First - Happy birthday to oakenking! The most amazing silk worker I've ever encountered, fantastic embroiderer, and sublime card weaver - many good wishes to him!

Secondly - and sadly,

The notable and incredibly creative author Madeline L'Engle has died at 88. I still have dreams of things from "A Wrinkle in Time" and "Wind in the Door".

This is more important even than that though...

Happy Birthday a_jaclyn!

Lots of Hugs

Only to get sweeter...

Happiest of birthdays elisem!

Wyrd wire worker, Lioness, and magpie extrodinare

Happy May Day everyone!

psychi_ and her sweet Norwegian made it here safe and sound last evening. She'll be around all week doing fun crafty stuff. Today is solar painting, tomorrow basketry, Thursday Detta's Spindle for stuff to dye, Friday dye day and shiny making, Saturday tie dye, Sunday May Day Parade at Powderhorn Park, Monday... whatever! Much ( Read more... )

I wish I could have shared my comatose state from where/whenever 3am to the alarm going off happened. "But I just closed my eyes! I'm still tired ( Read more... )

I had such a pleasant and cheerful birthday - thanks for all the little notes and comments, they meant an awful lot!

Had a gorgeous walk with jenett, the air was warm and the sky such a stunning blue ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday to the lovely bleujenna who was born a few years after me - but does indeed share my day ( Read more... )

*whew!*

Wednesday evening chaos all very sucessful! Happy full people, much merriment had!

davebooth won't let me post the picture of him opening his Phoebe hammered dulcimer this morning *GIGGLE* - he looked awfully and happily surprised! My spoiledrottenbrat sweet darling son got his LEGO NXT Robotics kit, and I got *bounce bounce* my KnitPicks ( Read more... )

I'm teaching the lovely jenett and a friend of her's to drop spin tonight. I think the opperative word here will be "drop" *giggle*. The weather here is cool and damp and my hands are just not cooperating well, so I think we'll work over the carpet. This all should cause much gaiety and hopefully not too many curses... that'll come later after the 100th ( Read more... )

My stocking is getting full ( Read more... )