New Year!

This week ends my second full fiscal year! What a great adventure this has been.

Two years ago when I opened the shop I had to choose an accounting software program to 'do the books'; problem was the only one I really liked was no longer available in Canada. I settled for something, it never pays to settle. This year the software became available and I was happy. I downloaded the program and began using it again for 'The Farmer's" accounts. I had been using version 9 and the new one is version 19! It upgraded to the new version with just one click!

The shop accounts are a completely different program and the accountant suggested that it would be easier to transfer the information for the shop at the end of the year. Today we started, the task is a huge one in that everything has to be transferred manually, the two competing programs won't talk to each other.

We are taking stock, adding it to the inventory and then trying to figure out how to get the customer names and information to transfer over without re-typing all the information.

My New Years wish is to be able to spend more time knitting and less on accounting, but that won't happen soon.

The shop is open 12 - 4 pm Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Friday 10 am - 3pm.

See You Soon

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1 Knitted Christmas Tree!





Thank-you for helping me create such a beautiful shop. Your support and kindness during the past 2 years has been such an inspiration; from knitting helmet liners for our Soldiers and making mittens as part of the 'Mitten Club' you have created a friendly creative place in Bowmanville.



We sent 173 helmet liners to our Soldiers and raised $235 for charity through the sale of mittens from the Mitten Club. We also will send about a dozen pairs of mitts to our local Women's Shelter.



Thank-you so much, Merry Christmas and wishing only good things for 2011!

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2 kids home!

The Girl arrives home today, The Boy was home last week! Mama's happy!

They will be 'around' for about a week, next week I am open Tuesday - Thursday 12 - 4 and Friday (New Years Eve) 10- 3ish.

That means I have to get to work, there's a bunch of stuff to do!

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3 Canadian Soldiers home for Christmas. Three of 'my' knitters had children serving in Afghanistan for the past many months. They all came home!

Take a moment and remember the Soldiers that are away from 'home' this Christmas.

Thank-you to the knitters that knit Helmet liners for Operation Santa Claus. A bit of warmth and comfort from home.

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4 Harness Loom, maybe my next favorite thing!

I was bored and checked out kijiji and found this, turns out the seller was one of my customers. Just big enough to do something and of course my family is completely weirded out by this.

The Christmas list includes instructions on how these things work!

My list is getting shorter, hows yours?

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5 fabulous fibers

1.Alpaca: The shop's favorite this year is Misty Alpaca. I skein, 9mm circular needles and an evening you can create a great easy cowl.

2. Cashmere/Bison: Louet Mooi, I have a couple of sample skeins in the lace weight and some stock of the sport weight, come and see the Sand Dollar shawl in the shop.

3. Silk/Merino: Diamond Luxury Mulberry and Merino. Merino and Silk lovely soft.

4. Cotton: Egyptian Cotton. smooth soft, great for babies and next to the skin projects

5. Bamboo: Sirdar's Baby Bamboo a great DK weight yarn designed for babies, but great for grown ups tool

There's 5 days.....This countdown thing seemed like a good idea at the time...the next few are a bit on the creative side.

Hope you are getting things done!

See You Soon.

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6 Sensasional Shawls: Pimpelliese

Baktus

Gwen's Very Big Lace thing.

Sand Dollar Shawl

Citron

Alice's Angel Wing.

Shawls my new favorite thing?....maybe.

6 Sensational Shawls