tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-128599152024-03-08T02:55:53.095+00:00That Yarn StoreNo longer a yarn store, and I often don't talk about yarn. But I do bake, travel, and attack wool with a needle.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger628125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-71282038843435266282011-11-25T11:50:00.001+00:002011-11-25T11:53:39.376+00:00Black Friday/Cyber Monday Sale!Looking for a gift for that special someone on your shopping list? Think about buying handmade this Christmas.
And I'm not just *suggesting* you buy from me, there's tons of sellers on Etsy who are offering Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales. Actually, if you search Black Friday 215,072 items come up!
I'm offering Free Shipping at my shop http://etsy.com/shop/fibrous until November 30th!
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-42239014809084304422011-04-23T18:15:00.002+01:002011-04-23T18:18:54.855+01:00Easter sale!I’m having an Easter sale over in my Fibrous etsy shop. 15% off everything with the coupon code EASTER.If you've been wondering we're I've been hiding, the answer is over at my new blog, http://fibrouscreations.com!!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-55629529934048910152011-02-04T19:43:00.004+00:002011-02-04T20:06:03.169+00:00New fibrous projectThis is the last post I'll be making on this blog! (probably, maybe, I tend to change my mind about these things). But I'll continue blogging over at fibrouscreations.comYou can subscribe to my posts over there by clicking the "Posts" link on the upper right hand corner.I have a new project!It's a yarn club with UK indie dyers and designers. Eventually it will get to the point where I'll send outUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-91852675759433797102011-01-31T21:30:00.003+00:002011-01-31T21:57:09.443+00:00Weird pedicuristsYesterday J went for a pedicure.I declined to get my feet done though because the pedicurists were ugly.And they sucked.And here's a photo to prove it:Yup, they're fish. Garra Rufa fish to be exact. A place opened up in the mall right before Christmas where you can get pedicures by little fish. J asked me twice if I had gone to look at them, and I interpreted that to mean she wanted a gift Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-12787191698351553442011-01-29T22:00:00.003+00:002011-01-29T22:22:49.093+00:00And the results are...Two weeks ago I posted that I would like to sponsor a crafty project. I received two emails, both were for charitable causes. So instead of choosing one, I've gladly sponsored them both.Juliann, The Sick Chick, has received $10 for her new charity Healing Arts International. She'll be making cards to send to chronically ill adults and carers. The $10 will go for the postage for the cards.And I'veUnknownnoreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-66656881499052179182011-01-23T18:56:00.005+00:002011-01-29T22:23:12.591+00:00Impatient patron of a crafty projectSo a week and a half ago I posted I'd want to be a Patron of a Craft Project. Well, I received 1 submission.Why?I had a nice reaction on twitter, people seemed to like the idea. So what happened? Not enough money to warrant writing an email? Or do people think their craft project isn't worth being paid for? I still don't know the answer. Perhaps people just need to be reminded?...The deadline forUnknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-44155941598978201302011-01-21T21:11:00.003+00:002011-01-21T21:32:52.921+00:00Crafty Links - (tardis socks!)Ah, I love the internet. I'm also occasionally mad at the internet for reminding me that I can't try every craft project I see.Here's a few that have caught my attention lately:I can't do origami, so my head hurts just looking at the instructions for this Kawasaki-Rose but I'd still like to try. These are quilled felt hearts are very cute. I recently sat next to a quiller at a craft night, it's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-12317516880573530142011-01-16T21:41:00.006+00:002011-01-16T22:11:41.281+00:00Mid-January resolutionsI can't remember the last time I made a New Year's resolution.I normally just make resolutions throughout the year which I then promptly abandon or fail. And I don't subscribe to the idea that it's a new year and therefore there should be new changes. When I'm writing down dates I still write the old year until like 3 weeks into January.So I'm finding it rather odd that I'm giving myself two new Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-43412714861439293952011-01-13T15:36:00.004+00:002011-01-29T22:23:26.958+00:00Patron of the CraftRecently there was an interesting post about sustainability and free over on the CraftyPod blog. One of the issues she raised (and to really greatly oversimplify it), is that although non-monetary goodies (like comments on a blog) is nice and appreciated, money is also nice and appreciated.And because of that post I decided today to do something to monetarily support a member of the online Unknownnoreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-45759583528871473372011-01-12T11:57:00.004+00:002011-01-12T13:46:19.010+00:00Letter to My SweaterDear sweater,I'm sorry, but things just aren't working out between us. Yes, we had fun at first with a mini cabled neck hole, but things are different now.It's not you, it's me, really. I knew it was a bad idea to just hope the gauge would be correct by going down a needle size and not doing another swatch. I knew switching from bamboo on the gauge swatch to metal needles was foolish. But I Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-70234468855149820882011-01-01T10:41:00.007+00:002011-01-02T00:09:38.764+00:00Happy New Year! Bye Old Year.Wow, 2011!!Happy New Year!I hope you all have a wonderful (and productive) year!It's already started to look like a new city and a new year in Edinburgh.The snow that once graced the tops of buildings and covered the groundmelted last week.A few Christmas inspired things are still around, but they just don't give off the same enthusiasm as before Christmas.The German Christmas Market with the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-41580235593278214042010-12-27T18:54:00.002+00:002010-12-27T19:33:14.573+00:00Happy post-Christmas!Happy post-Christmas! I hope you had a wonderful and restful Christmas.So, now I can finally post what I made my mom for Christmas!A flying hedgehog:And magnets:Tahdah!