Yummy New Wools ~Website exclusives~ added to the website

New Wools added to the website!

These wools are not going on a mailer

heavens-to-betsy.com

Canada Post Nationwide Strike ~ We will Resreve your wool

A quick note concerning Canadian orders

As of 6/19/2011 The Canada Post will not accept any First Class Mail, Priority International Mail or Express mail international.

If you live in Canada and would like to reserve yardage of our wool we WILL reserve it for you and ship when possible.

All you have to do is e-mail your order to:

betsy@heavens-to-betsy.com

or

erica@heavens-to-betsy.com

and make the notation that you would like your yardage set aside to be mailed after the mail strike.

We will email you when we are ready to ship with the total for your order plus shipping charges and send a PAYPAL invoice to you.

My heart truly goes out to you Canadians, I can't imagine the business impact of the situation and hope that the strike will be reserved in a timely manner.

Oh For Heavens Sakes!

Can I please get through one mailer without a mistake :) 

- Read on for the best Girl Power History Lesson

Ok, So we just printed of the sample sheets for our upcomming mailer and...

I made a youngin Goof.

We have a wool Named the Andrew Sisters ( W.A.C.'s)

Well you guessed it I spelled it W.A.X.

This wool is so vintage it's retro cool! My absolute fave. I have already made a pillow out of it ( which I will share shortly) and my first reaction to it was M*A*S*H.( Which I still love watching till this day, along with the Golden Girls and Matlock, I can say this now because it is now hip to be geeky. Like my dad always says: "Just wait long enough, It will be cool")- and mom replied "The Andrew Sisters and W.A.C."

So, If you don't know what a W.A.C. is (because like me you always fell asleep during history class because your teacher wanted to be a musician but ended up a teacher)

W.A.C. or WAAC is the term for the for Women Army Corps . These were the most awsomest women ever!

Brief history in the most lamest terms:

In 1942 the U.S. Goverment said Eek we don't have enough soldiers. They sent word out and made official that women could join the army. Only expecting maybe 11,000, Imagine their shock when150,000!!!! Women showed up to get physically trained, Toughened and inauculated for disease and shipped off to war!

(I think somebody didn't want to cook and clean anymore)

Get This: The Manual these women were given Starts out: "Your Job: To Replace Men. Be Ready To Take Over."^[

^Yeah!

Well, Men through a hissy fit and said it was going to hurt the masculinity of what they were doing (mm hmm)

And that it wasn't safe. But before that, General Douglas MacArthur called the WACs "my best soldiers", adding that they worked harder, complained less, and were better disciplined than men.^[12] Many generals wanted more of them and proposed to draft women but it was realised that this "would provoke considerable public outcry and Congressional opposition" and the War Department declined to take such a drastic step.^[13] Those 150,000 women that did serve released the equivalent of 7 divisions of men for combat. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower said that "their contributions in efficiency, skill, spirit, and determination are immeasurable.

And there you have it, W.A.C's in a nutshell.



It Is Official ! 2012 Shaker Village Rug Hooking Retreat

All of the T's have been crossed and the I's have been dotted

 Shaker Rug Hooking Retreat

July 14th ~ July 18th 2012

July 18th ~ July 22nd 2012

            Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill                 3501 Lexington Road Harrodsburg, KY 40330

      Betsy Reed                                                        Beverly Stewart

    betsy@heavens-to-betsy.com                              cas13ie@aol.com

Imagine 4 days of rug hooking, learning new techniques, visiting with old and new friends, having fun and relaxing at the historic, Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill. To see more of this beautiful and majestic place you can visit www.shakervillageky.org. Whether you want to begin a new project or need help finishing one you have already started, you can get color-planning help and ideas from both Betsy and Bev.

There will be door prizes, demonstrations, rug hooking and braiding instruction by both Betsy and Beverly and some “surprises”!! Whether you are a “new hooker” or are experienced, this will be a camp you will truly enjoy.

