Nearly Easter

So, it’s nearly Easter. It’s 5:05pm, and I’m just about ready to hit the ground running and get the hell out of here. Today’s been crazy at work - crazy! - and I’m so ready to go home now. I was thinking of heading home for the nice long four day weekend, but traffic heading north from Wellington will be insane, and I don’t fancy sitting in a car all weekend long.

Instead, Steve & I are going to relax tonight, go to his sister’s for dinner on Saturday, and maybe have Ben and Tash, and Jeremy and Megumi round on Sunday to drink and eat and maybe watch a movie or play backgammon or something. Then more recovering on Monday.

Already people down on the street are scurrying off home, already it’s getting dark outside.

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I’ve changed the comments settings for this blog, as for the past few weeks I’ve been inundated with spam comments. So now, if you’d like to leave a comment you have to be registered. Sorry. It’s just been such a hassle with total randoms bombarding me with creepy blank comments.

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I’m also hoping to complete my latest spinning project: hot pink wool blended with black alpaca. It’s quite lovely. The alpaca is just so soft, I’d forgotten how wonderful it feels. I think I’ll wind up putting it in my Etsy shop.

I’ve also got my old drum carder that I think I’ll put up on Trademe soon, as well as a copy of Harvest Moon: It’s A Wonderful Life for the PS2 that I just can’t get into. It seems to take so long to get anywhere, and the game’s not really that responsive to the controller. My Game Boy Advance version played on the DS is by far more enjoyable. A pity.

Nothing much more has gone up on NZGamer after my huge wave of reviews that all came through at once. I’ve got one preview to do for Friday - Revenant Wings (FFXII) for the DS, and that’s it. Nice.

Sold my first wool

I nearly forgot to mention, I sold my first wool in my etsy shop! It’s the most recent one I put up (you may remember it from this post).

So cool!!

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Saturday stuff

Today started out pretty slowly - Steve woke up early and cooked us both breakfast (scrambled eggs and bacon on top of English muffins, with yummy curried zucchini chutney and tabasco sauce on top), then headed out to meet Alex T for a bike ride. I took some photos this morning, of my latest yarn, and put it up at my new shop. Yeah, I’ve got a shop! I didn’t want to mention it earlier as I only had a few things posted, but now I feel that I have enough there to actually point people to it. I haven’t sold anything yet, but I’m of the opinion that if your stuff is of reasonable quality (and I do think it’s good) then you shouldn’t have too many difficulties in the long run.

I love the yarns I have posted; I’d keep them all myself, but there is something really fun about going through the steps of selling something you’ve made. Taking photos, figuring out length, wraps per inch, writing an interesting description, then posting it all up on etsy.

Here’s what I put up today:

I also spent a little bit of time on Photoshop, playing around with creating a little logo. I know Photoshop’s really old hat for most people, but I’m really only starting to discover it now. I guess I never had a use for it before (or never thought I did), while now I want to try out things like creating a banner for my shop, and all of a sudden I’m messing around with layers, backgrounds, fonts, etc. etc.

Here’s the logo I finally came up with. (Let me know what you think.)

I think it’s pretty damn cool.

I then spent the rest of the morning carding some of Galadriel’s fleece in my drum carder (that I bought cheap off Trademe). It’s so fine and black - it’s gorgeous. But hard to get out some of the bits of grass and things that have gathered in there too. The carding seems to get out a lot, but because the fleece is so fine, it makes picking stuff out nearly impossible. I did about five or six batts in all (takes quite a few layers passed through the drum carder to make those though, the teeth are quite short) and then got a sore back from leaning over it all.

Anyway, we’re off to Alex’s for dinner now. No doubt we’ll be talking about Vietnam (his brother works for the embassy there and Alex went over earlier in the year)… should be good. I should go get changed though, I’m covered in fluff and fleece… (fluff from the massive cleaning frenzy we both got into later this afternoon.)