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-91719010300515574442010-12-25T22:08:00.003+00:002010-12-25T22:15:12.589+00:00Merry Christmas!Whether you're having a Christmas full of old traditions, or a Christmas full of new ones, I hope you're having a lovely day!Merry Christmas!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-31383253018533542222010-12-20T23:13:00.001+00:002010-12-20T23:34:53.249+00:00Creating Gift Certificates for your Facebook fan pageI just made a gift certificate for my etsy shop!It's available on the Fibrous facebook page or on the right hand column of this blog. It's a paypal gift certificate, so it will be easy to use during the etsy checkout.If you run an online shop and want to make your own gift certificate there's great instructions at Handmade Spark.There's only a few things I would add to those instructions: one isUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-74954677381049114732010-12-15T22:05:00.006+00:002010-12-15T22:58:18.274+00:00How to add a Santa Hat to your avatar using photoshopIt's festive hat season! And not just any hat - it's Santa Hat time!!If you have Photoshop it's actually quite easy to make your avatar, like this one.First, find a Santa Hat. There's plenty of free clipart websites online.Open the hat image in Photoshop.Then open the other image, the one you'll be adding the hat to. I think it's easiest at this point to make both images roughly the same size by Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-88895898298898766352010-12-14T12:53:00.005+00:002010-12-14T14:33:40.688+00:00Minor HumbugAs of right now J is on an airplane, off to visit her mom for Christmas. As of right now I'm spending Christmas alone, in a foreign country, without good friends or family around.It's been less than 48 hours since she'd been out of town and I've already started eating microwave food and have had waaaaay too much chocolate and shortbread. Actually, no wonder I'm already sad. Sugar crash.This is myUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-82722861641238587412010-12-08T17:22:00.006+00:002010-12-09T20:57:12.868+00:00It's beginning to look a lot like handmadeI was going to start off this post by bragging that nearly all my presents this year are either made by me or handmade by other people... And then I bought two touristy "I Love Edinburgh" and "I Love Scotland" t-shirt... That's what I get for thinking about bragging :)Here's one of the things I bought from a fellow etsian:It's called Envy and is from Dyeingforewe (I'm just a tad bit green from Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-19883032161898667872010-12-03T23:33:00.003+00:002010-12-03T23:39:58.543+00:00How I feel when I leave the houseHave you seen A Christmas Story? The scene where Randy is getting ready to leave the house? Yup, that's how I feel.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-69526834504556841962010-11-28T21:47:00.002+00:002010-11-28T22:41:01.861+00:00It's beginning to look a lot like ChristmasIt snowed today!! (not my car, btw)It actually snowed yesterday too, but this was thick, proper snow, and at one point the backyard looked like a snow globe. A cold snow globe.The holiday carnival has been up and running since Thursday. There's a ferris wheel and other rides, a Highland Market, German Market (I hear there's awesome Christmas markets in Germany, which is why they have them over Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-62559711227619562002010-11-26T14:07:00.002+00:002010-11-26T14:15:10.643+00:00Craft Fair on Saturday!I'll be at Drummond High School, Edinburgh, this Saturday to sell my fibrous wares. So if you're in town please stop by!If you aren't in Edinburgh, as I realize the world does not revolve around this city and most people don't live here... you can buy from me online at http://fibrous.etsy.com I'm having a Black Friday - Cyber Monday sale, 10% off everything when you use the coupon code Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-24022606816771156552010-11-25T20:23:00.002+00:002010-11-25T20:52:22.258+00:00Happy Thanksgiving!Happy Thanksgiving to you all!Hope you had/are having a wonderful evening! Yes I mean you, even if you aren't American. And if aren't please have something yummy for dessert to celebrate anyway! We can all use a good dessert sometimes ...One of the many things I'm grateful for:That there are people who find me interesting enough to read my blog! So a special hellooo and thank you! Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-53684657416201841142010-11-22T15:39:00.006+00:002010-11-22T16:32:39.556+00:00Blustery Day KnittingToday was a blustery day. The sky was dark, rain skipped across the window.Not a day for rushing about. Or felting it seems. A day maybe for knitting.I've nearly gotten to the point where I should separate out the armholes from the rest of the body. About time too, because right now the knitting is too large for the circular needles.It's a bit annoying when the stitches push each other off the Unknownnoreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-70007320437674756442010-11-20T22:44:00.006+00:002010-11-20T23:27:57.227+00:00Pumpkin Cupcakes!MMMM. Cupcakes. Have I mentioned I like dessert? It's my favorite food group.These are some yummy cupcakes. Extra bonus that it's not too sweet, in fact the pumpkin almost makes this taste healthy!The recipe makes 24 cupcakes280g plain flour1 teaspoon ground cinnamon1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg1/2 teaspoon ground ginger1/2 teaspoon ground cloves1/2 teaspoon ground allspice1/2 teaspoon salt1 Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-42348645698042275382010-11-17T23:24:00.003+00:002010-11-17T23:42:48.488+00:00Mail posting datesYup, it's nearing that time of the year where we need to pay attention to Christmas posting dates, so here's the info for any of you who are buyers/sellers:For packages from the UK:Monday 6th December South & Central America, Caribbean, Africa, Middle East, Asia, Far East (including Japan), Australia and New ZealandFriday 10th December for Eastern Europe, USA and CanadaMonday 13th December Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12859915.post-11019382138456024502010-11-15T17:27:00.008+00:002010-11-15T22:56:27.082+00:00Yay electronics!Tonight at Granny Green's Big Night Out (a weekly craft group I go to) they were holding a Beginning Electronics Workshop hosted by the Edinburgh Hacklab.I can still remember a little electronic kit I had when I was a kid, and every few years I consider buying myself another one and never end up actually buying it, so I had been looking forward to this workshop all week.We each got a little kit Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0