Been playing with my fibre stash again

I had almost a whole day available to craft today and I had a great day, but it could have been better if I had managed to shut up the voice inside me telling me it was all a waste of time. It has been a few weeks since I've let that little voice critique my work and honestly I am a little ashamed that I let that negativity taint what was an otherwise great day.   As I'm sat here writing this I realise I'm giving it power all over again- instead of happily sharing some of the results of today's work I'm thinking about that negative voice.  Nice try Ms Negative, but I'm not listening to you tonight- so there :P

When I was looking through my stash boxes this morning I had an image in my head of a rich forest but my hands weren't drawn to greens, no, because inside that forest I could see a beautiful fae dancing- her colourful hair flying out behind her as she swirled. (I think I was inspired by some amazing pictures I saw on facebook by a new friend with soooo much talent).

Wool fibre of purples, pinks and wine reds, were carded with hand-dyed locks (stray curls escaping her joyful dreads) and lots of sparkly angelina to make the above batts.

I spun this fast and relaxed, purposefully allowing thick and thin spots, letting the fibre just tell my fingers how it wanted to be spun, adding a sprinkling of tiny roses along the way.

I then plyed this with a sparkly red thread, because you can never have enough sparkles and I am in love with the finished yarn, I'm calling 'A little bit Fae'

I also did some dyeing with kool-aid- I sooooo need more colours of this than I could get at tesco and made some little candle holders for those small spell candles you can get.  I have some beeswax ones I want to use for Litha and no holders for them. My first time working with air-drying clay and to be honest I was pretty rough and ready with it but pictures may be forthcoming when they're dried and painted up.