Practical Joke, Hate Crime, or Strange Coincidence?

Last evening after returning from CVS to buy medicine for Matt (yes he's sick Again!), I found the above pictured 1/2 sock on my front lawn. This sock is not my sock, and not a sock owned by Rachel's Thread, and I'd never seen it before in my life. It was only the top (ankle) part of the sock, and the other half looks like it was cut off with scissors... as if someone was preparing this top to be used in a sock scarf. I have no idea where it came from... or what it means ... or what to do with it. It is currently sitting on a chair on our front porch. Once it is thoroughly rain-washed, I plan to bring it inside and wash it in HOT water. Then what? No idea. This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to Rachel's Thread.

One more pic

Meiko
Originally uploaded by DerekBrad

Thank you to DerekBrad for the use of his photos!!

i love music

I'm not sure if any of you knew that, but it's true. Actually my mom reminded me the other day that my first complete sentence at age 2 was "Turn the radio up, Daddy" :)

Last Weds nite, my mom, Rae and I went to Philly (not for the World Series) to the World Cafe Live for the Hotel Cafe Tour, which included Meiko, Rachael Yamagata, Thao Nguyen, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Samantha Crain. All of the music was amazing, and we had GREAT seats in the Mezzanine.

I was especially excited because I brought a scarf with me to give to Meiko! I brought it down before the show, and gave it to the girl at the merch table to give to her, since we would be leaving right after the show to beat the Phillies traffic (which we did!). I asked the girl at the table if Meiko would get it before the show, and she said she'd bring it backstage now! :) So when Meiko came out onstage she was wearing the scarf! She even made a comment about the scarf being made out of socks, and she was sure I washed them first ;]

So I've been hunting on the internet for a good picture of her in the scarf, since our great seats were not great for photo-taking. Here is a link to a video of Meiko playing Reasons to Love You, wearing her new Rachel's Thread scarf ~ Watch Meiko play Reasons to Love You at World Cafe Live in Philly! ~enjoy

Big Day "Off"

Sunday is the day I try to get things done. I need to get myself over to the bank today to open an account for Rachel's Thread. I got edged out of my old bank (Commerce) after the first year, since they started charging a fee when my balance was under $1,000 (!) . . . I guess they don't really care too much about the very small businessgirl, so I'm heading over to Cape Bank for some free small business checking. Then I'm stopping in The Flying Carp in Ocean City to drop off some new sock scarves. And THEN I'm driving up (over?) to Berlin to check out the new sock store at the Berlin Farmers Indoor Market. And then, finally I'll be stopping on the way home from Berlin in any fabric stores along my route. When I get home I'll be sewing some purses :) So today should be quite a productive day. So far, Matt and I shared a brownie for breakfast. And yes, I was up before 7 am on a weekend. Matt's going fishing on the boat today, so he's already up and out of the house. I'll hang around in my pjs for a while and do some paperwork. In the early morning, my hair looks alot like Paula Small's from Home Movies, which is by the way, one of my all-time most favorite shows. just a few clips: Melissa helps Coach McGuirk write a 'newspaper article' Jason's Ailments

Fall scarf excitement

Today Matt took 30+ scarves to work to have a little scarf show at his desk. He had a ton of interest and sold 4 scarves within the first hour! He said: "People are flocking around my desk!!!" (That's 3 exclamation points, which means alot from Matt). Well by lunchtime he got busted for selling something that wasn't for a fundraiser, so he had to hide the scarves away... But he managed to sell 11 scarves, and has a couple others set aside on reserve!! Go Matt :)
Here are the fall colored sock scarves that are hot off the sewing machine:

back to work

Hi everyone. Hope you had a nice weekend. I got to see a bunch of relatives on Sunday who were visiting our new house for the first time. A few people definitely seemed to feel that seeing the Rachel's Thread workshop was the highlight of our house. I even sold 4 scarves !! I also got to finish up an 'Heirloom Scarf' for my cousin, which is filled with pieces of each of her son's favorite things. Star Wars, sports t-shirts and jerseys, and even a pair of snowman toe socks that one of her sons used to wear.

Today I've been working on some paperwork. Selling things=paperwork, but it's always a good feeling. Now I'm trying to get in the mood for fall colored scarves, since I'll be making a few sock scarves in browns, oranges, and nice fall looks. ALSO, if you haven't noticed, I listed another t-shirt scarf in my etsy store. Unfortunately (or fortunately?) most of the scarves Amy and I had pictures and descriptions to list on etsy are now SOLD! I'll probably add a few more this week. I have just about the perfect amount of time to do that each morning. My morning includes the following: Alarm goes off at 5:30, I press snooze about 6 times, finally get up with Matt at 6:53. Then I go on the internet, make our lunches, go on the internet, iron our clothes, go on the internet. Then Matt leaves for work, and I might go on one more time after saying goodbye. I usually leave myself about 10 mins to shower, figure out what to wear, get dressed, find my keys and phone, and make sure our cat is inside. So anyway, I think I can manage to get a new scarf up in my store at least a few times a week.