Fiber Arts Friday - Alpaca is not boring!

I am finding that many people are complaining about natural colors vs. lots of color. What I have read lately on sites I frequent is that brown, fawn or black is plain boring and without pizazz! Au contraire mes amies. I have been drum carding a few alpaca pouffes (mini batts) on my Louet Jr. drum carder. Of course, blending with natural alpaca. First I decide what gorgeous natural color of alpaca + hand dyed alpaca to mix together and then I just grab some corresponding angelina (I have a tons of bling). I purchased a bag of mixed fiber from Yarn Hollow a while back and I pull out some bits of silk noil, banana silk, merino, and so on in multicolors and weigh it all on a scale. I can get about 1 oz on my carder comfortably. Then I just begin to card it. I end up with 3 mini batts for a total of 3 oz for a package at my Etsy store. Each one is slightly different in that I don't feed the fiber in the carder exactly in the same pattern each time. So one pouffe might have more blue or green in the center while the second has more brown in the center. I like it this way, sort of a three way batt experience. I can pull off the batts in strips and spin as I want...far more interesting yarn. And although there is one or more of the 22 colors alpacas provide for us is is far from boring or pizzazzless!