The Seashelly Tales

Again, I realize I've neglected my poor suffering blog.   Where has the time gone?  What have I been doing?  It seems that when we are young, time seems to crawl.   For the last day of school.  But then suddenly it's the last day of summer and back to school we go. As adults, we go about our busy daily routines, then suddenly we wonder where did the year go?   The older we get, the faster the years fly by! It's that time of year again.   The time that usually sends me into a tailspin depression.   But not so much this year.   I seem to finally have  a handle on that. Yeah, it sucks that the year flew by and I'm wondering  WTF?  So, where have I been and where am I going? As far as my crafting has gone,  It's been quite a productive period since my last post.    I've challenged myself in both knitting and spinning endeavors. I've been a member of that knitting/crochet ...

A short (ahem) history in Spinning > Feel free to blame my cousins. Yep, (coughcoughtwentyfivecoughcough)years ago they got me involved in Revolutionary War Re-enactments shortly after the 200th anniversary of the war and America's freedom. While there I had opportunities to learn from others as well. Yup, that's me! Happily spinning away on a nice wheel. Oh those were the days. Drop Spindling just isn't the same after being on such a nice wheel. I wanted one of my own. Never materialized though. Kept getting put off and such. Then earlier this year - we had this lovely program nicknamed "Bush Bucks", that income tax refund on taxes paid on our tax returns? Well, I used mine and bought this: That's a Louet S51, Single treadle wheel you're looking at. Oh, so nice! The same weekend I picked this up, a friend of mine had managed to snag two very large trash bags full of nice Montedale ram & lamb fleece! The owner usually justs tosses all of it on the ...