In the naughty corner & taking it....easy-ER...

Some of the many get well gifts and signs of support friends have sent to me. Thank you all from the bottom of my heart!

So sorry I have not been blogging lately and keeping you up to date about all the things happening. Safe to say life is tough at the moment but with the amazing help and support of Paul, his dad, my sis in law and my dear dear friends it makes it all easier to bear and to fight. I have to say that in times like these you get to know who is there for you and, well...who isn't. I imagine "coming out" like I did was maybe too confronting for some people and they did not seem to cope with the emotional side of it...I am truly sorry if I made anybody feel uncomfortable.

However, I feel that it did save my sanity and help open up doors to a new way of life dealing with cancer and being forced into childlessness...(I hope that is a word...). I am committed to make a change! not only in my life but also to help other women who are going through or have been going through ordeals like this. I will focus on healing myself first but will keep you posted on the start up of the Ixchel Women Support Organisation: dealing with cancer & infertility. I have many ideas, hopes and goals and wish to share and help others more than anything. If you would like to be a part of this please drop me a line. All help is welcomed and the more people are engaged in this effort, the more help and change will be possible.

Anyway, my op is going to be on Tuesday the 24th and although it is creeping up on me at lightning speed I can remain calm-ish...lol. I have to say I had a very hard time after the pre-admission session last Friday where I was poked and prodded and tested etc....they were all very nice so that is not the alarming bit...the awful traumatising unnerving aspect of it was that the doc said I might be pregnant, which just totally destroyed me (hence the not blogging). You can imagine that this kind of information was devastating especially since the outcome would not have a happy ending. Meditation and QiGong has helped tremendously.

I will be in hospital for at least 7 to 10 days and Paul will be taking care of the animals and everything concerning yarn and fibre in the mean time. Please email him or send him a message via the http://www.ravelry.com/ ixchelbunny group. He will certainly appreciate your support ! I have been working on finishing orders and yeah! I have finished all the orders, all the clubs are ready to be sent in the first week of December by Paul who has agreed to become my "fibre Hagrid"...lol

I will post an update of all the yarns and special fibres I have been prepping in the first and second week of december as well so you can drool pre-X-mas style :)

We have been doing some burning off pre-fire season (some fire photos to be posted on www.flickr.com/ixchelbunny later:) ) and this photo was taken of Jazz and Doris watching the fire from a safe distance...as you can see Doris'safe distance was greater than Jazz's..lol

Now you all must be wondering what the naughty corner was all about... well, Skye , who is still living in the studio with her mum Topping and her sibblings Elvis and Kabooki is an escape artist. She can jump the enclosure in the studio and hops to her favourite corner in the kitchen/office where she can flop nicely on the tiles in between the chair and the office paper bin...and what is really amazing...she can hop in as well ! she is so clever! oh and did I mention CUTE? lol

Again, thank you all for your support ! I could not do it without you ! Lots of love and see you again soon after my op ! Thanks for being part of my incredible journey :)

Lots of love and

HUGE HUGS!

Charly

Energy, sweet Bunnies and lots more

"We join spokes together in a wheel,
but it is the center hole
that makes the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot
But it is the emptiness inside
That holds whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a house
But it is the inner space
That makes it livable."
—Tao Te Ching

I have been working hard..nooo not working hard like usual on dyeing, spinning and weaving and trying to keep up with orders-although I have been getting the funky bunny batt club batts done! yeah!!! and I am finishing weaving two Maya wraps I had orders for. No!... what I have really been working hard on is myself...my inner self, and about time too since the inner me was kind of falling to pieces trying to make sense of it all: the cancer, the trauma, the loss.

The one thing that made absolute sense was that the more desperate or angry I got, the less energy or power I felt. "Done and no more!", I said to myself. No more looking like a pug dog = puffy eyes with a complementary snotty nose although some people might think that is sooo cuuuuuute!..lol

I started doing my Tibetan Buddhist meditations again (which I have neglected for so long) and after Veronica, my sweet compassionate friend, took me to see her QiGong master, I have been practicing some (very basic, mind you..) QiGong exercises.....I have calmed down. I bet if you take my bloodpressure now it has come down to almost normal levels instead of the 175 over 112 it was after the shock of discovering I had cancer and the loss of hope of ever having a baby. Still a long way to go but at least I feel like I am DOING something, thinking positive and getting energy.

