Good Friends and Good Food

Is there any way to spend a busy, rainy weekend than with good friends and good food?

This was the big city wide Lowell Open Studio weekend.  There were lots of people in and out and our studio was voted the one with the best food – LOL! Not a surprise to the friends that came by to visit.

On Saturday, Brian popped in before heading off to his crochet teaching gig in Billerica.  He returned later just before closing and he, Alicia and I headed off for margaritas and mexican food at La Carretta in Nashua – yummo! Also visiting Saturday were Sheepish1 from Ravelry, Amy, Lucia and Wendy from my knitting and spinning groups.  They came to hang out, spin, knit and eat.  Brian, Amy and Lucia all scored big at the Hub Mill Outlet and their 20% off sale!  I didn’t dare go and check it out.

Then on Sunday, IndigoNightOwl from Ravelry and two very dear and long time friends came by.  Lisa brought her 2 year old son.  What a cutie pie he is.  He was totally enthralled with my spinning wheel, so he ‘helped’ me spin.  He is one smart cookie as he figured out how to make the wheel go in either direction and he knew I was trying to pull the wool over his eyes because he figured out that I wasn’t putting the wool into that hole (the orifice)! LOL!  He was so cute and clever.

Just look at those brown eyes!

He promised to come visit me again soon.  We will have him spinning for real in no time I am sure!  I am totally smitten with him

The other thing I am smitten with is this!  I won it on ebay this weekend.  Alicia and Brian were laughing at me because I got on to ebay with my cellphone after a couple of margaritas and upped my bid.  It’s a good thing I did!

I am sooooo psyched!

8th Annual Lowell Open Studio Weekend

Yes, I have been busy getting ready for this weekend.  With lots of new hand-dyed fibers, new Batty Batts, and some new handspun yarns.

I will be demonstrating spinning both days this weekend from 11:30am until 5:00pm in my studio at Western Avenue, A306.

There will be lots of fun and refreshments, and there will be free shuttle buses running from Western Ave to other open studio locations through out Lowell.

So come and have fun.

To get a list of participants, a map of the locations, directions to events, and other information, click on here.  And pull up the list of 2008 Participants.

Here is my entry in the brochure.

Name	Lynne Chantler
Studio	Tangled and Warped Fiber Studio
Location	Western Avenue Studios A Mill A-30
Website	http://lchantler.etsy.com
Medium	Fiber Dyeing, Spinning, Knitting
Artist Bio	I have a passion for anything to do with fiber and fiber arts. I am a self taught knitter, inspired to learn when I saw Kaffe Fassett’s designs and unique color combinations. Eventually I became hooked on spinning and creating my own yarns, which then led to dyeing the fiber and getting more involved with creating color harmonies inspired by nature and other dynamic combinations shat surround us every day. I love to teach spinning, and hosting fiber dye days in my studio.
Hand Dyed, Hand Spun Yarn

Too damn busy!

Ok I admit I’m a bad blogger. But I have been busy, busy, busy!

Busy first getting back into the back to school routine. Not pretty

Busy with work as upper management once again is stupidly revamping our group for the gazillionth time and micro-managing to distraction. The only good thing was when they brought the database down hard with all of them running their micro-managed reports. That was a big ROFLMAO moment. Bad because they had to rebuild the database – and that took almost 10 hours!

And last but not least BUSY getting ready for Lowell’s 8th Annual Open Studio Weekend on September 27th thru 28th from 11:00am until 5:00pm both days. I will be participating this year. I will be demonstrating Spinning both days. And in case you don’t know I am at the Western Avenue Artist Studios in Studio A306. I am hoping to have some new carded batts for sale too and may demonstrate Drum Carding as well. So if you have some free time that weekend, stop by and say hi! There will be lots of refreshments too.

So since I have no photos to share at this time I will leave you with a meme I stole from my favorite and I am sure your favorite darlin’ Geekpixie.

So without futher ado… mememememe

A) Go to http://www.musicoutfitters.com/
B) Enter the year you graduated from high school in the search function and get the list of 100 most popular songs of that year
C) Bold the songs you like, strike through the ones you hate and underline and/or italicize your favorite. Do nothing to the ones you don’t remember (or don’t care about)

Here I give you 1972! Yes I am THAT old!

1. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face, Roberta Flack

2. Alone Again (Naturally), Gilbert O’Sullivan

3. American Pie, Don McLean

4. Without You, Nilsson

5. Candy Man, Sammy Davis Jr.

6. I Gotcha, Joe Tex

7. Lean On Me, Bill Withers

8. Baby Don’t Get Hooked On Me, Mac Davis

9. Brand New Key, Melanie

10. Daddy Dont You Walk So Fast, Wayne Newton

11. Let’s Stay Together, Al Green

12. Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl), Looking Glass

13. Oh Girl, Chi-Lites

14. Nice To Be With You, Gallery

15. My Ding-A-Ling, Chuck Berry

16. If Loving You Is Wrong I Don’t Want To Be Right, Luther Ingram

17. Heart Of Gold, Neil Young

18. Betcha By Golly, Wow, Stylistics

19. I’ll Take You There, Staple Singers

20. Ben, Michael Jackson

21. The Lion Sleeps Tonight, Robert John

22. Outa-space, Billy Preston

23. Slippin’ Into Darkness, War

24. Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress), Hollies

25. How Do You Do, Mouth and MacNeal

27. Song Sung Blue, Neil Diamond

28. A Horse With No Name, America

28. Popcorn, Hot Butter

29. Everybody Plays The Fool, Main Ingredient

30. Precious And Few, Climax

31. Last Night I Didn’t Get To Sleep At All, 5th Dimension

32. Nights In White Satin, Moody Blues

33. Go All The Way, Raspberries

34. Too Late To Turn Back Now, Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose

35. Back Stabbers, O’Jays

36. Down By The Lazy River, Osmonds

37. Sunshine, Jonathan Edwards

38. Starting All Over Again, Mel and Tim

39. Day Atter Day, Badfinger

40. Rocket Man, Elton John

41. Rockin’ Robin, Michael Jackson

42. Beautiful Sunday, Daniel Boone

43. Scorpio, Dennis Coffey and The Detroit Guitar Band

44. Morning Has Broken, Cat Stevens

45. The City Of New Orleans, Arlo Guthrie

46. Garden Party, Rick Nelson

47. I Can See Clearly Now, Johnny Nash

48. Burning Love, Elvis Presley

49. Clean Up Woman, Betty Wright

50. Hold Your Head Up, Argent

51. Jungle Fever, Chakachas

52. Everything I Own, Bread

53. In The Rain, Dramatics

54. Look What You Done For Me, Al Green

55. The Happiest Girl In The Whole U.S.A., Donna Fargo

56. Bang A Gong (Get It On), T. Rex

57. Mother And Child Reunion, Paul Simon

58. Where Is The Love, Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway

59. I’m Still In Love With You, Al Green

60. Layla, Derek and The Dominos

61. Day Dreaming, Aretha Franklin

62. The Way Of Love, Cher

63. Black And White, Three Dog Night

64. Sylvia’s Mother, Dr. Hook and The Medicine Show

65. Hurting Each Other, Carpenters

66. Coconut, Nilsson

68. Puppy Love, Donny Osmond

69. You Don’t Mess Around With Jim, Jim Croce

70. Hot Rod Lincoln, Commander Cody and His Lost Planet Airmen

71. A Cowboy’s Work Is Never Done, Sonny and Cher

72. Joy, Apollo 100

73. Anticipation, Carly Simon

74. Never Been To Spain, Three Dog Night

75. Kiss An Angel Good Morning, Charlie Pride

76. School’s Out, Alice Cooper

77. Saturday In The Park, Chicago

78. Drowning In The Sea Of Love, Joe Simon

79. Use Me, Bill Withers

80. Family Affair, Sly and The Family Stone

81. Troglodyte, Jimmy Castor Bunch

82. The Witch Queen Of New Orleans, Redbone

83. Freddie’s Dead, Curtis Mayfield

84. Power Of Love, Joe Simon

85. Ain’t Understanding Mellow, Jerry Butler and Brenda Lee Eager

86. Taxi, Harry Chapin

87. Don’t Say You Don’t Rememeer, Beverly Bremers

87. Sealed With A Kiss, Bobby Vinton

88. I Saw The Light, Todd Rundgren

89. Motorcycle Mama, Sailcat

90. Day By Day, Godspell Soundtrack

91. Roundabout, Yes

92. Doctor My Eyes, Jackson Browne

93. I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing, New Seekers

94. Vincent/Castles In The Air, Don Mclean

95. Baby Let Me Take You (In My Arms), Detroit Emeralds

96. Speak To The Sky, Rick Springfield

97. I’d Like To Teach The World To Sing, Hillside Singers

98. Walking In The Rain With The One I Love, Love Unlimited

99. Good Foot, Pt. 1, James Brown

100. Pop That Thang, Isley Bros