Olympia

I was at Olympia today with Kerrie, Lou and Mandy… part of the Hipknits stand promoting special offer Blue Sky Alpacas, Yarn Forward magazine and Hipknits yarns…

I must thank Tiffany and Ernest for helping me offload the car this morning – as it would have been very difficult without their help! Much appreciated!! Thank you!

 After the show we went for a girlie night out – and it was great… I honestly can not remember when I last went out for a girlie night. For almost every night – the priority was to work through the traffic and get home to see Lewis… but tonight it was already agreed; nana would tuck him in and I will be home after his bedtime… It actually feels very nice to have that special “me” time.

We still have one more day at the Olympia tomorrow! So see you there!

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I have had two customers come back to me regarding late parcels, this seems to be affecting the batch I posted on Tuesday, following the bank holiday… I have been in contact with the Royal Mail who have said there has been a slight backlog due to the four day weekend last week… so if your parcel is not yet here – fear not… shouldn’t be long now…

We are off to Olympia – see you there!

Precious Times

I remember the day I got home from hospital with newborn Lewis my sister, TT had asked me whether if I needed her to help me go and buy anything… The one thing I had asked her to buy me was a parenting book. It was a book that was thicker than the holy bible, but I think it is probably one of a handful of books I had ever read cover to cover (the other cover to cover books were all those GCSE compulsory books from English Literature). I relied on it like an instruction manual. When you buy anything these days you get instruction manuals. I found myself at home with a baby that was completely dependant on me, and I was clueless as to what to do with it! Instruction manual.

From that day on I was looking out for Lewis to reach the milestones. When he exceeded them (like when he can turn over at 6 wks rather than 3 months) I was thrilled. When he was behind (he walked at 16 months rather than the average 12) I was very worried… The happiest was when he slept through the night at six months! I thought to myself – it will take “ages” for him to complete all the milestones… but low and behold – his 2nd birthday is in June!

I now think – gosh – time is passing too quickly! We must slow down!! Before long, he will no longer be a baby, in fact strictly speaking he is now a toddler! He will then be a child, then a teenager, then an adult and then leave home! Oh dear!!

People always say how children are dependant on their parents; well I see another side to it too. I find myself becoming increasingly dependant on Lewis! I guess he is the reason why I have the alarm set at 6 in the morning so I can get to the office and why I am working till 1am all this week.

I timed the average number of hours we get to spend together every evening, yesterday it was less than an hour, the same tonight. He is already tucked in and fast asleep. He needs to go to bed at 8pm, as I need to wake him in the morning at 7am to drop him off to nana. On the weekends when I let him wake at his own accord – he sleeps till 8.30 – this mean for the five days a week where I have to wake him, he could have had slept for another hour and a half! Guilty!

How can I can find more hours in the day to be with him and still be able to afford the big mortgage? I have already realised – time is passing us by quickly, too quickly…

Easter Weekend

The response to the Easter Promotion was very positive – most of the orders have now been posted, with any remainders going out this week too…

We hope to be doing more promotions like this one – so to make sure you don’t miss out make sure you are subscribed to our newsletter through our shop.

Recently we have teamed up to help Kerrie out with her business franchise of Hipknits and the Yarn Forward magazine. Kerrie has also invited us to be with her at the Hipknits stand this weekend at Olympia. Do look out for us! For the next two days we will be busy labelling things us to take with us.

Odd Balls

I have decided to start a new section on the site called Odd Balls in the shop. Here you will find often the last ball (or two or three balls) of yarn (s) from the last dye lot.

I had wanted to capture a picture of the snow and Lewis – but there was not enough – so here is snapshot from our window this morning:

Lewis also had the chance to wear his “snow suit” from Grandma earlier this year – it never was quite cold enough to wear until today – so here he is in his full gear along with a nice pair of trainers I found whilst playing with him in the nursery this morning…

Do you ever buy things you see cute – then but them away – but never remember you ever bought them. Often I would re-discover them when they no longer fit, luckily we have managed to re-discover them just in time…

Blue is for Boys…

How many times have you picked pink for girls and blue for boys?

We have a mint green nursery with multi-colour animals like blue elephants and yellow lions – so a neutral colour scheme… yet when it comes to Lewis’ wardrobe – there is a strong bias for navys, greys and browns… Me out of all people should be more creative given the number of colour charts I get to see – but the last two pieces for Lewis had both been green… I am trying very hard to steer away from the “blue for boys”. I am in fact a keen fan of creams and beiges – but that for a toddler who tries to feed himself all day – it is wise to stay with something “darker”.

This is mum’s knit for Lewis in Mirasol Sulka 202. It is super soft and a quick knit up on 6mm needles.

The next project mum embarked on was a tank with Noro Blossom shade 15:

Picture of finished tank to follow.

These are the two greens… looking ahead to the next project – what should the colour be? I will be back to tell once I have decided!

Easter Discount…

The Easter Discount Weekend is now on… remember to enter code EASTER to benefit from the 15% discount…

Enjoy and have a great weekend!

No printer

Today was supposed to be a day at home to recuperate after my wisdom teeth extraction ordeal… however I have spent most of it trying to fix the printer! It’s broken!! So no lovely printed dispatch slips or neatly printed newsletters for our beloved friends who are not on-line… Taking it into the professionals on Thursday – so hopefully will have it up and running soon! Strange world – computers and printers were not really common in my childhood, yet these day – the smallest technical glitch can seem like disconnection from the world!

Wisdom

A random call from my grandmother yesterday reminded me that it had been a while I visited her with Lewis. She dropped a few very obvious hints about how much he must have progressed and she has not seen. She is housebound and very dependent now. She was very much the person who looked after me when I was running up and down like my son now – so there is always a special bond between us. Seeing how dependant she is now saddens me. She lives about a 20 minutes drive away from me with my aunt, so I really should be guilty for not seeing her more often. We all rush around in our daily routine – and even weekends have a routine… It is important not to forget to make an effort to get out of a routine and make time and space for those who really matter!

I will be off work tomorrow – but not for holiday nor for fun… unless you can call having 4 wisdom teeth taken out any fun. On this note – I may not be around for a few days…

Weekend again

What have we been doing? Well – the newsletter is now out…

Kureyon Sock Yarn is on the site.. A lot of the discounts are also on. Be sure to visit the shop to check it all out.

Pretty – I have been busy sorting out the Manos stock.. this is just some of the colours! Now all the IT has been set up – you will see more and more pics…