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a weekend worth of pictures

    Despite the perseverance of family-wide Colds that Just Won't Go Away, this weekend was a damn good one.    You can see the evidence in the current state of my kitchen table:

 

    As you may be able to make out,  fiber was dyed,  a little knitting was squeezed in,  Natasha got busy with her prized bottle of sparkle glue and my button collection,  and I even did a little bit of non-yarn related crafting!     Not pictured:  the fun Friday night visit we had at the new pad of one of our favorite people,  the hectic morning I spent at work on Saturday,  or the fabulous mini-road trip we took to Boston on Sunday.    Oh, wait.  I can picture the last:

 

    My little crumbcake at the Children's Museum.  I am so proud of that girl.  She constantly inspires me with the way she is growing, in both body and in spirit.  With the way that she is learning to express herself, in words and in pictures.  These little collages are by far my favorite objects to come out of the weekend's creating.  She worked so hard on them, liberally employing both sparkly glue and her incredible negotiating skills when it came to haggling with me for more and more of my button stash:

 

As far as my non-yarny crafting, I made some of these for fun:

 

  I stumbled upon this great yo-yo tutorial the other day and got inspired.    I like them a lot and I'm thinking of bringing them to the little craft fair that I am doing in twenty (but who's counting?) days.     Speaking of which,  I should really get some work done before it's pick up time!    Happy Monday, friends!

procrastination, with buttons and spinning

This is a sneak peek of what I am working on today.  Or, rather, a sneak peek of what I should be working on right now instead of sitting here at the computer.  I realized, after my last post, that I failed to include computer time as a main component of my daily life.    I am currently in the habit of reading blogs and looking at pictures on Flickr while I spin yarn.  I am a horrible procrastinator, so even though I justify my computer time with some multitasking,  I almost always have a running list of things I should be doing instead of blog lurking.  Right now, I really should be getting down to business with some household tidying in addition to catching up on craft projects. 

Speaking of tidying and organization, didn't Miss N do a great job organizing these buttons?

 

    She took this project on yesterday, before school, and I found my heart swelling with pride.  Not simply because I can really use the extra help in reigning in some of my craft supply chaos, but also because I have such warm memories attached to buttons.    Some of my earliest memories, in fact,  are from when I was N's age and my mom would spread out a patchwork crib quilt and hand me her Ball jar full of buttons.   I would divide them by color, arranged on different fabric squares.   I remember the tactile pleasure of running my fingers over those buttons.   Dumping the whole jar out to find my favorite, a metal button with a relief of strawberries.   Putting the brown leather covered coat buttons back before I even started playing because I thought that they were ugly.   Lucky for me (and N!) my mom still lets me raid that same button jar when I visit.

Would you like to see some spinning?  Yes?    Here is a view of three bobbins at work, from yesterday:

These two...

  ...became this.

I have something that is pretty wild on the bobbin right now.   I also need to get to the garden sometime today and try to harvest more of the green beans and tomatillos.   
Happy Thursday friends!