Halibut Point

Nate has had the week off. So happy!

We've been doing a little of this and a little of that, just enjoying life.

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I have a whole pile of dyed scarves that are patiently awaiting me sewing tags on, photographing and listing. Not to mention some screen prints. But the scarves are a delicious assortment of color. I am also slipping into being drawn towards darker, earthier fall tones. I have collected a bunch of acorns and am planning on doing some dyeing with them...

Have you ever dyed with acorns?

Feel free to share any tips!!!

I will keep you posted on how my experimenting goes, as always.

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Oh! Little Owl finally has its own domain!

www.littleowlarts.com

It is official! Lemme know what'ya think!

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And I have finally listed this and this and these in the shop.

Better late than never, right?

Have a happy evening, all!

Feelin' kinda rambly...

It is so gross and raw and wet here today. There is supposedly a chance of snow later (which I would be more pleased about, yet doubt, being on the coast, we will get). I had a hard time focusing this morning, I was so tired from staying up until almost 3 am which I never do.

I am kind of grannyish when it comes to sleep, I like to go to bed at a reasonable time because I don't like to sleep in and I prefer to get up fairly early. Actually, I have a really hard time sleeping in...

Ok, anyway, I went bowling with a bunch of friends, which we tend to do fairly regularly on wednesday nights. It's super awesome, glow bowling, with the flashy lights and black lights and everything. Yeah, it's that kind of bowling. So it goes until midnight and then we hung out for a bit afterward which was nice, but then I didn't get home until really late...

I did get a bunch of felting done, but now I need to find a model so I can photograph at least a few of the new pieces before they sell. I have also been working on knitting a new pair of fingerless mittens, that's kind of exciting (and distracting when I should be doing other things). I think I have too many things going on in my head today, focusing is really difficult.

Obviously I am a bit rambley today, I'm allowed that right?!!?

These photos are of my little walk the other day (sans icky cold rain) in Halibut Point. I think it is a state park, or maybe it's a reservation? Whatever, I can't remember. But it sure was lovely out that day. I love how blue the water (both ocean and quarry) and sky is, plus the browns and greys of the granite and the fire reds, golds and oranges that are in the low bush leading down to the water. There were also some really beautiful, fluffy clouds dotting the skyline. It was a happy kind of day...

Halibut Point is in rockport, which is the town next to where I live. I live on what I guess is basically a peninsula (although we refer to it as the Island) and Rockport is basically at the end. So you are able to find a spot and just look out over the ocean with no end in sight.

Kinda cool.

Well, I am off to tend to the wood stove, put Posey Bird to sleep and then try and hunt down some chocolate. I am hoping I can find a hidden stash or something.

Hope you are all cozy and warm.

One last thing I would like to share with you tonight (found via Jillian's twitter feed):

We must bring our own light to the darkness.

[Bukowski]

Night all.

Some Details of Today

Today I worked a little on orders and helped Andy load and transport the wood that he harvested from the woods (which really means he did most of the work!).

But the best thing about today was the fact that I finally got to "meet" Danielle and Flojo from Dinosaur Toes!!!

(Poesy was in nap mode, so she only made a brief appearance to meet them!)

I was so excited and a little nervous when we actually set a time to have an ichat date.

I get nervous on phones and had never used ichat before.

But it was fun and easy and really cool seeing as I live up here in New England and Danielle lives in Virginia!

You know how before you meet someone that you know a little bit about you create a persona in your head?

Well, she was just as nice as I had imagined!

By the time we "hung up" I realized that we had been talking for almost 2 hours and probably could have gone on much longer if my stomach would have behaved itself!

Flojo even danced a little and was chattering and cuddling with her while we were talking,

She is so cute!!!

Anyway, I can't wait to have another ichat date!

Now I am just relaxing on the futon in front of the woodstove trying not to get too sucked into the internet (HA!) and thinking about what projects need to be worked on.

Oh, and I heard that we may get snow this weekend!!!

Wouldn't that be grand!?!

Have you had snow where you live yet?

isn't this a funny and cute photo of Veda?

I just found it from this spring when we went with some friends to Halibut point over in Rockport!

Here are a few more:

Not quite sure what I was doing in this last photo, maybe I was soaking up the sun before it set (?)