{"id":13,"date":"2008-11-04T08:53:52","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T14:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2008-11-04T08:53:52","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T14:53:52","slug":"i-went-to-saff-without-a-camera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"I went to SAFF without a camera &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What is SAFF you ask?\u00a0 Well check out the info <a href=\"http:\/\/saffsite.org\/\">here<\/a> but its the Southeastern Animal Fiber Festival, which takes place near Asheville, NC.\u00a0 Now that I&#8217;m not working every.weekend.of.my.life I decided to make a day trip of it.\u00a0 Scott declined the invitation to go with me, instead volunteering (VOLUNTEERING I SAY) to keep the babe&#8230; a declaration which he tried to recant at about 6am the morning of &#8230; no such luck babe, sorry.<\/p>\n<p>I had great ideas to blog this on my return but found when I hit the &#8220;gone too far to turn back&#8221; point that my camera was at home tucked safely in my laptop bag.\u00a0 An attempt to take a picture with my phone resulted in my phone near loosing its mind. I mean really&#8230;who wants to read a blog with no pictures.\u00a0 humph<\/p>\n<p>So there were alpacas and bunnies and llamas there and if there were sheep or goats I didn&#8217;t see them.\u00a0 I have decided that my sister needs to forget about horses and start an alpaca farm.\u00a0 They are so cute AND they produce a crop! \u00a0 Other than the animals there was a building full of vendors offering every imaginable yarn and fiber product.\u00a0 I caved to peer pressure and bought a drop spindle and some pinkish\/blueish\/reddish roving in a wool tencel blend.<\/p>\n<p>I also found red and black sock yarn, 2 bargain bin sock yarns one in\u00a0 green and one pink, and a big skein of homespun in pink to be made into a hat for the babe.\u00a0 At that point for the sake of actually paying my bills this month I had to stop.<\/p>\n<p>Before returning home I made a side journey to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncagr.gov\/markets\/facilities\/markets\/asheville\/\">Asheville Farmer&#8217;s Market<\/a>, open year round, where I found local muskadines,\u00a0 apples from Easley, SC, candied pecans, and sausage made from ingredients you can acutally pronounce.<\/p>\n<p>It was a heck of a day trip.\u00a0 Next year maybe we can make a weekend of it.\u00a0 Look out llamas &#8230;next year I&#8217;m taking your picture!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is SAFF you ask?\u00a0 Well check out the info here but its the Southeastern Animal Fiber Festival, which takes place near Asheville, NC.\u00a0 Now that I&#8217;m not working every.weekend.of.my.life I decided to make a day trip of it.\u00a0 Scott declined the invitation to go with me, instead volunteering (VOLUNTEERING I SAY) to keep the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pixieplayhouse.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}