Weekly Email Newsletter
December 11, 2009
Hi everyone,
Ok, I'm getting in the whole holiday spirit mood. The house is almost decorated, I've actually shopped for some gifts and I gave a passing thought to making cookies today. I didn't actually make any but I want points for thinking about doing it! Cookies are a huge tradition at my house, everyone gets to pick their favorite batch for me to make. I love the traditions that we have for all holidays & I love to see what other families do for traditions for their holidays. I believe that at no time are we closer to family members, those with us and those not, than during a holiday. It's like we have time to remember during special times of the year, the rest of the year seems to pass by in a blur. As I make Christmas cookies, I think about making them with my Mom when I was small, having all the neighborhood kids in when my kids were small & more icing ending up on faces than actually on the cookies. Frosting was in their hair, on the floor, on their clothes, one year on the ceiling(?) & they all went home on a sugar high with a slight stomach ache! Now I stand at my stove making turkey gravy & think of my grandmother who made THE best gravy on earth & how we stood her in her walker next to the stove because no one could make gravy like her. (She would be absolutely horrified to see me dumping jars of of gravy in with the drippings to make my gravy! I'm hoping that's not the tradition my future grandchildren will remember 
)
Lots going on in the shop!
Our Pin It To A Guy Weekend is this weekend, December 11, 12 & 13th! Send in your guy/kids/friends/relatives with your wish list & we'll help them find your wishes & even wrap them!
Our Holiday Gift Guide is up online & chock full of great gifts in all price ranges! You can use it for your wish list! Click here.
We'll be happy to send out gift certificates (they can even be ordered online !) - please order by December 18th to ensure in time delivery.
Our Twelve Days of Sewing Promo is on going:
The Twelve Days of
Sewing
My True Love Gave to Me...All My Sewing Heart Needs!
(Hum with me now!)
Fri, Dec 11 th - Four Rotary Cutting Rulers . . . .
(Buy 2 in stock Cut For A Cure Rulers, get one free)
Sat, Dec 12th - Five Sewing Machines . . .
($100 off all floor model sewing machines, sergers &
embroidery machines priced above $1000)
Sun, Dec 13th - Six Sewing Cabinets . . .
($200 off a floor model Horn or Koala Sewing Cabinets. Discount
applies to the cabinets presently on our sales floor)
Tues, Dec 15th - Seven really sharp scissors . . .
(All scissors 30% off)
Wed, Dec 16th - Eight Christmas Kits . . .
(All Christmas kits 30% off)
Thurs, Dec 17th - Nine Embroidery Collections . . .
(Buy one & get one half price (includes ETO)
Fri, Dec 18th - Ten Quilting Classes . . .
(Bring a friend coupon - buy a $15 coupon, good in 2010, for a friend to take a class with you when you sign up & pay full price (excludes national teachers & beginner's classes)
Sat, Dec 19th - Eleven Quilting Patterns . . .
(Buy one pattern, get one free)
Sun, Dec 20th - Twelve Sewing Feet
(Buy one Bernina, Baby Lock or Elna feet & get one half price)
No limit on amount of times you can participate in each promotion per day or per sales transaction. Machine feet, Sewing Machines, Cabinets & embroidery collections cannot be mailed outside of our normal selling area. Mail order customers can combine orders to save shipping - ie if you want the fabric deal & the ruler deal, we will mail your order on the 16 th. Shipping will be based on regular prices. Free merchandise is always the least priced items of the group.
I've posted some classes for the new year online. More are coming but you can get a sneak peak by clicking here .
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Debbie's Weekly Quilting Tip - There's still time to sew for the holidays! Try these easy gifts with free pattern links from Bernina's Sewing Republic & Baby Lock's Totally Stitchin sites Lunchbag - http://www.totallystitchin.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/project-tsgo-green-lunch-bag.pdf Savvy Tote - http://www.sewingrepublic.com/projectIdeas.html?-tHPQL#/tote/ And from Marcus Brothers - Furoshiki, the ancient Japanese method of wrapping gifts in fabric. http://marcusbrothers.com/features/articles/what_is_furoshiki.shtml I'm hoping that this finds you enjoying holiday traditions of your own. And that you are further along in your holiday preparations than I am!
Happy Hanukkah to all those celebrating the Festival Of Lights! Piecefully, Debbie
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