Wanted: New human to take pictures and write what I tell them to on my blog!!!! Jane has got to go!!!! I will keep her on until I can find a better human to do my bidding.Have you noticed I have not been on line for awhile? Where do you think I've been? Florida? I can't walk remember! I am a building in Elmwood, Wi. Can I go anywhere? I don't think soooo. She should have been writing on my blog. She should have been taking pictures of my people. She says she forgot the camera AGAIN! I ask you how many times can she keep using the same excuse? I am feeling the need to punish her.


Anyway, Mary had her family come in for coffee. They are a great bunch.

They laughed and had about 10 conversations going at once ,it was great. Made my roof spin.


Jane is spinning Dylan her favorite rams wool into yarn to make a
sweater for herself. Today she is hoping to get the "pie are square shawl" off the needles so she can start on the lace. When she gets it done I will have her, no I will make her take a picture of it.
She got alot more yarn in today. She does like the yarn.

I think she has lost her mind getting back into tatting and bobbin lace. No one likes tatting and bobbin lace!!! Do they?
Anyway it is nice to be back. I'll be making Jane post again later today. We have important things to talk about.

Keith was in this morning to have coffee with Matt. Doesn't he looked shocked that Jane would take his picture? I just love the look on his face.







I love the camouflage afghan The mystery crocheter is working on. It is so cool the picture doesn't do it justice. I'm so glad she wasn't knitting today.







We finally got a picture of Oake today. What do you think?
hat and guitar. That is all you will ever see of Oake. We tried to get his shoes in the picture but he would have none of that, he has the coolest shoes.

Just a note about John he is recovering nicely from his hernia repair. We are all trying to be especially nice to him while he is healing.

Things are going really good at the Emporium, knitters are knitting, crocheters are crocheting, coffee drinkers are drinking. (Jane is starting to be obedient again) People are coming and going. Laughing and crying. It is good to be full of people again. I hope some day all the buildings in Elmwood will be full and happy like me.

Well, well, well, Jane remembered to bring the camera in. Can't believe it! I was kinda hoping she wouldn't remember, I was planning her demise, but she did bring in the camera so I have some pictures of today. It was really busy in the shop today so she didn't get a chance to take a lot of pictures.
Anyway, these wonderful girls came in today for lattes. They are really cool girls. Rachel is trying to find her coffee drink, her signature coffee beverage. We will try lots of coffee til we discover her special signature coffee drink.




Cassandra and Faye were in for lunch. Faye and Cassandra hang out together while their mothers are working. They sure are nice girls.



Poor Cassandra has such a cold, look at this poor girls nose. Mary has been trying to get her to drink tea. But you know how that goes.



Well would you look at the Mystery crocheter. She has now gone to the dark side. She has started knitting. I can't believe it. Of all the people that come in here I thought she would stay true to her craft. The mischievous mystery crocheter. (sigh) I hope we don't have to rename her, I kinda like the" mischievous mystery crocheter. " She did buy some really cool yarn today and she did say she was going to crochet it. Maybe there is still hope.

John has a hernia and is going in Wednesday to have it fixed. Poor John. Jane will be driving him so she won't be blogging for me probably until Thursday. So I guess I won't be being heard from for a few days. I hope you all have a nice weekend.

I hope everyone has had a nice beginning to 2006! Can you believe another year has come and gone? Jane has been a very naughty girl. She has forgotten the camera 2 days in a row. I am not happy! I told her yesterday to post on my blog even thought she didn't have any pictures to post. She said it wouldn't be interesting without pictures of the people. I said I didn't really care that she should type what I say anyway. She promised she would bring the camera in today and take pictures. Guess what people (and you other buildings out there) she forgot AGAIN!!! I am trying to remain calm. I am trying not to hurt her. This human is sooooo unorganized and forgetful, how she has made it this far is beyond me. The parents of Jane if you are reading this you deserve a metal, and lets not for get John, he deserves to be sainted. I tell ya I don't know how mush I can take. If she didn't work so cheap she would have been down the road a long time ago. I will let her post 1 picture of her cows, because I have no choice. I WANT PICTURES!! This is a picture of her Highland cow "Topanga" she likes her cows. Good grief a human with pet cows.
Wait a minute do you think she ment to do this? I think she is trying to pull something here. She knows this blog is suppose to be all about ME and only ME!
Anyway back to stuff about the Emporium. Even without pictures I am the coolest place to be. Jane got more yarn in today. The UPS man is starting to get a little nervous, she acts so giddy when he brings yarn. John was reading a joke to the diners last night he was laughing so loud he was snorting. If you can find it on the net it is really funny. Search for :Vanity- the chili contest it is so funny. The knitters were really quiet last night. Jesse was gone! Jesse brings a lot of humor to the ladies at knitters night out or SNB. Heather tried spinning for the first time last night and did a very good job. All and All things are good. Except for Jane, I don't know what I'm going to do with her, if she doesn't bring that camera tomorrow I will have to punish her.

