Happy April!

I hope that April Fool's Day was fun for you. I don't get many pranks played on me these days but years ago when I worked at Sun Microsystems it was a seriously celebrated holiday. There was the year that some people disassembled one of the founder's Porsche and put it in the middle of pond (on a platform but surrounded by water). Another year they turned one of the manager's offices into a zoo, complete with a Peacock. So having a few joke e-mails is pretty tame by comparison!

Weekly Specials

With the challenging economic times we've seen a definite decrease in our revenues. So to encourage you to spend a little and save with us, we will be starting Weekly Specials. These specials will be for in-stock merchandise only and is a way for us do a some inventory reductions (and net some much needed cash). It will vary each week and you'll need to mention the Weekly Special to receive your discount. They will be posted on our Blog, on the Sales page and I'll be doing a weekly Tweet from my niah Twitter account.You can follow me by clicking on the Twitter link on the Blog.

Unless otherwise noted, each Weekly Special does not earn Rewards points (although you can use them at any time). It is limited to items in-stock and sales are final on Weekly Special items - so no exchanges or returns are accepted on them.

Our first Weekly Special is: All Gumnuts threads in stock are 40% off. We have decided to no longer inventory these threads. I love stitching with them but they aren't a big enough seller for us to continue investing dollars in them. This Weekly Special is good from April 3 through April 13th. Be sure to mention it when you place your order or pay at the register.

Check out the Sales page and there is an item you can add to your shopping cart if you are ordering on-line that will include a note about this Weekly Special.

April & May Events

Our Easter trunk show from Associated Talents show will continue through Easter. We are also expecting a few Easter canvases to arrive from Kirk & Hamilton, two English designers and they will also be part of the Easter trunkshow. We are offering a 10% discount for canvases purchased or ordered from the trunkshow while it's here.

April 17th and April 18th we will be featuring 2 lectures by Tricia Nguyen-Wilson of Thistle Threads. Friday night will be a lecture on Sampler Design ($45) and Saturday night will be on the Plimoth Plantation jacket ($35). You can sign up find out more information or sign-up for the lectures via our classes page or by calling the shop. You can read more about Tricia's work on her Blog.

Next month we'll be featuring a trunkshow from Laura J. Perrin and we are arranging a Meet-n-Greet event with her at the shop as well. I'll post more details in the next newsletter and on the Blog.

Don't forget we are continuing our late Tuesday hours through the end of April so if you have one evening we're open unitl 8pm. More time to shop or to come stitch for a bit.

If you live here in the States I hope the impending tax deadline hasn't got you too frazzled. Mine has been done and off the accountant for awhile so now I'm just waiting for the final verdict (which always feels like waiting for a jury to come in). I trust you will find some time to relax and stitch this week.

Happy Stitching,

Cathe
...and Debi, Caroline, Lelia, Mary, Ali, Jennifer, Marty, Sherry, Susan and Margaret

Remember our Grab Bag for Food Donations offer - bring in non-perishable food items for donation and get a grab bag! We've been happy with the donations so far and given all the very old inventory we have that could use a good home - this is a win-win for us, for you and for the Alameda Food Bank. They have kindly loaned us a big, red bin that's by the door for food donations.

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Sun 1pm - 4pm
Monday By Appointment

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