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7 shops for shopping!

Bowmanville has some wonderful Shops. These are 7 of my favorites, all owned by Women and are all unique businesses!

In no particular order:

1. Roses, right next door a cafe/floral shop. Light lunches and lovely floral designs.

2 Cathy's Gold, next door but the other side. A Bowmanville landmark, been around since forever (25 years).

3. Leisure Lady near the centre of town. A true ladies dress shop. Special occasion wear and a few surprises.

4. City Cottage; unique pieces, painted vintage furniture.

5. Gather, Ladies, girls and Infant Clothing. Great gifts, games, puzzles and unique handcrafted gifts.

6. The Glass Slipper Fabulous Ladies shoes and Accessories.

7. Scrub'n, uniforms for medical staff.

and there are many more!

Come and See!!

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8 Great Gifts!

1. Baba Tree Basket, handmade in Ghana beautiful.

2. Yarn Swift, handy...literally takes place of someone holding the skein.

3. Ball Winder, goes perfectly with the swift, but on its own will keep your leftovers tidy!

4. Offhand knitting bag...you just have to see them!

5. Addi Turbo inter-changeable needle set. Perfect for the knitting enthusiast.

6. Beautiful Books, the Mitten book by Vogue is fabulous.

7. Yarn, one skein of Manos Maxima. One will make a hat or mitts! Soft and smooshy!

8. Gift Certificates, for those that can't choose!

(Wow! nice list if I do say so my self, put them all together and it would be the most Awesome gift.)

See you Soon

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9 nifty notions:





For the Knitter on your Shopping list:



1. Folding Scissors

2. Stitch Markers

3. Row Counters

4. Knitters note book and pen.

5. Knitting Needle case

6. Cute labels that Say: 'Handmade by ......'

7. Sheep China Mug

8. Namaste Buddy Case. (Magnets hold sewing needles and notions in place!)

9. Measuring Tapes!





See You Soon!

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10 things I know:

1. If you get a tree and no one comes with you, it's easier to choose.

2. Getting the tree before the 22nd of December gives you more than 2 choices.

3. If I use the toaster and the microwave together it trips the breaker.

4. Mice are sneaky!

5. Mousetraps hurt when you pick up the wrong end.

6. The most popular yarn in the shop is never in the shop very long.

7. Yarn companies like to make promises and then don't live up to them!

8. When you start to move things in the shop, it gets busy and you can't find stuff.

9. I have too much stuff.

10. It's 10 days till Christmas, but who's counting....?

A non knitting post:

4 guys, 2 pails, 1 shovel and a big pile of spilled grain. The Boy is in this video, he doesn't read the blog so I am safe to post it. This was his big adventure last year. The crew owner is the guy in the striped shirt, he doesn't look to pleased with whoever was responsible for making the pile, but they cleaned it up and things were up and running again pretty quick. (They are putting the grain back into the combine to be reprocessed.)

Stuff happens with every job!

I went into the shop today a few surprised customers came in, ordered some new patterns and the 'square circulars' could be in by the end of the week!

See you soon.

And now with Pictures!

My camera is still at the camera hospital but Gwen kindly loaned me hers.
A little while ago I received these lovely buttons from a new supplier, unusual shapes and colours, so I got a few to start. The mittens have been well received and we have raised over $100 to go to a couple of charities.

This is my Travelling Women shawl, I love the pattern and I may have had enough on one skein to do an extra repeat of the lace pattern but I couldn't face ripping back if I didn't. (I was too cheap to purchase another skein to finish, yet I am prepared to purchase enough to make another one slightly bigger with the leftovers and another skein! Sounds like knitter logic to me!)

I am not sure why I took this picture, I think I was just happy to be able to get some shots of the shop. Notice the Namaste knitting bag and the new Vintage Chunky, lovely chunky yarn wool/blend and machine wash!

We just unpacked a huge shipment of Marble Chunky and new patterns from Lopi, there is a great mitten pattern! Going to go choose the 9 colours it requires.

See You Soon.

Getting Ready!

Preparations began last week when the Mitten Knitters began making Pom Pom snowflakes.
Wednesday I started hanging them in the window, just as we were having a lovely 'snow globe' looking snowfall. The actual snowflakes were almost as soft and fluffy as our 'fake' ones.

It took 3 days to get them all made, strung with invisible thread and then attached to the ceiling.
Thanks to Gwen for helping me out with this, and for the use of the camera!

Needless to say the rest of the shop suffered!

Are we Ready?

Sort of!

Tonight is Moonlight Magic, the beginning of the Christmas Shopping season for the Downtown.

The street is closed to parking, but it makes a lovely community event. Hope you can come.

See you soon.