Kaiser Mommy

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Ash Wednesday

I know. Posting two days in a row. Crazyness. (Craziness?) . MommySnatch and ZoeyJane both wanted to know what book I’m reading – (click the image to link to the book. It’s not an aff link bc I’m too lazy to make it an aff link right now.) I was drawn to it because it is pretty. I could hang the book on my wall and enjoy it as art… Read More

On Lent

It’s snowing here. Like enough snow that I’ll even call it a good snow. . I made a snow angel yesterday. As I fell back into the snow, the world went WHOOSH …. quiet. The way that only happens when the world is filled with snow. I lay there enjoying the release of everything in that moment while I made a snow angel. While the snowflakes poured out of the.. Read More

The quilt and the chair

There are two projects up there – One is the knitted quilt project using (mostly) yellow, purples and greens. I have several Phat Fiber samples in there too – the blue is the Princess Bride sample from Sept. The primarily white is … Snow White? from the Sept box. The yellow is … um. Also from September. A lot of the light purple you see is Maude and Me. The.. Read More

Cold and Gone

Okay so technically not a person I saw today. It’s a name I saw today. I was working on genealogy and it’s only when I spin any kind of story that these people become remotely real. This is about the daughter of my great great (etc) grandmother – from her 2nd family after my great great (etc) grandfather’s father died. I’m alive only because people died. Well loved mothers and.. Read More

Sometimes, the posts, they just write themselves.

Last night at damn dinner time there’s a knock on the door. I think it’s my sweetie mailman bringing me a package. It’s not. It’s some little blonde. New carpet cleaning place opening up, they are looking for peeps with some carpet to munch clean so customers can tell their friends about it and the rug munching carpet cleaning company can get some word of mouth advertising. I think, “Hey,.. Read More

Embarrasshitting Moment

My most embarrassing moment . . . I had to think on it  . . . I’m so prone to the awkward that I miss the embarrassing. I thought about the time I bled through my white shorts in the Walmarts and my mom made me walk around with her purse covering my ass . . . The time I put my lunch ticket in my awesome Kangaroo shoes and.. Read More

ZOMG Mommyblogger DRAMZ!!!!!

I point fingers at people who go trolling through the internet looking for drama to blow up about. I do my best to keep my mouth shut. Here comes the fancy but. However. I see this tweet Had a company contact us asking us to pay $10 per item plus s/h to review them. “We do this to ensure that our bloggers have done homework” I reply with a very.. Read More

For the Ravelry and Knitter peeps

We’re doing a secret Santa (or whatever politically correct name) over in my Ravelry group and this is to help my partner out. And the local knitterati knows about the blog so they might like some info too. 1. How long have you been spinning? What skill level do you consider yourself? Picked up the drop spindle for the first time in Dec 2008 but had no luck till Summer.. Read More

How to tell you are a mommy blogger -1

You send your husband the following message from your ever open email to his ever charged blackberry: bring bud ice cream. he just sat on the little potty long enough to poop there. i’m so thrilled you are lucky i’m not taking a photo and sending it to you. Then you blog about it.

End of the Innocence

I grew up in the funeral business. Quite used to death being around me, but not affecting me. I was eight years old the first time I remember being afraid of death. I found out that after we die, our nicely embalmed bodies still decay. That we too can be like dinosaur bones. That a spirit is not necessarily in the shape of our body. It was YEARS before I.. Read More

Fiber Arts Friday 9/18/9

A while ago, I spun my first yarn: I finally realized I needed to, uh, ply? it with another strand so it could puff out and be the soft awesome that I knew it really wanted to be. I used some cashmere from Jags Funky Fibers (August Phat Fiber Box) to improve what I had spun. [disclosure. i have a book on spinning. i can’t find it. and i’m stubborn… Read More

Fiber Arts Friday – Phat Fiber Box pt 2

Remember the Phat Fiber box from last week? Here’s what I’ve done this week. The detail is from Mama Jude’s Plant Dyed Stuff and the base is from my Shadysidefarmstudio stash. Tiny afghan (made 2) using Autumn Harvest from The Spinning Sheep, some Cherry/Strawberry themed from my8kidsmom and some yellow from my Shadysidefarmstudio stash. (Quick story – my grandpa made me a dollhouse and furniture, my mom and grandma made.. Read More