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Nov 29

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BMFA, RSC and Sock Summit Buttons

By popular demand we have created a set of buttons you can use on your blogs, Web sites or emails to let others know about some of the many things Blue Moon is involved in! Below you’ll find the graphics, which you can download and put on your own server, and the HTML code if you’d rather paste that in.

Blue Moon Fiber Arts Blog

Blue Moon Fiber Arts Blog

<a href="http://blog.bluemoonfiberarts.com/"><img src="http://blog.bluemoonfiberarts.com/images/uploads/button_bmfa_blog.jpg" width="150" height="194" border="0" alt="Blue Moon Fiber Arts Blog" /></a>

Rockin’ Sock Club

These graphics are for the 2008 club—the 2009 graphics are coming soon!

I'm in the Rockin' Sock Club! I�(tm)m in the Rockin' Sock Club!

First graphic: <a href="http://www.rockinsockclub.com/" title="I’m in the Rockin’ Sock Club!"><img src="http://rockinsockclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/rsc_member1.gif" alt="I’m in the Rockin’ Sock Club!" border="0" /></a>

Second graphic: <a href="http://www.rockinsockclub.com/" title="I’m in the Rockin’ Sock Club!"><img src="http://rockinsockclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/rsc_member2.gif" alt="I’m in the Rockin’ Sock Club!" border="0" /></a>

Sock Summit 2009

Are you planning to attend? Put the Sock Summit button on your site or profile and let others know so you can arrange to meet some of your favorite knitters in person!

Sock Summit 2009

<a href="http://www.socksummit.com/"><img src="http://www.socksummit.com/images/uploads/button_sock_summit.jpg" style="border: 0;" width="160" height="169" alt="Sock Summit 2009" /></a>

Nov 23

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Sock Summit Update 3 ( where we are now)

We are buried in mounds of virtual paper. Lots and lots of amazing and intriguing class proposals from quite an impressive group of teachers.  Thank you so much for getting these back to us within the deadline. It does help in keeping things moving along and on schedule.

This brings us to the next step, going through all of this knit brilliance, organizing and framing it all into a cohesive and thorough representation of all that is sock knitting from cuff to toe, yarn to needles.

We will be contacting teachers within the next few weeks to go over the details, ask and answer questions, sign contracts, basically setting this part of the stage.

I think this is one of the fun parts like putting together a really big knit puzzle. This class piece goes here and look it fits so nicely with this one and then creates this space… (yeah, call the geek squad).

There are also a fair amount of vendor information sheets that have come in. Debbi is going through these. If you have not sent yours in yet, please do so as soon as possible.

Vendors can expect to hear from us towards the end of December with more information.

Our wonder-web people at Hops Studio are working on the next phase of the website. Cat, Claire, Gail and e few others are pulling together a really exciting KAL that will start very soon and go through the beginning of July.

We are checking the sign up info weekly. Vendor and sponsor info is sent out then, once a week. We are not ready to send out attendee info and probably won’t until after the beginning of the year. for updates please check here. This is the easiest place so far for us to do this. The moderators on the Ravelry group will do their best to answer questions and or bring them to our attention. You can also comment here or email a question to the appropriate addy from the sock summit update 1 post here.

We do have hotel room blocks in the area with Sock Summit discount rates. We will put these up with the next website upgrade. This is why all of the hotels seem full we have them, so don’t panic.

Well, I think that about covers it for now. Off to wade through all of this glorious sock knitting brilliance and talent. There is a lot. There are not enough words to tell you just how privileged I feel to be part of this knit tradition. ok…

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Nov 14

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creative practicality

I can’t sleep. Well, that is not completely accurate. I can sleep for about 4 to 5 hours then I am awake. Wide awake. Some eternal alarm has gone off and my brain is raring to go. (My body is so very unhappy with my brain.)

This is not a new phenomenon for me. I have dealt with this all throughout my life. Usually it means that I have something weighing on me, am too stressed or I have some creative urge that needs expressing that just cannot seem wait.

I believe this current bout of alertness is because I do not have enough time alone. Enough time and space where there is absolute no outside input. Also, I am in a pretty huge creative flux and these tend to make me restless. A powerful combination of internal need .

So here I am at 3:58 in the am pst sitting on my comfortable couch in front of a roaring fire all cozy and toasty and quiet. (nice huh) The only sound is the keyboard and the crackling of the fire.  Absolute bliss, I can hear myself loud and clear. Can follow a whole and complete thought process all the way through.

