lulubeans is one!

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Today marks the first birthday of LuluBeans.com!  It's hard to believe a whole year has gone by.  I wish I was doing something celebratory, but I have spent most of the day snuggling up with a sick little cuddly girl and feeling a little funk-ay myself (and not in a good way).

I did want to share the above images though, sent to me last night by a wonderful customer and fabulous knitter.  Thanks again for sharing your pictures, Stacey!  The hat was knit with my Waterlilies yarn, and the Edgar was knit using my Orchids yarn!!

These pictures are the best "birthday" present a girl could ask for.  Seeing what people create with my yarn is such an fabulous feeling.  I think that part of what thrills me is the vicarious pleasure of seeing what knitters are able to make with my yarn- after all, I am constantly surrounded by a heaps of this gorgeous yarn, and  rarely do I  get a chance to make anything out of it with my own two hands and a set of sticks.   But there is more to it than that, and I will stop short of making the analogy of raising your babies and then watching them go out into the world and become their own people, even though it would in fact we a really apt comparison, if children were brightly colored inanimate piles of carefully twisted sheep hair.  I'll just say that there is something very emotional and incredibly gratifying about making something, and having your involvement with that something stop at a very specific point, and then sending that something out there, and then seeing that another person's creativity and imagination have given that something a whole new life.   It's good stuff. 

I am feeling a huge amount of gratitude today, and I want to extend my thanks to each and person who has bought yarn or another fibery creation from me over the past year.     Your support  has meant so much to me!  And images like the ones above, well, they are just the luscious icing on this sweet cake.

Comments

[jen j-m]

happy birthday! i'm really proud of you - you've accomplished so much this year. can't wait to see you tomorrow. xo!