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Congratulations! You've managed to find my little corner of the blogosphere, despite the size of the internet and the weirdness of algorithms. You may have your cookie now that you've found the dark side. ;-)

I have been toying with the idea of blogging or vlogging/podcasting about my crafting for a while now. But we should all thank my good friend Lisa for being so enthusiastic about my idea when I shared it with her recently that I found the confidence to give it the ole' college try. (If it turns out it was a bad idea don't tell Lisa. She's too beautiful a person to disappoint.)

Reasons why this is still likely a good idea:

I craft, A LOT. It is mostly fiber related at the moment, because that's what works for our living situation and my work/travel schedule. Therefore, most of what you'll likely be hearing from me is fiber related. However, I do sew/needle point/design/macrame/ceramics/pottery/paint/woodwork/you get the picture.

I write, and I am finding that I write increasingly about my crafting. To spare the other writing project I work on regularly from being overrun with crafting posts, I decided I'd set myself up over here with a crafting blog.
I want more geeky/nerdy crafting-loving friends! I'm a parent as well as a crafter and an activist and I have a day job, which means that a lot of my crafting is done solo because my schedule only allows for so much out-of-the-house-socialising time just now. COME BE MY FRIEND!
Also, I'm weird and I need a place to let loose the weird snarkiness that is me.

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Here, hold my beer...for the sake of fibre

I hate spiders Last night I woke up with a start. I thought at first it was because I had fallen asleep with an audiobook running and it had come to a, rather loud, theatrical skirmish. I blearily turned off the book and rolled over onto my back, only to stare straight up at a gigantic huntsman above my head. Let me take a moment to remind you lovely readers that I live in Australia, and in Australia spiders range from microscopic to the size of your face. I'm aware that generally the poison level is inversely proportional to the size of the spider, but that doesn't stop me finding a spider big enough to smother me in my sleep terrifying. Also, I did not grow up here, so I inherently have a -5 resistance to local spiders. Since moving to Australia, I've tried to sort things with the spiders myself. I have tried to reason with them; applying to their sympathies by pointing out that I, too, spin and therefore we should be able to live amicably in respectful cohabitation

Wins and Super(wash) Fails, Plastic Free July edition

Well that was embarrassing! I woke up this morning and checked up on the blog. (Don’t judge me, everyone with a blog/podcast/publication of any sort does this, just ask Neil Gaiman.) Turns out at some point when I was uploading yesterday’s post I managed to tell Blogger to take EVERYTHING down from last month, save for my introduction...Doh! I’ve managed to fix it, and luckily without having to rewrite anything or muck up the blog stats. ( I confess stats aren’t as fun as writing the blog, but I do love seeing where people visiting are from - hey Peru!) If you were here for yesterday’s post go check out the archives, they are entertaining and right now there are only about 10 posts to catch up on! In other news, yesterday evening was a pretty nice time. Youngling managed to demonstrate much responsible-ness by phoning me at two different times, before I got to the point of panicking, that she was needing extra time to finish a school project with her group. The second ti

The Knitter vs Monday

Sometime last year Liebling and I were jokingly tossing around ideas for what one would need to make an epic fantasy story with yarn and knitting as a central feature of that world. It was one hell of an awesome several of hours of world building, let me tell you. Out of that evening, along with an even stronger desire to knit my geekboy all the amazing geeky things I can get my hands on, I got some major inspiration to try writing some short stories about yarn and fibre in a more fictional setting. I mean, what if you could have something like The Dresden Files, but with YARN? I think that sounds pretty damn cool and I'd buy it. I dabbled and dabbled and knitted and dabbled and eventually came up with a collection of stories about The Knitter. Here is one of these short stories. This is my first try at fictional writing since...erm...high school, so please bear that in mind when you read it. Also, if you like it, let me know and I'll share more. ;-) The Knitter vs Mon

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