Yesterday, John had Gabe and Isaac come to fix my lights. The knitters will be happy, they had to move their table under some lights because the lights in their area burned out. They will be happy the lights are working again. These guys did a real good job, they even fixed my leaky faucet.










Hayley and Matt are having coffee. Hayley has been helping Rebecca count beads at her shop across the street.



Neal and his kids came and shoveled the snow off my side walk. They are the nicest family. Neal and Raven are the ones that painted the signs on my windows.

Jesse brought her Sock knitting machine in to knitters night out last night. It was so cool the way you can make socks on the antique machine. John won one on Ebay, he is asking Jesse to help him get it going so he can make socks too. John will be bringing his sock machine to knitters night out next week so hopefully Jesse can help him get the sock machine working.


Jane is working on the "pie are square" shawl. I'm not a big fan of the yarn or color she has chosen to make the shawl , but you know it is Jane we are talking about here. I'll think she'll have it off the needles in about another week. Then we will see if she got the pie to work.

Hello,
I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas. I hope presents were good. Family and friends were fun and everyone got enough to eat. John got Jane a camera for Christmas, what a joke. She sure is having a hard time understanding it! She did take pictures of her favorite cats. She has been whining about letting me put them on the blog. I told her how I feel about cats. Being a building is really a bummer because all the local tom cats like to spray on ya, really really makes me mad. I hate the smell! I did tell her that this one time I would let her put her stupid cats on my blog. She does love her cats. Next she'll be wanting to post pictures of her sheep, cattle, peacocks and I know she is going to try and sneak a picture of the border collie on the blog. She would have one on already but she's really having a hard time figuring out the new camera.

Brooklyn and Cassandra are drawing at the game table. Aren't they just the cutest. Brooklyn is John and Janes Granddaughter and of course every one knows Cassandra. Cassandra is the local marble champ.

It is Christmas Eve in Elmwood, Wi. It is a great day!
The little trees will be taken down next week and put away in my basement. There is a new year coming 2006.
I really want to thank all the people that come to the Emporium and support the shop. I think I have the best customers in the world. Without the people that come in here I would be just an empty shell. THANK YOU so much. All these people mean so much to me. Someday I will make Jane take pictures of all the people that walk thru the door and I will have her write the things I want her to write. But, you have to understand what I have to put up with here. If you only knew you would feel so sorry for me. Here I go,I wasn't going to say anything bad, it is Christmas you know. Time for love and happiness and all that neat stuff. But, really!!!! Change of subject now. We will talk later.


Katharine came in this afternoon to finish up her last minute Christmas shopping. She bought lots of coffee, lots of LaVonnes crocheted ornaments and some teas.




This is a picture of Katharine and her beautiful daughter K2. They are playing around with the prairie bonnets. Silly girls!











Tony, Brennen, and John have a checkers game going this morning. They were having a really fun time.
John says checkers in the morning. Chess at night.

Life is good here ! I hope all of you have a Merry Christmas!!!
I know I will, soon everyone will be gone, the lights will be turned off, the heat turned down. John and Jane will be going home to have a quiet Christmas eve, and I will be here watching the town settle in for the night. Merry Christmas everyone

Finally Jane has gotten her act together enough to write on the blog. It HAS been over a week! I had to wrestler her down and hold her captive in the office until she gets to work on writing. you should have seen her begging and crying and carrying on like a big baby. I had to bitch slap her a couple times to make her get it together. Now its all good, she's typing away every little word I have for her to say. (evil building laugh)

A lot had happened this week.
I will start with the fun stuff. Leah and Brooklyn came in this past week. ( Leah another one who doesn't want her picture taken) We had a good time.
Check out the cool shoes. I really like shoes. Maybe it's cuz I can't wear them.



