TNNA! Part 1!

One of our favorite things about having Eat.Sleep.Knit has been all of our lovely customers, and your enthusiasm for new products, new colors, and new games to play. So I'm not sure why, when we sent out a newsletter on Wednesday evening about new stuff, we didn't realize that we would be completely swamped with orders on Thursday! We tried our best to keep up, even adding a trip to the post office after the postman came to pick up most of your orders, and still a few of the orders that came in after noon didn't make it out, unfortunately. We did pack them up and bring them with us to Ohio, though, so if we can find a nice post office, they may be mailed out tomorrow. Just to put things in perspective, we received more orders yesterday than in the entire month of January - I think that's pretty impressive!

This morning, my husband and I rolled on out of Georgia at 6:45 (we were aiming for 6, but that was a bit ambitious) in hopes of making the drive to Columbus, OH in time to attend Sample It! at 5 PM. Nine hours and 550 miles later...

And then we got on line to get into Sample It! - this is my first time attending TNNA. Suffice it to say that this line alone is overwhelming, and then all of these fiber lovers are let loose into a small room filled with goodies to purchase.

We also got a glimpse of the main floor for tomorrow, which is the official start of the market:

Now we're back at our hotel - by the way, if you're headed to Columbus, OH, I heartily recommend the Residence Inn. For the same rate as a room at the Hyatt or the Holiday Inn or the Hampton Inn, we've got a room with a fully-outfitted kitchen, separate living room with extra bed and recliner, and a bathroom that is far swankier than our own. My favorite part though, is the free wireless. And now that we've logged in (if you have e-mailed us since yesterday, our apologies, we are SO behind now), it looks we have a first place winner of the Yarn Marathon! Congratulations to Melanie in Canada! We'll still be marathoning through 2008, and we'll start a new "race" in 2009, so keep knitting your way to the finish!