OMG, I'm getting worse at this...not better!

So I've been selling online for about 4 months now, and I seem to be getting worse at naming my products...not better! My thanks to all of my Etsy forum friends and my friends at MaryJane's Farm for helping with the Watermelon Yarn Dilemna. I did go ahead and remove the "icky-sticky" watermelon picture, and was just ready to take a new pic of a whole melon with the yarn...when the yarn sold! Hahaha...things just happen that way sometimes! Now I have this huge watermelon with nothing to photograph with it...Oh well, (munch, munch, munch) I'll just have to deal with it!

I would appreciate your help with this new yarn. It's not quite red, and not quite rose, and not quite pink. It reminds me of something, but I'm blocked as to what???? Any ideas?

Watermelon Yarn?

I've made this new yarn and I've named it Watermelon. I really love the name because it just fits so well, and I think this pic really showcases the colors. In the picture, though, it looks as though the yarn is touching the watermelon...trust me, it's not!

So here's the question. Does the fact that I took this picture with the yarn so close to the watermelon make the yarn look "sticky"? It's just that whenever I think of watermelon (and I do often this time of year, yum!) I can almost feel that sticky feeling on my fingers...of course maybe not everyone is as messy as me when it comes to eating watermelon! What do you think?

I Am in a Treasury!

I am so lucky to have been featured in this gorgeous Fall Treasury by merkabajewelry! I'm still working on figuring out how to take a "print screen" and turn it into a picture, so until I do here is the link to the treasury. Check it out if you get a moment! Woo Hoo!

http://www.etsy.com/treasury_list.php?room_id=1747

OK, now that I've got THAT out of my system...here's some of my new yarn for you to take a gander at. I'm branching out and using a little more wool in my yarns. The idea is to give them a bit more body and general "squishiness", and the colors I'm able to dye are...well, "to DIE for"! Sorry, I've always been a sucker for puns! Any comments would be appreciated.

Funny thing about goats...

So this is my newest yarn, it's the color of these flowers, hence the name "Zinnias". Well I thought it would be a catchy idea to get a picture of the goat who produced the mohair eating a zinnia...simple, right? First I looked Zinnias up on the internet under "poisonous/non-poisonous plants", and no problem there. Well good. Next, I had to catch the goat. Funny thing about goats, when you have grain or just plain don't want to be bothered, they are all lovey-dovey like they haven't seen you in 5 years. But as soon as you want them to do something, forget it. If you haven't tried dosey-doing around the goat yard with a 75 pound running hairball, you haven't lived. And the worse part about catching a goat who does not want to be caught, is that they tend to be "drama queens". As soon as you catch one, they bray continually and at full lung capacity so that the entire countryside thinks you are slaughtering the poor thing! Well, we got through that part, not fun in 90 degree weather but typical, and haltered up the goat. I am not an expert photographer, and knew I had to halter her if I had a prayer of getting this shot before she ate the flowers. Next I brought out the zinnias and waited for her to gobble them up. Nothing. "Yum!" I said, encouragingly. Nothing but the chomping of dry grass. As it turns out, goats do not like zinnias, no matter how safe and nourishing they may be. This shot was actually a result of cheating. I called her name, stuffed in the zinnia and got the shot before she was able to spit it out. If nothing else I've proven I still have my dexterity, even at 50!