Portabellopixie

Props to Anna

I enjoy the happy circumstance of receiving books before the release date ala Wiley publishing. Today Anna's new book arrived and my heart gave a little flutter. I flipped through it quickly, emailed a rapid congrats to Anna and am now packing it in my carry on to take to Houston. If I don't, I won't get a thing done over the next week. It's gorgeous, she did such a wonderful job! You can pre-order here and enter the snazzy contest here.

Congrats again Anna!!

xo
Sandi

It's been ONE week

Since I kissed his cheeks.
Since I gave him a piggyback ride.

Since we played "wedicwopters". (Helicoptors)

Since I heard he wanted to be a Shark for Halloween.

Since I've seen this:

or this: (oh! pang to the heart.)

He'll be home in 2 hours.

After which I will not let him out of my sight.

Until next week when I have to do it again.

I am often asked if there is a bummer part to my job. No situation or job is perfect but we make the most out of the path we've chosen. And I suppose getting away guaranteed twice a year isn't all that bad. But oh, it can be hard.

No pictures = No post

Hello!

Yep, still here. I have lots to post, but darn it - no pictures. Before I bought my MAC, I had a PC which means I had Photoshop for Windows. N'case you didn't know, I do most of my designing in Photoshop and all of my picture editing in there. I'm supposed to be able to upgrade to the MAC version for a happy fee of $199. After dropping the rather large chunk 'o change for the computer, I downloaded the trial version which has since expired. I found an awesome deal today though-if you are in need of any computer software, I recommend buycheapsoftware.com. I got the extended version (Retail $900) overnighted to me for $530. Not too shabby. Anyhow, it will be here tomorrow and I have lots of pictures to edit and post!

Otherwise, we're doing pretty good. All orders have been processed and we are now sold out of Gracie and Claire is almost gone. Our next printing will be here late this week, early next and the orders will continue to ship out in the order they are received. THANK YOU for the support. We've really been enjoying the initial feedback on those receiving their patterns. I'm going to show some pictures of the insides of the patterns soon. (read problem above.)

Crafty fabric blogland is in the pre-market whirlwind of preparation. Ehh..not so much here. It's in 3 weeks and I haven't even started. I want to feel stressed about it but I'm just NOT. We'll be there and we'll have a good show but I think I've reached a place where I just know what I can do (and stay sane) and what I can't do (without losing it). So right now I'm sewing costumes (we're having a Tinker Bell and a Shark this year) and Halloween decorations. Next week I'll start the market crazies.

Maybe.

:)

Sandi

OH-in case you're wondering-I don't have a new fabric collection debuting this market. I'll be debuting a couple new patterns that will be shipping out in January. New fabric and patterns next spring. (Another reason I desperately need my Adobe products back in working order!!)