While doing my QiGong exercises, I have noticed how beautiful our grapefruit tree is flowering and how gorgeous it smells! I wish you could smell these pictures :) Needless to say I am overdosing on grapefruit juice at the moment: yummy! More amazing photos of our trees and flowers on the Ixchel fibre farm on flickr :)

Grapefruit in the making

It would be a lie ofcourse to say I have done nothing else...you know me by now...I have convinced Paul to help me paint the bedroom..which we finished Tuesday! The whole house when we bought it , you have to know this, is a shade of Salmon going off mixed with some beige and pink...not my idea of Oh "!what a gorgeous colourscheme let's paint the whole house like that!".

However, then you move in and the painting and re-doing the house your own way kind of falls to pieces because other stuff comes up that is more urgent. So we have been living in an off-salmon house now for two years. Since I will probably be seeing more of the bedroom than ever before I convinced Paul that now is the time to make that a room that you would love to be in! Well, why didn't we do it sooner!!!? Coz it looks absolutely warm, beautiful, spiritual and so,wel...cozy ! We painted the room in deep red called red Heart, Tiger eye orange and plum Fun purple). Here is a photo of how it looks now:

Bunny News

All the bunnies are doing great! Skye is such a naughty extrovert bunny she is making everybody smile! Every time you walk past her she stands on her hind legs , looking up at you with her cute eyes and seems to say:"C'mon! gimme a cuddle and hey a nice bit of silverbeet would be nice tooo! "..lol

Skye "gimme a cuddle...C'mon!"

Topping, Skye and Elvis

I have taken some gorgeous close ups of some of our angora bunnies and there are more to be seen on www.flickr.com/phots/ixchelbunny.

Flopsy

Ookie munching on his favourite piece of wood :)

Max was feeling a bit under the weather this week, Probably because she needs to have a haircut. Both Pippi and Max who share a bunny appartment together, have a tendency to totally stop eating and get very lethargic when it is almost hairclip time. The photo at the beginning of this blog is one of Pippi and Max snuggling up together :) I am planning to give them their much needed haircut tomorrow :)

Ixchel Yarns & Fibres

I was planning on doing some dyeing, but I painted the bedroom instead...lol. However, I know that there are a lot of you out there who would like to have natural coloured fibres and tops to play with as well, be it knitting or weaving or even dyeing themselves. So , I have made a list this week of natural yarns and fibres I have in stock for you and I can offer them to you at a fab price as well. Here they are:

Fibres

Pure white Fine Angora Bunny Tops....AU$19/50grams

Pure white Norwegian tops.....AU$10/100grams

Pure white Mulberry Peace silk tops (fair trade) .......AU$9/25grams

Pure white Blue Faced Leicester Bunny and Seacell (seaweed!!)tops (very limited supply!) .......AU$19/100g

Natural Baby Camel tops.....AU$30/100g

Natural baby camelbunny and silk tops (limited supply!) ......AU$36/100g

YARNS

Natural bunny shetland sockweight yarn (+/-300-340meters/100g)........AU$15/90-100g skeins

Bunny shetland yarn

Natural Blue faced leicester bunny sockweight yarn, amazing lustre and great to work with! (+/- 350meters/100g).....AU$20/100g

Luxurious Mulberry Peace silk lace weight tightly spun yarn (+/- 1300meters/100g)....AU$35/100g

Tightly spun Mulberry Peace Silk Lace Yarn

Please feel free to contact me via email ixchel@rabbit .com.au or message ixchelbunny on http://www.ravelry.com/ at any time to ensure you got your natural fibre fix :) or if you are after something else...

