I am not in control, believe it or not! For what ever reason, just when I get settled in and think I'm where I am supposed to be....BAM! I remember a childhood game called Upset the Fruitbasket....it's kinda like that! But the strange thing about what just happened is that I was working towards it all along, but thought it was for a different reason.
I had the opportunity to purchase a building. Not just any building. It just so happens I have druelled over this building for as long as I can want a building for either my craft shop or my yarn shop. However, I never EVER dreamed it would be mine one day. It was just to far over the top for even me, the dreamer. It happened so fast, I am still realling! I had to make a dicision in about 3 days and I just got tired of having the anxiety attacks and called to tell them I wanted it and only at this moment in time was it even possible. So I stepped out of my comfort zone and just went for it!
Now that I am all moved and most everything put away, I just want to sit in awe of it all.
iYarn's permenent location at 915 Main in beautiful downtown Winfield Kansas
home of iYarn
I have been partnered with people since the opening of our craft biz in 1999, and now, it's just me. It's kind of scarey when I think about it. Can I make it on my own? Did I rush into this ? What if the yarn shop can't support itself ? Crap! What have I done?
Negativity creeps in ...I have to have faith that things will be alright. After all, God opened the doors for me every step of the way, I have to believe that I am where I am supposed to be.
I have great support, how can I fail? My husband is a realist. When I had the craft shop, it was a hobby and it kept me off the streets. When I started buying yarn, he kept saying, "don't you have ENOUGH yarn"? He doesn't get it. I kept telling him that the yarn shop when built up, will be a great retirement business for us. I had a need to prove to him I could make something of it. So, when I talked to him about the building, he said go for it. Even though, I do pretty much what I want if I feel I need to do it, I needed his approval, and maybe thought he would talk me out of it. He didn't.
It would have been so like him to say, well, I hope you can make a go of it! But he didn't.
After he saw the yarn shop put back together, he said very quietly,"you did good". That meant more to me than he will ever know!
I have been there for a month now. It was a slow month, but moves always hurt! They need to find me again and I have alot planned for the month of May to get me kick started again.
I think since I have a website for the shop, I plan to come here and just ramble about the shop and what happens there. It could be fun!
Knit ON my friends!
