One little word

You know how they say it only takes one negative comment to undo ten good ones?

It's totally true.

I know in beautiful, but one asshole callin me fat-not even directly- and I'vealready  forgotten about all the compliments I got last night when I dressed up. I had been waiting since 6 o clock the night before to get all dressed up, and one idiot ruins it the next day with cheap bully tactics.

And the worst part is, nothing I say makes me feel any better. I just feel pathetic for needing to be my own cheerleader.

It'll pass. The hurt of one moment is gone the next. I'm just angry that this is even a thing. Yes, I'm overweight, even for my build, but if I was "fit" I'd be a 14 at best- still plus size, still a stigma. And I hate it, and it's stupid and it's wrong. And I'm angry.

And I don't know how to fix it. 

FiberFest!

Went to the Kentucky Sheep and Fiber Festival today!

 You can't tell, but this has really gorgeous golden flecks throughout.

 These two groups came from a booth called Unique Sheep that sells color gradients for shawls. Should be gorgeous when they're worked up. Cait's planning gold beads for this one...

 And has a really great set of green-blue contrast beads for this set.

 That's it for the yarn - we mostly go to Fiber Fest for ...well, fiber. Four pounds of white for dyeing. (Yes, FOUR pounds).

 And a few more pounds of natural tones for a project of mine.

Then this lovely bunch of locks for something R.O.C.K. (roller girls of central Kentucky) themed.

 I'm REALLY excited about these locks. :P I'm also really excited about my three new Angelinas (sparkly fibers for working into other yarns)

 I have a really great blue tonal yarn to go with this.

And while it's hard to do it justice, this black angelina is lovely. :)

But this is my favorite. I tried really hard to get some different shots to show all the shades. It's green and gold and kinda bronzey, depending on teh light. I'm super excited to work with it.

Great day for birds

Yesterday was a great day for birds. I guess between the storm, and the fact that I was delivering around dusk, made for lots of rare sightings for me.

I saw my first brown-headed cowbird:


And my first yellow breasted chat


And while the barn swallow wasn't a new one for me, I don't see them too much around here.


Yay birds!