{"id":1484,"date":"2008-01-11T12:23:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T16:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1484"},"modified":"2008-01-11T12:23:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T16:23:00","slug":"thank-you-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/?p=1484","title":{"rendered":"Thank you, !"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more The week in mail.--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/style\/newcardsgood.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/style\/newcardsgood-thumb.jpg\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The new color-corrected cards came.  Much better!  I&#8217;m grateful to Karen at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.printsmadeeasy.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Prints Made Easy<\/a> for quickly fixing the problem.  I&#8217;ll definitely use that site again.  In fact, it&#8217;s about time to order more single-sided cards, since I&#8217;m down to about 30 remaining.  Those babies go fast!<br \/>\n<br clear=all><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/food\/standmixer.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/food\/standmixer-thumb.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"><\/a><br \/>\nAt  right: <i>Look on my stand mixer, ye mighty, and despair!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Actually, it&#8217;s not mine, it&#8217;s my husband&#8217;s.  He&#8217;s been wanting one for years now.<br \/>\n<b>Obstacles:<\/b><br \/>\n1) It&#8217;s costly.<br \/>\n2) It&#8217;s costly.<br \/>\n3) Our house is a sty.<br \/>\n<b>Solutions:<\/b><br \/>\n1) Have a very generous father who gives you a giant wad of cash for Christmas and encourages you to get something nice for your loved ones.<br \/>\n2) Scour the internet and buy it the day after Christmas online when it&#8217;s $150 off at Amazon.<br \/>\n3) Make a place for it a month in advance and keep it constantly cleared off, so that the psychological &#8220;we won&#8217;t keep it clean&#8221; barricade falls more easily.<\/p>\n<p>Bonus:  In addition to being an excellent cook, my husband also brews beer.  There&#8217;s an attachment available for this that will crack grain, which apparently would be great for making mashes.  Here&#8217;s hoping the revenooers don&#8217;t come fer us.<br \/>\n<br clear=all><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Secret%20Pal\/SantaBubbaunopened.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Secret%20Pal\/SantaBubbaunopened-thumb.jpg\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Secret%20Pal\/SantaBubbaopen.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Secret%20Pal\/SantaBubbaopen-thumb.jpg\" height=\"150\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"><\/a><lj user=drbubba> plays Santa!  Yep, it&#8217;s the prettiest care package ever for Emily.  I told Emily after school that she had mail, and you&#8217;d have thought I&#8217;d told her that Santa himself was stopping by for tea.  And check out the contents!  Albums, fancy paper, stickers, punch-out tags, glue stick&#8230; sweet!  As Emily said, &#8220;Wow!  This is so nice!&#8221;  I&#8217;ve never gotten into scrapbooking, partly because I hear it&#8217;s like crack for crafters, but I have to figure that part of the allure is that you can be a grownup and still play with stickers.  So we&#8217;ll have fun with this together.  Thank you, <lj user=drbubba>!<br \/>\n<br clear=all><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/93468786@N00\/2185841728\/\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2238\/2185841728_744bb6863d_m.jpg\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"right\"><\/a>This wasn&#8217;t mailed, but it was delivered to me on Wednesday night at knit night.  I obviously didn&#8217;t make it to <a href=\"http:\/\/cltkg.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Knitting Guild<\/a> on Tuesday night but there was a representative from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainydaycreationsinc.com\/\" target=\"blank\">Rainy Day Creations<\/a> there.  <lj user=illiane> and <a href=\"http:\/\/turtlegirl76.com\" target=\"blank\">Turtlegirl76<\/a> picked up this yarn for me.  It&#8217;s Berroco&#8217;s new yarn, named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berroco.com\/shade_cards\/comfort_sock_sh.html\" target=\"blank\">Comfort Sock<\/a>, which is apt since I think they knew I needed a little comfort.  This is exactly the colorway I would have picked for myself.  I&#8217;m glad to feel how soft it is, since I&#8217;ve got a Jayne hat client who&#8217;s allergic to wool and I&#8217;m looking at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berroco.com\/shade_cards\/comfort_sh.html\" target=\"blank\">Berroco Comfort<\/a> as a possible alternative.  The cotton I use is too pricey and they keep discontinuing my orange.  Thank you guys so much.  This is very much appreciated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Jaynemisc\/Jayneboxinside.jpg\" target=\"blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tvini.org\/images\/Jaynemisc\/Jayneboxinside.jpg\" height=\"175\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\"><\/a><br \/>\nIn addition, I got another ten skeins of orange yarn in the mail.  No need to bother with pics of the yarn &#8211; you guys know what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wearwithstyle.com\/hat5.html\" target=\"blank\">Jayne hat<\/a> yarn looks like by now.  So today, I&#8217;m packing up more kits and hats and knitting like the wind.  I may even have to temporarily discontinue kits again &#8211; packing them up takes time, and I want to get the queue back under two months!<br \/>\n<br clear=all><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[87,47,46,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kissmyknits.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}