

So here I go...since I missed my this week's and last week's Monday/Tuesday post on graditude.... I will make up for it now....

1. I am grateful for....

My amazing, incredible customers and for their support and enthusiasm in what I do! I am so grateful for their confidence and faith in my ability and for how they continue to encourage me to grow and become as an artist and as a successful small business owner. It's really hard for me to find words to express how much you all mean to me! Thank you so much!!! ♥

2. I am grateful that my muse and I are getting along well these days!!!

3. I am Grateful for the brilliance of Ikea! And for the opportunity to get more organized...

4. I am so grateful that my Sweet Peas are still going strong and blessing me with their magical aroma!

And now for Levity....

My Dahlias are finally arriving~ my favorite flower! She symbolizes elegance and dignity. How wonderful is that! Check out Miss PomPom here ~ she just arrived yesterday and I can't stop patting her head!

(doesn't she have delicious form!)

Oh yes.... and then there is the Hula Hoop~ which I can proudly say ~ I'm not too shabby at. Hooping is defiantly an awesome way to jiggle me out of being too serious.

Feel the awesome power of reckless whimsy here! I just discovered Hula Hoops are good for keeping boys happy and entertained for a spell ;)

Happy Day to You!

~Be back soon ♥

Gatitude Monday

So 2 out of 3 is a huge improvement for me with regards to blogging! I am so glad I came up with my new plan. And the truth is it's been fun, in the context of my themes, to think about what I want to share with you all!

Friday was a little bit too full to blog because I was getting ready for my dear friends to arrive. They came up from Sacramento Valley for a visit and to explore the amazing Yamhill Countryside. This weekend was the Oregon Lavender Festival. Talk about gratitude.... I could barely believe my eyes! It was a multi- sensational experience. Just standing in the presence of so much beauty was astounding. The intensity of purples against the farmland background and bright blue sky. The colors everywhere were so stark and sharp. The lavender fields were happily humming with industrious honey bees and every so often the breeze would blow and lavender imbued air would brush over our skin and fill our lungs up with its fragrant magic. Truly I felt I was in a story book and I was ready to stay forever.

Before we went I thought going from farm to farm would be much the same.....silly me! Each farm became a new adventure with different discoveries. They all had their unique stories and there was an contagious passion shared so many to become spontaneous Lavender Farmers. I've got it all worked out......

Lavender Fields here.... Hops for my husband there, my Dahlias and sweet peas will go there and oh yes!!! must have a flock of Merino sheep!

It was a day of so many blessings, Ecstatic Beauty and Treasured Friends.

And for this I am grateful

♥

Escape from the heat!

To be perfectly honest.... summer heat is really not my "thing". Give me a dramatic thunderstorm or rain for days and I am elated. Suffice it to say heat makes me a little, teensy, whiney , bit........ G*r*o*u*c*h*y (thank goodness I don't live anywhere hotter!) ( okay...I know I am a light weight!)........ So in search of Levity and relief from the heat, I did what any mother who wanted to to run for the hills would do....

I went to to the drug store. And this is what I found....

A Plastic pool,

3 awesome pelting balls

Bubble wands

and an electric Badminton Kit.

Tomorrow we are looking forward to homemade ice cream with local Raspberries and heath bar crunch! Yum!!! Maybe that will improve my demeanor ♥