Many thanks to Lesley for the very apt title for tonight’s blog entry. There is just so much to cover! That’s what happens when I don’t blog for a week due to sick kids, back-to-school preparations, etc...
Time to get caught up - are you ready?
I’m gonna start with tonight and work backwards. I just got home from the most fabulous time with the ravelry.com yarn crawlers. After sitting and knitting with the Saturday afternoon crowd for awhile, we all headed over to the Sea Dog for good food and more good times. Turns out many of us grew up in the same area or know people who did. Don’t you love how Maine is just a small town?
(psst... Sara... notice the picture above? You’ve been blogged! hee, hee)
Earlier in the day Patti, sporting her finished Mystery Stole
had the sample pillow ready for her upcoming Design Your Own Decor class.
Check out the stuffing:
That’s right. Yarn scraps from a year’s worth of projects. Brilliant.
Then going back further into the week we hit Friday’s delivery of new books from Interweave, including the much anticipated The Best of Interweave Knits. Becka called me from the shop asking “can we keep one, please?”
We also received some great books to get you started knitting socks or crocheting.
Thursday brought a very happy time as we celebrated the shop’s 2nd Anniversary. The Knitting Experience turned 2 years old so of course, we had cake.
I believe that the consensus around the room was that this was Karen’s best cake ever. It was incredible. Even Peter, once he got past the fact that there was fruit, or rather something healthy involved, declared it to be a damn good cake.
We had a full house and lots of fun and even more knitting.
Sandy and Marcia brought me flowers.
And little Sophia drew me a picture. Awwwwww......
Oooooooooooooo..... and I almost forgot... Marcia let me play with her new iPhone. Peter was totally jealous. Ok, he won’t admit it, but I know he was.
(And, yes, the phone is extremely cool. I now want one, but I’m getting a spinning wheel first. )
There were lots of completed projects shared during the week - especially at Knit at Night, but to make this monster post a bit more reasonable, I will save those for tomorrow’s entry.
Moving to the early days in the week, I was very happily surprised by flowers from my brother Jay, his wife Andrea and their kids. I was so touched. Somehow Andrea had managed to send flowers in honor of the shop’s birthday, despite the fact that they just moved across the country for the Navy, are settling in to a new home, and new school for the kids. She is incredible! Thanks so much!
Then, I had a very special visit. Anne and her family, who are from NJ but vacation in Maine during the last week of August every summer, stopped in to say hello. Anne and the boys found the shop a few days after we opened two years ago. We have been friends ever since. Her youngest, Lucas, was kind enough to serve as photographer to capture the moment.
What a week! I am exhausted. But happy. Very happy.