Oh Happy Day!

We got the van today! Yay yay yay yay! SQUEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!

After a miserable two weeks of car problems, we got the minivan G's parents were replacing! It was like once we found out that they were going to sell it to us when they found a new one, we had one problem with the Buick after another. The car is old, and it has been a decent car, don't get me wrong, but did it have to freak out and start breaking right after we found out we'd be getting an unbelievable deal on their old one???

Anyhow, that's all over and done with! And I am jumping for joy!

My hands are hurting most of the time now. I'm not sure if the therapy is making things better or not. It feels like it's not but is this a case of "you gotta feel worse before you feel better"? I don't really know how this works, obviously.

I've been playing around with Kool-Aid and food/icing color dyeing. I've only done the microwave method so far but want to try Crock-Pot and stovetop dyeing. The microwave way is really easy so if I continue to do any of this or try to do like so many others and make the attempt to sell my work, I'll probably keep doing it that way. But I want experience with the alternative methods under my belt.

I tried to make a funky blue and yellow combination using McCormick food colors. The actual combo failed but turned into a great colorway that if I can duplicate it will be called Spring Grass. It's got light and medium greens in it and some yellow and chartreuse.

I tried some Wilton's Royal Blue icing dye and that gave me a lovely mottled turquoise which I'm knitting up right now to see how it looks.

Last night, I got the most fantastic chartreuse using the McCormick's. This will be repeated. If I start selling, it will be one of my permanent colors. It turned out gawh-jussss! I'm planning on making up a special batch of that for a certain sweetie WHO REALLY DESERVES IT.

But my hands are arguing that I need to stop typing. Boo. :(