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Happy weekend everybody! I don’t know about you, but my week has been chaotic, busy, stressful and served administrative hills to climb. What saved my sanity and helped bringing my anxiety and painlevels down, was a fun time playing with colours and fibres in the dye room. As soon as I start thinking of colours and techniques and how to bring them alive on this canvas of wool and other fibres, everything just seems to disappear. It helped immensely that for the first time in months, the weather was excellent with sunshine and a bit of warmth, so I could hang...

A new fabulous Shetland dream blend with soft grey Shetland, mulberry silk and cashmere; all hand dyed with love. Fantastic to spin, wear, knit, crochet, felt and weave with.

Happy New Year to all of you !✨ Thank you for making last year amazing ✨ Whether you bought our hand dyed fibres or yarns or hand spun or spindles, or, supported us by showing your enthusiasm for all the crafty fluff and stuff: you all have made our world brighter 🌞Even when I was struggling with physical stuff and also mental doubt -as all creatives do I guess- you have showed me kindness, love for all things fluffy and colourful fluff and yarns I created. You’ve made my job the best in the world and I am super grateful...

A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell)  once gave a public lecture on astronomy. He described how the earth orbits around the sun and how the sun, in turn, orbits around the centre of a vast collection of stars called our galaxy. At the end of the lecture, a little old lady at the back of the room got up and said: "What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise." The scientist gave a superior smile before replying, "What is the tortoise standing on?" "You're...

it certainly was a Halloween to remember! It seems like so long ago already with all that has been happening here in the valley: storms, power outages, no internet and now no phone coverage (telstra is still not on top of their sh8tstorm apparently) and rain, rain and more rain.l So much rain that the Yarra River had broken its banks, the little Yarra River close to us had as well and there was even so much deluge that the storm drains could not cope. No where to go the water thought "why not park here?" and started to inundate...