The other day the kids & I went to my mother’s house to celebrate her birthday. Before I left I checked on the alpacas. The two girls who were (over)due looked fine so we left and had a fun day with my parents in Gulf Shores. I intended to be back before dark, but got [...]

October 4th, 2011 | Tags: alpaca, Alpacas, cria, new addition, Suzy Q, textbook alpaca birth, video, You Tube | Category: Alpacas, New Additions, video | Comments (1)

Four alpacas from our local Gulf Coast zoo “donate” their fiber to soak up oil from the the oil spill in the Gulf. Learn more in this informative video from National Geographic.

(See if you notice anyone we know doing the shearing in that video. Leave a comment and tell me if you recognize that ole [...]

May 17th, 2010 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca fiber, Alpacas, Gulf Coast, national geographic, Oil Spill, video, zoo | Category: Alpacas, Oil Spill | Comments (3)

This video is outstanding. A film crew from the New Hampshire Chronicle visited my friend, Valerie, at her farm – The Green Alpaca. In the video Valerie talks about alpacas being eco-friendly, we get to see her yurt, and the alpacas are completely adorable.
I have to admit that I never understood the yurt. I’m not [...]

December 5th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca farm near you, Alpacas, eco friendly, Fairhope Alpacas, New Hampshire Chronicle, The Green Alpaca, video, yurt | Category: Alpacas, Lifestyle, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (5)

One thing I know my readers love is drum carders. (If you don’t love you some drum carding – click here for a baby alpaca being cute). When I saw this video from my friend Mary from Acres Wild Alpacas I knew I had to share it with you. Here Mary shows you how to [...]

October 22nd, 2009 | Tags: Asheville NC, batts, Blog Carnival, drum carding video, Facebeook, fiber adventures, Fiber Arts Friday, SAFF, Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair, Tumblr, Twitter, video | Category: Alpacas, Fiber Arts, Fiber Arts Friday, The Alpaca Lifestyle | Comments (4)

Love this funny look at Twitter! Follow College Humor on Twitter.

July 19th, 2009 | Tags: Twitter, video | Category: Weekly Web Finds | Leave a comment

Alpaca farm prepares for World Alpaca Conference

This is a great video about alpacas featuring Tripp Forstner of Magical Farms (with a cameo of dad and king of their alpaca farm, Jerry Forstner) Magical Farms is home to approximately 1600 alpacas! They do alpacas on a significantly larger scale than most of us. The majority of [...]

May 30th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca farm, alpaca herd, alpaca video, Alpacas, alpacas in Ohio, Jerry Forstner, Magical Farms, Tripp Forstner, video, World Alpaca Conference | Category: Alpacas, Lifestyle, The Daily Stuff | Comments (7)

Since I am gearing up for our Beginning Spinning Class at the farm on May 23, I have spinning on the brain. I’m trying to learn a little ahead of time so that my brain doesn’t explode the day of the class. Here’s a helpful video on pre-drafting alpaca fiber for spinning.

In case you missed [...]

May 15th, 2009 | Tags: alpaca, alpaca fiber, Beginning Spinning Class, Fiber Arts, Fiber Arts Friday, Fiber Arts Friday Button, pre-drafting, spinning, Start Spinning, video, yarn | Category: Alpacas, Fiber Arts, Fiber Arts Friday | Comments (10)