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  • I just want to bang on my drum all day

    Bj and I have been humming that song lately, "I don’t want to work, I just want to bang on my drum all day." Only instead of "bang on my drum" I want to knit, scrapbook, and spin yarn. Shocking I know. 🙂 I love Ribbon Jar, but lately I have been wanted to craft, craft, craft. Remember how I said I bought some yarn up in Bellevue? Well some of it was the old Tahki Cotton Classic that Mason Dixon made famous.
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    I had some before when I had a bad case of

    I need to get some other colors, and I have a credit at a yarn shop in Portland that sells it. I think I bought all that orangish color because I was going to do something for V, but I can’t remember now so I’ve put it in the blanket stash.  Hopefully I’ll feel the urge to do something else soon, but until then, happy knitting!

    Oh and P.S. if you love knitting, stash collecting, and general yarn fun make sure you check out Ravelry. It isn’t fully ready yet, but I am on the waiting list. Still have over 10 thousand people ahead of me in line. But thought I’d clue you in so when I do get in maybe you won’t be far behind!

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  • This and That

    I’ve mostly been working Ribbon Jar, but I did sneak up to Seattle with Bj for a few nights. Carmen was in town for work so I couldn’t pass up the chance to see her "down south" hehehe. Anyway just wanted to catch you up on my projects:
    Wall

    It’s just the way it is framed up before the concrete is poured that I like, using narrow and more porous wood. And  I like that it’s painted  red. Our little porch is now and I think we want to stick with that. I also check out Paper Source (lord help me that store is fantastic but over priced), and Hill Top Yarns (oh I guess Hill Top Yarns east on eigth). Yummy! I got the softest lace weight stuff ever made I think. And a bunch of other stuff I really needed. Right. Well I might be working on stuff for Etsy to utilize all the crafty goodness I have going on in the studio.  We’ll see my plate is just a touch full. 🙂 Speaking of the studio:
    Tins

    I found them, I found them! Well I should say I have them, I have them, but actually  a friend of mine, Maia found them for me. She got them for her spices and thought they were they same. Turns out they are – exactly! I thought I was ordering the right thing the first time, but those didn’t actually have see through lids (don’t they look like they do?) but these from Specialty Bottle do and they stick to magnets! Since I just guessed on how many I’d need I"m three short from a perfect pattern of them on my wall, boo hoo. But still I’m very excited. They actually came last week but I had to wait for my super strong, be careful they might kill you magnets from Forcefield (on eBay). I forget how I stumbled across these guys, but they are crazy into magnets. They use them for power and everything. So if you need strong magnets go there, but be warned I got a bigger size than last time because they were out of the tiny ones. And at just 1/2 inch by 1/8 inch they are almost too strong for me to get apart when they get stuck to each other.  I don’t know if you could glue them to anything either, because I’m betting the magnet would stay on the fridge or whatever, and the thing you glued to it would be pulled off. They are that crazy strong.

    Meanwhile I still search for the fan….

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  • Jar Love

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    This is what I did All. Weekend. Long. And I roped Bj into Ribbon Jar stuff. The jars rock if you ask me, I’m just about to release them here. But also we (Bj) revamped the ideas page, and added a much asked for gallery of past jars. The only problem is that now people want to order the sold out jars. I added a little note on the page saying they were sold out, but I’m still getting emails about it. Hmm what to do. Anyway check it out and let me know what you think. My goal is to get a lot more ideas on the ideas page, I’ve kinda let that slide.

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