I can sit here and stare into the fire for the minute or three it might take catch the hint of the next thread from that initial spark of an idea all the way down to its conclusion or at least right up against the next thread.

I have been playing this need of mine and the time I have to chisel out of my life to get it, as a luxury and not a necessity. Recently in a conversation with a friend who has this same issue, ( I believe, there are a few of us ) we realized that we were portraying this all wrong. Since we both make our living around being creative than it would stand to reason that time for introspection, time to observe, time to process would be not just necessary but crucial.  I would not be able to support my family without this time to be inspired by the world around me.  The time to then process this stimulus and communicate it through whatever medium is my current canvas.

The practical parts of life often take priority over this need. Running a business and a family, being a wife, a friend, a mother.  I find it compelling and a bit disturbing, that although I seem to realize this as a crucial part of making this all work. I still do not list it as a practical part of it all. I am not seeing it thoroughly enough as something that makes the other pieces richer, deeper and whole, or to even exist.

Where would we be without this part of life-truly?  I for one would be up the proverbial creek without a paddle.  Where would we be without the color, poetry and music of life? What would our days and worlds look like?  I know one thing, some of us would be knitting with white yarn. Yikes!

The other natives here are stirring so it must be time to be practical.

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Nov 11

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Henry gets his Grinch on

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And yes, he is on the couch. His most favorite place to be

Nov 7

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again with the knitting…

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…and with pond scum

what could be better?

Nov 5

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Sock Summit Update 2

As of this evening we have sent out all of the Teacher proposals,the Sponsorship information and the Vendor information requests.

Because we send them as bulk emails they sometimes get spammed out so please check your Junk email boxes for our notices.

We also had a bit of a glitch with the sponsorship email. Something about plain text and then it plugging it into the teacher form instead. We resent these this evening.

I apologize to those of you that will receive duplicate emails because of this little tech-glitch.

It will take us awhile to go through all of these emails so bear with us. If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact us.

It would be helpful if you could add the email addy that you are expecting email from us to your address book.

This will ensure that our notices get to you in a timely manner and that you will not miss out.

Stay tune more info to come soon!

Nov 1

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSIE

Did everyone have a good time trick or treating? 

I saw the cutest 8yr old (?) gypsy last night. So cute all heads turned, every eye was on her. Watching her reminded me of all of my own different dress up choices as a child.

As I was thinking back through them I realized that I usually chose to dress up as one of the same three, gypsy ( my favorite, lots of color and bells), witch (love the spells and black) or hobo ( easy!). The hobo came from stories my beloved grandfather told me.

Which made me wonder if this is true for most of us and what it says if anything, about who we are as “grown-ups”.

Which brings us to today, the day after Halloween. The day we are all recovering from our costume wearing partying and massive sugar highs.

A day that we all here in Blue Moon land celebrate heartily. The day the Rosanna Donna Richmond was born exactly 21 years ago.

If you knew Rosie you would get the awesome symmetry of her birthday being the day after Halloween.

Let me tell you a bit about this extraordinary young woman.

Rosebud (nickname) loves life and lives it to its fullest. She appreciates all those moments that most of us miss. I love how she can take something that appears mundane and make it magical.

She does not believe in maps because you never know what you will run across when you are “lost”. Because lost is a state of mind and certainly not a state she resides in.

Rosie is one of the sweetest and loving souls I have run across and being in her presence just makes you happy.

She is named after the Gilda Radner character in SNL.

She loves music–LOVES music and is a loyal fan for the bands that she follows.  She loves robots, zombies and super heroes and…chickens. She dresses up all the time. She and her friends pick themes and dress up and wander the streets of Portland,

shedding light and happiness to all they encounter. My absolute favorite is her super-hero costumes.

I went into the barn this week looking for pacing/thinking room. She wanted to know what was up . I told them I was trying to come up with a photo prop for the monkey contest.

She looks at me with excitement sizzling in her eyes and says, “ Tina!  I have my superhero costume in the car?! (the, well duh is implied in her tone)

Look she was soo right.

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Here she is our very own Agent Awesome at her best!

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Where she knits in a lift at the World Forestry Center, feeds the giant squirrels and cracks us all up at Camp! Oh, and the top one where she is dusting monkeys!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ROSIE!! 

WE LOVE YOU LOTS!!!