Saturday's Fun!

Had a great Knit Twit Meet!

Above: Nicole's(Neckio30) backside :), Jeanine (MsDiva), Nicole (Frecklefacefibers), Me and Fuji!

Nicole playing with FFF's yummy, scrumptious, fiber and yarn!

So awesome she brought some goodies!

Jackie (katnmouse), Luanne (courtsgram), Sydnie, and Chris (knittingglassguy)!
Jackie was working on socks; Luanne was working on the travelling woman shawl; Jeanine was working on a cell phone/ipod pouch; Sydnie was knitting a scarf; Nicole was knitting another hat; Chris was working on his socks; Nicole O. was working on a stocking and I was knitting on 198 yds. of heaven. Busy bees but so much more laughing and chatting than knitting, lol!

Cookies: Chocolate Chip with extra chips!:)

Fabulous FreckleFaceFibers..Enchanted Hollow; Merino/Tussah!

Thank you so much Nicole, you're the bestest!

Soap demo went well and was really fun sharing our process! For those who didn't get to attend this one, we will be doing it again after the Christmas season!

Upcoming Soap Demo!

This coming Saturday, August 14, between 11-1:00 we will be having a soap making demonstration at Wolfe Farms! Looking forward to showing how we do things here on the farm!:) Knit meet to follow!

Liquid Soap...Take 2

We're in the process of developing liquid soap....first batch didn't turn out at all.

Second batch worked out, lather's well, smells great, but too runny. Still usable but not up to the Wolfe Farms standard...

James testing the temperature.

Round three will hopefully turn out better!

Don't forget the Wolfe Farms Product Review Contest:

This is a contest to get product reviews on the website…http://wolfefarms.net.

For those of you who have ordered or used Wolfe Farms please go to the site and review the products you have used.

You will need to sign in…go to the product you have used…click write a review…then post your review!:)

Every review is an entry to win:1st prize:

4 Pack Soap of your choice!2nd prize: Soap/Lotion set!3rd prize: Soap or Lotion of your choice!Thanks a bunch and good luck!

I'll run this contest until July 18.....you have a month to enter!:)

Dogs on Thursdays...DOT!

Fuji helping me prepare the goodies for the Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival!

The 37th Annual Maryland Sheep & Wool Festival
Saturday May 1 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM & Sunday 2, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, 2010

Howard County Fairgrounds 2210 Fairground Road West Friendship, MD 21794-9604

Kiping It Real Podcast is doing goodie bags and Jackie is doing a meet and greet with the Knitmore Girls, Barknknit, and Stitch It! Should be a great meet up!

Wishing we were attending so we could meet all the fun people!

Big Yawn.....all finished and shipping out now!:)

FREE* Travel Size Wolfe Farms Lavender Herbal Body Soap!!!

Happy DOT!

Exciting News!!

A multi-dyer club called The Color Co-op. Five dyers: The Unique Sheep, Mama Llama, Miss Babs, Dragonfly Fibersand Tactile Fiber Arts dye yarn inspired by the same piece of visual art. Each month club members will receive a yarn from one of the dyers. After 6 months, you will have received a yarn from each dyer and the cycle starts again.
Club members are invited to submit and then vote for the visual art that will inspire the dyers. Members will be able to buy skeins from the other five dyers as well.
Sign-up at The Unique Sheep. More details at the Color Co-op blog.

The exciting thing is that Catherine also known as Mama Llama contacted me to see if Wolfe Farms would be interested in having our soaps in the club!!!! Of course I told her YES!! She then asked if she could reserve me for the year!! Whoo hoo! This is going to be so much fun matching our soaps to the theme/picture of the club!

FO Friday!

Been crocheting a lot of Soap Cozy's!

These are so much fun to make...Jimmy has been using one and just loves it!

I made him a neon lime green one and he put candy cane soap in it!

Also have been crocheting Cup Cozy's...

These are perfect to make your daily dose of caffeine stylish!


And crocheting washcloths for soap sets!
These all make perfect Christmas gifts!
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Been doing so much crocheting had almost forgot how to knit...felt really weird to hold two sticks!:) Hope everyone has a wonderful weekend!

Who-ville Christmas Event...

Got a picture of James setting up and bumping elbows with the other vendors. We were packed together like a bunch of sardines! Had to take our banner down because we had maybe two feet between us and the other vendor so people were bumping into it, knocking it and our stuff off. Plus with a bunch of school kids on a sugar high does not equal a good match!

