All You Yarn/Fiber Fanatics Out There.......

Please visit my bloggy friend, Linda's blog! She is helping to spearhead a movement to support American grown alpaca fibers and alpaca farmers. It is important that Americans support American industry!!! Become a locavore in your own state!!!

Click on her link and be sure to add your name to the petition!!!

It's Snowing!!!!!

Just a quick post to yell YAY!! It's snowing!!!!!!

And, to say HAPPY HAPPY Birthday to Patty
at Magpie's Nest, and LINDA
at the alpaca farm at Fiber Fabrications!!

Click on their links, drop on over, and bombard them with b'day wishes!!!!

Having done that, I am getting the camera and going outside to get some snow pix!!!!!!

Happy Feet, Happy Feet, Ooglebloops Has Happy Feet!!!!!

My feet are VERY happy!!! They have been VERY happy for most of the day!!!
Why, you ask??????

Well, it's because they are encased in a pair of luscious, warm, and fuzzy alpaca socks!!!! Denim blue and soft as can be, I just love them!!!

I know you wanna know where you can get a pair, so you, too, can have "happy feet"!!!!!

Drop on over and visit Linda Bylsma's blog

Not only are her multiple blogs entertaining "reads", her boundless energy will amaze and astound, and her alpaca tales (not tails) are always entertaining!!!!

There are several links on Linda's sidebar - one is "Farm Store" (where you can probably find the socks, and lots of other necessary things created out of alpaca fiber-some created by Linda). She may even have a link to her Etsy store, where you can find aprons, pin cushions, and alpaca fiber and knitwear!

Winter is almost upon us - your feet will thank you!!! LOL

Tea on Tuesday

My tea today is courtesy of Linda from Fiber Fabrications

A while back she wrote a post on harvesting hops - and I thought that was really cool! I asked if I could have a Hop(!), and she sent me a lovely bag of them!!!!
Hops are used in making beer, but are also helpful in inducing sleep. They are used in sleep masks, and I guess for tea also.
So, I took several of the dried blossoms and put them in some tea bags. These tea bags take a bit of work to open, and then (if I had read the directions before purchasing the, I wold have known!) you have to seal them closed with the heat of an iron or curling iron!!! So, curling iron it was - since that was handier!!! LOL

The daughter and I each had a cup- she thought it needed more additives, honey, etc- I thought it was just fine!! It probably could have used more blossoms in each tea bag, but I didn't want to waste my precious sleep inducers in tea!!! :>)

Well, the tea made us a tad drowsy, but it was good. I would prefer my hops this way, since I don't drink beer!

I have the lovely bag of hops hanging on my bedpost, and put it next to my pillow last night. I guess it worked - every time I woke up during the night, I took a whiff, and I went back to sleep! So, I would prefer to think it works, and is not all in my head!! LOL

So, thank you Linda for my sample of hops - and I think I may have to grow these next year!!!!!!

Please visit Kimmie, Patty and Nancy and feel free to drop in for tea any Tuesday!!!

Award Time

Imagine my surprise, while reading my bloggy friend Linda's latest post, to find that she had some very sweet words to say about me and "presented" me with an award!!! Coulda knocked me over with the proverbial feather, but I very happily accept and was finally able to claw my way out of some level of computer illiteracy and figure out how to post the award in my sidebar!!! Sentiments right back atcha' Linda........:>)

Blogging has opened a whole new world for me, that I look forward to checking in every morning. I have made some wonderful cyber friends, acquaintances,and connections, and have learned so much along the way- whether it be in the world of art, farming, or computerese!!!

So, now I get to pass the award along. I will only pass it to one - even tho alot of people would and do deserve it. It goes to people who are warm, caring and sharing, who maybe have alot on their plate or in their lives some days, but always manage to post with a smile!!! The words I "borrowed" from one of the original posts of this award( the blog that awarded it to Linda): "people you admire, you are learning from and those who inspire you enough at succeeding with your next project".

I pick Patty to pass this on to! She was the one who got me into blogging a year or so ago, and never fails to amaze me with the depth of her artsy knowledge and her endless talent- sometime to the point of greenish tinged envy!! LOL

So, thanks again, Linda, and now the award is passed on to Patty!!! And, I, go on with the rest of my day, with a smile on my face and a skip in my step..........

One Can Never Have Too Many Aprons!!!

I just received my goodie in the mail from Linda of Fiber Fabrications !!
She makes neat little aprons out of jeans, and this was the only bib apron in her Etsy shop. Plus, it had frogs on it - and I love frogs and toads!!!

It is even cuter in person, if that's possible- made of khaki denim with a blue jean pocket, vintage buttons, and froggy floral ruffle. So, I now have a new favorite apron to join my collection in my pantry!!

The tag on the apron was attached with some of her impossibly soft alpaca yarn, in a dyed peach color! I may have to buy some of that too!!! LOL

Thank you, Linda!!!!