Tomorrow all the Funky Bunny Batts will be posted to all our funky bunny members! YEAH!!!! and it is looking very yummeeeeeee:))

Since I will be heading to pre admission at the hospital on Friday (yeah yeah I know, the 13th!!!!) there will be no update next friday, but keep an eye on this space because I will be keeping all of you informed of what is going on and I will have some hand dyed yummy fibres and yarns for you to drool over again soon!

I will be going to the Arts Centre market on Sunday for the last time this year. So if you want to say Hi! come and have a chat and cuddle some fibres and yarns :) Paul will be at the Sunday Arts Centre market for me in December so there is still a chance of a yarn cuddle on the second and third week of December !

Halloween Fibre & Bunny Fix

I cannot believe it is THAT time of the year again! The year has flown passed and now it is ready to pass the pumpkin, practical jokes and watch funny scary movies :) I like funny scary movies...call me weird, but I do...I do not like the slash and gore kind of stuff but somewhere inside there is defenitely a goth hiding waiting to come out...lol. Yep I like FUN Gothic stuff :) you know the Tim Burton style wonderful magic of reality revisited...quirky! that's it.. quirky gothic...

I have not done that much so there is a very limited supply. Having to take it easy sucks, but it appears that something tapped in my energy supply ...lol...and pulled the heavy duty energetic plug out and I am in "green mode" or energy saving mode :) (more on all my "stuff"at the end of this blog.....

The baby bunnies are doing absolutely amazing and they have the most wonderful drooping earfluff now. Here are some photos:

Skye, is an amazingly extrovert naughty quirky bunny and gorgeous too !

Kabookie is just like her mum, very gentle and sweet and laid back.

She loves to cuddle up to her sisters and then gets a huge sneeze attack

because all the fluff gets up her nose...lol

Anyway, I am babbling but that is the theme of this fibre update. so let's get drooling right now :)

Here they are:

Hand dyed Wensleydale Tops 100g/AU$20

Alice in Wonderland SOLD

Edward Scissorhands SOLD

Frankenweenie SOLD

Mars Attacks! SOLD

Sleepy hollow SOLD

Natural Wensleydale ! Super deal: 100g/AU$14

Ghost

Hand dyed Bunny Shetland sockweight yarn

(4ply, 300-340m per 100g, super nice for socks but also for shawls !

hmmmmyum yum!) 90-100gram skeins for the amazing price of AU$23 !!!!

normally AU$26

Beetlejuice SOLD

Bluebeards haunted castle SOLD

Frankensteins bride ("c'mon Melbourne I thought u liked greys&blacks..lol)

Werewolf of London SOLD

WereRabbit SOLD

Ixchelbunny news update

It has been rough again last week...I went to the hospital for a scan as you know and saw the oncologist last Tuesday...the diagnosis was confirmed (hey, why couldn't it all have been a mistake eh? like: "surprise! April Fools day!.we just wanted to check out your stress behaviour."..after which ofcourse I would have punched them in the ....proverbial....eh.....nose...lol)....so yes ,,hospital and a big operation it is in two or three weeks time .

..and guess when I have to go to pre admission? yep FRIDAY THE FRICKIN 13th! Howz that !? anybody have a black cat that I can take along with me ?lol I am calmer about it now but I totally freaked out and collapsed when I heard which "bits" had to go(all and more and maybe radiotherapy after)....sigh...it is just utterly impossible to imagine and yet...you know what?

Doing all the reserach, reading other peoples stories, talking to so many survivors and friends of....makes one thing absolutely clear: too many women are suffering, too many women have been through what I am going through or worse, there are too many women that have suffered in silence,,,mostly...and I am angry! I am sad! I am at a loss but most of all I want to fight! There have been medical breakthroughs for so many things. There has been so much money going into research for...okay , I am going to say it ....although men will hold it against me ...hopefully not literally...lol....Viagra, etc, etc, etc... (I know it is a hard topic...ooops pardon the pun...lol) , but here are some figures to sink your teeth into and think about how women are affected by cancer qand all the rest of what is called "female problems"....be it ovarian, breast-, uterine or cervical cancer, polyps, fibroids, cysts....Every 10 minutes there are 12 women that undergo a hysterectomy! (in the USA, I could not find any statistics for Australia). ONE in three women over 60 have had a hysterectomy !

