A Great Weekend

Sometimes you just need a fiber fix. Whether it is reviewing your stash, breezing through the fluff at a craft store, visiting a yarn shop, or best yet - a fiber festival! This past weekend I got to attend SAFONA's 4th Annual Fiber Festival in New Holland, PA. Although it is small (held in a fire company building), it does not lack for fluff.

And so as winter looms nearer & most chances of getting such a fiber fix are slim pickings, SAFONA saved the day! Although it was cool but sunny outside, there was plenty of warm selections to browse through indoors. Naturally, some great mohair and alpaca roving jumped into my arms. I'll be prepared when the snow blows (oh, yeah, we already had over ten inches of that powdery white stuff before Halloween -- thanks, Mother Nature.)
After the fiber festival, we ventured toward Lancaster but stopped in Intercourse and wandered around the Kitchen Kettle Village area. Wow, would you believe it? A Yarn shop! Well, of course we had to go in. There, as I made my purchase, I mentioned my article in the Knitscene magazine.... one thing led to another...
I had my first autograph request and photo-op!

This is me with Wendy of Lancaster Yarn Shop. What a busy weekend! Thank you Wendy for my moment of fame.
Well, gotta go - cookies are ready.
See you soon,
Kat

I'm Back...

Wow, dinner sure did take a long time to prepare...
I really meant to come back to blogging, but as with all new habits, it takes time and repetition. So what is my story of my long absence? Simply put: LIFE.
It is not as though I didn't think about things that I wanted to say, but somehow thinking and being near a keyboard at the same time didn't seem to happen. But now, after nine months, I have returned. Birthdays and funerals sort of put a new perspective on how you view life. Experienced both of those last week.
On that note, I'm going to aim a bit higher with my personal expectations. Time tends to just slip through my fingers some days. I'm hoping to change that. I'm hoping to accomplish more.
Actually, in my hiatus I really did get something done. I'm now a published author. I have a short blurb in the Nov/Dec Piecework about the history of MIWW and I have an article about angora bunnies in the winter issue of Knitscene. Currently I am working on a few other writing projects (besides this blog).
I have also been doing a lot more spinning and knitting. So let's just keep going, one stitch at a time.
See you soon (I hope!)
Kat

Here We Go

Putting pen to paper or rather fingers to keyboard in order to begin a task can be difficult. As my attention is constantly being drawn to the birds at the feeder, I find myself feeling very much in the same position of Chevy Chase in his role as Andy Farmer in the 1988 movie Funny Farm. Here he has the chance to start his great novel and all he can do is stare at the blank page in his typewriter! Suddenly everything becomes more interesting....

Yep, I 'm going to start a blog.... yep, here I go....

So why do I even want to start writing? Who would want to even read what I write about? OK, now I'm beginning to sound like Julia in the 2009 movie Julie & Julia.

Since we are on the topic of movies, tomorrow marks the date of one of my favorite films: Groundhog Day. "Rise and shine woodchuck chuckers and don't forget your booties 'cause its cold out there..."
Speaking of cold, here in our little town in Pennsylvania, the temperature outside is 22.5. Now I know in the grand scheme of things that that isn't very cold, but with the expected precipitation on the way, I'm not looking forward to the potential ice/snow covering. Batteries are charging, while candles and oil lamps are at the ready --- just in case this storm brings a loss of power. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that we stay in the 21st century.

When I stop and think about it, I've been blogging well before there was the internet. Nobody read what I wrote though --- that would be my diary. So let's try the electronic sort of diary for a change.

Let's begin with a little bit about me.
"Chapter 1 --- I was born"(thanks Mr. Dickens and Melanie Wilkes from GWTW for that quote)
OK,  so I won't go back that far...
So here I am married almost 23 years (that will be on the 20th of this month) with two fantastic daughters (I knew they would like that adjective) trying to figure out what I want to do when I grow up. I began my career as an Occupational Therapist. But after our daughter was born, we reasoned that if financially we could manage, then I would stay at home --- at least until school started. Then little sister came along and soon after I embarked on my second career as Homeschool Mom. Well, now that both girls have graduated and are enrolled in college, I find myself looking upon new career options...

Since I still hold the forever title of Mom, I need to cease my self-indulgence of blogging at this time and get some dinner going. So this is all I plan on writing for my first entry.
Ta-ta for now...