Happy Confederation Day!

I am a day early but tomorrow is a busy day - July 1st. Driving my brother and his family to the airport as they are winging away to Crete, Greece for a month. Lucky devils!

It's been busy here in the Black household..besides planning some reno jobs for the house I have a show in November that I have to prepare for now in order to have everything ready for then. I am almost finished my cat rug and that has turned out quite nice - hmmmm I may have to keep that one. Also working on some cross stitch patterns that need to be ready and published under my other name "Island Cottage Needlearts" which are available wholesale from Kelmscott Designs.

Finally got the shed all built and what do you know it is already stacked with boxes of supplies. I need a warehouse - just kidding. I just need to seriously divest myself of STUFF I will never use.

Fully Wooly has some new pattern books available from Notforgotten Farm. You can see them on my Facebook page and I have ordered some new cross stitch patterns that will be available mid July on the new website.

You know how you have a great plan and have everything set out and then something just happens to whack it out of place. I was hoping to have the newly redesigned website up and running last weekend but unfortunately my mom took a serious tumble and the priority has been her care. I am happy to say that she is pretty resilient for an 81 year old woman and has strong European stock that has allowed her to bounce back quicker than I thought. So it will get launched, I promise, sometime within the next couple of weeks with some new wool bundles using my hand dyes and some wonderful Rebecca Erb AS IS wools.

So I am off to get the dye pots going and we'll be talking. thanks Joni 

Things I Thought I Would Never Do!

I am an avid reader and consume books voraciously. I love reading and often read 3-4 books at a time. I am very eclectic in my reading and sometimes you will find a mystery, thriller, sci-fi, health, craft book on my bedside table - coffee table - purse etc.

I just love reading and have been doing so since a kid. The best Christmas gift was always a few books and still is. Every year I make my wish list and Peter manages to buy everything on the list. I have learned to be selective on my wish list. Which leads to what I never thought I would do? Buy a Kindle. I pooh-poohed it as something that I would never hold in my hands but honestly the book situation was getting out of hand - too much money and not enough space to store them all. So I researched e-books and said ok we will try it. I LOVE IT! Yes it is not paper and when I do need my fix I do have my craft books and my cookbooks to wend my way through - but for general reading - this is a great tool. I read faster and get to read more books and best of all there is no trying to figure out what to do with the books. I was surprised at how few organizations want free books :(...

So that was my first never thought I would:


The second was playing computer games. I love my computer and do all kinds of things on it - the greatest invention of mankind but games - no way - I don't have time for it. Well a few months ago my nephew went to work in Mexico and the family decided to sign up on FACEBOOK to keep in touch. He came back and FACEBOOK was left to the side until one of my other nephews invited me to play FARMVILLE. I was hooked. Now I have enlisted 2 other members of the family and we compete against each other - all 6 of us - do live chat and have fun. It has been a great tool for communication and to keep in touch. So yes I have joined the gaming world and if you are on FACEand want to be a friend just send me a msg. Maybe you too would like to play Farmville.:)

Besides those two other past times I did manage to finish my mixed media tags - which were a lot of fun - They are for sale on Pfatt Marketplace.








G'nite -Joni