Camp will begin with a “Meet and Greet” at 3pm at the West Family Wash House. We will be hooking here at the Wash House so please bring your hooking, supplies, find your “hooking spot” and meet the other campers. At 5:30pm we will all have dinner together at the Inn at Shaker Village. You can then go back and hook or retire for the evening. Class will begin the following day after a delicious hot buffet breakfast in the dinning hall (Breakfast will be served each morning) Thursday). We will hook until lunch and then we will have a “Sack Lunch” prepared by Shaker Village. Your afternoons can be spent hooking, exploring Shaker Village (tours available), antiquing or shopping in town. Dinner will be “on your own”. We will have one or two evening projects if you wish to participate. You are welcome to stay in the hooking room to hook as late as you would like. We will have 24 hour access to the hooking room.

Room accommodations ~ Guest rooms will be available at Shaker Village at a group rate. Single $75.00 per night and double rooms $85.00 per night. You will need to make reservations for your stay. Please call and speak with Anne at 1-800-734-5611 ext. 1548 and mention you are with the Rug hooking Retreat to book your reservation. Please visit the Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill website to see the rooms and amenities available. There is a refrigerator, coffee pot and microwave available in the West Family Dwelling building for all to use.

Cost for the Retreat: $350.00

This includes Meals: One dinner, 4 ~ Buffet breakfasts and 3 ~ “Sack Lunches”

Instruction with two teachers ~ Betsy Reed and Beverly Stewart.

( You will have 24 hour access to the hooking room )

Shaker Village tour pass for the week ~ $10.00

There will be plenty of as is wool, dyed wool and patterns available. We will have a Camp Store with specials goods especially made for or “camp” All of you are welcomed to bring items for sale – we want to make this a great store. Please get additional information and forms from Betsy or Beverly. A 15% fee will be withheld on anything sold to help with expenses.

RUG SHOW ~ Wednesday evening we will have a rug show. Please bring as many rugs you like ~ with each rug entered you will earn a chance at a prize.

               Please contact Betsy or Bev ( e-mails up above)

                                if you would like to attend



Important update

Please make sure you'r e-mail address to contact us is betsy@heavens-to-betsy.com  or erica@heavens-to-betsy.com  the email address reed1@mhcable  is no longer effective

 Last night we had lots of this:

And this morning this:

So we went to town and visited our favorite people at Staples and after oh about three and a half hours - mom will have a top notch computer that as long as it is not in a tornado or hurricane should last another 10 years or so.

But she will NOT have her new computer until next week ( They are going to SuperCharge that little machine for her )

So if you need us for anything you can use the store contact button or e-mail erica at erica@heavens-to-betsy.com  or call us at 518-851-2149

On A Much Better Note:

We had some visitors

Wonder what is in there? :)



Congrats Dee - You Won! and what we are up to

Congrats to Dee, I am sending the pattern out to you on Monday. Thank you all for entering. More giveaways coming soon :)

Because.....

We have more wool coming of course!

This time I will try taking pics of the truck being unloaded. Its amazing how quickly the barn fills up.

You may have noticed that we have been a wee bit quiet on the blog. We have been keeping busy...
Dad built Grace anne a house from scratch for my backyard. I joked that go figure Her house got pretty much done before mine or mom's! 

Here is Grace Anne and Pop Pop ( Eric )

 And Erica's Husband Rick putting a chimney on

 Grace Saying "it looks a little crooked :) )

 Here is what I was able to get done as far as the painting before ALL of this rain
The part of lawn that has hardly any grass is because that whole section was a garden for the past few years.

 Grandma and Grace picked out the paint colors. I used a sponge cut in a circle and hot glued it to the bottom of a can of peaches for the PolkeeDots on the inside.

Here is what is going on at mom's house :



                                                            

Yup That is her "kitchen" or what is left of it . Well at least she doesn't have to cook! 

Pattern Giveaway

Dad accidently drew off this patern too close to the edge of the Linen. Dad's goof up is your chance to win a FREE pattern!

*you will have to sew an extra piece of cloth or linen to the one edge in order to hook that top edge.

Enter a comment by pushing the comment button for your chance to win. We pay the shipping. Please Make sure there is a Way to contact you if you are the lucky winner!