All I can say and ask of you is please , please have check ups ! It is better to have them more often than not at all..If it wasn' t for my stubborn behaviour and 'wanting to have a family, my "condition" would have easily have gone undetected for months, years maybe!

Thank you all for showing me so much compassion, understanding and support ! I would not be able to handle this enormous task ahead of me without you all !

Thank you so much for making a difference !!!

Love & Peace to you all :))

Hugs,Charly

Somewhere between no Whoopee! and a wet blanket...

It has been a long time for me between blogs and markets and with a huge big reason....I wish I could tell you I won the lottery and was off scuba diving in some tropical paradise. This blog is going to be personal.. a lot..but since I have always been an advocate of the "straight to the point-no beating around the bush" handling of things, I am going to give it to you straight: (stop reading here if you don't wanna know...lol)......................

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Anyway...while going through tests for fertility treatment after having so many miscarriages, I was diagnosed just last Monday with cancer.........there !......I said it.

It has been the toughest, hardest, most heart breaking thing I have ever had thrown in my face. It is HUGE. Not only the impact of never having children (which at this time seems to hurt me the most) but the whole magnitude of things: operations, not being able to work !(huge for me as a work a holic with her own business ...lol...)...and and so so much more, so many questions...so many "what about the animals, the day to day stuff, normality?...everything.....

For all of you out there who have sent me cards, and gifts (Kylie your chocolate came just at the right time!!!! :) a big hug sweetie!, and Juleen: I am wearing the gorgeous heart necklace to keep me grounded and to Steph: yes I will defenitely sink my teeth into the Provence books soon !) and sending me so so many hugs and healing thoughts: Thank you so so much! It makes me feel I am not alone in this nightmare.

I had a ct scan done yesterday to get to the bottom of the severity (they injected me with some "dyes" so I probably lit up in the dark last night, which would made life a lot easier should the power have failed ...lol). Thank you so much Veronica for holding my hand and the chat while they were poking their needles in me ...and driving me back home ! Hope the kids love their yummy Dutch aniseed drink ! :))

Anyway, as you can see I am getting on with things, I am trying to keep positive and most importantly to have a fighting spirit and a good sense of humour attacking this situation head on. Before all the treatments start and the operation (probably next month) , I am doing my best to finish orders, and getting all the clubs ready. I also have prepared some yummy fibre and yarn for you to drool over and stalk :) and although I will be taking it a lot A LOT easier (otherwise Paul will tie me down...lol) I will still be blogging and spinning and doing some mini dyeing sessions every now and again to keep my spirits up and yours! and trying to pay the bills that will keep coming in now more than ever I imagine...lol...

Email me anytime or pm me on http://www.ravelry.com/ to place an order or to have a chat.

Thanks again for everything and Love and Peace to all!

Mulberry Silk yarn, hand spun & dyes, plyed with gold thread AU$32/50+grams, +/- 75-90meters

Dapper sold

Ducky

Flapper

Heebie Jeebies

Hotsie Totsies sold

Giggle Water

Australian Heritage Mohair hand spun and hand dyed

AU$35/140grams +/- 180meters

Paradise

Baby Shetland Bunny tops Natural AU$18/100g

Baby Shetland Hand dyed Tops AU$20/100g

BearCat sold

BigSix

Bee's Knees sold

Cat's Meow

Crush sold

Blue Faced Leicester Bunny Sock Yarn AU$26/95-105grams/+/- 345 meters

Juice Joint sold

Live Wire SOLD

Putting on the Ritz SOLD

Palooka SOLD

Spiffy SOLD

Tin Pan Alley sold

A bunny day at the Guild & lots of cuddly fibre

Last Saturday, Tribble, the golden haired angora bunny and me, ventured off to the city of Melbourne to do a talk about craft, fibre, bunnies and lots of other amazing cuddly stuff. It was a presentation that the Spinners and Weavers Guild of Victoria in Carlton asked me to do for their certificate spinning course students! and.... I did also bring with me : a carload full of fibre ..ofcourse :) Needless to say that Tribble (and me..ahem) were both nervous ..it was the first time he was ever the centre of attention of so many women...!

