…. so many things! But I’ll give you the ones that (mostly) relate to The Loopy Ewe:
1. I’m thankful for all of YOU. We would have no business without you. You keep us on our toes, and you make stocking the shop fun. You’re at the top of our list and we’re always happy to have you here.
2. The indie dyers who trust us to represent and showcase their beautiful lines. Such talent in that group, and we’re grateful to share their art with you.
3. The “big” yarn companies who are so wonderful to work with. (Big is in quotes because even though they are big, most all of them work hard to be personal and friendly in all of their dealings.)
4. Coffee and chocolate. There might be a little stress going on with this cross-country December move of ours, and coffee and chocolate are helping. (I know that I should say knitting is helping, too, but my knitting time is going to be limited for a bit….). Coffee and chocolate are staples in our Loopy kitchen.
5. The St. Louis Loopy Elves. They’re forever a part of the Loopy family (meaning their impact here will last forever, but it also means that they get a Forever Loopy Employee Discount, and a forever free place to stay when they want to visit Colorado in the future. Also? A forever job if they realize that they’re tired of the St. Louis humidity next summer and want to move to the mountains. I keep hoping.).
6. The moving company that will be taking all of Loopy’s earthly possessions and driving it cross-country in a week or so. If you see a bright yellow Exodus moving van in Missouri/Kansas/Colorado the first weekend in December, you might want to ambush it and plunder the yarn. (On second thought, don’t plunder. Let’s make sure it arrives safe and sound in one piece.)
7. Your patience. I know you don’t like No-Update Mondays. I don’t either. But we are stockpiling a bunch of great yarn for our first post-move December update here in Colorado, on the 12th!
8. Stash enhancing. Ok – beyond the coffee and chocolate stress busters, I’m also picking yarn to add to my stash. I might not be able to knit for a bit, but I can still dream about future projects in wonderful colors. And I do have cases and cases of yarn sitting at my house, waiting for your next Monday Update. What’s a knitter to do?
9. The Colorado Loopy Elves. They know they have a lot to live up to (because they know you all love the St. Louis Elves) but they are ready for the challenge. I promise you, they are bringing their own kind of awesome to The Loopy Ewe. We wouldn’t have it any other way.
10. A long holiday weekend with my family. Nothing is as refreshing as spending time with the people I love the most. I hope you’re doing the same!
In honor of my Top Ten Gratitude List, we’re giving away 5 prizes. I’ve picked out 5 skeins from 5 different indie dyers and we’ll pick five winners. Will you be one? Leave a comment and let us know what you’re thankful for, even if you’re not celebrating an official Thanksgiving holiday this week! Prize winners will be announced on Friday’s blog (where we’ll have another Gratitude Week giveaway).
We have five winners of a copy of the Skinner Hat from Monday’s blog, and I’ve emailed the winners. Congratulations to Analiese in NY, Anna in WA, Lael in WI, Sarah in AL and Lisa in VA!
Sheri wishingthoseintheU.S.aHappyThanksgiving!
(P.S. So that the Loopy Elves can enjoy a long weekend with their own families, we won’t be shipping orders today, Thursday and Friday. You can still place orders 24/7, and we’ll ship them out on Monday and Tuesday of next week.)
I’m thankful for modern refrigeration and transportation, which lets me buy all the things for a nice turkey dinner even though my state is in the middle of its worst drought on record, and we’re not doing so good at growing or raising our own food right now.
I’m also thankful that my friend will be cooking the turkey, so I just have to make a banana cream pie and show up to eat. 🙂
PS – I’m also thankful that Anne Hanson has a pattern for every occasion… I realized this morning that all my WIPs are charted monsters, so I’m starting a pair of longjohn socks to take with me for football-and-nap time tomorrow.
Family, friends and good health!
November 12 I became a grandma for the first time. I am so gratefule that my daughter was a trooper and after 44 hours of labor (I was there for all but a few hours at the beginning), she delivered a beautiful, healthy, oh-so-contented baby boy!!!! I will be spending Thanksgiving with a family that gets along and loves each and every member of the family and holding that beautiful boy in my arms again.
I think I need to order more yarn – sweaters, sleep sacks, booties………..
I”m thankful for my family and my health.
I’m also thankful for the 5 day holiday break from work so I can enjoy family, knitting, reading and maybe a little shopping.
I’m thankful for my family and my reasonably good health.
I’m thankful for family, friends, the best work group, and our health.
Of course all the regular things – like my family, the abundance of really wonderful food we have access to. This year, as I have a child who started high school and another who started middle school I am well aware of our limited time all living together under one roof – and I am thankful for what we have now.
Happy Thanksgiving, Sheri and Elves! Enjoy a well deserved rest!
I’m thankful for the usual – family, friends and health. I’m thankful I’m enjoying my retirement years and, especially, that in the process I rediscovered knitting!
I am thankful for my wonderful boyfriend and friends.
I am thankful for a wonderful step-daughter and her husband and childen that make our family fabulous.
I am thankful for a wonderful husband.
I’m thankful for my husband who loves me, my knitting friends who encourage and inspire me, my cat who makes me laugh.
I am thankful for the ability to knit!
I am thankful for family and the joy that comes with knitting beautiful yarn!
