New Thread!

.I ordered this thread from Madeira on Friday and it arrived on Monday! This is only half of what I ordered because this time I ordered 2 of each, 1 for Mom, 1 for me. Mom does a lot of stitching for me so we've been swapping out her stash for new thread, depending on which circles she's working on. Now I'm working on building her "Private Stock". A few of these are reorders of threads we use a lot, some are new to me. It's hard to tell what you're ordering, judging from the tiny swatch on the monitor. I placed the order on my lunch hour so I didn't have my thread with me. Guess I should have a written list so I don't order duplicates. Not to worry, it will all get used eventually.

I've been looking for a variegated red for a long time. I found one at JoAnn's that was on the pinkish side but I had hoped it would stitch up more red. The color is okay, but the variegation is too subtle. I obviously had red on my mind when I ordered this thread because two are so close in color I couldn't tell them apart at first glance. I looked at the numbers and they are one digit apart. Oh well. This is one of them that I used last night. It's a tad on the orange side but it is a gorgeous color and I couldn't stop stitching with it.

Mom - we're gonna have fun!

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I delivered the Silversong Farm mandala to Denise yesterday morning, along with the one for her brother and she loved it. I had it wrapped in bubble wrap but I asked her to take a peek at it right then, because it was different than we had talked about. She works in a busy high school office so it was a little chaotic at 7:30 but once she had time to really look at it she emailed me before I even got to my office. She paid the biggest compliment - one that I use all the time, "It's so me!"

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Steve & Simon would not believe I'm still bitching about this but I just want to say one thing about customer service that's in complete contrast to the great service Madeira provided in getting my thread to me so quickly. I stopped in a small independent store last night. I wanted to buy a cable for $9.71 but they don't take credit cards for less than $10. I was literally counting my pennies to see if I could squeeze it out and I was less than a dollar short. This woman preferred to lose a sale, then accept a credit card for 29 cents less than their minimum.

I understand about credit card fees. I cringe internally when someone wants to charge one $4.50 notepad at a craft show but I smile and say, "Sure - no problem!" The thing that woman doesn't realize is that not only did she lose that sale, she lost any future sales from me.

She was about to close up so I think that played into it. She yelled at me when I entered the store for keeping the door open too long when her greyhound dog started running towards me. I was keeping my options - and the door - open in case it wasn't a friendly dog. She also had 2 yappy dogs in carriers on the counter. I had to tell her 3 times what I wanted because she couldn't hear me over the dogs.

No, I won't ever go back there again. I was so mad driving home, I was thinking, "I am so blogging about this tomorrow!" I was going to title the entry Boycott Fairport Computers. There, Google that, lady.

(Mom and Dad - that Radio Shack in Country Club Plaza is now a shoe store!)

But let's end on a positive note - new thread! I'll drop yours off on my way to work, Mom, which you'll probably see on the kitchen counter before you read this entry. Let me know if you want a case like mine to keep the thread in - or anything similar - it's on Pine Tree Designs!
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