The Social Porcupine

While in Tennessee I had the opportunity to meet and make a wonderful friend, Anna Webster . She was so fun and had so many talents and hobbies. I'm going to be sharing about one of those today :). Sheep to Shawl by Creative Country Media Producer/Director: Anna Webster Genre: documentary/ teaching video. Approximately 73 minutes. Rating: 5 stars Buy here: Creative Country Living Back Cover: Master the amazing transformation from wool-on-a-sheep to shawl-on-your-back. This entertaining and educational video series shows the strand-by-strand way to create warm and lovely shawls from your own fleece and yarn. Award winning fleece producers and spinning demonstrators Jill Wood and Anna Webster break down the process into 5 do-able stages. 1-Shearing and Sorting. You'll learn two ways to remove wool from your sheep: On a shearing stand and on the ground. The session also explains how to sort good wool from bad and minimize waste. 2-Washing and Dyein...

A true adventure story, filled with faith and fun. 72, The Movie starring Samuel Gilmore, Crusoe Johnson, Sharar Johnson and Zadok Johnson. Buy here. My Rating : Five stars; Family friendly. Running time: Approximately 1 hour, five minutes. Back cover: What Would happen if you were to spend the next 72 hours out in the wilderness with only what you could fit into a quart-sized container and the clothes on your back? Do you think you could survive the experience? What if it were the dead of winter... What if there were no modern conveniences... Would you be tough enough to make it through? My review: It all starts out with four friends and brothers ready for adventure and a new challenge. For 72 hours they will live in the wilderness and bring nothing but what they are wearing and a quart jar. To make it even harder, they will go in the middle of winter, when few animals are to be found, and even fewer plants. It will take a lot of ima...