that I am grateful for on this birthday:

1. My wonderful, amazing husband D. Through thick and thin… he is my best friend and closest ally. I love him for loving me (even when “lovable” does not describe me!) I have a love so strong for him that I could never imagine life without him.
2. My wonderfully, amazingly creative, sweet boy. He has been referred to as “the sweetest boy I know” by some friends. He is my heart and he is the reason why getting up at the crack o’dawn is enjoyable. He chirps a “good morning mommy!” and all is right with the world. My cowboy is the light of my life. He teaches me so much about myself… I am so grateful.
3. My family. I have a great (and very large) family. We are all so different, but we love each other despite the differences. I have 5 siblings whom I love with all my heart… and I am better for each and every one of them.
4. My friends. I have the best group of friends that span the globe. I have friends from high school, from my early adult ( traumatically tragic) years, from my adulthood, from being a mom, from this internet knitting bubble we share… every person is so precious to me. They take me for who I am, and let me be a friend to them. That is an amazing gift to be given.
5. My health and the health of my family.
6. That I am able to live life as an artist. I have so much support from my family. My D is the most supportive man. I am so lucky.
7. I am grateful for the fiber arts and the tradition of the needle arts. My grandmother, my great aunts, my mother, myself…. it is a connection to a craft that has never changed, but yet it reinvents itself. I am mystified by my grandmother’s knitting, her grandmother’s knitting, and even her grandmother’s knitting. I am humbled before it and want to help reinvent my small piece of the craft.
8. For new opportunities. For being flexible enough to see new opportunities for anything when they arrive, or create them where they are lacking.
9. I am grateful for yarn. ( you knew that had to be in the list, right?) Fiber festivals and the ability to act like a complete and utter idiot around mass quantities of fiber ( with many. many others I might add)
10. The final thing I am grateful for is the chance at another year being grateful for all of the things in my life. For all of my hopes, and my goals… just that I get the chance to ground myself today, celebrate… and have a bigger and better year ahead.

Thanks to you all for your constant support and love. I am truly humbled and grateful!

I am on a tear…

anyone who thinks global warming is not something that is real should come stand next to me in Baltimore as I sweat my ass off!

I want fall. I crave fall.  I was born in the fall. My birthday is tomorrow and I am thinking that I get to wear shorts and flip flops… not FUGL and hand knit birthday socks! (She is steeked .. and drying. A zipper and she is fini’.)

I see leaves turning (brown and falling off immediatley!) All the cues are there… the morning and evenings are darker. My house looks like Halloween hell… and no fall. Still summer. I wish there was a public pool open so I could swim! At least I would be cool.

I swear I am going to start my thrummed mittens in protest!

That yarny thing that I was working on???

You can find it here!!! Put it in your bloglines friends… free yarn every Friday!

Is it me (and a perfectly fine answer would be “yes!”) or am I crazy?

Did October come and surprise you too? I am a fully grown adult (by size… not always by psychology) that understands the concept “August, September, OCTOBER”. Hell, even my 4 year old does.

October finds me, every year, with my pants down.Figuratively speaking, of course. My pants really do stay on in public.

It is a month of many things here at Chez’ (Fiber Addicted) Mama. To start off… there is my birthday. I am that annoying (wife, mom, sister) that talks about her birthday incessantly. I love my birthday. I love the celebration… the presents are sweet… but I love to hear D and the cowboy sing to me. The cowboy gets to pick the cake… and this year I hear that a princess cake is in my future.

I have never had a princess cake…. I am so pysched!

October also brings other family birthdays… my sister, Bird… my dad.. a couple aunts… and now a new little one for us to love.

October brings RHINEBECK. I HEART RHINEBECK in a huge way. I get to hang out with friends … meet some more… and generally have it be acceptable to drool and pet fiber in public. I will be there (sans familia!) all weekend.
Stitches comes first… and while I am generally iffy on what that convention does to our local knitting economy… I will be there (with a gifted all-access pass!) to catch up with folks and roam the floor of the market …a renegade taking bloggy photos even though they say not to.

October also has HALLOWEEN! My favorite holiday… I am trying to instill the joys of the fright-fest into my 4 year old… not to scary this year… but boy! do I have plans.

I also have GREAT plans to share in the future… a little something that I have been thinking of for a while…. I won’t give them away just yet… but … if you are a budding fiber artist/dyer/spinner I would love to talk to you! Email me to get more details…

Ok friends… I am off to start my day (coffee… yum!) and buy a zipper for FUGL.. she is done and ready to steek (EEK!)

Thanks Jody!