Sarah Jane Humke

The life of a traveling, reading, writing, spining and knitting shepherdess.

I’ve not written a lot about my knitting and crocheting lately for a couple of reasons.  First is that a lot of my crafting lately has been for others, others who sometimes read the blog.  It’s not like they aren’t already pretty sure what they are getting already (cough… baby blankets) but still, I like …

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The past 6 weeks or so have been unbelievably hectic for me.  I am, for all intents and purposes, living in two places.  I feel like I am moving on a weekly basis as I pack-up clothes and kit and go from the apartment to the farm, farm to the apartment.  Between these commutes, I …

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So, in the past month I have been to both The Netherlands and Wales. And I’ve blogged about neither of them. Part of this is that I was total crap about photography on both trips.  On the trip to Wales, I’m pretty sure that my camera never even came out of my backpack!  I don’t …

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Today I mailed off the burrito.  I wanted to get it off as quickly as possible since it is already getting pretty cold up in the great white North.   Here is a picture that I took of the totally completed burrito. Here is another picture with a corner folded over to kind of get …

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Today I hot oiled my spinning wheel. To every female (and I am sure, a few hair conscious males out there) who lived through the early 90’s, this brings up memories of little squirty vials that you were supposed to put in a glass of hot (not boiling) water to “activate” the oil, and then …

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