Construction Blues

When I decided to move my sewing classes into my home studio Brad and I talked about putting in an outside door directly into the studio. His vote was to wait until I had full classes and needed it. My vote was to install the door while my classes were still small so as to cause the least amount of disruption possible. I won! We had a small setback because the lumber company delivered the wrong door, luckily being well acquainted with Murphy's law we had not started on the opening until the door was delivered. Three weeks later the correct door was delivered yesterday but since it is only primed Brad will paint it before we install it. My part in this project is to empty the shelves over and below the counter that has to come out for the door. This is one area that I had not really gone through when I reorganized my studio as a class because let's face it "out of site, out of mind".  it will give me a chance to organize and sort though that stuff I guess. Hopefully we can do the work in between my two current sessions.

Classes, Classes, Classes!

It is still HOT here in Yuma, in fact it is hot enough that we are hosing down our old horse every hour so that she will stay cool however I have to get busy making samples for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas for upcoming classes. It is hard to think of brown, orange, red and green when the weather outside is yellow, blue and other summer colours!  keep on watching for the first samples.

Keeping Cool

Since I left Real Estate and have not been doing all the marketing for our office I haven't been messing around with html and brochures etc. I had forgotten just how time consuming it could get looking for ONE missing little comma or such that could throw off the whole look of a web page. Now back to sewing- so much more relaxing!

I have been working on classes schedules and also class projects for students. I welcome feedback from everyone on the kinds of projects they like to learn about. It is a great way to stay out of the heat at this time of the year. I hope that you are all having a nice summer too.

EQ6

I am buckling down to really learn the ins and outs of EQ6 ( in time for them to release EQ7! )  In the past I have been lazy, just learning enough to get a layout, yardage and play with colour. Our DD Heather learned the program in 2 minutes flat without the manuals- mom not so much.