Category Archives: A Little of Everything

Rabbit Condo and Toe Grabbing

I have many things to be thankful for this Thanksgiving weekend. Barry was tired of having my rabbits in the garage, so he built them a two story condo with a built in fort. They are now winterized, even though Lizzie still wasn’t smart enough to take shelter in the rain.

Here’s what else is new in no particular order:

  • Logan was 18 lbs. and 27 inches at his 4 month check-up last week
  • Logan figured out how to grab his toes. He has to roll on his side to do it, and then they have a conversation complete with slobbery raspberries.
  • Jonah was a super roller skater at the ward skating party tonight. He went around the rink with Dad the whole time.
  • Brenna–well, not so good. She was pretty upset that other kids were better than her.
  • Thanksgiving dinner was good. We had it here with our friends the Cromwell’s and some new neighbors that are kidless. Barry did the slimy stuff this year. I liked that.
  • I made a pumpkin pie sweetened with fruit juice concentrate that was actually really good.
  • Um…I sold another spindle kit.

    • So, not super exciting, but good for me. It is really cold and rainy. It’s winter in Ohio. The sun will come out…

    in May.

    I’ve sold some things!!

    One niddy-noddy and one spindle kit have sold since Monday. That’s pretty fun :)

    On another note…After my excursion into teddy bear making I’ve been dreaming about making more toys. Wouldn’t a little bunny knit out of my hand spun angora yarn be fabulous? Well, as I’ve been sitting here nursing my fussy baby I came across this inspiration. I’ve been dreaming of bunnies and bears and handmade dolls.

    Hmmmm…..

    Do I need something else to do?

    Here’s what I did today

    P1010<!-- 011.jpg

    I sold spindles and niddy-noddies at the Handspun-Handwoven show in Yellow Springs put on by the Miami Valley Weaver’s Guild. I had fun. Barry kept the kids all day and Logan even took a bottle.

    What’s a niddy-noddy you say? This is a niddy-noddy:

    P1010009.jpg

    It’s a tool a spinner uses to measure yarn (on this niddy-noddy one full wrap equals 1 yard of yarn) and turn it into a nice neat skein.

    You could also use one of my niddy-noddies as a nostepinne–a Norwegian tool for winding a center-pull ball:

    P1010008.jpg

    I just had a little card table booth. My spindles looked so pretty in their stand with their wool and books and packaging:

    P1010007.jpg

    On Monday I’ll start putting what I have left up for sale on eBay.

    Stay tuned…

    WELCOME SPINNERS!!

    I think there will be a few people visiting here that I met at the Handspun-Handwoven show in Yellow Springs today. I will be posting pictures of spindles and niddy-noddy-nostepinnes shortly and I’ll link to their auctions on eBay. That’ll probably be on Monday the 22nd.

    In the mean time, I realized there is no way to contact me up here, so here’s an e-mail address:

    jessica (at) seedpodbooksandart (dot) com

    (You can figure that out–I’m avoiding the evil spam-bots.)

    I had a fun time. Those of you who bought spindles, e-mail me with updates on your spinning adventures!!