lulubeans

anyone want to come to a weaving in ends party?

i promise, it will be fun.

also, i decided that someday i really want to live in a house with an orange door.

bonus if it comes with a tree house and chickens like this one does.

a shop update

 

                                        

 

i had a chance to update my shop yesterday.  lots of fresh (and affordable!) handspun, and don't forget that there's a discount code on farmama's blog for my shop.  you still have time to enter my handspun yarn or drop spindle kit giveaway on the farmama blog too, if you haven't yet.  comments will close over there monday morning.  happy sunday, all!

a weekend giveaway

 

i am excited to be offering a giveaway this weekend on farmama's blog!  please go visit and enter to win a learn to spin kit or a skein of handspun yarn!  i am also offering a special discount code for farmama readers! happy weekend all!

                                      

 

magic

greta and i ventured out between bursts of rain yesterday to inspect our raised beds and....

 

 

...we have babies!!!  lots and lots of little green babies!!! the kale, mesclun, radishes and tatsoi that we planted on mother's day are sprouting.  it feels like magic.

 

also magic: new human babies!  i got to give these booties to a particularly incredible new little person this week.  

(rav link here, although i knit these in '09, set them aside, and promptly forgot all the details.  i dyed the yarn!  i know that much!) 

sleep

it's been an incredibly precious commodity around these parts lately.

happy mother's day!

 

                              

 

me and my mama, circa 1983.

i'm not sure how old we were when we stopped doing these annual height comparison photos.  i'm nine here, the same age my N is now.  usually i feel like she looks a lot like me, but looking at this photo, i realize that she doesn't really look that much like i did at nine.  the height ratio (me to my mom then, N to me me now) is almost eerily identical though.  we are short folk.

also, i love the glimpses into our early 80's living room that this photo provides. i love seeing our old orange couch, that quilt piece in the giant hoop, that creepy china doll.  weird how seeing objects in photos can stir the memory.   when i'm taking pictures of my kids, i sometimes wonder if i crop too much out. setting a goal to step back more often- maybe my girls will want to see our equilalent of that duck pillow when they are my age!

on the subject of motherhood, you've probably read tina fey's mother's prayer for her daughter by now, but if not, go. read it. it's so good.

happy mother's day to all the mamas in my life, to the mamas to be, and especially to the mamas doing it all by themselves.  hope your day is great!

first iced coffee of the year!

it seemed worth noting.

bobbin watch! (i've been adding locks from hands + notions to falklands that i dyed.)

here's my current view:

i heart spring.

 

okay, off to rouse the family for first friday!

 

happy may day!

 

             

 

we totally forgot to do our traditional basket making this year.  and i completely dropped the haymarket ball on talking to my kids about worker solidarity.  BUT YARN!  these two match my mood today.  and they're reminding me that i should never underestimate the elation making powers of green grass underfoot, warm sun on my face, fresh leaves on every branch.

funny enough, i dyed the fiber (80/20 merino/silk) way back in the dark days of january, but geez, they're a perfect tribute to utter sweet fabulousness that is this spring season.

                            
                                          (both yarns are available today in my shop!)

-also today, i just have to say that i am so into having a president who's smart and articulate (two yrs in and the contrast from his predecessor still strikes/delights me) AND funny!