Happy Friday

Fridays are a good day around here.  I'm usually elbow deep in the dye pots and working on October House stuff, listening to Pandora and thinking about a delicious dinner.

Friday Favorites : Fire

Flickr Collage : Fire

1. Fireplace, 2. firepit, 3. Backyard Firepit - 4 October 2008, 4. The Fireplace, 5. Fireplace, 6. Firewood, 7. In the fireplace, 8. Firewood 2, 9. Firewood, 10. Making a fire in the outside fireplace, 11. __firewood__, 12. fireplace, 13. Firewood

Before we moved into our current house, I never really gave much thought to a fireplace or having a fire.  But since the house came with a big fireplace, we used it.  Now I can't imagine having a house without at least one fireplace.  We love to have a fire in the evenings, especially.  Our fireplace has an insert that has a blower on it, so we can use it warm the front half of the house.

Most people I talk to seem to think dealing with the wood is a chore, but we enjoy it.  You really can't beat the sound of a crackling wood fire.

And, what's better than a campfire on a cool evening?  We'll be doing some car camping in New England next spring, and we're looking forward to the campfires and roasting marshmallows!

Do you enjoy a wood fire?

Friday Favorites : Gold Yarn

I've decided to 'borrow' a blog post idea from one of my favorite blogs, Chiot's Run.  She is always posting her Friday Favorites (more along the garden variety) and I think that's a great idea.  Only with a more fiber-y bent to it.

So my first Friday Favorite is gold yarn.  I love this color of yarn.  All the way from bright and brassy, to antiqued and aged, I gravitate to this color over and over...and over.

Do you have a yarn color that you gravitate to?