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Raw from the weekend

What a weekend! On top of Bill having 4 shows this week, 3 of which were between thursday and saturday, we also had the fairy festival, the baltimore kinetics race, and the maryland sheep and wool festival! My feet feel life aching logs of lead, but my heart is light and happy.

I know that MS&W is all you care about so for those of you that aren't in the tri-state area, or are but didn't attend because you're, I dunno, crazy like a fox, lemme tell you, it rocked! We got there early and stayed all day. Amazingly, I came away with only the tiniest of bags, but everything was beautiful. I suppose it's not so amazing I didn't have a huge haul, it's not as if any of my suppliers were there and I just don't know where all that roving came from, you know? So I keep myself to the cellulose fibers at festivals, but even that took the light load this year. I wanted some uncarded soysilk but nobody had any. Damn. But I did restock my dyes, and finally found a bright pink. Lanaset dyes don't come in a bright pink. There's magenta but it's not bright, and can't be mixed to be bright, so next week I hope you'll see some bright pink around these parts!

We hung out at the auction barn for a good two hours but sadly didn't walk away with anything we wanted -- strauch jumbo winder or one of the many looms (because I've got so much time to learn to weave, right?).

The strangest bit about the whole affair was that I got recognized! Yep. By the end of the day no fewer than 6 people had approached me, most with kind exclamations about my blog, my yarn, or my podcast. It was weird. And I must admit, kinda cool. I mean, it was 6 people, not 100 people, heck, not even 10 people, but still, cool. All in all it made me feel good and strange that there are people out there that know who I am.

Ohh, other news -- I'm raw! No, not thanks to anything juicy, jeez...dirty much? Raw, like in the food department. I decided to do a little raw foods cleanse, get my glow back and all that hoohaw (not to mention maybe be able to wear something other than my freaking maternity pants with the big black belly panel). On Monday it will be a week! I'm just getting into the groove of it, here's what I made for dinner. Carrot adn pecan patties (dehydrated) with orange curry sauce, seaweed salad, and blackberries. The patties were good but not great, the curry was great, the blackberries were fruity, and the seaweed salad -- I could live off of that stuff!

Tomorrow -- raw chili!

Posted by jacey at May 6, 2007 11:13 PM