Pardon my absence from the blog — I’ve had a remarkably busy summer so far! Last week my mother and I traveled to Guatemala with my non-profit of choice, Build a Nest. We went to visit our micro-bartering groups in Guatemala City and the Lake Atitlan region. While Guatemala has low numbers of sheep and [...]
Archive for the ‘Process’ Category
The Yurt Alert Goes on Vacation — Guatemala Style
July 16, 2010
The Wool is Clean…sort of
June 9, 2010
Great progress was made on the yurt this Memorial Day! I took out all three HUGE bags of Dorset from the barn, set up a ramshackle skirting table and voila — we got to work. We listened to some good tunes and while my mom and dad tried to stay away and not help me [...]
Sheep, Morocco Style
April 27, 2010
When I left for Morocco I knew that I’d be meeting with the weavers in Midelt that Nest works with on product design and development but I never really stopped to think where their wool came from until we got there. It turns out that Hayat and her cooperative don’t own their own sheep but [...]
Busy Sunday!
March 1, 2010
Today I made some major headway on the yurt’s donor rewards because I had the energy and extra hands of my new yurt intern, Cady! As of last weekend I had finished all of the individual mini-yurt gifts and had begun work on the sets of 15…but still had hundreds more mini yurts to go! [...]
Woman After My Own Heart
December 9, 2009
One of my favorite things is coming across people who are also crocheting/knitting with large “yarn” or things that they improvise as yarn! Via Design*Sponge last night I came upon Jean Lee of Ladies and Gentleman. Jean is making what she calls the Mega Doily seen in the photos below out of cotton rope. Look [...]
Weekend Sheep
October 30, 2009
It’s Friday evening, the fundraising has hit 35% and it’s Halloween tomorrow — how does the day get better? The answer is with a peaceful photo of sheep on the water from Swans Island. I got some scary news on the wool we have up in NH today — the mice have found it and [...]
Sheep: Shear Joy
October 28, 2009
Today I’ve been getting a lot of yurt love, largely driven from a great write up on the project over at The Daily Green! As a way of keeping my karma in check I wanted to post about Heifer International, which, if yurt’s aren’t your donation of choice, allows you to “gift” animals to people [...]
Yurt of Dreams
October 12, 2009
If we build it people will definitely show up… That was what we learned this weekend at the NH Wool Arts Tour: http://www.woolartstournh.com/ We went to five of the six stops on the tour, met with Jennifer from the Mill, got some great ideas for where to source our fiber from AND learned there is [...]
Green the Lean
October 6, 2009
They say, “imitation is the sincerest form of flattery” — but what about gentle mocking, does that count? I think so! And thanks to my friend Anthony I can now say, I’m being mocked, in a good way. Today he posted to his satirical blog a post entitled, “Green the Lean,” which made me laugh [...]
Kickstarter Fundraising is Live
October 5, 2009
I know everyone has been waiting with anticipation to find their own way to get involved with the yurt other than by coming to New Hampshire and learning to felt — well now you can! I’ve launched my fundraising site through Kickstarter.com, a great crowdsourced funding startup that enables creative projects to be realized. You [...]
