While Walking Through the Woods

The Hubs and I decided we really needed to get out of the city last week.  We found the most wonderful paved bike/walking path only a 20 min drive from our house!  It is a surprisingly shady trail with mini waterfalls and creeks joining up with the main river.  It was so fabulous to just wander along the river. relax, and just enjoy being outside.  The best part was there were tons of ferns and moss covered rock faces.  I've been itching to make a terrarium and so after we finished our sandwiches, I filled up our tupperware with souviners to bring home.  So far they just live in the tupperware on our living room end table, but I hopefully will get around to creating the terrarium soon!

I tried to get as many different kinds of moss as I could fit...so fun!  I found these acorn caps all along the trail. I just had to rescue some for terrarium decorations.

GRAND OPENING of my Etsy shop

Girl Meets Spindle Grand Opening

It is officially time to throw open the doors and start offering all the hand painted fiber and yarny goodness I've been working on behind the scenes for the past months. Starting tomorrow, Friday March 11th at 8 am(PST) the posting will commence at  my Etsy shop. Hooray!! 

Some teaser shots for you:

My Two Favorite Words...Rummage Sale!

This past week I found the most amazing site for all my fellow yard sale-ers, Yard Sale Treasure Map. It is fabulous! you put in your city, day you want to go, and miles you're willing to drive and up pops all the local craigslist postings for yardsales!! You can even add in any that you find in the paper, then get a customized route and driving directions! How amazing is that!  I was playing around with the mobile version when I found an ad for a Rummage Sale at the local Elks Lodge, Hooray! I grabbed my baggie of change and off I went...Here's the treasures I came home with:


Amazingly Huge Wooden Clothespin
Tiny Hollow Owl Planter? (he's going to turn into a mini pin cushion)
Lovely White Ceramic Animal-shaped Napkin Rings
Double set of  Owl Playing Cards in the cutest velvety box
Mexican Cookbook(Tamales + Flan? Yay!) and Canning Book(to go with the modern one I already have)

Here's some closeups of the napkin rings. They are just so cute. These are to add to my growing collection of white tableware. I have a set of rings that are owls on branches I found at a yard sale a few years ago. I was so excited to find these because I haven't found any more since then.  I think the Chicken is my favorite! 



There's another big sale at a local elementary school next saturday....Hooray for treasure hunts!

The Secrets Out!!

I am so excited because my lovely friend, Linda of ExclusivelyLindaLee, and I have made an official announcement...Girl Meets Spindle is taking over where ExclusivelyLindaLee left off. I will be offering hand painted fibers and yarn in all of the ELL original colorways, plus I'll soon begin adding my own too.  And this isn't just any fiber people, it's luxury and exotic blends that will knock your socks off! Some of them are so sofy and fluffy it's unbelievable! If you want to read the letter you can find it at this ravelry link http://www.ravelry.com/discuss/the-lindalee-fiber-cafe/1557797/1-25#2 . I'm glad I can finally talk and start posting about fiber-dying things... I've been dying to spill the beans! Look out soon for lovely fibery goodies at http://www.girlmeetsspindle.etsy.com/!!