busy, busy...

I finally updated the shop today with some new listings. I was thrilled to finally get back to carding, actually finish a few new yarns, AND finish a necklace that had been in various states of undone for well over 2 weeks. I posted them all today! :)

The necklace was an idea I'd had for a while and last night, it was just time. I had all but one of the beads made and then just had to assemble the actual piece. I'm really quite happy with the results but I think I'm going to make some necklaces that are just a simple chain with one candy bead as a pendant for the Holly Mart.

I'm going to being demonstrating cold connecting at the Fall into the Arts art walk this Friday from 5-9 at the Kellogg Foundation with some of the other instructors. I'm really thrilled to be involved with the Art Center of Battle Creek. It has been one of the things keeping me going as far as knowing I did the right thing going to art school. Knowing grad. school can't happen for quite some time, I feel fortunate to have the center as a resource.  I am teaching a cold connections jewelry class there right now and am really enjoying myself. It is the first opporunity I have had to be able to teach any metal working class there and am so lucky to have a laid back excited class. I was terribly nervous going into it but everyone was so great that it quickly passed.

Next weekend is the Fiber Expo in Ann Arbor. Jill and I are sharing a booth. I am really excited to be doing a larger fiber show. I've got some shawl pins in the works and am going to be selling blank notecards with pictures of my yarn and a few of the alpacas that I visited a few weeks ago. I also am going to be making some custom orifice hooks with my candy beads. Very excited!!! just not enough time....

Even more exciting is that I am going to be able to try out the bulky flier for my spinning wheel TOMORROW!!!! hooray!! Can you tell I'm excited? That might get my mind of the Spinolution Mach wheel I've been dreaming about for at least a little while...