Christmas is 10 days away. I choked on my apple a little bit when I typed that. Not to fear, though. I finished a thing I had been ignoring (even added to it), recovered a project that I had misplaced, entered the fourth level of denial that another project I am 80% done with is … More Choke
The 2009 Furnace War has finally become serious, since a couple weeks ago when the MD winter decided to stop being completely wimpy. I’m nowhere near having to break the ice in the toilet (I doubt that could actually happen south of the Mason/Dixon), but I’m to the point that I find myself implementing careful … More Strategies
to upload a PDF onto wordpress. You pretty much just treat it like an image. There’s even a special place that says “Media.” It took me about four hours to figure this out yesterday, between emailing friends, poking around on the server, Jared getting rebuked for trying to “sudo” (whatever that means), and typing urls … More It’s easier than you think
Today was cold, but not near as cold as yesterday was! Lots more people came out on the newly cleared roads to buy crafts and what not, and we had a glorious time. Miraculously, we didn’t lose any toes. (Okay so it was only 40 degrees out. I hope no Canadians are reading this. Or… … More I wish yarn sold itself.
I woke up this morning to watch the sleet coming down outside our window slowly turn into snow. At first I was worried that the CSA parking lot, where those oh-so-needed customers would be parking, would be a soggy mess. I didn’t need to worry. this is what the parking lot looked like when we … More Slushy Debut
You know wool fumes have gone to your head when, in between working at a yarn shop and trying to start your own wool business, you start adding to your Christmas knitting. This is a terrifically inaccurately colored picture of a hat for our church secretary. I’m calling it the “Crap, Becky has Cancer” hat. … More Time Crunch Causes Brain Injury
Joyellen and Caleb always prayed for their bread. These two precocious bilingual children belonged to the director of the study abroad program in Mexico that I attended during the fall semester of 2005. My mom used to make whole wheat bread for our family almost every week, and as I learned from her example, I … More Co-Creativity
I am sorry to report that our microwave of many years has finally bitten the dust. I had put in a bag of popcorn for lunch one day, listening for pops. The microwave is so old that cooking is timed by educated guesstimates rather than following directions on packages, and popcorn is best timed by … More The Passing of an Appliance
The insanity continues – with the open house coming up in just 8 days, several things still sitting in dyepots, nothing reskeined or tagged, and various administrative crap to carry out, I try to keep working. If for no other reason than if I stop, I start thinking about how much there is left to … More ‘Till the day I dye
Welcome to the new site! After a few days of agonizing in which I did very little, Fjord did some stuff I didn’t see, and Jared did some stuff I don’t understand, osbornfiber.com has launched. I hope you enjoy the pretty new format. Soon (by which I mean “when I get around to it unless … More Look! I made a banner!
Osborn Fiber Studio 