Something really awesome was I got to meet a Ravelry friend in person!
Lorraine also brought her hubby and beautiful son! Did find out from her that she is going to have to commute down here to Palmdale so will be coming to some of the evening knitting meetings! Can't wait to hang out with her...she is a real sweetie and super duper friendly and easy to talk to!

Who-ville Christmas Fun!

Wolfe Farms Herbal Soap was asked to be a vendor at this event!

It is in the evening 4-9pm, Saturday December 5th, 2009.

Shopping, Food and Entertainment.

20% of Sales go to the fundraising event.

“Christmas Means Something More” set in the Who-ville Christmas theme (The Grinch who stole Christmas). With faux snow, carolers, snow slide, movie time etc. It is a fundraiser for Riviera Hall Lutheran School. There will even be “A Grinch”.

330 Palos Verdes Blvd., Redondo Beach, CA 90277

Have you been Naughty????

A perfect gag gift for Christmas, our "You've Been Naughty" Coal Soap Set will have everyone laughing till next Christmas. It contains a 5 ounce bar of our Coal Herbal Soap packaged in a little Red Gift Bag embroidered with the phrase "You've Been Naughty". On the back of our Coal Herbal Soap Box is this unique poem:

Christmas comes only once a year

and Santa's sleigh is getting near.

It seems that you've made his list,

but the Nice one you've really missed.

You've pushed him to the end of his rope,

So all you're getting is this Coal Soap.

This is a limited edition, so once it has sold out, that is it for the year.

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Poem copyright Wolfe Farms, 2009

Soon New Moon!!

NEW MOON this week….which team will you get clean with….Team Edward or Team Jacob?
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Cogknitive Fiber Retreat 2009

Me spinning and drooling over RedFish fibers that were set up right next to our booth!

Modular knitting class...helping Susan out who was tardy to class! Shouldn't teachers know better than that!:)

My friend Robin and me...the two redheads!

My buddy Nicole also known as FreckleFaceFibers!

This was our setup....did great!

Some of the market....

Finally got to meet my friend Kris whom I've been talking to on Ravelry/Facebook!

Had a blast!

Me shopping/hanging out with the Knitmore Girls from the Knitmore Girls podcast.....Gigi and Jasmin! Awesome!!

Tika from the Gives Good Knit podcast was also there but didn't get a pic with her...

Hanging out with the peeps for a bit! Knitters/Crocheters/Spinners/Weavers were every where! By the pool, in the hallways, in the corner of the conference room, on the patio....so awesome! Every where you turned was fun to be had!

Inside the goodie bags....whoohoo look at the loot!

Had a blast and can't wait for next year!

Wolfe Farms Herbal Body Soap

So excited....tomorrow is the Cogknitive Fiber Retreat! Whoohoo!

We've been getting ready for this for months now! 26 yummy scents, cloth/soap kits, relaxation gift baskets of goodies, shawl pins, bath salts, and mini soaps! The mini soaps are perfect for goodie bags for events, weddings, baby showers, any special occasion they can be personalized for your event...they're so cute too!

Baked Goods

Apple Crisp; Blueberry Cobbler; Carrot Cake; Cinnamon Spice; Chocolate Chip Cookie; Cupcake; Fudge Brownie; Sugar Cookie; Warm Brown Sugar Oatmeal

Beverages

Cafe Vienna; Coffee Bean; Hot Cocoa; World's Best Coffee

Floral

Lavender; Sunflower; Fresh Cut Roses

Fruits

Cucumber Melon; Fresh Melon; Fresh Strawberry; Juicy Peach; Pomegranate

Miscellaneous

Dirt; Torrential Rain; Unscented

Seasonal

Candy Cane; Pumpkin Spice

I'll be stocking the etsy store when we get back from the retreat!

We also designed T-shirts with our logo for the retreat...which also has a link in the sidebar!

create custom t-shirts at Zazzle

Have a great weekend!

Barknknit Review...

Just got done listening to Episode 29 of my Barknknit podcast and Natalie did an awesome review of my soaps! I sent her some Cinnamon Spice and some Lavender....one of her fur babies helped open the package too!:) She's been using the Lavender and likes how it cleans and doesn't dry your skin out. It's also not a loud smell so even her hubby, Kenny liked it. I was worried that the lavender would turn out old ladyish but it turned out fantastic. I will be adding some new scents soon but am also revving up for the Cogknitive retreat in October! Check out her podcast she's even having a Harry Potter contest with some great prizes!

