Etsy-fied

I now have an etsy account! It took me long enough, but I finally got there... http://www.etsy.com/shop/LadyCatEars

Go check it out and let me know what you think!!! I wonder how I can best market my site. Hmmm... I need more viewers!

Hair Falls

I am so bad at this whole blogging thing. I never really know what to say and I'm just awful at updating posts. I love reading other peoples' blogs, but writing my own is tough. Anyways, I did make a new item that I am going to have to make several more of now because it was so much fun and turned out super cute. Plus it will be a good way to use some of my yarn stash! I made some cute yarn "dread" falls. I will be donning this set as part of my fire dance costume, so that will be lots of fun! Anyways, let me know what you think of them. Thank you!

Time to start planning the garden

I am trying to decide what I should put in the vegetable garden this year. I know I will put in corn, zucchini, spaghetti squash and tomatoes. I'm thinking about onions and garlic, since we use those a lot, too. I would also like some snap peas. Hmmm... Any suggestions?

Hooked on Ravelry

I was recently told about a website called ravelry.com and that was maybe the worst thing anyone could have told me about. LoL. I am completely hooked on it. I spend hours at the computer looking at different patterns and drooling over other peoples yarns and just getting overall ideas for my upcoming projects. Most of my craft stuff is still in boxes since we moved, but I am slowly working towards them (They were brought over first, and stuff got stacked on them or in front of them).

Anyways, if you are looking for great patterns check it out, many of them are free and some of them are pretty inexpensive.

Ah, finished moving

We were able to get all of the alpacas safely transported and the rest of our stuff packed into 2 vans and a car (we've slowly been moving stuff over the past couple of weeks). On the drive over at around 8:30pm one of our vans decided to break. Really break. We were in the middle of the road, with no shoulder and no cell phone service. Luckily we were caravanning, so one car drove close enough to town to get cell service and call a tow company while the other 2 vehicles stayed in the road with hazard lights on.

I found out that people in this town are so caring and awesome, out of about 7 or 8 cars passing us about 5 of them stopped and made sure that we were okay and had help coming!

We were able to get the van towed for free through AAA and we all made it home safe and sound by 10:30pm.

In other news: I plan to start up an etsy store and get to selling on there. I have a bunch of unsold crafts stored up from the last craft fair that I went to and I figure that will be a perfect start. As soon as I am up and running I will post the link on here! I am also planning to do more spinning (since I have 14 bags of alpaca fiber to get to) and I've decided to hand card some of my stuff. Takes a lot longer than a drum carder, but I just can't afford one right now.

Now it's time to be off to bed! Goodnight.

It's moving time, again...

This weekend we are moving back to my sis-in-law and bro-in-law's house. Tim had his hours cut after the holidays, so he's down to working less than 20 hours a week, and I only have 4 hours a week doing caregiving right now, so we couldn't afford rent anymore.

I'm hoping that we can get the alpacas moved smoothly tomorrow. Right now I am not exactly sure how things are going to go... If it comes to it, I may end up moving them 1 or 2 at a time in the back of my mini-van. That could be interesting. I've moved 1 in it before and it wasn't too hard, so it's an option. If I do, I will most definitely take some photos to show on here.

By moving back in with family, this means we will have internet access again, yay! It drove me nuts not having internet at our house. Plus we will have cell phone service, since it is closer to town! (Our cell never worked out at the alpaca ranch).

In a couple weeks, after we have a little bit of money again, I am going to buy a little bit of pretty rovings to spin. I so wish that I had a working carder right now, so that I could card up some of Zachary's fleece to spin. Ah well. Maybe later this year.

Tiredness

This past week has been full of drama and pain and sickness. I got really sick with one of those 12 hour bugs and it was really icky and gross. Then, my period kept getting worse and worse, it went on for over 2 weeks and most of it very heavy. Finally I was so weak and felt like I was dying, so I decided to go in to the emergency room. It turns out that my body was trying to bleed to death. They gave me a blood transfusion with 2 units of blood, then they gave me pills to help stop the bleeding. They took good care of me in the hospital and were able to help me regain some of my strength and feel a bit better. Then the doctor came in and we talked about regulating me. She has put me on a birth control pill for the next few months to help regulate my period, she wants me to take iron supplements 3 times a day (I am very anemic) and she wants me to go on a no carb diet for the next 3 weeks, plus after that I am supposed to be on a VERY limited carb diet. I am not so excited about all of this, but if it will help I will give it a shot. We shall see how everything turns out.