Old Alley Quilt Shop Winter Newsletter!!!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!  Once again, we at Old Alley are wishing you and yours the best for the New Year.  As for us, we have been blessed with another whole year of great customers and great employees and have much to be thankful for and much to look forward to in the coming year – Thank you.

 

Hard to believe the year end is just a few weeks away.  It is funny how life works.  When you are a child, time seems to pass so slowly.  The anticipation of the end of the school year, a birthday, or Christmas seems to make time go so slowly.  The older we get, the time just seems to fly.  Maybe that is because instead of the excitement of anticipation of an event, we see time going too fast to get everything done for the event. :) Instead of many days of eagerly waiting, there are too few days to get the shopping done, the decorating done, the projects done, the baking done, the meals planned… and on and on.  Sometimes we see things as a list to check off rather than things to be enjoyed and savored.  Maybe we need to once again see Christmas with younger eyes - as a time full of wonder and excitement rather than things to check off a list.  I am very glad that I have young grandchildren who help me once again see the excitement, anticipation, wonder of Christmas rather than Christmas as the list of things that need to be done.  Of course, I  probably won’t see them until  the Friday before Christmas so I might already have my eyesight blurred by too many lists and what I am going to feed them while they are here… but Merry Christmas anyway!

 

Monday, the 26^th of December, starts our “inventory clearance” sale.  25% off storewide until the 31^st of December!  Usual exclusions apply, such as long arm services and consignments.

 

Don’t forget the 2011 Quilt Block of the Month Walk on Sunday, January 22^nd from one to three in the Sherburn Community Hall.  The public is welcome to see some great Delbert & Leona quilts and preview Sharon’s 2012 class, Tonga Nature.  We also will have a 20% off sale in the shop that afternoon from 1 – 4 PM.

 

We invite you to join us on Super Bowl Sunday - February 5th - for a "Souper Sew In" from noon to 5 PM.  We will provide soup and fresh bread, and if you will bring something to pass, we can all have a great time sewing and eating to our hearts' content. Please let us know if you wish to sew and eat – so we have enough soup!   If you don't care to join us for a sewing afternoon, stop in for our 20% off storewide sale from noon to 5 PM.

 

Another thing, I had an interesting experience last Sunday that made me do some thinking about perspective and how I learn things.  Do you have the same problem I do?  When I am driving to a new place, I pay attention to the directions to where I am going and have little trouble with that destination again.  If I am riding, however, I don’t pay much attention to the details of the drive and don’t have a clue where I am or how I got there even if I have gone along as a rider many times.  It is funny how things that should be easy aren’t when we really don’t have a stake in the process – we are not the driver.  Last Sunday, our pastor became sick with no time to call in a substitute… so I was it.  Now I attend church fairly regularly and have actually attended the same church for fifty years so one would think that I would have a working knowledge of when people stand or sit or pray or sing or ….   Well, I found out that once you actually have to tell people when to stand or sit or sing, it is a whole different ball game.  Thankfully, I made it without too many major problems except almost forgetting the Lord’s Prayer, but the organist saved me by whispering “Lord’s Prayer” as I was trying to find my place in the bulletin to see what was happening next.  At any rate, I think we got through it   The experience did remind me of how I learn or maybe even more, remember how to do things. I can not learn a new card game by someone telling me how to play it, I have to actually play it   I even have a hard time reading a quilt pattern until I actually get in and start cutting and sewing.  Sort of sad isn’t it?  Maybe we are all a little bit like that.  We need to get right in and muddle our way through things before they become comfortable and second nature to us.  Of course, taking a quilting class may help the reading the pattern problem…someone else can help me through the project, but I still have to do the work so I will remember. :)

 

As you are keeping warm by your computer this winter, please consider signing up for our email alerts.  I mail out reminders and class dates etc. a couple times a month to those on the list.  Sometimes, I even get a little creative with them J and you may enjoy reading them even if you are not interested in attending a class!  You can sign up by logging on to oldalleyquiltshop.com and clicking on the link on our home page.

 

We will be closed Christmas Eve.  May you also enjoy the holidays with family and friends.

 Merry Christmas from Becky, Sharon, Karen, Lori, Jodi, and Cindy

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