Blueball Mountain Spindle & Needleworks......1.0

Not being a techie literate person, I dread going into codes and languages that are not Roman based.  So I took Sister Diane's Blog Tune Up Workshop ( http://www.craftypod.com/2010/01/06/its-coming-the-next-craft-blog-tune-up-class/ )to get a little hand holding while I revamped the old blog.  Remember that was one of my major goals for the Year and part of my Craft or Bust Pledge too.  I think I've burned my retinas out by looking at a gazillion blogs, websites and tutorials but I was gently led through the process by the incredible group also in the class.  Being the careful (read obsessive) person that I am, I've changed things so many times that I missed the deadline.  I'm one day late but here at last is the new header...for now.  There are still halfa gazillion tweeks left to do on it but I thought I would aire out to the public.  Another great concept from Sister Di is The Power of 1.0.  This will be revised. But for now....it's out there. I would love opinions and ideas!  Share!

 

A little yarn candy....we all need it, right?

Ravelympics - Craft or Bust

 

This week I was able to keep my pledge to Craft or Bust: I started a new yarn with the help of this wonderful COLORBombIts Kit custom made by the ever colorful Ms Velma.  Now I am also a COLORBOMBer in the Ravelympics, an annual fun event on Ravelry.  My challenge is to spin a fabulous yarn from all these gorgeous goodies combined with my own hand dyed cormo and firestar roving. Yesterday, I spun a thick and thin single with the cormo roving.  Another single will be made with the goodies wrapped and coiled around it.  These will then be plied to create a bulky yarn that will be knit up into a thick cowl  during the Olympics.  Fun!   

This week's farm picture:

 

The Elaine, Aurora and Meriwether looking for breakfast after a night of snow.  "Good thing we have these wooly coats on Mom and what's keeping you? "

What was your week like? 

The DoneIt List--An Alternative for the Person Who Hates ToDo Lists

I've started making lists again.  For a good while now I've avoided the kind of life where lists are necessary.  My past experience with lists has been that they are usually about have to's and obligations.  When I gave up the outside work, the career, I stopped making lists because I had no one to answer to anymore.  That was the way I wanted it.  Just free wheel through life doing what presented itself in the moment.  Interestingly, my list-less life has now lead me to where lists have again become the framework for what I do and the outline of what has been accomplished.  The dreaded ToDo list has morphed into the DoneIt list.  It's satisfying.  Clears my mind and readies it for the What is to Come list. And it doesn't have to be composed every day.  Here's my DoneIt list for the last two weeks or so: