It's my birthday week, so I'm giving you presents!!! For the week I have drastically lowered prices in Etsy Shop. All my handspun yarn has been lowered significantly in price!! Act now! Pass the word to other fiberistas who may wish for handspun yarn!

I have posted three new handspun yarns in my Etsy Shop.

Northern Lights, a pair of black merino/silk plied with commerical variegated cotton skeins. (The cotton came from the Big Bag of Cotton Crochet Thread that I inherited-- 30 years on-- from my great grandmother.)

Subtlety & Sunrise, another pair meant to go together, also of merino/silk ( Read more... )

You may have missed it yesterday, but Blergeatkitty launched her new line of "History is Funny!" t-shirts. You should totally check them out here because they are awesome.

In more self-interested news, I've updated my Etsy Shop with many new handspun yarns. The ones I showed in this entry are all up and for sale, with the exception of the alpaca/silk which ( Read more... )

I finished a new skein of yarn today-- I'll soak it and dry it tomorrow. No huge rush-- I think it'll be well received, but I still have 2 new ones to put up in Etsy (Thursday and Friday) and the ones that are up aren't flying off the shelves. (No surprise-- no one has any monies.) But it's very pretty-- bamboo and merino, so soft and shiny, and ( Read more... )

Like I said in my previous entry, I have 6 new skeins for my Etsy Shop, not including the 5 that are already there, which I wrote about a few days ago.

Below the cut you can see a picture of the 6 new skeins. I'm putting the first one in the shop tonight, and the rest will go up one each day this week.

Fibers include camel, tencel (which is ( Read more... )

I'm having a pretty good day so far. How's about you guys?

I woke up around 10, and chatted with Pyrite. Then I finished reading Devil in the White City, which was very good. (I'm too much an academic to not be a bit skeptical of popular history and the choices made by the author, but it was very well researched and the choices made were plausible ( Read more... )

Blech. I am in a terrible mood, albeit one that is markedly improved from where I was at 6am upon leaving the sleep study, and more awake than I was until 9am, upon getting my large coffee ( Read more... )

I'm printing out the publishing agreement for my article with Shakespeare Bulletin now... I have to mail it asap (once I've, y'know, filled it out and stuff.) It's a wacky weird feeling ( Read more... )

Or, in some cases, new information.

Every year Shadesong puts her time, health and sanity on the line to participate in Blogathon in an effort to raise money for an Important Cause. This year, as with several in the past, money raised is going to the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center. As everyone who reads this journal is intelligent, thoughtful and aware ( Read more... )

Doooood. So, in the past week I have sold all the handspun out of my shop. Well, frankly, I have sold everything out of my shop because "all" I had up was 5 skeins of handspun. Some of that yarn had been in the shop for almost a year without buyers. I'm grateful and pleased to have sold my wares-- very, very. I'm just confused as to why (and ( Read more... )