Finances Chez Stash are tight again (albeit temporarily - we hope!) so Matt had to get creative over my gift this year. What do you do for the woman who owns so much yarn, computers and cameras?
You take her away for an weekend trip to stay here, a quiet hotel about 2 hours drive from home with good food and wine.
Normally our short trips away include a visit to a National Trust property, a zoo or an event. So what had he planned for my entertainement this time?
Bet you didn't suspect this!
Or this?
I had 2 days of opening boxes and discovering some of the buried treasure of the KCG Library. I found knitting videos I had never seen; audio tapes of people I had never heard of and some that I had and wished I had a cassette player handy to listen to immediately!
There were full sets of partworks; boxes of magazines; a treasure trove of Rowan including copies of their Journals and boxes and boxes of miscellainious patterns.
Here are some of my favourites from the first box I opened....
I want to come and play here every day!
On a serious note - the Guild will need to raise significant funds to rehouse the Library - I think I see some serious destashing of personal possessions soon, probably via ebay and I'll donate the proceeds to the Library Fund
Posted by Yvonne at August 5, 2006 10:06 PMI used to have that Knitting for Men book! Gave it away a couple of years ago, after it supplied me with hours of amusement. Never knit anything out of it, but I loved the pics!
Posted by: Mary de B at August 10, 2006 11:52 AMtime to think of some good fundraising ideas.
all those boxes... I would had gone in there and never come out again.
Posted by: atu at August 6, 2006 07:10 PMtime to think of some good fundraising ideas.
all those boxes... I would had gone in there and never come out again.
Posted by: atu at August 6, 2006 07:10 PMWhat a fun way to spend your birthday weekend, I am very jealous.
Posted by: yvette at August 6, 2006 06:53 PMI wouldn't have got anything done! I'd be stuck on the first box :)
Posted by: Donna at August 6, 2006 12:59 AMOh wow.... you know you were like footsteps away from my old house, I stayed at that hotel on my wedding night, hope you went and looked at the Priory... went up the Downs.... I am a born and bred Dunstablian.
Posted by: noonie at August 6, 2006 12:44 AM