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Long time no Blog....

The holidays are now over and life is kinda starting to settle back in to something resembling normalcy.  There have been a bunch of changes in our lives here at 'Tempted', Bob has retired from a 32 year long career and now started another job.  Do you have any idea how much paperwork and how many phone calls go into retiring and starting new jobs?  Seriously stacks and stacks, I think we have it lined out now, well I sure hope so anyway.  

The holidays were nice but I am happy that all the craziness is over.  Speaking of the holidays I have to brag about a gift I received from Keri of 3am Enchantments.  Can you believe how beautiful these are? They are the Endpaper Mitts by Eunny Jang.  What a wonderful gift from such a great friend.  Thanks Keri!  Wish I had pictures of the goodies that I got from my Gray Ladies, Del put together an amazing gift bag together for Kaye and I, she really went crazy.  So many wonderful knitting accessories, I will have to get a picture and post it later.  Thanks girls I love it all.

I did finish the Clapotis and I love it, the length is perfect and it is so soft.  I am not a big scarf knitter but I really enjoyed this project.  Spinning the fiber was like a dream and the yarn felt wonderful in my hands.   I love the way the color changed throughout.   I wore it out last week and got a ton of compliments but the best came from the lady that owns the local liquor store.  She requested one for herself, now usually I would tell someone that I am way too busy to be doing personal knitting but this woman has been listening and encouraging me for years now.  She is not a knitter and still doesn't think I am crazy for pursuing such an unusual profession.  She thinks its great but has NO desire to start knitting, believe me I have tried to talk her into it.  Anyway I told her I would be happy to dye (hot pink and pale pink), spin and knit her a clapotis.  It is done and I am happy, I will stop by and give it to her tomorrow.  Hope she likes it.  Someone on Plurk told me it should bring me good Liquor Karma.  LOL

Ok so I have spent the last week either dyeing, re-skeining or sick in bed, in fact sick is where I am right now.  I have 2 big orders that need to be done and I am laying here coughing and whining, they will get done as soon as I can stay awake for longer then 2 hours at a time.   There is some serious whirlwind dyeing sessions in my future I think.