I'm In Love

Today my husband and I celebrate our 28th Wedding Anniversary.  All these years, two children and all my crazy creative fads and he has stuck around.  I am looking forward to celebrating tonight on the town with a nice dinner in Boston. Hopefully the rain will clear up like it is supposed to, otherwise we will be driving to a nice local restaurant for a nice quiet dinner.  Boston is fun but we like to go into the city by train and then walk around and that is no fun in the rain.  Crossing fingers that the weather chooses to celebrate with us!



So I decided this weeks blog post will be about things I am loving right now in my creative life.

In the limelight of this loving feeling is my knitting!  Just two sticks and some string and you can end up with some beautiful things.  Yet it is more than that....the beautiful colors and soft loftiness of the yarn, the repetitiveness of the stitches, the magic of cables and heel turns just keeps calling me back to make something new.  Here is a most recent Finished Object that needs blocking.
Project Stats:
Name:  Bridger Cowl
Yarn:  Flight of Fancy (Handspun by me!)
Designer: Kris Basta

Spinning yarn is another magical thing about knitting.  Just over a year ago I bought myself a Spinning Wheel.  It is a Lendrum and I named her Lexi, as she was purchased from an Alpaca Farmer outside Lexington KY.  I have enjoyed watching the process of turning beautifully dyed fibers into yarn and knitting them. This cowl started as this fiber:

Then I spun it into this yarn:
I love the magic in this.  I am still so new to this process that I still cannot intentionally spin something.  I am in awe of the spinners that can look at fiber and say, I want the outcome to be "THIS" and they can get that look.

I'm still Tangle'ing away at Zentangles.  This week I participated in a challenge by:  Diane & Carolien
to use the Zentangles that start with the letters F-M-T.  This was a lot of fun.  Here is the result, I am calling this my Tangled Landscape.  It reminds me of hills, water and mountains.  I used the following Tangles for this picture:  TEARCE by Pam Pincha-Wagener, MEER by Maria Thomas and FOOTLITES by Carole Ohl.  I just love the combination of these three tangles together.

My last love of the week is Writing Letters.  I don't care what anyone says, handwritten letters are an art form of the past and I am so glad I have found a couple of Pen-Pal sites on Ravelry.  I have met a few interesting people and I am enjoying writing and corresponding with them.  It is so fun to find people that share your creativity and passion.  I have received some very sweet gifts from people that will help to further my creative pursuits to living a life filled with color, patterns, textures and things that make me smile.  Everyone I have met so far have been lovely people.  I also am continuing with the PostCrossing.  I have sent out my first four postcards and I have just gotten the address for #5.  My posts have been sent to Germany, Russia, China, Netherlands and soon to Taiwan.  I am still anxiously awaiting my first received post.  I hope it is from somewhere interesting!  

I will leave you now with this week's quote: "I have found that if you love life, life will love you back." by Arthur Rubinstein