by not delivering my ring!!! Luckily it is all tracked and insured so it is on its way back to the goldsmith that we got it from. And even more lucky is that the guy we got it from is a pretty small company so we were able to talk to a real person and they got back to us really quickly. So when it gets back to the smith he is going to resend it to a different address (i.e. one that will have a human at it during business hours) so it will totally be here in time for the wedding but just not quite yet.
Part of my birthday present that made me go squee is the set of drop spindles that I got here. I found them on eBay but you can also get stuff directly from their site. The spindles are gorgeous and I kind of haven't put them down except to go to work and sleep. I have some fiber from an arts & crafts show from 2 years ago that I kind of picked up on a whim for cheap that I've started with. It's really nice (might be merino, there was not label and even if there was I would have lost it ages ago) and soft and is spinning up really nicely. After the obligatory "yarn barf" stage I'm actually spinning pretty consistent yarn that is working up to be roughly worsted weight. Super excited about the whole thing though...
wheeeeeeeeeee!