Thursday, July 31, 2008

Yet Another Brush with Fame

This YouTube Video is my niece-in-law, Ellen. If you look carefully, you can see pics of her kids around her neck and on the booklets she creates.

This company she started is taking off like crazy.

Saturday, July 19, 2008

An Embarassment of Riches



























By riches, I mean friends, fun, and fiber on Friday nights.

In our new clubhouse.


Congratulations to Jerry and Cyn on a fantastic transformation.


I still say you need a Yarn Mobile, though.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Stitchy McYarnPants, Guard Dog.











Moving is hard work.
I so tie-uhd.

Somebody Should Tell Him


You have to pick up the vacuum cleaner, and push it around a little.


Jeez.

Moving On Down the Highway...


Phase Two: Got to the Derry location at 9:00, thinking I would grab a coffee and get to work helping to set up the new place. A single soul was waiting when I got there, and she had had the same brilliant idea. Coffee. Coffee good.

So G. and I gabbed till the crew started to arrive, and lookee what we did!!!
























We unpacked, unpacked, and oh yeah, unpacked till lunch - which was at the bagel shop next door.


Did I tell you I was old? I petered out around 4:00 - left the gang to head home and soak in the pool for awhile. I can't wait to see the shop Friday night, at knitting group - should be spectacular. It was looking fantastic already when I staggered out of there.



Best wishes to C&J - this is a ballsy move (get it? balls? yarn comes in balls? so you have a LOT of balls? bwahahahahaha) but I know you will kick some serious booty in this new location!







The End.









Well, We're Moving on Up!















Cyndi and Jerry have been making noises about moving to a new place for a while. After all, yarn and stuff was jammed in every available space in the Windham location. Of course, if they had taken my advice and tricked out a big YarnMobile, some of the massive overcrowding would have been reduced, but who listens to me? Anyone? Buehler?
So we listened to their planning, and heard how they were checking out sites here and there, and at least I figured they would never move - there was just too much stuff!
But then a few weeks ago, out of the blue, the announcement. They were moving the store to Derry, in a little plaza on Route 28, where the state liquor store used to be. And the fun began...

The Big Day, Phase One: Last weekend, first step was to pull all that yarn down, put it into boxes, and pack everything else - looms, notions, books, patterns, office, sales supplies, computers, furniture - JTFC!!!!!
C&J expected the packup would take a few days - we all got it done in a few HOURS. You heard me. I got there at 2:00, there were a handful of other folks there already, but the real push started at about 3:00 - and we were done by 5:30. All had been packed, one U-Haul load was already in Derry, and another truck load was ready to go.
Most everyone else headed over to Derry to keep on truckin' - but I am old. So got home around 6:15 ish, was sound asleep by 7:00. Groan.... muscles I don't even have were pissed off at me.

You Move Me...


Yarn and Fiber Company of Windham, NH is no more.

It is now Yarn and Fiber Company of Derry, NH.

How do I know? Well first, I can read their blog - even the big words.

But an even bigger clue is that I and more than a dozen other knit-nuts (ManchVegas Knitters were well represented) helped with the move this past weekend.


Enough babble. I'm boring. The pictures tell the tale.

In relatively chronological order, so first - clearing out of Windham.