Evil Eye

It’s a nice slow moving Saturday afternoon.  The little man kept me up much of the night, so he and Scott let me sleep in this morning.  When I finally emerged from under the covers coffee was ready, and I settled down on my much improved (although still in need of reupholstering) couch for a hot cup o’ joe and a windmill cookie.  Yum!

I picked up the windmill cookies at the local health food store (Bonne Sante in Hyde Park) after getting a much needed haircut.  I had been putting the haircut off since I didn’t know what I wanted.  Finally, I decided I just felt too shaggy and unkempt, so I asked my Mother-in-Law to come and stay with Victor while I went out.  I still didn’t know what I wanted, and was seeing a new hair-dresser.  I took a leap of faith and just gave her some guidelines, we chatted, and now I have a nice hair cut, a new hair-dresser, and I had an afternoon out without any worries, which was more relaxing than I had anticipated.  I have a great family that supports me, for which I am eternally grateful, even when I don’t take advantage of it.  I did take advantage of it this last week, and now I have a couch that no longer sags, a new super cool bookcase,

thanks to my talented Father-in-law and Scott, and a nifty new haircut thanks to my Mother-in-Law, and a little more sleep thanks to Scott.

Even on a slow Saturday afternoon, I am aware of how quickly time passes by.  Victor is already over 4 months old.  At this time last year, Scott and I were discussing how to best share the news that I was pregnant with our family.  Now we have a baby who is growing at an amazing pace, who since Thanksgiving has learned how to laugh and roll over from his stomach onto his back.  Watching him figure out… everything, it fills me with wonder.  While he naps (he’s falling asleep on my lap right now), I get little odds and ends done, like knitting, rarely blogging, frequently reading blogs, and slowly adding inventory to the new store web page.  My mind and notepad are filled with plans for new creations, and in time they will realized in wax and metal, little by little.  While Victor quickly learns new skills, I am slowly learning patience.

We are finally getting ready to unveil the new Evil Eye website, so things might get a little weird for a bit.  The new site will launch on Friday, and there will be a link to the blog on the main page.  You will not be able to use the current url for this blog as of Friday, but http://www.evil-eye-emporium.com/ will get you to the main page as always. If any of you RSS this blog (and if you do, thanks!) you might need to update it a couple of times before it settles down, but I will keep you posted.
I am busy updating inventory which was a collosal pain on my old site, but much improved now.  The look of the page may evolve as I get handier with Zencart, but it’s not too shabby.

The website is not the only thing I have been crafting, I’ve actually been spinning a little bit too, as well as knitting.  I can’t show you the knitting, gifts, you know.  But I can show you the spinning.

I dyed this corriedale at Yarn School in April:

And have spun it into these singles, which I am going to ply:

I am curious to see how it plies up.  The colors are muted, but nicer than I thought they would be when I first started spinning it up.  The corriedale is dreamy to spin, so soft and squishy.  I started spinning the single on that bobbin before Victor was born.  I don’t get much time to spin, but even a few minutes a day is nice.  I set him in his play pen where he can see me, and encourage him to play with his toys while I spin.  He almost rolled over yesterday!  Good times for both of us.

I’m looking forward  to some holiday crafting and decorating too, we’ll see how it goes.