I know its been one of those MIA times for me… it seems to happen every time that MARKET  preparations come around. Best laid plans to be ready and finished way ahead of time just somehow never materialize. To tell you the truth, I was actually ready a bit ahead of time this go around. I had hired a few extra hands to assist in the process and all was going smoothly… until my desktop blew up!  Literally blew up. We had a power surge and the very nice surge protector we had… well lets…

Well here I am blogging instead of writing patterns. Earlier I was "twittering" instead of writing patterns [to see some of our daily news or special twitter discounts, "follow" us in the top upper right hand corner of the blog]. Before that I was working on cleaning up my email inbox instead of writing patterns. Earlier than that I was answering some sales calls instead of writing patterns. Are you getting the picture yet??  I am confessing to all of you right now… that I do not want to be writing patterns! If there…

Happy Easter my friends! Easter has always been an important part of our family life and as long as I can remember we have been gathering goodies for our specially decorated baskets and going to the nearest Polish Catholic Church to have those baskets blessed. It is an old Polish tradition that has been passed down the generations in our family. Each basket must have an egg [which stands for rebirth], a piece of sausage [which stands for health & abundance], a chunk of bread [which stands for good fortune] and some salt [I don't remember what that…

Here's another swatch that I forgot to show yesterday. I tell you every time a new color comes out just the way I visualized it, I get giddy!  I am just loving the MODA Mill right now! Thank you ladies & gents! My new seafoam color is perfect! **************** A fun giveaway that Holly is having on her blog. I just love those little deer… I don't know how much longer she will have the giveaway going so run over to see the deer and the deer on the pillows too. Too cute!   **************** TWITTER…

Well we made it through another night without a puppy accident… which of course doesn't mean that we haven't already had 3 this morning… but this too shall pass. Didn't I swear that I was done having babies in the house? Now my words are coming back to bite me in the you know what. I promised a quick sneak peak. This is a pattern that we are working on for Market release, made from Patisserie. Its a Layer Cake pattern called Rosettes [thanks to the contest winners from a few posts…