The Show

Once a year, my guild, the Hudson Mohawk Weavers Guild, has a show.  This 

year was the 46th year. 

The show lasts 3 days, and we get more successful every year.

We had 900 towels in this show.  At the end there was less than 200 left.

This photo was before the doors opened on Friday.  The real devoted shoppers

are waiting in line outside!!!  We were mobbed all day Friday, and Saturday, and

shockingly busy on Sunday too

This is the only show I do these days.   Not having my husband, or Lois, to help me, I have given up the show circuit.  It's just too hard.

I sell things on my FB page,  Crazy as a Loom Weaving, and I'm having a SALE on towels over there now.

Very soon, I will put the clothes on SALE that I have left over from the show.......there are only NINE pieces this year, so they should go quickly.

I like to clear everything out, and start over fresh for the new year.

This is my new AVL warping wheel, and probably, hopefully, my last expenditure for 

a while.

I bought it to be able to warp the Megado, and put more yardage on it at a time.

Hopefully, take off is this week!!!

I loved hearing all your responses to my rants........I have thought a lot about it, and I remembered a book I read years and years ago. 

It was one of those pivotal moments, when something, or someone, makes an impact on your thinking.

In this case, it was a book called "The Control Theory, by Dr William Glasser.

I wanted to read it again, but when I looked it up on Amazon, it was $30 for the paperback.  But you can buy it used for $6, and I did.

 It helped me once, in a big way, so I think it will help me with dealing with our new reality, and the fear of the future that will 

bring.

But once more, I am taken back to my Al Anon  days.

And that quote.......that I have come back to time and time again.

Acceptance is the answer to all my problems today. When I am disturbed, it is because I find some person, place, thing or situation—some fact of my life—unacceptable to me, and I can find no serenity until I accept that person, place, thing or situation as being exactly the way it is supposed to be at this moment. Nothing, absolutely nothing, happens in God’s world by mistake.

So accepting is what I'm working on.......because inside I feel that I have not accepted it because it is so despicable to me.

And I can't move on, until I  do.

 I think it's the only way I can find a way to maintain my serenity, and live my life without letting it make me unhappy.

It ain't easy.