Porch flowers.

porch flowers 006a, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

I bought these hanging baskets of (mostly) petunias at Lowes a few weeks ago. I have no idea what the smaller flowers are, but they're cute and they match. :)

Hemlock ring.

hemlock ring, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

Doesn't look like much, does it? After it's blocked (washed and pinned out into shape), it will look like the blanket you see on this site. Spectacular.

$500.

jadis tooth, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

I should have taken this yesterday, but I was so stressed out, I totally forgot about it. This is the $500 tooth. As you can see, only about the top (left) third of the tooth was above the gumline...the rest is the root. Which is why it cost so much to extract. Whee.

ION, the cat has not only forgiven me, she's a total clingmonster right now.

Fuzzy.

turkish delight masham, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

Had a stressful day with the cat, so I spent some time spinning. Hence, this is the picture you get. This is a fiber called Masham, a longwool...staple length (i.e. the length of each individual hair) is 8+ inches. Longwools tend to have a luster to them, but not much bounce. Their length makes them lend themselves well to singles instead of a plied yarn, so I decided to give it a try. Look at how fuzzy it is! This is 3 oz, 318 yds, Southern Cross Fiber May 09 club in a colorway called Turkish Delight.

Heiroglyphics

heiroglyphics, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

Is anyone still reading? :D

I'm back from hiatus...I hope. I moved to downtown Wilkes-Barre for my job, and there are way more interesting things to take pictures of down here. Unfortunately, I moved down here in mid-March and I've been too lazy to get back on the PAD horse until now. But, it's June 1st and it seems like a good time for a fresh start.

This little guy is carved into a brick on the floor of the ampitheatre on Public Square, a park that's right outside my building. He might be first in a series, because there are a whole bunch scattered throughout the ampitheatre. I'm not sure why, or what they're about, but they're interesting. :)

Ennui.

ennui, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

I missed posting a PAD yesterday for the first time in 97 days. My sister told me missing my PAD has upset the karma of the entire universe. *sigh*

Tonight's picture is courtesy of my complete lack of interest in getting up from the sofa to find something to take a picture of. :D I was laying there, just got done watching AI and Fringe, and it was so toasty and comfy, I didn't feel like getting up to wander around and find something more picturesque. I took a bunch of self portraits, but I hated them all, so...ennui is what you get. Yeah.

Oof.

oof, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

I made The Pioneer Woman's Mexican Layer Dip for the Super Bowl. The only problem? I *always* overdo food for the Super Bowl. My brother's girlfriend made buffalo chicken wing dip, and we also had some cookies and ranch dip to eat with either carrots or pretzels.

Hence, by the time I actually got the Mexican Layer Dip done, this is all I could eat. This is actually about 1/3 of the whole recipe, too...I made a whole separate dish of it for bro and his gf, and they ate similar amounts. Yar. I'm going to be eating this dip for the rest of the week.

Self portrait.

self portrait, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

This is actually a silver mirrored vase that my Mom gave me. It was reflecting the pretty colors of my dining room, but if you click through to Flickr and read the note, you'll see that one of the mirrors is actually...me. Or at least part of me. Maybe my hand as I lined up the camera. :D

Convergence.

convergence, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

I got this chair for $2 at a flea market. These ridges are in the crosspiece on the back, and I thought they were interesting. When I went to set up a perspective shot, I noticed the brush strokes in the paint that sort of mimic the ridges, which just added a layer of niftiness.

We are family.

family, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

Someone over on Ravelry asked what people were spinning on, so I decided to take a picture of my spindle family. I only have 5 so far (OK, I really have 6, but one of them is a piece of crap that I bought to test for a possible spindling class and I hate it, so it's banished from this picture), and they're all nifty.

Clockwise from the top, we have a Bosworth midi in bubinga (1.13oz), a Kundert bubinga wreath (1.4oz), a ButterflyGirlDesigns murano foil glass (1.4oz), another Bosworth midi in English boxwood (1.2oz) and a ButterflyGirlDesigns polymer clay millefiori (0.9oz).

Whee, spinning!

