10 on Tuesday

My first 10 on Tuesday!

This is one of my first cars, about 12 years ago :( I won't say here how fast it could go but man, was it fun! :)
This week's 10 on Tuesday is 10 Ways to Have Fun on Long Car Rides which is good seeing as I am still in the middle of fiber festival season and certainly clocking in the miles.

1. play lots of music, really loudly!

2. play I spy

3. play "who can spot the big sign 1st" (this kept my daughter and younger sister occupied for a good hour on a very stressful trip to PA last year!).

4. knitting (not if you're driving, of course).

5. paint your nails :)

6. catch up on reading (I'm one of the few that can still do this without getting carsick).

7. stare out the sunroof at the trees and such flying by (man, I miss having a sunroof!)

8. time to calmly wind yarn on your hand or nostepinne.

9. catch up with each other on what's going on at school, work, etc.

10. most recently I listened to a George Carlin cd on the ride to PA and it was great, I should be listening to those much more often!



Anything I missed?? :)

A Late Sunday Stealing

1. When you looked at yourself in the mirror today, what was the first thing you thought? Huh, I DO look as tired as I feel!

2. How much cash do you have on you? about $20, I don't like carrying too much on me.

3. What’s a word that rhymes with DOOR? FLOOR (I know I could've gone mean with that but eh...)

4. Favorite planet? I'm gonna go with Earth though I hear Jupiter is beautiful this time of eon.

5. Who is the 4th person on your missed call list on your cell phone? My friend / neighbor, L.

6. What is your favorite ring tone on your phone? The one it's on, a kind of funk tune.

7. What shirt are you wearing? This one.

8. Do you label yourself? Like with a tag????

9. Name the brand of the shoes you’re currently wearing? New Balance

10. Bright or Dark Room? somewhere in between.

11. Did you do anything to celebrate John Lennon's 70th yesterday? yes, it was very exciting, when I went on Google, I said "oh, look, it would have been John Lennon's birthday."

12. What does your watch look like? It looks like it's buried in a drawer somewhere needing a battery undoubtedly.

13. What were you doing at midnight last night? For the first time in a long time, ASLEEP!

14. What did your last text message you received on your cell say? got in fine

15. Where is your nearest 7-11? the only one I know of is across the river in Wappingers.

16. What’s a word that you say a lot? word.

17. Who told you he/she loved you last? My daughter. :)

18. Last furry thing you touched? hahahahahaha! wish I had a good one here but I have to say my dog.

19. How many drugs have you done in the last three days? 0

20. How many rolls of film do you need developed? 3

21. Favorite age you have been so far? tough one.......I would say 15 but I couldn't drive yet so it wasn't all good.

22. Your worst enemy? my procrastinating self!

23. What is your current desktop picture (extra points if you post it.)? the lake

24. What was the last thing you said to someone? wash your hands!

25. If you had to choose between a million bucks or to be able to fly what would it be? I'd take the million bucks, if God wanted me to fly, he'd have given me wings!

So....how would you answer? :)

The "Stolen" post

Found this through a blog through another and so on and so forth....



1. Where are you from? New York


2. If you could live any place in the world, where would you live? The Adirondacks or Boston


3. What's your favorite blog? i have a really long blog roll and am not sure it would be fair to choose just one!


4. What is your biggest blogging pet peeve? Being hung up on.


5. What's your favorite TV show this season? Parenthood. I also like (tho they are not all "in season") Rescue Me, Burn Notice, The Office, 30 Rock


6. What's your favorite 'down' time {nothing computer related}? Reading books w/ my daughter or watching a movie with her. She loves to watch movies that I used to and she has a surprising sense of humor for her age. The other day we snuggled up and watched Uncle Buck! Time to myself would be knitting, usually while catching up on shows.


7. Are you a parent? If so, what's your favorite thing to do with your children? Yep, see above.


8. What about your blog, have you considered changing? It's really all I know. It was free and easy to set up though I need to figure out how to blog MORE!