Sorry about the fold creases :)

I will pick the winner Next Friday



Almost out of stock

Mom is in Texas at camp, Hope she is taking lots of pictures!

I have been doing mundane housework but have started about 10 different sewing projects too!

I wanted to let everyone know that we are dangerously Low on a few wools:

Midnight Magic - About 15 yards left

Smokestack - About 6 yards left

Monkey Bread - About 30 yards left

Rainbow Squares - about 20 yards left

Brown sugar - About 7 yards left

Humpty Dumpty - about 7 yards left

Christmas Tree Plaid - About 5 yards

Wisteria - About 22 yards left

Springtime - About 2 and a 1/2 yards left

English Garden - About 30 yards left

pheww..

Note - It is OK if nobody bus the Midnight Magic ( Erica wants it for herself! :) ) What a cute jacket and skirt set it would make.

The best website for a bookworm and Pinterest

For anyone who might even consider themselves a bookworm I have a great FREE site to share. I have been listing all of the books I know I have read, Books I want to read and of course what I am reading now.

I tried keeping it all on index cards and in notebooks a long time ago but I had a hard time keeping track of where I put the Darn things and remembering to write it all down.

And of course.... How many of you have bought the same book TWICE?

 Grrr, They change the book covers on us and republish them.

I think I have even bought the same book twice and Mom has bought me a copy of said book!

I am loving the ease of use of goodreads.com and they also send me e-mails when my authors have something interesting on their blog.

And I can't believe I forgot to share this ( some of you may know already, I am a little slow sometimes )

Pinterest.com

The absolute most awsome site on the internet!!!!

ANY time you see a picture you like all you have to do is click your button on your toolbar and it adds it to your board. This is FANTASTIC !

I needed inspiration for doing a cathedral quilt pillow and found these:



This one is an idea for what to do with all those little pieces of embroidery floss that just arent big enough:

There is so much on Pinterest !

I highly reccomend trying and getting your FREE account

( I had to wait a week to get invited because it is so popular)

The little " pin it " button for your toolbar is amazing.

Say you are reading a blog and they show this gorgeous penny rug you want to remember. All you have to do is push your "Pin It" button and a little pop up screen comes up with all the pics that are on that page and you choose which one you want to put on your board. That is all there is to it. You can add a note to yourself too, If you would like ( great for remembering what you want to get someone as a gift! )

OHIO Hook-In Saturday

Blogger has been unavailable for what seems like forever as well as our newsletter provider. I apologize that this is last minute....

Ohio Hook-In

If you are in the area please stop by and visit

 Heavens to Betsy

Western Reserve Rug Hookers Annual Hook-in

Saturday, May 14, 2011, 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Lake Metroparks Farm Park, 8800 Chardon Road, Kirtland, Ohio

Contact Elaine Molyet, emolyet@sbcglobal.net or Jane Aebie, gblablover@windstream.net

Giveaways,Rug Braiding Clamps and Remnant bags Oh My!

Mom just got back from the North Carolina hook-in. I will be adding pictures in the next few days.

Mom's slogan should be

"Have wool, Will Travel"

We have been having fun making remnant bags! Approximately - 2 pounds each!

We received a phone call from a friend of a woman who was selling at a fiber festival, Her friend got fined lots of $$$ because she was selling yarn or something of the like by weight and didn't note that the weight was approximate!!! 

Lesson noted. 

 Here are a couple of pics of the rug braiding clamps mom and I both use. I am going to put them up on the website shortly if anyone is interested.



Oh yes , I said something about a giveaway didnt I?

Cheri from Back to Larkrise is doing another giveaway shortly. Be checking her blog for updates!

Oh before I forget...

Bev and mom's Shaker rug hooking retreat in Kentucky is already full so .... They are adding more days and breaking it into two slots!!!!

( I am using alot of exclamations for just one post, But I love them!!!!!!)

More info will be coming as soon as they finalize all the details.

One last thing:
BERNINA is giving away a $2500 BERNINA gift card AND a $2500 Home depot gift card !!!!!!!!!
All you have to do is show your messy crafting space.
Visit them on facebook or their website for more info
and if you win Dont forget where you heard about it! - I kid, I kid