birthday week: indian food + spinning

thursday december 8

food: indian buffet

got take out from a really good indian buffet called karma, right next to where i ate the other day - han dynasty. the buffet was $10 and i loaded as much as i could in my container, had left overs for today. soooo good, very pleased :)

craft: spinning!

after loosing my drop spindle for two years my boyfriend gave me a new bottom whorl drop spindle for my birthday (ain't he the best? :) happily, i spent most of the night spinning skeins of roving that i had lying around for a number of years and glad to get back to them finally. i plan on doing a post of how to spin soon!

such a beautiful dye job. i bought this from a seller on etsy years ago and sadly can't remember them. oh well, isn't it lovely though?! it reminds me of a peacock.

also i wanted to share this really cool website/blog about iceland, it's called every single place in iceland. they do posts on somewhere in iceland each day, whether its a major area or the small lake in reykjavik. amazing photography and cute posts. i have to say, iceland is doing a teriffic job with tourism advertising this year. it goes to show the importance of social media these days... i only wish i knew about this blog before i went! check it out!

(from the blog, which is brand-spanking new... this is tjornin, the small lake in the center of reykjavik. there really are soo many birds there, it's insane but cool)

i spent my saturday surrounded by sheep

so i spent the day in west friendship, md on so far the hottest day of the year. luckily i wore shorts this time, which was a miracle itself. once again, there was lots of sheep that were bleeting like crazy, i'm sure they were dying under all that wool. last year i bought my weight in wool and still have most of it left over, so this time i decided to only get a few things. i purchased two books, A Perfect Red and Women's Work, The First 20,000 Years. i started reading The Perfect Red and its really interesting so far, it discusses the importance and meanings of red and red dye throughout history. i guess i have a big interest in dyeing right now because my research project for woven tech is natural dyeing and spinning. i also bought a bunch of antique copper stamps that include images of a plate of steak, a nurse helping a girl with polio walk, a guy sick in bed, an old time chevy (don't know the make of it), and a woman with a stain on her dress with the words "let us clean it for you!" i also bought two antique prints of the "long arm'd monkey" and a print of about 30 or 50 animals on it from the 1800s entitled "mammalia." so far i think i enjoyed this year's sheep festival more, not only because i had a companion this time, but because i laid in the shade under a tree for an hour listening to music and feel asleep. looking forward to next year's sheep and wool festival, who knows maybe next time i'll buy a spinning wheel and nap for two hours instead.