Sarah Jane Humke

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

This is what my weekend was about:             It was all about babies and friends getting married and drinking and eating.     This is why I love to visit Chicago. It holds most of those nearest and dearest to me.         Even the newest ones are …

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This weekend was a busy one for me. My husband and I flew to California, me from Orlando, he from London, for a wedding. The wedding was for, well, two people whom I had never met before, but my husband seems to like them and he is generally not wrong about folks (with one pretty …

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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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