Midnightsky Fibers Blog

whee! I was accepted to Lounge Luxe. So fun!

I just realized I am leaving for vacation the 24th- which is a Thursday. Not the Friday I thought. So I will probably have to head to my parent's house on Wednesday so my car can stay here in Seattle. Which means that I have to have my laundry done and be all packed by then, and put notices in my shop that I will be gone..and...geez. I'm tired already and it is only 2 in the afternoon.

Also, state taxes suck. Setting up the new taxes for zone rates is even suckier. Especially since my hands hurt too much to type for more than a few minutes. Ack. O yea, and if one more person asks me when I am going to go get a "real job" (their words)...well. I don't even know how to respond to it anymore! I'm taking the LSATS soon, I work, and I runa business. My business is a real job!

In less stressful news, I think the bag I ordered for my wheel has arrived! I had it sent to my parent's house so it would be at the PO there rather than going MIA in my apartment complex.

I'm sitting in a coffee shop right now, and the owner's dog is sitting in the chair across from me, enjoying the shaded deck (it's in an old house). We are in these giant wicker chairs, and he keeps peeking up over the edge of the table to see what I am doing.

Duck Duck, thick and thin white wool slub with a stripe of naturally dyed wool at the end. I spun it up with really giant knots/coils in it- many of them are over an inch across. For Fiber Friday. (available on my website)

Also, there is a handspun yarn update! Including fibers! It's mostly large lot sets- yarns with enough yardage to make decent sized projects.

(part of a beautiful batt I am spinning...yum!)

Come resurrect Fiber_Friday with me! Pretty pleas with sugar on top! The topic for tomorrow is "vintage".

...Having fun wrapping presents for friends birthdays...their 21st, if you can't tell by the wrapped bottle. Bonus for the paper being recycled post consumer content!

I am sensing a trend of the cat ending up in the picture. He is actually glaring, not just looking at me in the picture.

Fremont was totally taken over by campaigners today. Notably two groups: Save the Children and another group that was asking people what happened to their souls when they died, who's name I didn't get because I was prevented from telling them what I thought of the question by a similarly minded individual reminding me I couldn't convince them otherwise. It was a rather interesting piece of social commentary,they were absolutely going after a specific stereotype of people- middle aged womyn with a slightly aging hippy flare- and only approached others (but still not the people in business suits etc) after exhausting their other targets.

At the beginning of work today, my coworker was talking about getting out her sewing machine to sew some clothes again. In walks a woman with a pile of fabric she is giving away- "don't tell me what you do with it!" she says. Inside the box- which has a flick carder she was bringing for me, is yards and yards of this beautiful purple twill wool, matching buttons, and matching courdoroy purple fabric + lining fabric (for a skirt?). O yea, and matching thread. Enough to make a jacket. After some cinvincing, I get her to take the fabric, along with a pretty gray silk. Once upon a time she was a seamstress for a living.

Also in the box were some bits of neutra fabrics, perfect sizes for the manequins to wear as skirts, as we had a few nekkid ones left :)

What are your favorite summer foods? I have had an obsession with NOT turning on my oven or stove here lately (which sadly included much yarn dyeing) because I absolutely DETEST the heat. Which is anything over about 75. And I don't want to heat up the apartment any more than it already is.
Some of my current summer favorites- besides of course, copious amounts of iced tea and coffee:

-My favorite snack of all time is peanut butter mixed with dried milk and honey (thick enough with dried milk to roll in to balls if I am being nonlazy).
-Couscous, which only requires me to boil water.
-fried rice- with egg broken up in small pieces and peas, though I haven't been eating eggs lately at all unless they are in something I happen to be consuming. The same one lone egg has been in my fridge for...gosh! Over a month. I should probably throw it out.
-Calzones, baked when it is cooler late at night. Filled with only a bit of cheese, lots of garlic, and chopped onions + whatever else is on hand.
-Cabbage salad with ramen topping, though I never make it myself because a.) I just eat the delicious ramen topping off it and b) any cabbage salad you make gives you a huge amount of cabbage salad.
-sunflower seeds in the shell
-Biscuits and rolls premade and frozen so they can be cooked, or cooked and frozen and then and microwaved.
-Chilli with no meat of course
-Copious amounts of stawberries in lightly whipped cream, rasberries with cream poured over the top, grilled pineapple with basalmic, and enough watermelon I am trying to pickle the rinds.

-I make my pizzas with a slightly thicker crust than a thin crust pizza, but not so thick as most of the delivery places, and thinly slice the cheese instead of grating it, so I can get a more even "cheesy" coverage without much cheese. And using parmessan. I partially prebaked 4 of them a couple weeks ago, so all I have to do is pop them in the oven long enough to remelt the cheese. It is really more like bread + veggie topping as it is mostly caramelized onions and garlic (sensing a theme there?) with generous smattering of capers.

-I've had to lay off the bread making, and make flat breads and the like instead, as they can be cooked more easily on stovetop. Pita and flatbread is easy to make, and good for dipping in hummus or other bean dips (put beans, some oil, and spices in a blender). I like stuffing my flatbread with potatos and onion mixtures.

-And finally: Frozen bananas cut in to slices (either direction) and then dipped in chocolate or peanut butter or put in a blender with milk- like icecream, but better for you. I am not a huge fan of bananas, but they are SO GOOD frozen.

I had over 20 responses to the bedframe before I managed to turn it to pending pick up, and people are still emailing me hoping it is available- nope! Picked up by someone while I was at work. Called to tell me that it was much nicer than they were expecting- yay!