Dear Paula

Thank you! Thank you from the bottom of my woolly heart, for being such a wonderful part of our Blue Moon team.
As promised, I am trying my best to be a good sport about all of this. I think I’ve been pretty successful. 
No tears in front of you and only a hug every other day or so. You have to admit, that for me, that’s some serious reining it in.
Still my friend, as I sit here thinking about this day, I’m having the hardest time imagine all of this without you.

Paula, please know that who you are is seen and greatly appreciated. I value so much about you, from your witty sarcasm to the canning and board games.
I have to say though, it is your generous heart that is my favourite!
You walked in here as a temp to help with the rinsing. You stayed and ended up as our stellar customer service rep, bundler, shipping clerk, e-commerce and really the list goes on, wherever I needed you, there you were.
So thank you Paula, for being that person who… graciously steps in where needed and is willing to grow and change with the ebb and flow of life.
I will miss you your smile and hearty chuckle and yes, your bean dip!

May the road rise up to meet you.
May the wind always be at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face,
and rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

Go here and will Maura sing it for you:

Safe travels to you and your Tom!  You know where we are if you need us!

love,

tina

A snowy few days in the neighborhood

It started here.

This is the winter loveliness Sophie and I drove home to Saturday night after helping Rabia move into her apartment.

It kept snowing off an on for the rest of the weekend.

And really… it was manageable until yesterday afternoon when the sky darkened, opened up dropping huge amounts of the flaky white stuff in such a fast and furious way it was a little scary.


When the alarm went off this morning this is what we were met with.

A whole lot of snow.  We get snow here. We’re at a high elevation and we get a real winter every year. It’s usually not this real though.

Our cherry tree is now on the roof over my bedroom and is a lovely sight outside my bedroom window, which explains the groan and shudder I heard last night.

Sophie and I dug our way to the wood pile. Luckily we already had a snow pack to work with from the day before. Sophie thinks it might be just a little too much snow. I agree with her. However, it did giver her the day off, which is lovely because it’s her birthday. Sophie my youngest, turned 15 today. Since we had a late Christmas waiting for her siblings to return, I kept our Christmas tree up and this morning, in the wee hours, turned it into a birthday tree for her.

She was thrilled. The tree also had origami cranes with birthday wishes on their insides, she opened them before I could get a picture. We might have to do this every year. It was quite magical. Maybe next time we can dispense with the massive amount of snow.

Needless to say there is no team Blue Moon here today. I’ll keep you posted about tomorrow.
It has stopped snowing...for now.

What’s up in Hueville

Well...let me tell you.
One of the really weird yet kinda cool parts of this job is the prep for seasonal colour change. Thinking about winter tones in summer is sometimes hard and predicting that far head can be tricky but… the whole creating spring colourways in the dead of winter is some pretty wickedly powerful fight-off the winter blues therapy.
As you know in order to make room for new you have to do some house cleaning.  We never ever make a colourway disappear. We do however send them off for a bit of a rest. I think it was Joann who decided they went to the spa for some rejuvenation.
Below is the list of colours that are headed off to the spa on January 17th. So… those of you knitters who actually plan and do holiday knitting all year round you might want to take a minute and stock up.  Keep in mind that they will be back early next fall and that some new colours will be replacing them.
If there are any colourways that are not on the website right now that you would like to see come home from the spa please let us know in the comments and we will do our best to grant that wish.