More snow and more left-over socks made!

More snow, and more snow, and more left-over socks made by MrB!  These three pair were kitchenered up by me this afternoon, and they are all washed and laying flat to dry!  Tomorrow they will be tagged and added to our show and sell collection for market.  Market for us is again this coming Saturday.  Yahoo!  We actually missed going the last time due to the storm.  It will be great to make our appearance,  and see all the friendly smiling faces again of people dropping by to chat, to ask questions and to make purchases. We simply enjoy this outing having the social contacts and so it does not seem like work to us!  If you are in the local area, slip on down to the Historic Farmers' Market at Brewery Square 7am-1pm, and give Socks Made On 88 a visit!

MsB from Socks Made On 88

Blizzardy Days, what do you get?

MsB completed this felt applique stocking!

MrB made some left-over yarn sock pairs! Don't they look yummy!

Some snow to show for our shovelling efforts in the last 3 days!

Between cranking, and shovelling, and snow blowing MrB also finds time  to work on a jig-saw puzzle.  Comes in handy when he needs the sock on his cicular sock machine to relax and it also give him some much needed R & R too from time to time!

And this time of year MsB has yet another felt appliqued stocking to work on also.  Finish up one and start another one!

Big snow storm, centimetres of snow to shovel!  And in between shovelling what are you to do, but .....work on projects!  In the last few days ( 3) MrB and I have been productive in the project department.  From the pictures above you can see how we spent our blizzardy-time!  We got a little bit more snow last night and now it is friggin' raining, so that makes a big time mess on the roads early this morning.  We are hunkering down again today, continuing on working on projects and see what gets accomplished today?  We may not always be working to get things done in Socks Made On 88 but if that is the case, we certainly do enjoy our other projects as well.  You will hear me say over and over that BALANCE is a very important key in the lives of MrB and MsB.  I for one am going to get back to my stocking today..... catch you all later when there is more SMO88 news to report! Oh I must  remember to tag those two pair of socks first!  ( Going down to the basement to fullfill that task then running upstairs to sip tea and stitch! )  Yes I will give you permission to call me the Stitch  _itch, but only today :-)

MsB from Socks Made On 88

We will NOT be at the market Feb9/13

To our Historic Farmers' Market customers:
MrB and I would like to imform you that we will not be attending this Saturday's market due to the pending storm and several cm's of snow!
Sorry for the cancellation, .....we will see you again, Saturday Feb 23/13.  MsB and MrB of Socks Made On 88
Thank you.

posted by:  MsB from Socks Made On 88  Wed. evening of Feb.6/13.

  

Busy as Beavers!

MrB and I have just been busy as beavers.  A truly Canadian expression!  MrB has been doing a lot of cranking of late to meet our new projected goals.  These goals are so that we can go the market all summer but so that MrB will not knit as much during that time period also.   As busy as MrB has been cranking out socks, I have been busy doing my tasks as well.  What have those tasks been?  Well they have been, printing out tags, kitchenering, washing and drying socks pairs, taking pictures, writing blog enteries, emails, networking,  updating SMO88 facebook page, picking out colours for the next pairs to be knitted, tallying the size groups, market preps, and more!  But let me mention that I love doing all these things.  They are MY kinds of things to keep me busy, entertained and happy! The last few days have been busy, and  MrB the busy beaver, MsB the busy beaver would like to share our most recent sock pairs with you.  It was not planned that most of them seem to have pink, or red in them which makes them very appropriate for Valentine's Day upcoming, and our market close to the occasion too.  There are a couple of others, a nice bright yellow/gold pair and another pair that could be classified as conservative or just In-between!  This winds up our women's pairs for this round.  MrB just gave Brigadier a bath, so they will both have the night off from knitting tonight.  I think, the plan of action for tomorrow is to crank out three pair of men's pairs and then our goals will have been met.  We have an full rack of socks for our show and sell for Saturday!  And of course, all the pink and red pairs will be tackfully placed to make their debut and see which ones get snatched up first!

MsB from Socks Made On 88

Views now over 4000!

Wow just signed in to post a blog entry and noticed the tally of views on my blog in general.  The views were 4010!  Thank you to all who read my blog.
I hope you have fun reading it and learn something too.  I sure do have fun writing it!  

MsB from Socks Made On 88

Its not LOL but TOL!

TOL~ Thinking out Loud!  It must be the weather, it is snowing here beat the band!  Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow!  Nova Scotia seems to be getting dumped on this morning.  For those you who live beyond and do not get to experience snow....I should really attach a picture for you, shouldn't I?  Let me see what I can do about that!

