Contest Winner!

WOOHOO! We just ran the RNG and comment # 10 is the winner!

Comment was by Jess!! I'll be contacting you for your address!

Thanks so much everyone!

Giveaway Time! Enter to win a "Hooty Owl" Project Bag and 2 Zipper Pulls!

I love giveaways, don't you? This month I'm hosting a giveaway for a project bag and two zipper pulls! WOOHOO!

Enter to win a Project Bag and Two Zipper Pull Charms!

Project Bag:

* Exterior main fabric is a really pretty tan/brown tonal with navy blue, light green, and white owls!

* Exterior coordinating fabric at top of bag is navy blue

* Interior is a coordinating fabric of white

* Drawstrings are white grosgrain

* Size - (Approx.) 9.75” high, 6.75” from side to side across the front, and about 3” on the sides.

Zipper Pulls:

* One Yarn Charm zipper pull on a lobster claw
* One Owl Charm zipper pull on a lobster claw

** Lobster claw fits most zippers

How to enter to win:

• Leave a comment saying you want it. That's it! But, wait...there's so many more ways to get more entries!

• Visit my shop at GirlFace Creations and leave a comment here about your favorite item and why you love it!

• Favorite my shop, leave another comment saying you favorited my shop!

• Follow my blog will earn you THREE entries, leave three comments that you followed my blog!

• Share this post on Facebook or Twitter. This earns you TWO entries! Leave two comments saying you shared on Facebook or Twitter!

• Any item purchased between July 1, 2013 and August 7, 2013 will earn you 10 entries for EACH item you purchased. (So if you purchase three items, that's 30 entries!!!!!)

I will have my other half, J, use random.org to draw a random entry on August 8th. 

Please leave a way to contact you, a rav name, use your blog log in, so I can let you know if you've won!

SHOP is open and I'm baaaaack!

I can't believe it's been MONTHS since I've blogged! I've been so busy with school and my research blog I haven't had time for the stuff I LOVE!

Shop is open again! This time I'm on Etsy and I really like it so far. So much easier to use and looks so nice!!!

New Shop Link! CLICK HERE!

I have been making felted wool dryer balls! They're so awesome! I'll write a whole post soon about these.

In the mean time, I wanted to highlight something I've been thinking about!

I have hand blended, hand pulled roving in my shop. I LOVE to see what people have spun with fiber that I've made.

My plan is to feature finished yarn from spinners when they order my fiber! I think it will be cool to show what someone can do. When I look at something, I may picture it in my head, but I want to see the genius of others and what they can do!

Here's some of the roving I have listed!

Oh HAI blog!

WOW...I can't believe I haven't posted since June of last year. This is quite embarrassing!

So what's new in my world? School, well that's not new...just keeps me reeeeaaaally busy!

I'm knitting now! I taught myself how to knit and I LOVE it. I wanted to learn how to knit so I can knit my own socks...and I've knitted several pairs of socks :)

I bought my first wheel this past month! I bought a Kromski Prelude, and she's beautiful! She has been formally named Clementine.

I have some plans for some posts coming up including:

1. How a crocheter learned how to knit.
2. Tips for putting together the Prelude
3. Using Linseed oil on the unfinished wheel
4. Sewing a basket liner

Of course, I haven't made the basket liner yet, so if it's a terrible disaster....I won't bore you with a post. :)

I closed my shop several months ago. It made me really sad to do that, but I just don't have the time, space, or money to keep it going right now. Maybe someday I'll open it back up. :)

Mainly my ideas for this blog will be my crafting adventures....since I always have something in the making!

~Rach

BUSY!!!!!!

I have been so BUSY that I forgot to blog about being busy. :) I'm not used to having a blog about......well.....anything!

Lord DTac (haha) took me to Great Lakes Fiber show. Not necessarily a good idea......

From left to right: 3 1/2lb bags of ecru merino roving, 5.8oz of a beautiful peachy colors merino roving, 2.2oz of green/tan Corriedale roving, a braid of superwash merino in the most gorgeous colors, 2 2oz balls of mohair/romney roving, and two little pieces of merino roving!


It was VERY hard to leave. What was especially nice: being around so many people that share the same passion in fiber. VERY cool. Some people's eyes glaze over when I start talking about YARN. 


YARN?????? OMG who cares...... wellllllll when I show someone this:

Well, you can obviously see why I love yarn so much. "Glorious Morning Shawl" This pic was taken after I got all of the blocking pins in. I dyed this yarn as well. Colorway is called "What's your poison?"

And all that fluff in the first pic????? Well, that gets made into yarn.

This is fiber I spun into yarn on a top whirl drop spindle.......and yes, I made that spindle myself :)

DISCLAIMER: To my fiber friends......I know you all know about everything I just posted. I am just sharing :)

Shop is up!!!!!!

My shop on ArtFire is up and running! I'm still uploading some listings.....but everything will be up soon!

I'm really excited! Go take a peek and let me know what you think :)

http://www.artfire.com/users/GirlFaceCreations

"Summer Lemonade" on worsted weight. Available in my shop!

First Blog Post

This is my first ever blog post :)

Posting a pic as a test of how to use this :)

Yarn I dyed called "Strawberry Kiwi Sunshine"