Ewe'n Me has moved

Hi everyone.....

Ewe'n Me has moved to a here as a new location so that I can share not only what I am busy creating but finally share photos also.

I plan to try to get all the blog posts from my other blog moved over here and into the archives if at all possible.

It has been awhile since I have written to my other blog. All due to a severe bout of asthma. But.... things are getting under control again and I should have more time to write.

If I had only listened to my doctor in early September.... I would not have had such a horrible time with this. But.... I went against his orders and continued to do the farmers market to finish out the season for this year. I also had signed up for Apple Butter Day Art/Craft show and that is what really made things worse. Not good! Shame on me for not listening and doing as I was told...... to stay indoors, in bed, doing nothing. I think I may have learned my lesson though. As a result.... all things came to a complete halt for over a month and now I am trying to catch up. It is a slow process but have managed to get most things caught up and back to normal.

Also in September before all of this really became bad.... I went to another Fiber event. It is called The Wool Gathering in Yellow Springs, Ohio. Not too far of a drive from where we live. About an hour drive. The first day my husband and I went together. I made sure I told him that I planned on spending the entire day..... open to atleast 3 - 4 PM. It closed at 7 PM and new I would not stay that long. We had such a great time together. I had already contacted several vendors for fleeces and a few other things. I met with these vendors first thing that morning and paid for my orders and my husband was happy to take everything to the van for me. Once we had those orders out of the way and paid for we were able to visit each vendor to look, buy, become inspired. I managed to find alot of beautiful dyed roving, fleeces, alpaca, beautiful yarn, hand made needles, handmade buttons, patterns and much more. During out time there we fell in love with this adorable little English Angora bunny..... named Charlie. He was 3 months old and so adorable, so loving and we knew we wanted to bring him home once the vendor told us that her bunnies are raised with her persian cats. I have stopped myself from buying an angora bunny the past few fiber events because of my concern about how my cats and a bunny would get along. I just pictured it being something that would not work out well. I guess I was very wrong. Atleast with this womans bunnies I was wrong. So.... yes.... we bought our bunny, Charlie and the vendor held him there until we were done with our shopping and looking around for the day. When we were ready to leave she gave us a book she created and a sizable bag filled with food for Charlie. I always keep a collapsible pet cage in the van because of rescues I have helped with over the past year. So, I was able to put him into the transport cage for his trip home with us.

While we were at this fiber event I took a few photos and watched sheep sheering, talked with several vendors I have made friends with from the other events. They all have wanted to see what I am creating with my spinning wheel that I had bought in April and also wanted to see the purses I have designed, knitted and felted. So.... I brought these to show the women I have made friends with. They were so wonderful.... they along with other vendors want me to consider participating in the fiber shows starting in the spring. And some also make handmade soaps and encouraged me to bring my products also. With this encouragement.... I am definitely planning to begin participating in these types of events. I really have missed being around other fiber artists over the years.... since 1991 when I stopped designing. Now things seem to have made a full circle and I am now back to doing what I truely love and enjoy. The nice thing about spinning and knitting.... it also fits right in with me participating at the Farmers Market also where I sell my handmade soaps, lotions, etc. I had already started bringing these things to the market and customers have loved these new additions.

For the past several weeks since I have been forced to take it easy, stay inside at home.... this has actually given me time to work on other things that can do while resting. I have been spinning, knitting more purses, socks, scarves. It also has given me time to begin the planning process for next years fiber events and farmers market. I also have learned to dye wool.... using Kool Aid. This so much fun and so easy. And the results of the dyed roving to how it spins.... gorgeous. I had to share some of this with a couple of secret pals and yesterday received such a nice email from one of the recipients that received her package yesterday.

Oh.... I still have more to share regarding the Wool Gathering fiber event. I had so much fun at this event that my daughter wanted to go the following day. She usually goes to all of these events but she had an out of town cross country meet on Saturday that she participated in with her school. She was so disappointed that she could not go so I told her we could go back again on Sunday. So.... we were up early on Sunday morning and drove to the fiber event. It was fun to go and look at things again. I had bought all that I needed the day before so this day was for looking and showing my daughter things. When I arrived.... I was so moved by several vendors that I had bought fleeces from the day before. They came up to me and thanked me for my purchases from the day before and we visited for awhile on this second visit. I made sure I went to the vendor I had bought Charlie from to let her know that he is doing really well with our cats. They adore him. And he really is enjoying the cats also. They really are cute to watch as they play together.

When my daughter and I were ready to go home from the fiber event we went over to the dairy restaurant on the same property as this event to have homemade ice cream. It was sooooo good! It is worth a drive just for the ice cream.

Not much else is going on lately..... So by not writing for the past month in my other blog.... no one has missed much.

I have one more show to do this year and had another one that I still can't decide if I will participate or not. It has been a very slow year for sales so by not doing an additional show.... I am not missing out on much. I think my time is probably better spent on preparing what I need for the one show and start focusing more on getting things made for the fiber events for the spring.

Once I figure out how to add photos to this blog I will begin sharing what I am busy creating.

Have a great day. Enjoy the beautiful fall weather and all the gorgeous colors of the season.