Holda

I work full time as an engineer and have two wonderful energetic boys. We have 2 llamas, 8 shetland sheep, 2 Great Pyrenees and Harry the cat (the fav. animal of course). My husband is a great support for me as a stay-at-home dad. Since I am freed from the 90% of the cleaning, I spend my free time weaving, spinning, sewing along with some knitting. I also am an avid runner, outfield ball player/ball picker upper for the boys, and have begin a new adventure into Ashtanga yoga.

I am a natural fiber snob. I don't like acrylics and surround myself with wools, llama/alpaca, silks, and cottons. I however have extended my tastes to rayon, bamboo, and other types of these various cellulose manmade fibers.

I love an array of colors which tend towards what I call jewel tones. Deep Emerald or jade greens, rich ruby or garnet reds, billiant saphire blues, midnight blues (yep..I deviated from my theme, but hey how otherwise could I explain that color?) and golds. I usually blend these colors with naturals - whites, browns or blacks.

As far as dislikes, pure pastels or colors with greater than 10% pastel if the color is variegated!

All types of chocolate have a tendency to disappear when I am around. However, if someone really pushed me on what I perfer I will admit to rich dark european chocolate.

I also enjoy breads - croissants, sour dough, bagels, baguettes all with gourmet cheese or just plain butter. (I know, I know there isn't really any good way to send these in the mail.)

Any lastly, fresh coffee beans - a good espresso, breakfast blend or south american.

List of items.... -Natural Fiber Rovings, etsy has a great supply. -Smaller glass or semi-precious beads -Natural Yarns -Silk or wool recycled fabric (Goodwill Bins are a great place to go scavenging!) for making quilts -Handmade items (spindles, knitting needles, small sized jewelry, hand drawings/inks/paintings, clay buttons/magnets, ????) - Fabric Ink Dyes, stencils, stamps (I like flowers, leaves, trees, people, no cartoons) - Sewing Magazines

Acrylic yarn - Please DO NOT send me items made of acrylic yarn. If you are unsure if the yarn is acrylic there are two different tests that can be completed.. Burn test - Acrylic countinues to burn when flame is remove and produces a brittle, hard, black bead... Cellulose fibers (cotton, linen, rayon, etc.) smells like paper or grass and produces a gray feathered edge...Protein fibers (wool, alpaca, silk, cashmere) smells like burning hair and produce dark ash::::::::Chlorine test (place warning on jar/warn your family if you do this!!!) - place a small amount of chlroine bleach (do not dilute) in a very small cup/glass, place test yarn in chlorine and wait 24 hours. The protein fibers will disintegrate quickly, the celluose fibers will disintegrate next and acrylic yarn will remain in-tack.