Looking forward!!

I am looking forward to the New Year. 

I have been very sick these last couple weeks and just have not gotten the work done in the mill that I had promised myself that I would.   Oh well I guess that is just part of the life cycle.

I still have a couple of fairly good sized orders to complete and then I am going to get busy on my own rovings.  I have been promising myself (and others) that I will get some alpaca/silk rovings done and also some alpaca/bamboo and alpaca/seacell.   I am very determined to do this in January. 

LOL  Does it sound like a pep talk to myself??  Well it may be.

I have actually had some time to sit at the loom in the house because of being under the weather and the other day made a nice simple scarf from a darker camel coloured 100% alpaca that I had spun.
I am looking forward to getting it washed and blocked. 

I have many big plans for the new year.  This is the time of year where we do not go out and do any shows.

Our first show for the 2011 season will be the Didsbury trade show in the early spring.  Then we have a couple weeks off and then we are off to the Strathmore Mother's Day Market. 

I am also going to try and get myself to keep the blog and the website more up to date this next year then I have in the past.  I am terrible for not keeping things current.  LOL  Oh well, for those that know me, they would expect nothing else.

Well everyone,  have a HAPPY NEW YEAR and may you all have a blessed and prosperous 2011

Busy Busy Busy LOL So what else is new

I am afraid I will just never be very good at keeping this blog current. I seem to be busy all the time doing something. Today I am making candles for the sale this weekend at Red Deer. It is the Christmas sale at the Westerner. This year they have decided to make it a 2 day sale.

We did the Strathmore sale this past Saturday and it was sooooooo busy. That is why I am busy making candles. We sold so many that I need to make more for this weekend. LOL Not a bad thing for sure.

I also have to get out to the mill and weigh out some 1 lb and some 4 oz bags of roving. We totally sold out of it this past weekend.

Next on the todo list today is to finish wrapping the bars of soap that is ready for the sale.

All in all the mill work is going well. We have just about completed the order for BC and then it is on to one for Mayerthorpe.

I am still aiming to get some more of my own fiber processed before the new year hits as well.

I really would like to have some alpaca/silk blend to spin over the holidays.

Oh I took some pictures of the trees outside with all the beautiful snow on them today at noon when I was heading out to do the deliveries in the truck.

I am having a really trying time with gmail right now. I received notice that canada.com was shutting down their email service and that we needed to move all of our emails to another server.
they suggested gmail and I went ahead. Now when I sign in to my emails, the page completely freezes up. Needless to say, I can't read or answer my mail. GRRR

Pics of the new Llamas

I went out and got pics of the new llamas.

This is Anika. She is a silky llama. I will definately have to give her a haircut come spring. Her fiber is very nice and fine and I am not seeing any quard hairs. Lovely brown and grey colour should come up a lovely heathered gray when spun.

This is Keilana. She is a lovely Suri Llama who as you can see has had a hair this summer.


Don't know a lot about her breeding right yet, but will know more when her papers come.











This is Peachy Keen, She is a female Suri Llama.


Her fleece is beautiful. I am looking forward to shearing her next spring and getting some of that lovelyness to work with.

This is Ice. He is a beautiful speciman of a Suri Llama.

I understand he has been shown quite extensively. I will know more and be able to research more once the papers for him come.

Beautiful fibre and just a wonderful temperment to work with.

The new suri llamas and the newest additions of the alpaca herd are now home. They are all out running around in the fields and looking like they are very happy to be able to pronk and carry on.

I may try getting a couple pics later today. Depends if it stops raining.

New fiber animals

Well I have gone and done it now. Another new fiber animal to work with in the mix at our farm

We went out today to buy a couple of white alpaca females and came home with 4. 2 whites, 1 black and 1 fawn. They are in need of some TLC for sure. I will have to try and trim up their fiber for the winter. They have at least 3 years of growth on them. I will have to try and trim that back so they don't get weighed down too much carrying all that through the wet and snow.
Can't shear them now as it is going to get COLD any time now.

Then to add to the mix here, we came home with 4 absolutely gorgeous suri llamas. 1 really bred male and 3 well bred females. Their fiber is so fine and has such great luster. We just had to have them. LOL
More feed, more work, more fiber. LOL OH well

Well when we get them home I will try and get some pics of them and post them for all to see.

Another market season has come to a close

Well the market is done for this year. We had an absolutely fabulous day today weather wise.
Thanksgiving weekend in Alberta and the temperatures were around the 20 C mark.

The market was a very busy place today. It seems like everyone was out for that final day.

Now we start getting ready for the Christmas markets. LOL That is only about 3 weeks away.