ETC First Monday SALE!

ETC First Monday sale!! ♫ ☀☀ It's time again for ETC's First Monday SALE

http;//cordovastudios.etsy.com is offering:

FREE 100yd. skein of undyed Lincoln with purchase of $15 or more. I will honor my sale from 12a.m. Monday June1 until 8 am Tuesday (June 2nd) morning! 

Check out our promo thread: http://www.etsy.com/forums_thread.php?thread_id=6170555 ☀☀

 ♫~☀☀ ♫~ ♥♥All buyers in Texas will be charged a sales tax of 8.25% through Paypal. 

Proud member of Etsy Texas Crafters! Check out our team shop: http://etsytexascrafters.etsy.com

My favorite place in Texas

Right now, at this moment in my life, my very favorite place in Texas is my own backyard right here on this little lake right in the heart of East Dallas. Peaceful, inhabited by waterfowl, all kinds of other birds and full of wonderful shades of green and the lovely sound of silence. The fishing is good if you care to bait a hook. Hot dogs as bait will land you a granpa catfish. I have decided I am a true Taurean. I love "Home". I love being home, spending time with my "things", doing my "thing", creating, my "things". Nothing better than being HOME.

Super splashy day

After a quiet two days of indulging in fiber projects in my studio, the holiday weekend was capped off with a lunch and swimming with the fam.  For four hours Zoe only stopped to eat and she did that standing up.   Otherwise, she was in the water.  Charley is much braver this year:  "jumping" into the kiddie pool and paddling around the big pool with his floaties.  I remember summers, first as a girl, and then as a mom, heavily weighted with full days at the pool.  So delightful to see my grandkids loving it too.

Trinket hates it that she can't come.

Baby Blankets and Handspinning=perfect weekend time

I have been spinning some very fine yarn out of blue merino
mixed with seacell and clear angelina. I plied it last night
and am so pleased to have finally created a delicate yarn
on my spinning wheel.
I'm currently knitting up a fluffy baby blanket for my nephew and niece-in-law's (is that a word?) little baby girl who is due in early July. I'm using up a huge stash of Sirdar's Snowflake yarn. It's not very pleasant to knit but makes a blanket the little ones love.
It's been a quiet weekend full of my own projects with no time constraints.
Love it!

Green heron visiting my backyard

I sat on my back porch knitting while chatting on the phone with a friend in Taos when this guy flew in for a visit.  As I live on a small lake, waterfowl are frequent visitors but I had never gotten to see the vivid coloration of the male before.  What a treat.  These are photos from the web as my camera was in the house at the time.

My travel into geek-dom through Etsy

Getting a shop started on ETSY was and is basically to begin to dissiminate all the fiber I had accumulated and continue to acquire in a viable way.   Well, that is beginning to happen, and I love it.  But, what I love even more is I am totally consumed with learning more about the geek world of widgets, HTML, site-meters and on and on.  I sit at my laptop with all the accoutrements  you see in the photo and crawl through this new world AND I love it!  I had settled into a slow moving (for me) world of morning walks, a little gardening or spinning, lunch, then more spinning or knitting, with maybe a nap in there and it was all good.  Now I find myself energized and my mind on fire. 

 

Another big perk is finally getting off of "auto" on my Rebel SLR camera and amping up my photography.  A dear friend and my daughter-in-law feed me tips and instructions.  The next big step is trying "RAW" images.  Have to get the manual out to get to that on the camera menu.  Sometimes, I do resort to my Iphone camera for a quicky as I did in this photo.

For me, this just illustrates how we have to keep on learning and being inquisitive.  My dad was a great example of this.  His quick mind was on fire to acquire new info.  His eyes were terrible and he had to use a huge, awkward tabletop magnifying reader but he read the Wall Street Journal every day as well as the daily local paper.  He devoured books on tape from a source for the visually impaired.  He is my hero.

Zoe's first swim team practice

Lots of wet, excited kids demo-ing their "freestyle". She's having a ball