Yesterday I took the plunge into becoming a wholesale yarn supplier.  My little local fabric/yarn store is now going to be carrying several varieties of my hand dyed yarn, as well as some of my handspun.



She put in an order yesterday, which I will deliver on Saturday.  We’ll see how it goes, over the course of the next couple months.



Wholesale obviously doesn’t pay as much to me as selling retail on my own, but it balances out because I don’t have to do the whole photographing/listing/advertising/shipping thing that I would if I listed all these skeins individually on Etsy. (But I am still going to be on Etsy!)  And a large check all at once will be nice, too.



Eek!  Me! In a yarn shop!

Some evil person put out a box of Thin Mints cookies out on the counter at work.  I had one.  I couldn't help it. 

I was bitterly disappointed.  Back when I was a Girl Scout, Thin Mints were the best cookie ever.  The one I had today tasted like Crisco.  Blech.

I'm currently having a cup of Stash Organic Cascade Mint tea to get my minty fix.  Zero calories and SO much better.

I tried a new recipe tonight.  All I can say is YUM.

This is White Cheddar Chicken Pasta, recipe here.  I didn't have any cheddar, so I used some of the delicious Crowley Extra-Sharp cheese (a Colby variant) that my dad gave me and Emma for Christmas.  It was quick, ready in less than half an hour, and so flavorful.

And super yum.

I had way too much fun on the Stash Tea website last weekend, and received my order yesterday.  I got smallish samples of several plain and flavored black and oolong teas, a big pack of mint, and a couple white teas to try just because I've never had white tea before. About half my selections are in tea bags, the rest is loose-leaf.  Not pictured is the Coconut Mango oolong that I already took to work, and the Darjeeling that they forgot to send.

I've only tried a couple kinds so far, but WHOA! One knocked my socks off.

Do you like floral teas? Dragon Phoenix Pearls jasmine white tea. Seriously, get some now.

It's intensely fragrant, smooth, sweet, and not at all bitter. It's one of the more expensive kinds I bought, but you can infuse two or three cups from the same leaves, so it works out about the same (or less, even) as a single-use tea bag.

Dear Self,

How long is it going to take you to realize that continuing to beat your head against this particular brick wall is not a productive activity?  How long until you realize that this HURTS, and maybe you should stop?

Just accept that the brick wall is there, and go around.

Sincerely,
Yourself

SQUEEEEEEEEE!

In approximately 8 weeks, after they build it for me, one of these beautiful wheels is coming to live at my house!

My contribution to the Seventh Annual Blogger's (Silent) Poetry Reading:


Reluctance
by Robert Frost

Out through the fields and the woods
And over the walls I have wended;
I have climbed the hills of view
And looked at the world, and descended;
I have come by the highway home,
And lo, it is ended.

The leaves are all dead on the ground,
Save those that the oak is keeping
To ravel them one by one
And let them go scraping and creeping
Out over the crusted snow,
When others are sleeping.

And the dead leaves lie huddled and still,
No longer blown hither and thither;
The last lone aster is gone;
The flowers of the witch-hazel wither;
The heart is still aching to seek,
But the feet question 'Whither?'

Ah, when to the heart of man
Was it ever less than a treason
To go with the drift of things,
To yield with a grace to reason,
And bow and accept the end
Of a love or a season?