April 4th – 12th photos

This has been a long and hectic week!  Lots of yarn, food, crafting….

4th – Easter was a weirdly normal Sunday… Pete’s stupid company decided it was a good idea to have stores open, so he went to work as usual, and I stayed home and worked pretty much as usual.  But I wanted to do something special, so I made cookies!  We’ve been trying to use up all the food in the kitchen before moving, so I gathered all cookie-friendly ingredients, and made coconut, oatmeal, white chocolate, and dark chocolate chip cookies.  (weird – I just found that last Easter I also made coconut chocolate chip cookies, I guess it’s an accidental tradition now!):

5th + 6th – These days were filled with yarn for the club.  First, winding a ridiculously huge skein (almost 700 yards of chunky wool), since I had to dye it in 5 yard color sections, and I chose to try doing it all together in a massive skein, divided into 3 sections.  It was messy… but it worked… Then, more unraveling, and spinning for the recycled spun club yarn, which I really love this month:

7th – We finally got over to Burgerville for the seasonal Rosemary Shoestring Potatoes – yummmmm!!  They have so many fantastic seasonal items throughout the year, and these fries are definitely one of my favorites!  (ps – if I ate meat, I’d be way into that turkey burger, yumm spinach!)

8th – I needed to buy some fruit for my club photoshoot, and to test out the produce bag (so happy with how it turned out!!) so I walked to Limbo, grabbed an assortment, carried it home in the bag (and got a compliment on it at the store) and then I had all this fruit that I wanted to use up… I also happened to have a bottle of cheap red wine in the fridge from a long time ago… So, I tried making sangria!  Total success!  I had my whole “recipe” typed up here, but then I thought, I’d rather just give it it’s own blog post… soon…  yumyumyum:

9th – Forgot to take an official photo of the day… this is the day I finished designing and knitting the other club pattern, dish scrubbies, and photographed them, so this is from that photoshoot.  (By the way, here you can see the intended purpose of these cup things that I have in my studio – they are from Ikea in the kitchen organization section.)

10th – Make-a-long day!  A post with everything I worked on is coming soon; here’s a peek at the mess of craftiness I had going on.  Linda’s book is the only one I ended up using directly, the rest of my projects were either finishing old things I’d started years ago and forgotten, or improvised projects I’d been planning for awhile…

11th + 12th – Club prep days… Of course, I was extremely sleep deprived on Sunday, but I had tons of work to get done, so the day is a blur of writing, printing, cutting, winding, sorting…… And then I did all the distributing, packaging, shipping label printing, all on the mail-out day (usually I try to get more done ahead of time!) which ended up being ultra chaotic because I ran out of packing tape halfway through the packages!  I knew I had more somewhere, but I wasted something like 40 minutes looking for it with no luck!  Anyway, I ended up messily finishing the packaging in line at the post office right at the last minute – they went out on time, but man, it wasn’t pleasant…

Now that the April club is out (and it’s a good one!), the make-a-long happened, and I have no more major deadlines or anything for awhile, my focus gets turned to the move!  Extreme packing starts today!  Woo!!