I am thankful for my family and my special friend who found me on facebook last Christmas. Because of him I had a great birthday and got a job. Also thankful of being able to knit
Hi Sheri,
I am thankful for my awesome family and friends; second my job and third my health!
Beyond my family, both blood relatives and those I feel are family despite lack of blood relation, I am most thankful for my teachers and classmates who helped get me through the tough times to a place where I am a desirable job candidate even in tough economic times.
This could be a long list. I am grateful for my family and friends, my health, my job. My daughter is home for Thanksgiving for the first time in 8 years! My students this year have embraced knitting – 23 8th graders showed up for the third knitting club meeting. I have a new house (new to me) that I bought all on my own. I have a great yarn stash – although that doesn’t mean I don’t need more yarn. 🙂
Life is definitely great and I am whole-heartedly grateful!
I’m thankful for beautiful yarn, family, friends, furnaces in the winter and air conditioners in the summer, hot water heaters, washing machines, hand knit socks, comfy shoes, soft cats, warm children, delicious food.
I am so very thankful for my family – somewhere, somehow I must have done something spectacular to be blessed with such a wonderful family.
I’m especially thankful for my daughter who’s taught me to always look at what you have, not what you don’t have, and to celebrate every moment and every day. She is truly my hero and I am so blessed to be her mom.
I’m thankful for my family and our dogs. For my job and my great coworkers.
I am thankful for family, friends and my health. I am thankful for different things at different times. When backpacking I am thankful for toilet paper and ice. I am thankful for the beauty of the mountains and the sound of a running river through those mountains. I would really be thankful if I could find affordable property in the mountains of VA with a running creek or river.
I’m thankful for friends and family, for health and for being able to knit for all the joy it’s brought me and the warmth to many others.
I’m thankful for my wonderful family, and especially the way my inlaws played with my toddler all morning so I could do the prep work for tomorrow’s feast!
I am very thankful for a wonderful and understanding husband – 3 wonderful grown children, along with their spouses, and 6 wonderful grandchildren – and my other family and many friends. I am blessed.
My mother passed away Thanksgiving. I’m more thankful for her now then ever. She left behind traditions, baking skills and most of all a lovely family. I miss you mom.
I am thankful that I have retired from an extremely stressful career, have taken up knitting and for my beautiful 14 month old granddaughter Katie!
There is so much to be thankful for. My family, friends and knitting are up there. I am thankful for the men and women that keep our country free and safe. I am also thankful htat my 86 year old mother is still healthy.
I’m thankful for the good life I’ve been given.
I’m thankful for the steadfast company of three wonderful cats. I’m also thankful for my husband’s care of me since my September foot surgery. I’m just now allowed to put weight on my right foot, and haven’t taken back the cooking and grocery shopping duties yet. DH’s a keeper – known to my knitting friends as my POTA (patron of the arts).
happy holiday, this year it falls on hubbys birthday!
Thankful for the typical: family , friends, health and a fair amount of financial comfort in this recession!
As crazy as it sounds I am grateful for the fact that my multiple sclerosis has changed my insight on what is important in this world. As long as you have family and friends who love you you are beyond rich.
I thankful my wonderful family & friends and good health. Happy Thanksgiving!
I’m thankful for my lovely family (corny, yes, but true) and our collective good health.
I’m thankful for my family and my knitting!
I’m thankful for the good health of my family.
I am thankful for the opportunity that each day presents. I am also thankful for those wonderful people in my life –my family (including furries) and friends. I am also thankful for my health.
I am thankful for my grandson Henry. He is my Heaven.
I am thankful for my husband. We’ve weathered a lot of rough times in our extended families over the last couple of years. I couldn’t have gotten through it without him by my side.
I am thankful that I can be thankful. Sometimes in the busyness, and stress of daily life I forget all the blessings I have. Right now I am taking a minute to appreciate all the good in my life. Thanks for the moment Sheri!
I’m thankful for family and friends. I’m thankful for my lys for giving me a place to learn, grow and spend money and I’m thankful for having the Loopy Ewe and the St. Louis elves.
Have a great Thanksgiving.
I am (like many people) thankful for my fabulous family and friends (many are both family that are also friends or friends who are basically family!). They make this time of year all the more special for their presence.
I’m thankful for my husband and our wonderful daughter, especially for the fact she was really comfy last year and did not cause a Thanksgiving delivery disaster:) Excellent timing that I hope she continues to have!
I’m thankful for my kids and their lovely school that I get to be a part of. 🙂
I am thankful for the opportunity to enjoy the little things in life – my cute kittens playing together, my childrens’ day to day achievements, a beautiful flower or an act of kindness.
Like others, I’m thankful for so many things… my wonderful boyfriend of 12 years, my kitties, his kitties, having more than $21 in the bank (there was someone in front of me in line at the bank this morning and the teller was a little loud 🙁 ).
I’m thankful for my family, a low-stress holiday, good health, and lots of knitting time.
I am most thankful for my family: my husband, my two sons who have grown up way too fast, my mom and my sisters. They mean more to me than they will ever know.
I am thankful for so many things – probably too numerous to name but God first and then my family. My folks and their health – Jody and my health – my great job and the wonderful owners of the company I am blessed to work for. Many friends and more projects and yarn than I will ever be able to use in my whole life. Hope you and everyone of TLE friends has a wonderful blessed thanksgiving holiday.
Melody