Tribble giving bunny nose rub to M :) and wishing her a wonderful Wedding day this Saturday!

I must say that the worrying was totally unnessary because he absolutely enjoyed being fondled, cuddled and being called "adorable". I do not think he has come off his mountain yet...lol...he certainly loved being in the limelight and as for me, well, I had a fabulous time talking for about three hours...lol...as Paul would say: "I can talk under water"...There was a lot of interest in the "marketing your craft:taking it beyond the spin" talk , where I was trying to give everybody information about how to take it a step further than just adding to your stash but sharing your stash to the world. By giving examples on how things work legally and what to look out for, it was a down to earth presentation telling it "how it is"....I hve shown you some photos taken by the lovely Chiara Z on th eday (please check out her blog http://ztwistart.blogspot.com/2009/10/bunny-love.html : she does an amazing job!) Thanks Chiara for sharing your wonderful photos!

The Sunday was spent at the Sunday Arts Centre market where a lot of people went crazy about the angora yarn and my maya wraps. I now have to weave three Maya wrap orders so I know what I will be doing this week...lol.

I have not forgotten about your need to drool and cuddle and fondle some fibre and yarns so here it is: the promised update of smooshy hand dyed tops, yummy sock yarns AND last but not least: BLING for the soul in the shape of some funky bunny batts :)

Enjoy and same as always: just email me or pm me on http://www.ravelry.com/ if you want me to send some of these babies to you :) Have a fun week!

Funky Bunny & Waca Paca Batts

Waca Paca Batt : Cloud 9 .... SOLD

98grams/AU$28 alpaca yak llama silk angora bunny glitz angelina

Waca Paca Batt : Olympus 79grams/AU$25 SOLD

alpaca yak llama silk angora bunny glitz angelina

Funky Bunny Batt : Shrek - 116g/AU$35 SOLD

Angora bunny , superfine merino yak lots of silk bunny glitz angelina)

Hand dyed Blue Faced Leicester Bunny sockweight yarn (100grams /310-340meters/AU$26)

Another Rembrandt

Goldilocks -sold-

Luna Lovegood -sold-

Hagrid

Trelawny

hand dyed Camelbunny tops (50grams/AU$18)

I took some camelbunny and camelbunny silk tops with me to the Guild last Saturday and these are all that's left! Everybody goes crazy about these camelbunnies :) and rightfully so: they are the most luscious easy to spin fibres you will ever put your hand on :) Promise!

Winky sold

Peeves sold

Old Norwegian tops (100grams/AU$18)

The oldest sheepbreed in the world. Amazingly cute sheep, hardy and very very lofty to spin!

Ronan

Hedwig

Hand dyed Masham tops (100grams/SPECIAL ! AU$18 rrpAU$20)

These tops are amazing to spin! Lustrous long strong wool, amazing for socks! and more :)

Gawp sold

Fawkes

Centaur sold

Buckbeak sold

Heart

Diagon Alley

Some other news.....

For all of you following me on Ravelry and here on my blog you may know that I have been "a bit under the weather" or not my usual "anything goes-self" the last couple of months. After umptieth tests and poking and running around here and there and everywhere , something has "come up" so to speak and I will have to go to hospital next wednesday for further poking and prodding and urgent removing of "stuff" . Without going into too much detail, since there might be children and other innocenti present, I will advise you all right here and now that there will be no fibre update or yarn update next week friday, but I will keep you all posted on how thingzzz are going......Promise! Also my sincere apologies to Jean Barnes, the reporter/producer of the Eastern Regional TV or Channel 31: I am so sorry that me and my bunnies won't be able to make it to the TV station tomorrow but I am sure that your viewers will appreciate not seeing me in this state...lol...(on that note I think : "damn there goes my 15mins of fame...lol) Please check the eastern regional tv website out though : http://www.eratv.org/

