Pick of the Week

Yesterday and today were spent working on new projects. One of them you know about – it\’s the spin and weave along. I\’m working on getting all of the newsletters for January ready to be sent out, I\’m working on another sample scarf and taking photos as I go to include in the newsletters to illustrate just what I\’m trying to explain in words.

The second thing that I have been hard at work on will be unveiled in the next few weeks. There are lists and lists of things I want to do and I\’m trying to be very methodical about it.

The reason i\’m thinking about this is because I came across an old blog post from October 2012 called \”3 More Days\”. It is about the last three days of the Spinning Loft when it was a physical store in Howell, MI. Well, I looked at the date and realized that I had the shop for almost exactly 6 years when I decided to shift my direction to teaching and writing. Now here we are a little over 5 years later and I am excited about another shift in direction.

That\’s a picture of the overflowing wall of fleece when the shop was open. I generally carried about 65 different breeds and often had around 300 fleeces all the time. It\’s a similar situation in my garage currently…but less organized.

It\’s funny because as I realized about the time frame of the shop today and now 5 years later I\’m readjusting, it brought to my memory something that my darling said to me a long time ago. It was something along the lines of, \”I\’m not surprised. You change your mind every 5 years.\” Evidently he knows me better than I know myself because if I remember correctly, I disagreed vehemently at the time. I guess this is another case of LouSmith is right as usual.

And on a different note, 10 days ago I was driving my way from home to my parents\’ house in eastern Pennsylvania. Today everything is back in the car plus some Christmas gifts I picked up while I was visiting. It\’s a long drive. Usually about 10 hours if I\’m by myself. I\’m quick at the potty breaks. Don;t worry, I still have at least 8 hours to go on the current Poldark book I\’m listening to. I\’ll check in when I stop.