2007 Goals

check.

I was totally freaked out last night when I was running numbers and found that I have already surpassed my goals for 2007. The whole fickin' year! Like, all, ALL of 2007 and it's still first quarter. Yay!!! I used to know, on at least a weekly basis, exactly how much I had sold by quantity, gross and net profit. (Yup, I'm a total math-geek and proud of it!) But I've been much too busy producing and selling and getting yarn to its intended recipients to (compulsively) calculate stuff on a regular basis. My husband is going to get a bit of a shock when he does taxes for my business next year! Oops.

The photo is of the sky a couple mornings ago right before a freaky storm. The bruised peach color actually woke me up. By the time I got my camera and went outside it had deepened into this interesting color. Even my daughter slowed down to take it in. The sky went thru colors I'd never seen...

Update Tomorrow!

I've been thinking that this is going to be a small update. With all the goods spread out on my desk (in alphabetical order, of course) it looks not so small. Yay! Oh, and this doesn't even show all the special order stuff.

I love listing. I hate shipping. I suck at it and spent a couple weeks working out a new system which sucked even more. So my husband will be taking over till I can find someone else who can be competent and will work for yarn. My husband, by the way, not working for yarn. He's really hard to fire, so I hope he does a good job. He can't be any worse than I am.

Thanks to everyone who ordered from my last update and had to wait for their yarn and roving. I got so many support emails and long distance hugs. Knitters/Spinners just rock!


I love having enough time to blog and do laundry and take a breath every once in a while. I even got to see friends a couple times lately! All this is due to having an assistant. I've always had a hard time with the concept that I can't do it all. (Not as hard a time as I have saying NO to anyone looking for help or volunteers or whatever) It is so lovely to have help. I did feel a bit bad over sticking her at the skeiner for 7.5 hours to reskein my last wholesale order. I did enjoy not being stuck at the skeiner for 7.5 hours my own self tho!

Soooo Good.

Life is moving a bit to quickly for my taste lately. So much of what's going on is incredibly awesome. My daughter was just the hit in her youth theater production of Peter Pan. My son's Destination Imagination team just won second place in their division and are going on to compete at the state level. I've volunteered way more than I planned to for both, but my kids deserve it. I've been looking for something this cool to do with my son for years. I'm glad we do it together. Too bad it is at the same time as the drama season! I've planned to put her in that as soon as she was old enough. She's destined for the stage. And my sweet little business...

I'm lucky enough to have Threadbear as my LYS. Jealous? Well, they are carrying my Superwash Sock Yarn. That was a crazy chain of events! I really don't feel ready, but I'm pushing myself outside of my insular comfort zone. The first batch I delivered ( 29 skeins in 4 colorways) sold out in less than 24 hours.

At our (by our I mean my husband's) annual Superbowl party one of our friends seemed interested in a little part time fiber work. She started this week. She's reskeining and washing and mixing. I hope she doesn't run for the hills.

I have gotten several wholesale inquires a week. I now have a waiting list to get on the waiting list. Crazy! All the long, really, really long days are messing with me. I didn't think I'd reach this degree of success for a few years, if ever. I superstitiously believe that if I don't do it now I'll miss my window. I've poured my soul into my colorways and yarn designs. I believe in myself. Now if only I didn't have to sleep I think I might be able to do what I schedule myself for each day...

Oh yah, it warmed up a couple times and some of the bats that choose to hibernate at our house came out to see what was up.