This time of year I start thinking. Around here, most of the people say, "Uh oh, she's thinking" and it probably means another To Do list is about to be shared with them. But there's something about the change from Daylight Savings Time to Standard Time that means that I slow down a bit. I have more time to think and to ponder because of that. I go slower.
I am already thinking about next year, but I am also thinking about this year and what has happened for us at Miss Babs, and what has happened in our personal lives.
It's been a busy and eventful year. There are 9 of us now at the studio and 2 part timers as well. We are a close group and we share the good times as well as the bad. Among us and our extended families, we have experienced and shared a marriage, a family death, a couple of car accidents, a surgery or two, beginnings and endings of relationships, poor health, training new employees, travel, sleeping in tight quarters, insomnia, loss of a pet, anger, frustration, lots and lots of laughter, and lots of music.
We are kindred souls when it comes to work and doing a good job, and we care for each other. This very real group of women that I work with is what I am grateful for this year on a personal level, plus my understanding husband and family.
This foundation of good people has allowed Miss Babs (the business) to grow and continue to do creative things this year. We built an addition to the studio that has given us a drying space and a place to store a good part of our inventory, and create a second dyeing space.
Under construction!!
Dottie, our redneck dog, during construction
And here is the Studio today with snow coming down. We have some things left to do outside to decks and railings, but it is wonderful inside!
In tribute to Thanksgiving, please share a thought or two about what you are grateful for this Thanksgiving season. We will do a drawing using a random number generator on ... and we'll be giving away a skein of Ephemeral, with a pair of HiyaHiya circular needles, and Heidi Kirrmaier's Windward pattern.
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This year I am thankful for new opportunities and adventure. I am also thankful for a supportive family who is always behind me 100%.
I’m thankful that I’m starting to figure out long-term career and life planning, and that those plans involve yarn. I’m also thankful to have an exceptional LYS to work out while I start expanding my teaching and designing.
I’m thankful for all that the Lord has given me — health and family as well as a home since we have been lived in 4 houses in 5 years. I so appreciate my new town and a house to call my own.
I am thankful for the friends and family in my life who remind me that health and people are most important. Material objects are nice, but at the end of it all, it’s the memories you’ve shared with people that will last forever. I am also thankful to be able to knit and crochet things to give these wonderful people I care about. It is a blessing to be able to have the time to make things with my very own two hands to show people how much I appreciate them. They might not always know exactly how much time and effort is put into those things, but they do know I took it for them. Thank you for this post as a lovely reminder to myself. Happy holidays! Ravelry ID: kellknit
This is such a great opportunity to express my thanks for a blessed life. I wake up each day with the opportunity to contribute positively to this world and that is a blessing. I am thankful for my family, friends, knitting community in Apex, NC— DowntownKnits; colleagues at work and my furriends— Scooch. I lost one of my furriends—my little Rose on August 3rd and miss her sweet personality, however am very thankful to have had the opportunity to know her.
I am having a very sad holiday season so I am trying very hard to focus every day on how many things I have to be thankful for….2 beautiful children, pets that I adore, job stability, living a creative life…so many blessings. Wishing you all a wonderful thanksgiving.
I am thankful for my two beautiful, healthy children, my husband who tolerates and even embraces all of my quirks and my extended family and friends who give me so much love and joy throughout the year!
I am thankful for the healthy birth of my first granddaughter (yesterday, 11/26/13) and for my 3 healthy grandsons (6, 1.5, 1.5). I am blessed with 3 lovely daughters and 2 wonderful sons-in-law.
I am thankful for my job…and my coworkers who have made it possible for me to move into a new career and I’m thankful for my DH who loves me and feeds me!
I am thankful for my beautiful family and the many wonderful friends knitting has given me.