Store update: Wednesday May 7, 2008 4pm MST

Here's a pic of today's colorways. This batch and yesterday's will be available at my etsy shop, poppyflowerfibers.etsy.com
, tomorrow, May 7 at 4pm MST. All are hand-painted Merino combed top. Approximately 4 ounces each. See you then!

Toilet paper made my morning

It's a great way to start the day when you find toilet paper in your store on sale for $9.99 marked down from $15.99. $6 off!!! Is this really Monday? Aren't Monday's supposed to suck? Not when you get Charmin on the cheap.

After coming home with my huge bundle of TP and after sorting the Corriedale fleece to wash, I had a big DUH moment. My goal is to dye 12 rovings a day, but I usually get overwhelmed trying to think up new colorways. I'm constantly looking around my house, looking at the clothes in my closet, looking at my dogs' collars, to find inspiration for new colorways. Then I thought, "why not just copy my past colorways?". Might sound like the obvious, and I have on occasion done some redux colorways, but this was a huge "Aha!" for me. I feel like a total dork even admitting this because it's so embarrassing. But what a relief!! I no longer have to "force" inspiration or freak out when it's not there. When the inspiration comes I will create new colorways, and when I am not feeling all that inspired I will pull from my old colorways. Phew!! Now I can breath.

Yesterday's colorways drying:

Store update, SALE roving, and some Seacell

I put a few things up in the store today. Some SALE roving, a couple of new colorways, some hand-dyed Seacell and Superwash Merino fiber, and some loose, soft bunny Angora.

And I'm letting go of this one from my personal stash:



Ouch! I'm going to miss it but I need to pay the bills, aka The Pusher man, aka my fiber dealer.  I need my fix!!

Thank you for looking!!

poppyflowerfibers.etsy.com

edit:  oooooo!  I just got in a bunch of Corriedale just this moment!!  10 pounds of raw fleece!  Thank you Mr. Postperson!  Soon to be dyed up and carded into batts.  And in the next two weeks I have a LARGE shipment of raw Cotswold locks coming that were just sheared less than 2 weeks ago!!  As soon as they arrive I will dye them up and post them to the store.

May Day snow in Boulder

I haven't been around here so long I forgot my password

I've been busy and not so busy and here's a taste of what I've been up to:



I have several handspun yarns available on my Etsy site, poppyflowerfibers.etsy.com.  Wish I had more energy to expend on this blog, but I'm just spent right now.  Tomorrow is back to the ol' dyepots for me.  I think the break from them has given me some fresh inspiration for new colorways.  Yay!!

A few batts for sale at my shop

Available at poppyflowerfibers.etsy.com

Thanks for looking!! Now back to work...

work more, surf less

haven't been around the blogs or forums lately because i've been up to my elbows in fiber. riding the creative wave, so not much time to play on the net. my apologies for not maintaining my blog nor reading others. bad blogger i am. i've got to ride the creative wave while it's in motion, so i have less time to surf the web. be back when things slow down a bit.

tax time is kicking my butt once again

My tax deadline is tomorrow, and of course I left it to the last minute *AGAIN*. As a result, the items purchased in the last two days are being shipped tomorrow. For those who purchased, I sincerely apologize. Shipping first thing tomorrow by Priority Mail.

After the shipping of packages and taxes, I will be on the batt wagon once again. Received a big shipment of Angelina today and am looking forward to making pretty, sparkley, fibery things tomorrow.

batt update

I thought I had more batts to upload to my Etsy store, but I think it's a fairly small update. Hope to have more to offer by next Monday. Here's a little taste...luxury batts and crazy daisy batts.

My Big Fat roving update

So last night, after rushing around like bunny on speed, I finally updated my Etsy store with some 30+ rovings. I also added some absolutely decadent Superwash Merino/SEACELL batts!!

Here's a sampling of some of the items available at my store...poppyflowerfibers.etsy.com







And then, finally, some Superwash Merino and Seacell batts! This stuff is sooooo soft and the sheen is just right. Love it!!!



Come on by and have a look!

I'm off for the weekend. Going out of town for a brief respite, but will be back in time for a batt update scheduled for Tuesday night.

Cheerio!

~Lisa