Safe to say that when I cancel a TV appearance, I will not be going to the Arts Centre market this Sunday or the 18th of October either, but if you need anything just stalk me anytime by email or phone and I can always send it to you :)

For all the members of the Funky Bunny Batt club: I am preparing all the batts and the hand dyed tops and will send them off before my "holiday" at the hospital on wednesday :)

For the sock yarn members: as promised "the sock it to me club" parcels will be sent off to you all at the end of this month as normal and it is looking good! Thank you all for looking at my blog ! Have a wonderful week and have fun cuddling a skein or some fibre :)

Hugs,

Charly

Sock-it-to-me: socks, spinning and bunnies

The deluge has stopped and we actually had two days without any rain and something yellow appeared in a blue and white sky! At first I couldn't remember what that strange object was but then it struck me: the SUN!!! We finally managed to dry up a bit!

By the way: I have done it again: I put a lot of stuff on my plate. I have come to the realisation that I am a sucker for punishment and probably-well, most likely- an absolute workaholic. As if two clubs were not enough, I started a third one: the "sock-it-to-me-yarn club" only because I am addicted to sock knitting it seems AND I wanted to share some yarns and patterns and tips. Apparently there are a lot of sock addicts out there! For those of you not sure about what the sock it to me club stands for and what joining it costs, I ask you to scroll down to last fridays entry and have a nice read. Sign ups are still open til the 10th as promised, so if in doubt: join the club ! lol With all the clubs happening there are a lot of preparations to be done : lots of spinning, fibre carding, washing and dyeing! and if that is not enough: I have a workshop and a bunny talk tomorrow in Carlton at the Spinners and weavers guild of Victoria for those doing the certificate spinning course! I am so excited about that, I got up at 3am this morning and started preparing and writing out my talk for the hand outs tomorrow. Chances are my head will drop on the keyboard this afternoon though...lol I don't know who the lucky bunny is that is going to accompany me to Carlton and have its first look at the big city: it will be one of the babies but not sure which one yet. Skye maybe,or Elvis or maybe Tribble? Elvis, by the way, is a GIRL! lol I am sure she doesn't mind being named after the King...:) here are some photos of the girls and boy (ookie) in the studio.

Topping

Kabookie (watch the eyebrows! :) )

Ookie in the outside run, separated from his harem for the first time today....he got a bit too frisky...lol

The walnut tree is producing its first buds ! The cockatoos have not discovered this yet, but Jazz the bunnydog has been in training to scare them off. Just mentioning "white bird" will set Jazz off in a frenzy and she will start barking and jumping up like a frog, all 4 legs in the air. This scares the cockatoos so much, they fly off and leave the walnut tree alone...until they think the coast is clear again....10 mins after the last show....lol...Oh it's a circus here at the Ixchel fibre farm alright...:)

King Parrot in the walnut tree

Well I have kept you waiting too long as it is: here is the update for this week! Guess what I have been watching while spinning yarn......?

Hand dyed organic superfine angorino (95%17micron merino/5%angora) 150+grams/AU$22.

Hufflepuff sold

Leaky Cauldron SOLD

Animagus 1left

Gryffindor sold

Dobby sold

Moaning Myrtle sold

Just email me ixchel@rabbit.com.au or pm me on http://www.ravelry.com/ where I am ixchelbunny and I will give you all the details you need to know on how to take these magical angorinos home :)

I will be at the Arts Centre Market at Southbank again this Sunday so you can visit me there as well :)
Have a fun weekend !!!!!

Oh before I forget: I will have some exciting yarns and .........funky bunny batts again.....next week! so keep an eye on this blog !

Red Dust, Waterfalls and other phenomena

It's been a while since I blogged. tweeted or been on the www. I am very sorry for keeping you waiting so long. Cause: unwilling internet connections combined with a computer having tantric fits and ofcourse the ever present power failures that accompany the rainstorms and the high winds we have been having here in the hills. All is well though ...at the moment, fingers crossed...and I will do my utmost to deliver a super huge update on recent events, upcoming events and , ofcourse, a HUGE enormous NEW fibre and yarn update !