9. What do you do for a living (if you work outside the home or if you work at home)? It's not exactly a "living" but dye yarn and roving.


10. What is your favorite song at the moment? I have about 8! I like all kinds of music so it's kind of a hard question to answer without breaking it down by genre. I like Eminem's new stuff and I can't wait for Staind and 3 Doors Down to come out with new albums and I'm going to a Lady A concert soon. I listen to country, rap, rock, alternative, classic rock, r&b; just about everything except that new dance crap where they take a usually decent song and add a horrible dance/techno beat behind it that makes my head want to explode!

What is your favorite song ever? Well, when you break it down to "ever" it becomes more of a classic thing. Drift Away by Dobie Gray if I was only given ONE to pick but there is just so many. My mp3 has 737 songs on it and is on a constant shuffle. That's about 1/4 of my digital music library.


11. What is your favorite niche TV channel to watch? Well, my family would say the Weather Channel but I would have to say anything funny that's on or news, I watch way too much CNN.


12. If you could have any career, what would it be and why? I always wanted to be a civil rights lawyer and work to help people who couldn't help themselves. Now that I am where I am, I would love to have my own business, not only online but with a location as well.


13. What is your favorite outfit? jeans and a fitted tee. I'm a jeans girl!


14. If you could tell your teenage self something, what would you say? Let it go!!! and let him go!!! and when the time comes, just GO!!!


15. What is your favorite recipe? my chocolate chip cookies. :)


16. What is the funniest joke you've ever heard? the knock, knock jokes my daughter makes up!


17. What is your favorite vacation spot and why? The lake that my family goes to in the Adirondacks. It's beautiful, peaceful, quiet, it's the only place my family seems to have history and solidarity. When I get there I'm calm, which is BIG for me. My anxiety goes away and everything is as it should be and even when things go wrong it doesn't seem so bad.


18. What are you most excited about with fall here? Well, we already did the apple picking and fiber shows are almost done now so I would say that winter will be here soon. I enjoy the snow and the days the kids get off of school. Oh, and I LOVE Christmas!


19. Did you envision yourself to be where you are today ten years ago? If not, what did you envision? NO! 10 yrs. ago today I was in college and looking to transfer out to another. I thought that I was going to go away and finish school, get a real job, buy a house on the lake.


20. If money were no object, what would your dream house look like? On the lake, with lots of big windows looking over the lake with a wrap around porch and high ceilings. I would want a cushioned window seat that looks out at the lake and built in bookshelves everywhere. A master bath with a huge whirlpool tub.........oh, sorry got carried away. I'm sure something like "a large a-frame on the lake" would have covered it. :)


21. What is your all-time favorite Disney movie? Bedknobs and Broomsticks


So, what would your answers be???

Fiber Festival Season!!

Yes, that time of the year is FINALLY here! The air gets just a bit cooler and the idea of knitting miles and miles of hot, heavy wool or alpaca is a welcome thought. Below is just a quick update to post the upcoming shows and festivals that Serendipity Hand-dyed & Hand-painted Yarn & Roving will be vending at:

August 12-

Speculator TWIGS Craft Show 9am-3pm, info can be found here.

Sept. 11 & 12-

PA Endless Mountains Fiber Festival Sat. 10am-5pm/ Sun. 10am- 4pm, info can be found here.

Serendipity will be in booth #30, same space as last year!

Sept. 18 & 19-

Finger Lakes Fiber Arts Festival Sat. 10am-5pm/ Sun 10am -4pm, info can be found here.

Serendipity will be in Booth B16.

Sept. 25 & 26-

Southern Adirondack Fiber Festival Sat/Sun 9am-5pm, info can be found here.

Nov. 6 & 7-

THE Fiber Festival of New England Sat. 9:30am-5pm/ Sun. 10am-3pm, info can be found here.

