{ peaceful heart alpacas }

Thanks to everyone for the sweet birthday wishes.

I had a great time on my 37th birthday,

though 37 did a little number on me like no other birthday has.

I was feeling a little like my best years were behind me there for a little while.

Thanks to a wonderful husband, the sweetest sister in the world, and some great friends

I was able to get over it and realize that no matter if I gain a few pounds, wrinkles and gray hairs,


there are still many great years ahead of me, and lots of new adventures to enjoy.

You guys be sure to remind me of those things when 38 rolls around,

because I'm not sure getting older will get any easier.

So on to another subject.

Over the Memorial Day weekend on our trip to the mountains

we made a quick visit to a little alpaca farm just around the corner from my parents cabin.

This was just a cute little mountain home where the owners and their daughter who is a 

fiber spinner decided they would raise their own alpacas for their amazingly soft fiber.

What started out as just a few alpacas grew into a group of 18 males & 18 females.


Here below, are the mother's and babies in a separate pasture.

Here are the alpaca boys coming down the hill to greet us visitors.


We just missed them with their full coats, as they had recently been sheared.


They were so cute with their furry legs and heads and skinny necks and bare bodies.


After visiting the resident fiber providers we went inside to see some of the finished products.


Inside was a small room where they sold imported items all made of alpaca.


There was also a spinning room where they teach classes and show off some of the items made on site.

I've always wanted to learn how to spin my own yarn,


so I may just have to go up another weekend and take one of their classes.


They also teach classes on rug making, dyeing, felting, and weaving on a triangle loom.


The family was super sweet, and I ended up walking away with a skein of yarn


that I'm working into a hat right now, and it's truly the most luxurious fiber I've ever worked with.


I can't wait to finish it, I know it will be a winter favorite, especially in the mountains.


You can check them out here at { Peaceful Heart Alpacas }





Hope you all are having a lovely week.


Tomorrow is my children's last day of school,


so I've been trying to cram as much { shopping }


as possible into my last free days.


Hence my absence from blogdom.



*peace & love*

Carrie