My internet connection and other dramas kind of disappear in the recent Red Dust storm Sydney and Queensland has had. It was almost like being on Mars! Here in the hills there was no dust whatsoever probably because it has not stopped bucketing down. Apparently red Dust doesn't go that well with terrential rainfall (we even had a mini waterfall going in the carport yesterday! What was that again about Global Warming? eh....)

I just have to tell you that I have a new "toy" (that doesn't need electrical power! yeah!) a Petlyn Picker (for more info or to order go to http://www.petlyn.com.au/. The Picker is a medieval dangerous looking gorgeous piece of machinery that will transform any fleece into easy to card or spin fibre! You can either spin it as it comes out of the picker (I do that with my Angora goat fleeces or my Suri fleeces so the curls stay a bit in tact so it can become a very funky curly yarn!) or you use the Picker to make it easier to drum card it all into a fluffy funky batt ! It also makes an awesome Salad! lol,,naah just kidding....:-) Here are some photos and as you can see:

beware of the teeth!

Petlyn Picker

Now I hear you all thinking: "where is the on line shop? where is www.ixchel.com.au?" well? well...eh...I know it is not fair letting you wait so long but this time it is really not far off to being propelled into the ether! Really! I am working on it and it will be soon ! promise (holding fingers crossed behind back....;-) )

Bunny News

All the bunnies are happily hopping along although we did have to separate some of the boys from the fold because they were getting a bit too eh..frisky...lol. Mum Topping now shares the big Studio nursery enclosure with Skye, Kabookie, Ookie and last but not least Elvis (more about Elvis later..lol). Mandie (from EGMTK) and Georgia came over for a visit last week and adopted Wookie, who now is on his way to become the worlds best educated Angora (he is being read bed time stories as I have been told) and according to Mandie he is the most gorgeous angora bunny in the whole world :) Georgia came up with a name for the only bunny without a name: Elvis. And I can tell you this: the name is very appropriate! He has the most amazing floppy hairdo and most of all: he is the most talkative bunny I have ever had! I swear he says "a-huh" lots and lots and I am just waiting to see the first "hip wiggle" and then I know for sure: Elvis is Back :)

Ixchelbunny Club info !

I am very excited to announce that there are now THREE Ixchel clubs that can help you get your fibre and yarn fix! Here is all the info:

The Ixchelbunny SOCK-IT-TO-ME Yarn CLUB!

What is the deal? hmmm it is sooo good and fun and sockaliscious you just will HAVE to join :) Here are the details:

Every month for three months you will receive: enough hand dyed luscious yummy yarn to make a pair of socks; (the hand dyed yarn will be exclusive for the Ixchelbunny SOCK-IT-TO-ME Yarn CLUB and will range from a sockweight yarn or a 3ply or a 4 ply); some yummy extras to make your socks extra sockaliscious :) some very nice tea or coffee blends to make your sock knitting even more yummy :) and last but not least: Every month a new sock pattern, tips and instructions !

Now is that GOOD or is that GOOD ??! :)

I will even offer a double serve for those of you who like their socks long :)

Here is the nitty gritty:

For Australia : single serve $78+$13.05 postage (parcel post) double serve $130 (= one skein FREE!!!) +$17

For USA + Canada: single serve AU$78+AU$28 (Airmail) double serve $130 (= one skein FREE!!!) +AU$47

For UK,Europe, rest of the world: Single serve AU$78+AU$33 (airmail) Double serve $130 (= one skein FREE!!!) +AU$56.10

For Asia: Single serve AU$78+AU$26 (airmail) Double serve $130 (= one skein FREE!!!) +AU$39

Numbers are strictly limited ! Deadline for signing up for the Ixchelbunny SOCK-IT-TO-ME Yarn CLUB! is October 10! And the first installment is going to be shipped out in the last week of October, last week of November and the start of December so you can have your sock club yarn in your Xmas stocking :) Payment via direct deposit or credit card.

