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Estes Park wool market!

I was flying solo this year. Me and the tiny people did pretty well. We walked, both kids in backpacks with leashes on them. Don’t harass me, it kept the kids safe. I ended up carrying Mr K aroud a bit.

We met up with Ellen of Wooly Wonders and showed her the dragons we had knit from her pattern. I figured after all the questions I had asked, the least I could do was show her them in real life!!

At one point the kids walked over to a wall of alpaca yarn and started touching skeins and looking at price tags.

I’m so proud of them!

They loved petting the alpacas, seeing the goats, and got to hug a sheep!

THEN!
It was the Renaissance Festival! The kids got new costumes. I had some green fabric in my stash that I thought would be perfect for them. Honestly, I think it’s silk, but that makes it even better for kiddo costumes- it wears well, washes well, looks awesome, and breathes well.

I tried making them hats and wings and failed at both, so I got them some when we got there. I was planing to get them muffin caps, but they LOVED these hats. That’s actually K’s kilt from last year, now that he’s wearing undies (AND USING THE POTTY!!) it still fits! I made T’s dress a few sizes too big so that we can use it for a few years. K’s gonna need a new shirt- his melon is almost to big to get into this shirt.

I didn’t take a pict, but I attached a pair of plastic horses to the front of the stroller (yes, brought the stroller, much easier!). I got so many laughs and compliments on that!

And finally…

I discovered I had a couple of albums in my possession that were worth over a hundred dollars, each. In fact, one was worth about 400. No joke. Ebay here I come. Just guess what I did with that money- guess!

I scoured ebay again until I found this gem!! It’s a legare 400. I bought it from a woman who had bought it refurbished about 3 years ago so it’s in good shape. I took it over to Hank and Candy, local crankers who do good work making sock machines happy. I’m getting the insides media blasted to get the rust off and make it AWESOME. I can’t wait to get it back.

I have lots and lots of pictures from all of these adventures over at my flikr. T is having a great time with the camera and documented my unpacking of the sock machine. What a big helper.