Jerry and Joanne came in this week to replenish their rug supply. They weave all the rugs at the Emporium. They are the nicest rugs, and the nicest people. They have been selling a lot of rugs this week for Christmas presents. Good job you guys.



Paul and Pam came in for coffee! What are they doing to that bag of coffee? Are they kissing it or smelling it. What ever they are doing I think should only be done in the privacy of their own home. Good grief







Val and her Granddaughter Danielle came in for lunch! Good people. I really like Danielles hair, way cool hair.







Now, for such sadness, that is too much too bear.
Kyle was killed while out in a convoy by a roadside bomb in Iraq.
He is missed by his wife and little daughter.
He is missed by the people and buildings in this town.
He always wanted to make a difference and I say he did.
He was a GREAT man!!!!!


I wish everyone could just come home now!

I would like to wish all you humans out there a wonderful, safe, and very merry Christmas!

Last night Matt and Cassandra were having a marble shooting contest. Guess who won!!!!Can you tell by her face!!!! Matt got beat by a small female child. Everyone in the Emporium is still talking about it as we speak. They were having so much fun. We will be having another marble shooting contest soon.

Anna won the guess the weight of the giant pumpkin contest. Her guess was 946 lbs. The weight of the giant pumpkin was 937lbs her prize was a lb of Johns really great coffee.

Some ladies from a church came in to day to get a prayer shawl ministry going, this was their first meeting. I hope it goes really well for them.

Diane came into the Emporium today. She is Janes neighbor and friend. They talked and had coffee. Jane was happy to see Diane, even though they are neighbors and friends they don't get to see each other very often.

Last night was the knitters night out!!!! What fun! These girls just laugh and laugh at the strangest things but they seem to be having fun and as long as no one gets hurt its OK with me!
there was a new face last night and one I haven't seen for awhile.

It was good to have Jan back at knitters night out. She spun the yarn for the sweater she's working on. Looks really nice.

Katharine was working on embroidery. Something for her new baby Granddaughter.

It was a GREAT time!!!

Last night was a really good time. Cassandra and her Mother came in for supper and games. I think Cassandra beat John at Uno several times.

Cassandra found a horn that was for sale at the emporium, it has been there along time. Cassandra picked up that horn and started blowing and making music with that horn like she had been playing it all her life. She could call out the Calvary.

Wait, is that Mary behind Johns arm? Why is she always hiding? Someday we will find out.

Would you look at this???? It is the mischievous Mystery Crocheter! Would you look at what she is doing! Is she smothering those Christmas trees with her crochet flakes?

Someone should really call 911. I think she means to harm that tree.

Sheri was in looking at the selection of knitting books Jane has in the back of the knitting shop. Sheri is getting pretty into knitting these days. She working on some really cool stuff.

Yesterday was a great day.

We'll have to see what happens tonight!
I'll keep you posted. (no pun intended) ha ha

Saturday was a very busy spinning day at the Emproium. These wonderful children, their mothers and Pam , (cool lady in the back with drop spindle) came in to try their hands at spinning wool into yarn. It was a lot of fun!!!!
Pam has been spinning for many many years on her Louet, now she wants to try a drop spindle. Very tricky!!!

Sandra and Cassandra came in for Supper last night. Steve you have the nicest family!!!!!
look at that smile!!!!!! We all miss you and we pray for you and your family always.

These are the knitters







Last night was "knitters night out" Jane remembered to take pictures. (finally) These are some of the ladies that come to the knitters night out. I wait all week to see these cool ladies, they always seem to have a really great time knitting and visiting with each other.

Haley and John are having a big political debate. I had know idea that the presidents name was "Bush". It's been along time since politics have been discussed here. I thought the President was Teddy Roosevelt. Silly me!!! It's 2005 not 1912, my how time flies. So much to catch up on.

Patricia came in to show off her "Lucy bag" To bad Jane can't take a decent picture. Patricia is such a nice looking woman and Jane has her all blurry.

Wait a minute is that Mary in the background? This is the only other picture of Mary we have. Mary will never let you take her picture because she thinks it will take a little bit of her soul, Yet she will show her feet! I bet your thinking hey whats up with the stool? Mary is a very short person. John says she is vertically challenged, but I think she's trying to attain great heights with little success. Hence the stool!