I spy with my little eye, something 'adorable'

Do you see anything unusual about this photo above?  I was talking to a friend of mine coming out the the Wool Shop and she looked up and said  " look at the shape on your tree".  Last year the tree was growing over the new entrance to the Wool Shop and it's branches were cut back.


Look closer.........

the branches cut off on the tree,  it is in the shape of a Heart!!!    I had to share this one.  Ahh  Signs of Spring, I won't show you the snow still on the ground from yesterdays late spring snow showers.

Dying for Winter to Leave

Some new colors dyed this week,  technique: painted and rolled in tinfoil to bake.

 

To add to the fun I had Libby (my dog) Cooper (mom's dog) and Luke (foster dog) running around in the dye kitchen with me, Luke was only with me a week but he did leave a special place in my heart. Luke loved to cuddle in bed and on the couch unlike my little independent Libby.
 

Luke supervised the color planning of the next Loon pattern, above are two different version of the same pattern that Nancy and Grace are hooking away on.

The Last Post

This final post standing in the garage project, as of today I'm garage-less.  I have to decide now if I'm going to just get a small mini-barn or re-build a garage, either way it will not be as larger as the last one 28 X 30 taking up the whole yard. 
It will take several months before the snow is gone and I can even landscape the backyard so I'll worry about that later. 

My little orphan Annie has a potential adoptee family coming to see her tomorrow, hoping for success as the longer she is here the more attach I get but Libby is awaiting her departure.  Libby prefers life being the Pack Leader of the house. 

I Promise, I Promise

I just made a promise to myself to start posting more,  I'm not sure what the problem is?  there is always sometime going on around here.  I even have my HomePage as the Blog Page just to remind me, "hey you better get posting"

I just brought home an 8 week old puppy from the shelter for foster care,  the garage is being demolished today. O ya, and I do work all week so the stories that I could tell but are probably not for public consumption.   And there are always new colors of wool being dyed.

Anyway hope you enjoy the photos of my new little foster girl, the Shelter is just packed with unwanted dogs and there is a storm coming tomorrow AGAIN so she would probably just be sitting in an old cage for 2 days.  She's a smart little thing she is almost housetrained as long as you are in puppy mode and let her out often and don't free feed.  Last night was her first night with no littermate as the shelter scooped her up from an on-line buy, sell, & giveaway swap shop as a "free puppy".  She has no name yet if there are any thoughts from my followers. 

Updated Photo of the Garage , front and half the side are down now. :-( 

Something OLD and Something New & Libby

In reversed order, something new, into the dye pot on a Friday night,  O what a life. 

Love a piece of Purple Rain wool nice deep dark purple which is now dripping dyed in the side room.

Now to the interesting part of my day,

My garage roof collapsed last night, I awoke to a terrible sounds of cracking wood and falling snow.  Poor old Betsy could not take the huge snow load from our last storm.  Photo above: is from my bedroom window view and Photo below:  front on view. All is not lost as I have insurance and no one was hurt in this disaster.   God is always looking down on me and protecting me.  Have a Great Weekend everyone.

And as always by my side - My Sweet & Loveable Libby waiting till the next game of catch.

Light the Way and Dye Yarn

New lighting at the Rug Studio this weekend.  The first photo: the four-way light fixture had two broken light bulbs right out of the box back to Home Depot this weekend to replace them. Now I'm only one light fixture short in the whole area.  Finally a little more progress. Steps are still on the un-done list. 

I've recently starting to dye yarn as a new product in the shop.  I met another rug hooker that hooks with yarn myself personally I had never dyed yarn nor hooked with yarn other than a small blotch here and there for some reason.  The lady in the photo is Mary who started to hook with yarn a few years back and now always hooks with yarn.  Mary came into the shop one day and said " Do you sell yarn?"  I had some yarn for whipping but it had not occurred to me to custom dye yarn,  I said' No, but I Can"  So we picked a few custom colors in the 6-value swatches and the rest is history.

Fishy Situation

I may never eat fish again.  Off to the local grocery store today in a storm just to get out of the house - little shack wacky -   I'm shopping around for some deals and I see this Haddock markdown down 30% off,  I thought ummm on sale as it is due today but I'm going home to fry this delicacy and treat myself.  When I got back to the truck Libby was smelling the groceries and I thought Libby is all excite to have some fresh fish tonight also.

I few hours after being home I grabbed the fish out of the fridge and cut the packaging open, OMG the smell is still in my nose!!! the odor was more than I could stand, I quickly re-packaged the fish, put it back in the fridge to stop the smell from circulating around my kitchen.  I can't believe a store would sell Old Smelly Fish.

I have since returned the fish to the store for a refund, but not sure if eating fish any time soon is in my future.

Santa is gone for another Year

Libby and I had another wonderful Christmas together, she was a good sport and wore her Santa Suit Christmas Eve.   

My little sheep is hooked and stitched, this was my first try and I really struggled with sewing the pattern inside-out on Scottish Burlap (my mother's favorite) If and when I do another sheep I will do two things different:  I will be putting the pattern on Rug Warp and make the pattern just a bit larger.  

BTW -  I think I forgot some one's rug warp for the third or fourth time.  t