We hardly had any snow at all it had all disappeared so this is what appeared over night and this morning.  Right now big fluffy flakes are coming down quite hard.  And this is why in Canada we need nice warm wool socks to keep our feet nice and warm both indoors and outdoors too.

Ok so back to TOL, my mind is racing like a race horse.  I printed off some more sock tags today.  I think I have those perfected with many tweaks along the way.  I got MrB crankin away doing up our new projected goals for each sizing group.  I got my new printed-off tracking sheet ready in my bag to go to market for Saturday.    I got my new 2013 calendar to put in my sales box.   I am feeling good about the decisions we made last night forging forward.  Now today I am thinking, we did start the little venture a year ago Jan 3 but we have NOT reached our one year mark yet for selling at any market.  This time last year in February of 2012 we had yet to be to any market.  So thinking, we are doing very very well for what we have accomplished so far.  I just had to come here and tell the world that I am patting ourselves on the back with a big ole smile.  The very first market we did attend was on March 10, 2012.  We still have a month and half to reach that milestone.  We surely have come a long ways, but good ways.  I love learning!  And I just said to MrB this morning, how for the first time in my working career, how much I LOVE all aspects of my job :-)  It is very cool being partners in life and partners in this SOCK venture.  We are co-bosses!  I love to be boss sometimes ( sshhh)  or as MrB might say, being bossy!  hahaha  So this is what snow does to me, it makes me think.  You are enclosed in this little box, your home, you can watch the big fluffy flakes come down, do your own thing, and eventually you will go outdoors to shovel but it is an awesome feeling that you don't have to go out and you can sit indoors fire going in the wood stove, all cozy warm, and sit and knit or for me today it will be to work on another felt stocking. OK that was a very sentence, but that is fine, just take a deep breath now! Another passion of mine!  I think I have shared them here before.  

Hope you enjoyed the snow pictures!  Now I must get to felt embroidering.  That's because I got all my work caught up in Socks Made On 88, and all my little household chores done too and I got hugs on my feet, and I am ready to play!  Play, is my own free time!  Have a great day folks, LOL or TOL yourself!

MsB from Socks Made On 88 
  

Ponders are Plentiful!

Ponders are plentiful late afternoon and evening today after venturing out to the market.  Yes we went to the market as a customer this afternoon instead of being a vendor.  We wanted to take some time not in the rush of set-up, show and sell, and take down.  When we are at the market, show and sell is the main goal.  We zip off to the washroom now and again but never take time to go to the other vendors that are not on the same level as we are located.

Today we made a conscience effort to scope out all the other vendors. We bought some items one from vendor to take home and use in the kitchen, another vendor we got a pastry snack  and oh another vendor too, we picked up food for supper!  Then alas,after the market closed to the public,  we attended the market meeting also.

Sitting amongst other vendors and hearing them give their opinions etc on certain topics, certainly made things in our minds surface, to ponder for us.  While driving home, after getting home, reassessing some things, talking through supper, and after supper again talking all made us both ponder new ideas.  We came up with some new goals, and immediate projections that we could achieve and strive for further down the road.  Then many more ponders too became plentiful!  I sorted out all or most of the ponders in my head. I have to work things out on paper and see if it can all come together in front of me.  I printed off a 2013 one page calendar and planned more market dates to attend.  Remember I was talking a few days ago about taking a break!  Well now we are thinking that we don't really need to or want to a break.

We are feeling so connected to the market community as a vendor and to our customers that we want our presence known at the market each month.  After more pondering and re-evaluating we are thinking we can still manage the other things in our lives that we want to do in the spring and summer and  be active with the market also.  We just have to be a little bit more ( not a lot) organized and dedicated right now to meet our new goals.  We want the flow of things to go with ease for the spring and summer months at the market. If we get more work done now it will benefit us so that MrB does not have a lot of cranking to do in the months that he also likes to do others things outdoors.

We learn so much by observing, developing, and practicing new marketing and tracking ideas that will work for our sock venture.  MrB is not only a good cranker/knitter but he is very techie-wise also.  This is very helpful to track various aspects of our sales on computer generated charts and graphs.  We developed a few new charts this evening and will put them into practice next weekend at the market and at the completion of our market days.  With our combination of ideas and efforts from both MrB and myself.... we are forging ahead making wonderful progress within Socks Made On 88!  We will be able to maintain flexibility too.  Wow, this little venture is so invigoratinging  and satisfying with it's constant learning curve!

MsB from Socks Made On 88