Where Hands Create.

As I drove to Comfort Sunday, I was about knocked out by the gorgeous greens that have leapt into our Hill Country views!  A little bit of rain sure makes the trees come alive, and it also helps to strengthen the beautiful roadside bluebonnets and Indian paintbrush.  AND the colors are set off by the bluest blue sky!  Just bright, happy colors - and times when you are so glad to live in Texas!

This week, as do most weeks, brought a lot of good tidings forward.   For one, we were mentioned in the April 2nd edition of the Kens 5 "I Dig San Antonio Blog" - cool, huh?  Martha Cerna specifically mentions the shop and High's Cafe as spots to visit when in Comfort.  Thank you, Martha!    We also had a visit from the sales rep for Noro on Wednesday, and he was showing some of the Fall yarns to tempt us and it worked.  If you know me - you know how I love Noro, and we will be in for a treat come middle/late July!  

Mom and our neighbor also "saved" a mother cat and her six kittens.   The mama cat got spayed, and she and the kittens have been staying at Lindner's Animal Hospital as boarders.  Mom picked up mama cat today (Monday), and she will live behind the shop.  Now, we hope that the six kittens find good homes.  The same shelter where we got Noro and Laurel were happy to have a set of such cuties (check out the one little black one in the top left - and the little girl on the left sleeping Mom said is a ham).   If you are interested in one of these little guys - they can be found at the Kathleen C. Cailloux Humane Society of Kerrville. 

Right now, I am feeling a bit crazy insane with patterns, yarns, etc. - I want to cast everything on!  I love knitting!!  At present, I am gleefully knitting on a number of projects (two sweaters, two pairs of socks).  I believe I need to finish a few projects here soon - and I am going to work towards completion on one in the next ten days.  I must say, Mom is making me look great in that she is making sweaters that fit me perfectly.  I do need to reciprocate with a few items going her direction - and Mother's Day will be here in a few weeks.    Do believe Mom will enjoy the Shaped Tee with Collar that I started (and it will be class first weekend in May) and I am loving the project - simple and beautiful!  I think I will also try to create a great beaded flower that will be a great pin.  Here is a picture....


I hope all have a great week enjoying the green, green, green colors!  

Funny, whenever I see or hear the word "celebrate", I always hear Kool and the Gang with their song, Celebration - "celebrate good times, come on!".  Yes, this does date me - and I do hope some of you are dancing along with the disco balls in your mind!  If you don't know the song - be sure to go to Amazon and/or iTunes and listen to their teaser so I do not feel so "odd".  Now back to the main part of the blog now that you have the soundtrack.

Getting in my car last night to drive away - I had to stop and look back at the shop.  All I could think was "wow" - that is our shop!   Yes, I did call Mom on the cell phone and share with her too (even if she was just a block up the street).  I think we have put together a neat shop in a neat town and drawn neat people to join us.  We will celebrate our six-month annivesary on April 15th - can you believe it?!   Celebration!  Thanks to each of you who have made this an amazing six months and allowed the dream to materialize.  

Now to fun and somewhat trivial fodder....  Yesterday, while knitting away making the Spring Sweater - Noro came up for a visit and curled up for a snooze in my knitting bag (with my sweater below him).  In this picture - doesn't he look like he is laughing at THE funniest joke? 

In truth - it is a big Noro yawn...  But this is still a great picture and I can always use the proof that someone laughed at my jokes once!

I hope this Easter Sunday brings you every blessing - and we are all (I hope) getting a little rain today.  Celebrate!

As Sunday closes, it is awesome to sit and reflect on a busy and fun weekend! 

First of all, another wonderful local yarn shop in Katy (Yarntopia) coordinated their second annual retreat to Comfort for a little stitching and together time by the river.  What a tremendous, fun and talented group.  Mom and Dad got greeted warmly from the front door on Thursday with a "Hi, Mom and Dad!" - and the fun continued throughout the weekend.   Several of the ladies even brought hats for our Hats Not Enough collection - now that totally rocks.  Here are a few pictures of the group....