Some pictures

Finally got some pictures on here!  This year I took a break from kidding any cashmeres and just bred the two dairy goats. Sprinkles had triplets on March 30th. Cute little squirts. Toffee, Sprinkles' sister, is due mid-May.  They are a total mix of breeds. The Doe is a mix of just about every dairy breed, plus a little Kiko and Boer thrown in. The buck is an Alpine Nigerian Dwarf cross. I think these kids have a bit of everything.  Their ears sure are cute! 

Here are the baby blankets I wove on the floor loom, (they are just displayed on the rigid heddle loom), for John's niece who had a baby boy on the 4th of this month. Got the "happy baby" 8/2 cotton color kit from Cotton Clouds and wove these up using my own design. Hopefully they get well used!   

This is an interesting cloud formation in the valley below our house. I took this picture from the hill behind our house.  I swear this is a real photo, taken with my phone, no photo shopping or AI used.  It was kinda spooky, very cool, the ETs are here!  

And lastly, here's a fairly recent picture of Skippy at about 18 months old.  We got him to be an LGD, but that he is not.  He chases the goats whenever he can, he goes after the chickens.  I can't trust him around any of the animals.  John likes him, otherwise he'd be in a new home.  He might end up in a new home anyway if he doesn't shape up.   

I do have a new online shop up and running.  I gave up on Etsy.  They have become too big, too focused on shareholder profits and don't seem to really care about handmade anymore.  Just who sells the cheapest, most product. I'm not selling my items cheaply. I'd rather keep them myself or give as gifts than lose money just to make a sale.  I put way too many hours and work into making these to sell at a loss, that doesn't even make sense.  I get very little profit as it is at the prices I do sell them for, just slightly above breaking even.  So I closed my etsy shop and moved to Go Imagine.  

Go Imagine is only in the USA so far, but since I haven't sold anything to any other country for a couple of years, that's ok. Everybody is squawking about the tariffs here, but other countries have had pretty steep tariffs on goods from here for years. Customers pay way more in taxes and shipping to get my products than the actual item costs. The link for it is: New Shop   I have 10 items in there now, and I plan to add 10 more soon.  Adding a listing takes a while, there are a lot of things to fill out, pictures to add, and all of that. I still don't seem to be able to take a good product photo for the life of me.  I can get pretty good photos of scenery, animals and all of that, but my creations? Not so much.  Don't know why that is, but I keep practicing.  One of these days...

Well, that's it for now.  Please check out my shop and let me know what you think about it. I'll make myself a note to check back here for comments, which I always forget to check.  I write a post, then forget about it till the next post.  Not a good way to do a blog. 

 I'll be adding some more things pretty soon.  Maybe some handspun cashmere yarns, and some kitchen towels made out of cotton.  

Have a great day and thanks for reading this!