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Wonderful company, wonderful projects…

Hello, my dears! I hope your summer is going well and you’re not boiled, flooded, sunburnt, bitten, or out of ice cream. Personally I’m doing well, and I’m busily making stuff for the autumn and winter seasons coming oh so soon. But recently I did take a wonderful week off, to spend it with some of my best friends who had come down from Canada to visit family and friends and me!

And it was delightful! And I got to see people I hadn’t seen in ages and ages! And meet new ones! Even little introverted me that I am had the very best time, and it was so hard, so very hard to wave everyone goodbye again.

But now I’m trying hard to get back onto my summer projects. I’ve got a tutorial I’m working on for my Patreon, and some knitting for the shop. I’ve got a fistful of embryonic Guardian Eyes that need sewing into their embroidery hoops. There’s jewelry to make, and stuff to learn, and paintery things to paint. And I will stuff all sorts of fun things in the shop for you kind, kind people to gawk at…

Stay out of the sun and don’t get too hot, my dearies!! And I will hunker down and make interesting things for you all until Autumn finally comes…

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Weird things in jars…

Skull candles

I took a little time off this week for dyeing more wool and various putterings. It’s hot and sunny out, which is perfect for drying lots and lots of fiber…I was also trying my hand at dyeing a fistful of silk cocoons a friend of mine gave me to play with. They looked a little more sinister than I’d expected, blobbing around in a jar of blue-green tinted water with a hint of pink.

Overdoing the fluff
Lots and lots and lots of fluff out drying in the sun…with a sinister jar of blobbyness…

Everything looks so wholesome in the photo except for that weird jar. What’s in it? Olives? Eyeballs? It didn’t help that the silk threads kept trying to attach to each other and they came out in a creepy globby green mass that stuck to my hand. It was like running into a spider web, except I’d done it to myself on purpose. But the cocoons turned out a pretty shade of lime, so it was worth it…

Also, I decided there weren’t enough creepy candles at my house, so I bought a few more. there’s an Etsy shop called Darknessvoid that offers wonderful spine-candles. (I developed a crush on them when I saw these huge, flickering spine-candles in Prisoner of Azkaban.) I thought I’d try a smallish one first before investing in one of the full-sized ones. There were also some great skull-candles to keep my crystal skull-head company…

Skull candles
They all look like they’re singing to me…I’m not sure I want to hear what the song is, exactly.

Between the dyeing, carding, spinning and mercenary knitting I’m quite the busy thing lately. It’s a good thing; it’s why I went part-time at my day job; to have a little more time for money-makers that soothe me and make me happy. Just looking at all the fiber I dyed up made me so happy. So many colors! such great textures! And it was all for me to play with…

And today? I wonder if I can stick a few more cocoons in the dyeing jar, just for more globby fun…