I am very excited to be attending so many shows this fall and can't wait to meet more great fiber people! Hopefully, they will have great turnouts. There are plenty of workshops (many of which are free) as well as sheep dog trials and demonstrations at the fiber shows. Be sure to stop by and say "Hi."

DRRROIIIDDD

I got the new Motorola Droid and I LOVE it! I was trying to hold off and get the iPhone when it (hopefully) came to Verizon but my Voyager was broken oh, about 6 months ago so I finally caved. So glad I did because it's fabulous, does just about everything I have tried so far and now that I got it a nice purple case isn't so manly looking. I like a cute, girly phone (dumb, I know). So far I have only downloaded some knitting and yarn stash apps and a few games for my daughter like Princess Memory. Help me out a bit, will you? Let me know what apps I NEED to have right now. I have no idea where to start! Thanks! More tomorrow..... :)

Sorry for the delay....

But I got real sick and getting better was priority numero uno. Now that I've accomplished that I'm back to work and with a vengeance. There is so much more that I want to accomplish with this yarn business and after taking a serious look at things I realize that, in fact, the problem is me. (Surprising, I know). I am going to try and work really hard to make this work b/c well, I want to. I enjoy what I've been doing and the people it has allowed me to meet. I just have to work a hell of a lot harder! And blog more, b/c I think it's good for me. But I am going to think a lot less about what I write and just write, so I hope I don't turn anybody off by that!

I promised pictures of May and the MA S&W festival so I'll start there:

I was on a waiting list for the show and got an email 4 days before the show asking if I could make it. After much running around like a chicken with my head cut off I managed to secure a place for the kids to go (thank you mom and jeff!) and tried to get some fiber ready to go. I was way under prepared and wished I had had more time so I could have had more fiber but you do what you can with what you have. Since I did show up I get to go back next year so that was great. I will have a ton more fiber next time around. With such short notice I had no idea where I was going to get put but was lucky enough to be able to set up in the garage type booths which was fantastic because it kept us in the shade for most of the day.

I brought my (new-more about that next time) wheel since I didn't have any yarn to tag and didn't want the heavy alpaca shawl I was knitting at the time sitting in my lap on the hot days. I am still learning but managed to spin about 16 oz. (full pound!) in the 2 days, not bad for a new spinner!

My view from the booth:

I was lucky enough to be next to the Merlin Tree and his wonderful Hitchhiker wheels. It was all I could do to not come home with one but I resisted.

Look at these beauties though! Some lovely old wheels restored to their original charm.

When I was leaving the 1st night I heard a ton of bleeting and baaing and went over to see what all the ruckus was about. There were SO many sheep I was amazed (I've never been to MASWF before), it rivaled Rhinebeck as far I was concerned.

Some were ready for bed, like me!

And these I fell in love with at Rhinebeck last year, the Cheviots. I think they are just so sweet looking.

The mama (I think she was the mama) did not seem happy that the babies were coming over to be petted and actually shoved them away from me so I took the hint and moved along.

MASWF was amazing overall, I met some great people, did well enough to make me want to go back again and couldn't have hoped for better weather. The local area is gorgeous and I only wish I could have stayed longer.

Before the crazy week that ensued after receiving the "we have a space" email I was crazy busy working on a last minute gift for my oldest friend's daughter for her baptism. It's actually the Pinkie Blankie but I used a sport weight alpaca yarn and went up a couple needle sizes and am thrilled with how it turned out. Although my last minute blocking job in the sunshine that morning was horrible, I'm sure, being a baby, she'll forgive Auntie Em (I know, I know). I just hope she still has it when she's grown and enjoys being wrapped up in it.

More tomorrow, I'll try not to be so boring, ahem!

GIVEAWAY!!

Not here! Over at ---> Tracey Knits.

Serendipity was featured as her Handmade Shop of the Week and I'm giving away a skein of Seaside alpaca/wool yarn on there. So go and check it out, she features some great Etsy shops on her site so be sure to scroll back and check out some of the others as well!