Birthday!

March 27, 2012 will mark the first anniversary of this blog.  Writing posts on a regular basis has helped me to sharpen my thoughts on my meditation, yoga and fibre practices.

I enjoy writing and appreciate the opportunity to reach anyone interested in these subjects.  As a "thank you" to my readers and in celebration of the past year, I'd like to offer a small gift to a reader:

"Heart Like a Wheel" is my guide to beginning a spinning meditation practice.  It's a 40 page manual (plastic cover, spiral bound, black and white photos) of spinning and meditation exercises and resources, including three simple knitting patterns to help you along your way.  (One of the patterns is not included in my blog patterns.)  If you take my "Heart Like a Wheel" workshop at Olds Fibre Week 2012, you'll be given a copy of the manual; otherwise, I'll be selling copies privately.  Click on the links for more information about Fibre Week 2012 and my workshop.

If you would like to win a copy of the guide, send me a message here telling me which of my posts most caught your attention and why-good or bad, either way is fine.  I would also like to know your favourite colour. Just because.

If the winner is in North America, she'll receive a hardbound copy of the manual.  An international winner will get a PDF copy of the guide, because Canadian postage rates are, well, brutally high. 

The winner will be chosen randomly, by me.  You have until March 27th to enter.  I'll announce the winner on the blog and ask you to send me a land address or email addy privately. 

Thanks, everyone, and Namaste!

 

I Will Remember You

We returned home from Olds last night, tired but happy.  It was a great week.  I'm still unpacking and sorting, but I'll give you a photo exhibit of some of the action.  We were at this beautiful campus, with flora:

and fauna:

There was knitting:

and weaving:

and spinning, of course.  Lots and lots of spinning:

There was the Saskatchewan contingent at the Spin In:

Some of us were very young:

We could buy a lot of stuff:

There was a Fashion Show with beautiful hand spun, hand knitted lace wedding ring shawls:

and wonderful art pieces:

I worked on my bat cape.  Here, the bats are nearly out of the belfry:

They finally made it, so Judi Dixon took this picture:

We had a wonderful time.  Thanks to all the kind souls who came to the spinning meditation workshops and allowed me the honour of practicing with them.  I'll post more on Fibre Week later, but now, I'm off for a good, long sleep.

Namaste.