By the way: you don’t HAVE to knit socks if you don’t want to.. the hand dyed yarn is amazingly nice for scarves, cowls, beanies and even tops ! Anything goes :)

The Ixchel Fibre Club#3

The subscription is for a period of three months (October, November, December!) and you will receive one special hand dyed top/roving per month to the value of AU$20 !All the tops will be hand dyed and will be especially made for the members of Ixchel Fibre Club ! Every month you will receive a surprise blend of hand dyed tops and an extra surprise ! Sign up now and you will receive an Ixchel Hand dyed special top in October, November and December! Price to join the Ixchel Fibre Club #3 and receive your special hand dyed top + surprise :)) for three months is AU$60 + postage (parcel post or airmail). AND double and triple serves are available !!!

So in short:

For Australia : single serve $60+$13.05 postage (parcel post) double serve $105+$17 triple serve $155+$17

For USA + Canada: single serve AU$60+AU$28 (Airmail) double serve AU$105+AU$47 triple serve AU$155+AU$47

For UK,Europe, rest of the world: Single serve AU$60+AU$33 (airmail) Double serve AU$105+AU$56.10 triple serve AU$155+AU$56.10

For Asia: Single serve AU$60+AU$26 (airmail) Double serve AU$105+AU$39 triple serve AU$155+AU$39

If you want to receive a fibre surprise every month then join the IXCHEL FIBRE CLUB #3 now. Numbers are strictly limited ! Deadline for signing up for fibre club #3 is September 30! And the first installment is going to be shipped out in the second week of October :) Payment via direct deposit or credit card.

The Ixchel Funky Bunny Batt Club#3

The subscription is for a period of three months (October, November, December!) and you will receive one special hand dyed top/roving per month to the value of AU$32 . The batts will range in weight from 100grams to 150/160grams with luxury fibres like camel , angora, cashmere, silk, yak, llama even buffalo and wolf ! is on the cards for the next funky bunny club!! ) All the batts will be hand dyed and will be especially made for the members of Ixchel funky bunny Club ! Every month you will receive a HUGE luxury funky bunny batt and an extra surprise !

Sign up now and you will receive an Ixchel Hand dyed , super luxurious funky bunny batt in October, November and December! Price to join the Ixchel Funky bunny #3 :)) for three months is AU$96 + postage (parcel post or airmail).

So in short:

For Australia : $96+$13.05 postage (parcel post)

For USA + Canada: AU$96+AU$28 (Airmail)

For UK,Europe, rest of the world: AU$96+AU$33 (airmail)

For Asia: AU$96+AU$26 (airmail)

If you want to receive a fibre surprise every month then join the IXCHEL FUNKY BUNNY Batt CLUB#3 now. Numbers are strictly limited ! Deadline for signing up for the funky bunny batt club #3 is September 30! And the first installment is going to be shipped out in the second week of October :)

NEW YARN UPDATE

Hand dyed Blue Faced Leicester Bunny 4 ply sockweight yarn (300-340m/100g, 90-100g/AU$26)

Gridlock sold

Angels (sold)

Turn Left (SOLD)

Paradox (sold)

NEW FIBRE UPDATE

Hand dyed Blue faced Leicester Bunny (95/5) tops, 100grams/AU$20

Face of Bo (sold)

Sontaren Strategem (sold)

Yana sold

Hand dyed organic Angorino (17micron merino/angora bunny, 95/5) 150+grams/AU$22

the Doctor (Sold)

Judoon sold

Dalek sold

the Master sold

Tardis sold

Blink sold

Utopia (Sold)

the Globe sold

the Ood (SOLD)

Adipose Nursery sold

Hope you enjoyed looking at what is on offer :) Please contact me anytime if you want to get more information or to order. Just email me ixchel@rabbit.com or pm at http://www.ravelry.com/ where I am ixchelbunny :) While you are there : have a look at my group there as well. Everybody is welcome!

I will leave you with same photos of Elvis..a-huh :-)

Elvis has the most amazing hair-do ! and a wiggle ...lol

Elvis is back :) a-huh

Kabookie after a tumble in the hay ...

Oh , just in case somebody is wondering where the names for the yarns and tops come from this week....have a guess..lol.. and win yourself a surprise gift posted with your order !