Poetry.

poetry, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

So, about 5 years ago or so, my sister gave me this cat-themed refrigerator poetry set. I have the whole kit up on my fridge, and there are a few poems that people have put together over the years. Not surprisingly, every GUY who has ever been to my house has immediately homed in on the "pussy" tile. So predictable.

The poem in this picture is my favorite. My BFF Jackie composed it when she was in the midst of breaking up with her asshole TX boyfriend. Now it's immortalized in case I ever have a fridge magnet disaster.

Diligence.

diligence, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

Holy shit! What's this? A photo taken OUTDOORS???

Yeah, I was waiting for the car dealership shuttle to pick me up, and I noticed that all of the walkways outside were lined in blue. The grounds crew has been diligent with the ice-melt, apparently. Nifty.

kthxchai.

kthxchai, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

Sometimes the picture of the day is art. Sometimes it's just a photographic representation of my day. And sometimes it's wholly utilitarian.

Today is a utilitarian day. :D

I have addicted my Mom to Tazo chai latte, and she wanted to buy some for herself, but she didn't know which of the 10 bazillion tea choices she was supposed to buy. So, she asked me to take a picture of the carton and post it, and I could use it as my PAD. So here it is. Good luck, Mom!

Vigilance.

vigilance plied, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

This is Australian Polwarth in a colorway called Vigilance. I spun it on my new, gorgeous and delightful Kundert spindle. I only did 2oz (140 yds) because I was impatient to see what it would look like. I swear, that spindle is like magic...it practically spins itself. It has great squoosh, which I've had a hard time with lately...everything I've been spinning has been so fine, it took conscious effort to back off and not twist the crap out of this fiber and lose its wonderful loft.

Twilight.

twilight closeup, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

OMG. This fiber. It's 22 micron organic merino, the January 09 Spunky Eclectic club shipment. It's so unbelievably soft and luscious, and such gorgeous colors. And I got a new spindle! It was a tough call picking which picture to make my PAD, but I liked the perspective on this, so I'm considering this my official daily shot.

But, because it's also beautiful and I'm all squeearific over it, here's a bonus shot of my new Kundert Bubinga Wreath spindle, which spins like a DREAM. OMG, so awesome.

Lip.

lip, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

Still working the hand blown glass carafe. :D

Bubbles.

bubbles, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

I bought a new hand-blown glass carafe. I thought the perspective through the bubbly surface was sort of nifty. :D

Avoidance.

avoidance, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

I'm the worst procrastinator in the world. My Mom came over a week and a half ago to help me undecorate the tree so I could put my xmas crap away. The tree was so dry by that time, I decided that instead of having her help me drag it out to the curb, and shedding needles all through the house on the way, I would clip it all down and put the remnants in trash bags and dump it in the woods when the weather gets warmer. Except...I never did.

My cleaning lady comes tomorrow, so obviously, the best time to perform this task I've been putting off was....tonight. And I'm not done. Because I'm an idiot.

BLAMB!

blamb, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

My hand-dyed Polwarth from David/Come In Spinner finally arrived from Australia today. Each 4 oz bundle was packed in the tiniest little bag, and when you open them up, the fiber goes BLAMB and says hello. :D

Of course, the use of "blamb" as an interjection came from the Spunky Eclectic group on Ravelry...I'm pretty sure it was originally a misspelling, but with the "b" on the end there, it seemed pretty appropriate to a group centered around fibery pursuits!

BTW, that's Dingo on the left and Vigilance on the right.

Oh, and today, you all get a bonus picture:



When I saw this stamp on my package, my first reaction was "Uh....WTF is that thing??" I looked up Diprotodon on Wikipedia, and apparently, it's the largest marsupial that's ever roamed the earth. Ugly little enormous hippo-sized (OMG, I didn't catch it the first time I looked at the Wiki, but that animal was HUGE!!) cuss, isn't he??

Progress.

progress, originally uploaded by jadis_eoc.

I went up to the sit'n'knit at Anthology in Scranton tonight, and I worked on this spinning project for part of the time. I'm doing very well on this spindle now, which is a minor miracle. I tried to learn on this spindle, and it was just too light...I wasn't ready to spindle this fine at first, and I gave up in frustration and decided that this spindle was going to be more artwork than tool.

I'm loving it now, and I love love love this fiber.