For the first time in eight years I can have a bath again without having to wait till we go on vacation where there is a hotel with a tub. When we moved into this house the bathroom had a lovely shower but no tub... I've never been a linger-in-the-tub kind of person but after eight years I can safely say that having the option would have been nice. I do occasionally like to stretch out in a tub and have a nice bath with bath salts. Very soothing..... and now I can. I can't wait....Yesterday, TCH came by and hooked up the tub and all the unfinished plumbing that Teapot didn't know how to finish or was too nervous to do. And what's even better is that he'll come in October and finish all the other stuff (like that paneling off to the right of the tub in the above picture) that Teapot doesn't have time to finish. I'm so excited that by Christmas I will finally be able to finish the floors and walls and electrical and finally have the renovation on the inside of our house finished! Oh happy day! Next year there will only be the stonework on the outside of the addition to finish and that will be mine and Teapot's work for the summer. Oh how nice it will be to have it all done. I can't wait for this either.
I have been working hard at another question for the level 3 homework. I have been braiding on my Marudai
a distaff out of cabled yarn.
This was a question that I started way back in the winter and never completed. I had cabled some lovely silk hankies and then woven, on my little 4x6 Weavette, two pieces for the side of a distaff bag. And then I wove, on the round, (that means weaving on a paper plate or plastic margarine container lid), the bottom for the bag, and sewed the whole thing together.... it still needed a handle and it needed some dangley bits to wrap your fibre around, but then I didn't get around to finishing it and so it sat all winter waiting to be finished. Yesterday I made the dangley bits and now I'm braiding the handle. It is going to look awesome. With the outerwear question done, (this is the knitted sample).....
and this distaff question nearing completion, I am beginning to feel good about my progress again. I am hoping to finish the distaff bag question today. And this is something else that I can't wait about.....We have found a new home for two of our sheep... I was telling a friend about the dreadful issues I was having finding hay and how far I was going to have to haul hay from, and that's when she dropped the bomb and said she would like to have sheep to eat some of the brushy stuff that she and her husband have been trying for year after year to get rid of..... well of course I jumped on that like you wouldn't believe. So she is going to come by and have a look and pick out a couple of sheep for their farm.... I feel a whole lot better knowing that those sheep will be on another farm somewhere and not butchered in the freezer. There is a slight issue with cougars and coyotes and wolves and stuff but they plan on building a wee barn for the sheep to go into in the night time and that should be good. So I will be really glad to have that little bit of peace of mind which means, that once again.... yup you guessed it.... I can't wait.
Hmmmm.... what is that I'm sitting on..... oh lookee..... a ball of cotton yarn.... that I spun back in the winter.... (it was jammed down between the cushion and the arm of the chair I am sitting in)..... Wow, I did a really good job spinning that cotton..... hmmm.... did I really spin that.... gee if that was me.... I did a pretty darn good job....
naaah, it has to be commercial yarn..... yeah.... hmmmmmm..... maybe I had better go and check it against the one cone of commercial cotton I own.... well, it might have been me.....right.... I can't wait. I've got to go and figure this one out....Just remember... it's all about now!
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