Every day seems to be gaining ever more momentum toward summer. I took extra time this evening to appreciate the new flowers, the new bits of green popping up everywhere, and the wooly creatures who will be freed of their heavy winter fleeces in the next week or so.
The apple trees are starting to leaf out.
This broody hen is very unhappy that I keep taking the eggs from under her.
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A few weeks ago I went down to Brooklyn, NY to spend some time with family. We visited the Prospect Park Zoo while we were there. Here are a few of my favorite pics from the visit.
Yes, this is a Babydoll Southdown, like our own.
And a Jacob Sheep
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I flew down to Virginia on Monday with one goal in mind. To make the photo shoot that we’re doing for our Sixth and Spring book a complete success. So this week, I’ve styled clothes, hair, make up, fitted, poked, and prodded models, wrangled sheep, kept Susie’s wallet and phone with her (although not the house key. oops.), held reflectors, smoothed garments, purchased props, and generally run around like a crazy person, all while attempting to keep up with email.
Here’s one of the props I bought:
I didn’t make much time to take iphone photos, but fortunately Susie did between taking real photos.
The weather was not looking cooperative for Wednesday’s shoot:
But it turned out to be lovely. Below, Susie’s favorite garment on a great new model that we’re using:
Susie said that I looked like The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. I thought I looked like 
Every detail must be just so, even though I must also help deal with the reflector to light up or shade shots as needed, so often times I was holding a reflector in one hand, and fixing a garment with the other.
Yesterday felt a little bit chiller, especially in the morning. Below I’m keeping a model warm while I fix a detail between shots.
Susie’s been shooting at this building since she first moved here. One day it’s just going to fall to the ground, but until then, we’ll keep shooting in the ruins!
We went to another farm to use some lambs for a cover shot. This bottle-fed baby was a sweetie:
This is the face I make when I see something horrifying. Apparently, the lamb also makes the same face:
Model Crystal wrangling a sheep while I deal with the reflector and details for another shot.
When figuring out how to hold a lamb without blocking the garment, sometimes you find that lambs are made of legs!
They mostly had Suffolk and they had a whole passel of them!
Also on property is this gorgeous lake with a lovely bridge! Isn’t it idyllic?
The models were changing in the car most of the day and there wasn’t any time to straighten clothes or keep things tidy. When we got home we dumped everything from the car into a heap:
Today we have 6 more garments to shoot:
and then it’s time to pack it all up and head home. I hear that there’s a lot of snow awaiting me in Massachusetts which I’m not looking forward to. I am looking forward to seeing my husband and cat and rewarding myself with a weekend off before I get back to work on Monday.
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All of a sudden, the end of the year is barreling towards me and I’m feeling the weight of the unfinished on my shoulders. Are you? Unfinished knitting projects, works projects, emails, house projects, cleaning, Christmas presents, etc. I’m definitely feeling the weight of it all. I’ve got my list of things I really want to finish up in the next couple of days, and it’s LONG. I wish that I had been able to spend some time after Christmas finishing some things up, but I came down with the super bug and pretty much all I could do was lie on the couch and groan. Today I’m starting to really feel better (I woke up with an appetite!), so I’m ready to work. I’m going to push aside any of the personal finish-up goals and focus on the work ones so I can try to start with a clean slate. This is a pipe dream, but we all have to have goals, right?
So today, I give you a bunch of pictures that I’ve wanted to share with you since Susan and my trip in July for the Seattle Stitch and Pitch. The day of the Stitch and Pitch itself, Susan wasn’t feeling well (nerves) and our friend Karin and I traipsed off to Bainbridge Island. I took so many photos that I felt weighed down trying to decide which ones to show to you. So I’m going to quickly make some choices, free myself from the guilt of a waiting blog post and share a fond memory of 2013 with you.
The ferry ride over:
Safeco Stadium:
Churchmouse Yarns & Tea is a lovely, curated shop. Among other great yarns, you can find Juniper Moon Farm’s Herriot yarn there.
Walking back to the ferry:
Ferry back to Seattle:
Wow, although I had taken a lot of photos, time has given me perspective and what I thought was going to be difficult to narrow down became much easier. I feel like my photography skills have grown in just a few months, and looking back on old photos makes me anxious to keep working on honing my skills! Since this was easier than I thought, I’m now looking forward to tackling another project!
What are you hoping to finish up before the New Year starts?
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A good time was had by all at the farm this weekend.
In other news, Amy, Tanya and I drove to Northern Maryland yesterday to pick up our rent-a-stud, Francis.
We should be seeing the fruits of his labors in about five months…
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Lunchtime yesterday meant that the birds took a break for some lunch, too.
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Okay, on Facebook people have been dubbing Thursday the day for throwbacks, in which you change your profile picture to a picture of you from long ago. Sometimes it’s a picture of them as a child, sometimes it’s from college, but it’s fun to see if you recognize the person and of course maybe you were there many moons ago!
So when I was looking through the blog for pictures of something specific and this picture came up:
I knew that it would be perfect for today. Do you recognize that little pup? That’s runt of the litter Gnocchi. This is how Susan would weigh him to make sure that he was getting enough milk.
How can you not fall in love with that amazing face? He’s not the least bit spooky, even if it is Halloween!
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