Greetings!

Well the beginning of the year show "rush" is over and I've just made hotel reservations for our January 2008 show in San Diego. I usually do them anywhere from 6-10 months in advance of a show - it mostly depends upon how big the show is and when the hotel blocks are released for us to make reservations. So as one season of shows winds down the planning for future ones goes into gear. There's never a dull moment around here!

I suspect most of you don't know how much paperwork is involved in running a store like this. I certainly never quite grasped that before I opened the store. I've destroyed a number of shredders over the years so now we have a shredder bin and a monthly service that comes and shreds it for us. Reminds of my days in hi-tech. I know they tout the paperless office as the wave of the future but it's not made it to us yet. Between catalogs, purchase orders, invoices, mail order papework, shipping receipts, statements, etc. I swear we could swim in the stuff. Thank heaven for Alameda having agressive recycling policies and for shredding services. .

Embroidery Classes

Mike Swan will be doing a Beginning Embroidery class on March 15th and then 2 Clinics on April 23 and May 17. The Beginning class is great if you've not done embroidery before or need a refresher course. If you need help with a project our Embroidery Clinic is a good choice as Mike can help you with your specific project. Visit our Classes page to sign up

News

Be sure to check out our What's New Blog!

We get new product in several times a week, sometimes a lot in a single day. Because of all the amount that comes in we don't have the time to put an entire list here or in our online catalog. Be sure and come by the shop to check out all the new things and if you're looking for something you've seen elsewhere, just give us a call or drop us an e-mail. · Cross-Eyed Cricket - 4 new designs; Give Us a Kiss, Rabbit Habit, Neat as a Pin and Hankie Corners. If you want to order these online you can do so through our Merchant Mall link. · Just Another Button Company - May Teapot (Stitch Every Day series). This is the button pack and chart. You can order it through our online catalog. · Kelmscott Designs - New Lily of the Valley Needleminder, Bluebell Threadrings, Baroque Threadwinder, Mother-of-Pearl Ruler, Love Scissors. You can find these either in Gifts catalog page or on the Scissors page. · The Pairie Schooler - A Farmer's Almanac, Weather Wise, Daffodils, Old Macdonald. If you want to order these online you can do so through our Merchant Mall link. · Access Commodites - In the past few weeks we've gotten several new items from Access, who not only distribute all the Au Ver a Soie products but create their own line of wonderful products. We've gotten in the following great goodies. Animal Eye Beads - 6 pk for $6.75 Vintage Mother of Pearl Buttons - 6 pk for $6.75 Triangle, Black or Stainless Steel pins - $10/pk Gilt Slyke Twist - fabulous gold thread wrapped with Soie Ovale in 8 wonderful colors. Currently being used in the Plimoth Plantation jacket project. $22 for 35m spool. Legacy Linen - Porcelain Pink and London Mist. 55in wide and $55/yd The Legacy Linen is in the online catatalog but the other items have not been added yet. We'll do that as we have time. But you're certainly welcome to visit the shop or call us with an order for any of these items. · Zweigart - Tula Country Mocha (10 count) · Laurel Burch bags - I attended the SF Gift show in January and ordered some great new styles of Laurel Burch bags. We have some of the new mid-sized cosmetic bags - great for putting your scissors and others bits in, as well as mini totes and shoulder bags.These are not listed on the website so come by the shop to check them out.

Just Nan shipped our allotment of the limited edition kits When Barnabee Met Bella and Barnabee's Bride. We expect them to arrive the end of next week. We have 12 of the Barnabee's Bride kits coming in this shipment and another 18 in June. You can sign up for either date as long as we still have room on the list. You can order it through our online catalog.

Temari Time

Don't forget that the second Sunday of each month we now feature"Temari Time". Sherry will be here for a 2-hour open workshop from 1:30-3:30 for $10. Bring your current Temari ball and have Sherry help you with it, or Sherry can help you with starting a new ball. This is not a beginning Temari class so if you've never done Temari before you should watch for our next Temari I class.

March's Temari Time is this Sunday. Come and have some wrapping fun! Visit our Classes page to sign up

Speaking of "before I opened the store" - that was 10 years ago. Yes, 10 years ago! The shop will be 10 on March 27th and we just celebrated 4 years in our present location. My how times flies. We'll be doing celebrations throughout 2008 and I'm hoping to plan an actual party for later this spring. Stay tuned and I hope you'll come celebrate with us during the year.

Happy Stitching

Cathe

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