July Update (how sad)

Good Grief! Has it really been since April? Well, in my defense we are in the process of moving to another province for my DH's work. The city we are moving to is large and currently facing a housing shortage (unless you are very rich-we are not lol). But, happily we are getting it together after many challenges and I may actually have a chance of checking my e-mail and blogs more than once a week! So hard to believe we are more than half way through July!!! The wool dying was a so-so experience as the roving really wanted to felt in spite of my following directions so I was not totally happy with the result althought the color was dead on! I had ordered some white playsilks to dye and that session went much better. One silk in particular where I got really creative with my mixing colours. I got the most gorgeous shade of green but I know I couldn't duplicate it as it was my last one and after doing 7 different dyelots I was just chucking in a bit of this and a dash of that. I will definately have another go at dying wool this winter. I am in preparing for camping mode right now as we are going on our first camping trip since all the last 2 kids were born. The last time we went camping was 6 years ago when I was pregnant with my daughter. It was a horrible trip and I have been reluctant to go again until the kids were all potty trained and able to play in the dirt without eating it! I am excited to go now though as we have a new tent and naturally having the kids be excited always helps!!!