Sand Dollar...

The other day when Jimmy and I went to the waterpark with Nicole I bought some more superwash merino from her. Jimmy saw this colorway on her etsy site and loved it and wants me to make some fingerless mitts out of it for him. Such pretty browns with a touch of blue. She gave me the pretty pink/purple to play with. Her colors are sooo awesome!

Jimmy and I went to the movies yesterday with my mom and saw G Force. It was a really cute Disney movie but the theatre was so packed with kids under five whining and fussing. Jimmy kept hushing this one little bratty boy that was sitting next to us. My favorite part of the movie was the part you see in the commercial of the mice saying "poop in his hand!" I'm easily entertained!:)

I'm still knitting on the Landscape shawl, knitting a washcloth, monkey socks are still traveling in my purse and cast on a new scarf (drop stitch scarf)...crocheting washcloths for the etsy store...spinning for the Tour de Fleece. My hand has been giving me lots of problems and have been in a lot of pain from it that I'm not getting much done. Can only spin/knit for a little bit before I'm about crying...advil helps when I remember to take it!

Quite exciting to hear on Dr. Gemma's podcast, CogKnitive, to hear her mentioning my soaps and wanting me to be a vendor at the fiber retreat in October. Very cool! Shocked me to hear my name mentioned on a podcast! Yeah!

Today I've gotta clean bathrooms, change beds, etc.....hope you all have a great weekend!

Santa Cookies...

Just got done making these Santa Cookies for hubby's work. I try to make something for him to take to work during the holiday season...we call it Treat Tuesday!:) They are soooo goood too...gonna have to save me a couple!

They are super simple and quick too: red cake mix, 1/2 cup oil, 2 eggs, 2 tbsp. water, white chocolate chips.....stir....plop by the tbsp. on cookie sheets at 350 degrees for 8-10 minutes and whalla you have Santa cookies!

Hubby and Me

Making some strawberry soap last night! Hubby did most of the work cuz I was exhausted. Finished up the last of the baby blankets too...whew! Now I need to do baby booties and I'll be finished with the set for the twins at Hubby's work!

Cuttin' the Soap!

Guess what? I waited the whole 24hrs. and didn't peek! Nell said it was ok too and I still didn't! Aren't you all so proud of me! It smells soooo good too. Now we have to wait and let it sit for three weeks! Going to order some more stuff so we can make more...hey Nell where do you order your stuff from?

Had a real busy day yesterday....cleaned all the bathrooms; ironed for about an hour; watered all the plants/trees which took about an hour; and had a bake - a - long with Jennifer. So used to calling her Florida Jen but she is now a California Jen! She had a great recipe for butterscotch pumpkin cookies but I didn't have the butterscotch morsels. Next time.... I did make my pumpkin chocolate chip cookies though....mmmmmm! She also sent me some great recipe links and going to try some of the crockpot ones this week! Since she knows I'm also having a vampire addiction she told me about some great books...put them on my wish list for Christmas and hinted big time to hubby:)! So funny, because we were watching Forgetting Sarah Marshall and the main actor dude does a whole musical play with vampire puppets in it and my hubby can sound just like it...he even has it memorized! Its hilarious! I should record him!:) He told me he was giving me my vampire fix for the weekend! Yes, we're easily entertained! Also watched Kung Fu Panda which was really good and War, Inc. which was kind of sucky!

Hope you all had a great weekend!

Soap Making...

James and I made Cinnamon Spice soap last night together!

I did have a goofy picture of us both together, saved it and have no idea where I saved it to. Can't find it at all! Felt like space aliens with our goggles on! Did get a pic of James though!:) After you get the stuff all mixed and poured into the mold you have to cover it up for 24 hours and not peek at it. The directions say DO NOT PEEK in big bold letters and its driving me nuts...I want to peek soooo bad. Its kind of like Christmas presents and someone telling me not to shake it..of course I want to shake it...and maybe nudge it just a little. James got wise many years ago and wraps my gifts with rocks or bricks in it so I have no idea whats inside! I've done this since I was little...guess I haven't grown up! Obviously considering the next pic you come to you'll see I'm just a big kid!:)


More Twilight obsession purchases'....Vampire lip balm!


Jimmy and I went to the Webkinz day at the candle shop too today. He bought a cool stuffed parakeet and an ornament; won a bookmark and free stuffed cat. I snuck and bought some of his Christmas and my yearly Christmas candle that smells like Christmas cookies. Speaking of cookies, I need to make some!:)