The Knitting Wannabe

Happy Birthday, Anna Grace!!!

K H — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:52:24 +0000

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

You are my sunshine

My only sunshine

You make me happy

When skies are grey

You’ll never know dear

How much I love you

Please don’t take my sunshine away

Happy Birthday, Baby Girl!!!!!

Packing, Packing, Packing

K H — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 13:06:20 +0000

If you placed an order over the past few days, we’re packing as fast as we can. But… most of the day it is just me packing so progress is a tad slower than usual. I am sending out shipping notices at the time the order is packed so if you haven’t received your shipping notice, your order is still in the stack.

Usually we have tried to ship orders within 24 business hours. There were so many, however, that this just wasn’t possible this time. :-) At this time I have packed about 1/3 of the orders that have come in and I just keep progressing each day. I hope to have them all finished/shipped in the next few days.

Sorry for the delay!!

Three Great Years

K H — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 13:15:10 +0000

We have enjoyed three great years running and operating Sonny and Shear. We are proud of the business we built and established. However, over the past year we have had to take a long hard look at the yarn shop and we have had to answer some difficult questions.

-Will the shop be able to recover from the economic downturn?

-Is there a way to help the shop thrive, not simply survive, without taking on debt, taking an unwise gamble, etc.?

-As it takes more and more time to promote the shop, with not as much in return, would that time be better spent with Anna Grace and the baby?

Last fall Dana and I realized what needed to be done. Dana had known for a while but I wanted to give things more time, more effort, more stubbornness. But there came a day when everything became completely clear and I knew, without a doubt, that the shop needed to close.

I am at peace with the decision and we began planning several months ago for the gradual closing of Sonny & Shear. While I am sad that the shop didn’t succeed in the long term, I am thrilled that I had the opportunity to open the shop, promote it and get to meet all of you. I have been truly blessed through my experiences with Sonny & Shear.

Sonny & Shear will close its virtual doors on March 29, 2010. I will continue to keep the blog going as the blog preceeded the shop. In addition, I am sure I will “see” many of you around on Ravelry.

Thank you so much for three fabulous years. We really appreciate each and every one of you.

And now for the going out of business sale……

Sonny & Shear is having a going out of business sale from now until March 29, 2010. Save 50% off of all items in the inventory by using the code ThreeGreatYears at the time of check out.

Our free shipping program is suspended throughout the duration of the going out of business sale.

If you have a gift certificate, you are still able to use it during this sale. Gift certificates are same as cash so they remain valid for as long as the shop remains open.

Happy shopping!!

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K H — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 22:26:21 +0000

Visitors

K H — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 10:56:32 +0000

I kept trying to edit these pictures because AG is either blurry or making weird faces in them but I give up. She is impossible to photograph.

My dad and his fiance, Miss Gail, came for a visit last weekend and we had such a great time just relaxing and hanging out together. Anna Grace gets up every day to check the extra bedroom and “just see” if they’ve reappeared.

We really had a great time together.

Dad and Anna Grace

Dad, Miss Gail and Anna Grace

Dad, Miss Gail and Anna Grace… Walking Along Lake Gertrude.

Dad, Miss Gail, Anna Grace

Anna Grace with her New Dog and Doll

Basic Burp Cloth

K H — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:27:37 +0000

Basic Burp Cloth

Yarn: Bernat Kitchen Cotton

Needles: US 8

Citron

K H — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:05:16 +0000

Citron

Yarn: Malbrigo Laceweight

Needle Size: US 6

Modifications: None

Can You Say “BONUS”??!!!!

K H — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:36:08 +0000

At lunch time a man walked up to our door. Turns out he was from the fence company and he thought he was supposed to start installing our fence today. Nope. Dana still had to clear some brush and small trees and thought he’d have to work on that all weekend. Turns out there was a little mix up at the fence company. But…. fence company guy was really nice about it and said that they would clear the brush for us…. at no charge. BONUS! Just got back home and boy did they clear some stuff out. For free!

Wonder if the protester came to watch?

Did I mention… free??????

Of My Very Own!!

K H — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 10:56:57 +0000

Our new house had some sickly trees that were looming large and spitting threats of impending doom. After deliberation, debate and the obligatory process of being inspected by the Mt. Dora tree permit dude…. arrangements were made for their removal. One dead-tree-removal crew….comin’ right up!

Yesterday was the big day. There were tree guys in trees, big machines, lots of sawing and….bonus… a protester!!!

Early in the day I noticed a woman sitting in my driveway. A woman who looked familiar because… it was a neighbor of mine. I thought she was just watching all the goings on, etc. An hour later, she was still there. I then noticed that she looked either angry or like she was crying. I couldn’t tell from the distance but…. I made the executive decision to not find out. I’m neighborly like that!

Fast forward 2 hours.

I now see the same woman walking along the street that borders our backyard…the backyard where the tree guys are currently working. I see her over and over and over again. The lady is walking around the block, continually, as a means of circling my house. The tree guys watch her, wave hello. She crosses her arms, stands and glares. Rinse and repeat.

After visiting with one of my other neighbors I figured out that I, a blogger, have my very own protester. Do you know how awesome that is??? I thought I was just having a mundane little day of tree workers and such and then voila! I got my very own protester! I must be livin’ right…. blogger + having your own personal protester = woo hoo! While my protester does have a history of picketing (with signs) all sorts of tree work being done in the city… I was not worthy of signs. But, I humbly accepted my gift of a signless protester by emailing all my friends, detailing the events on Facebook and writing multiple blog posts in my head. I’m classy like that!

So what is life like with a protester of your very own? Well… there is staring and glaring and arm crossing and blocking your driveway and more staring and circling and…. you get the idea.

My protester never spoke to me, never asked me any questions. Matter of fact, I have now lived here for nearly 9 months and she has never introduced herself or even waved. I didn’t warrant even a “welcome to the neighborhood” so I guess this is her version of the welcoming committee (and as a blogger… I couldn’t be happier). So… I know very little about my protester except to say that she is tireless: she stayed on the job for 10 hours, endured a rainstorm and would not be deterred.

I, the not-so-tireless target, spent much of the morning clueless. I should’ve gotten her picture while she was in the driveway but I was too dense to realize what was going on. By mid-afternoon, however, I was a pregnant chic with a camera, a chocolate craving and a mission. I didn’t want to do the direct approach. (Hi, I’m Kris. We’ve never met but I’d like to take your picture because I totally intend on making fun of this on my blog. Nice to meet ya! CLICK.) I’m entirely too southern for that. I had to go the sneaky route.

I waited for Dana or my Dad to return home and I was going to send them out with the assignment but… no luck. Then I figured out how I could Kinnear her. As the tree guys worked on the trees in front of the house, my little protester decided to sit on the curb and watch. And I pounced. I aimed my camera toward the tree dudes but zoomed in on Ms. Perseverance and click….one picture of a protester.

One Relaxing Protester

At one point my neighbor informed me that this lady juuuuust might chain herself to one of my trees. I’m not entirely clear about whether or not he was kidding but I do know one thing: If she does… I’m TOTALLY taking a picture!

This Week’s Sale

K H — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 02:20:04 +0000

This week’s sale…. woo hoo!!!

Save 20% off of all Dream in Color and Zen Yarn Garden yarns by using the color DreamyZen at the time of checkout. Coupon expires on Wednesday, 2/24/10.

Enjoy!!!

I’m such a dork!! I posted this on Raverly and then cut and pasted it here…. with the EXACT. SAME. TYPO!!! That is supposed to say “using the CODE DreamyZen at the the time of checkout”. I really shouldn’t be left unsupervised!!!! Mea Culpa!