Just An Update

Just after making my last post our family got knocked down by a very nasty flu bug that's been hard to shake. With 6 kids & both parents sick at once, it actually wasn't too bad - everybody pretty much stayed in bed & slurped up soup & tea the whole time.

Now that we're all better, I'm going at 90 km/hr trying to get caught up on a lot of projects that got neglected during that time. I've still got until the end of the week to get my crochet pattern for the challenge done. I'm thinking that I might just be a bit late though, as I have a massive cook off that I have to do tonight with the kids in preparation for a 4-H fundraiser that they are participating in tomorrow. Somehow, I always seem to get in over my head with these kinds of things - LOL!

There's also a few vintage crochet patterns that I'm in the middle of making into digital files for sale at the Wee Designs site and my Etsy store. I have so many patterns in my home, it's unbelievable - serious PAS (Pattern Acquisition Syndrome) - and to think, I gave away half of my collection 5 years ago, and I'm back to the same amount again already! Another project I'm doing with vintage is taking some older public domain images (such as botanical sketches, book plates & Japanese prints) and making them into derivative works such as cross stitch charts & knitting graphs.

The Wee Designs site has been updated to function a bit better, but I'm still needing to figure out how to have a reliable way to sell both physical items and digital items on the site with the same platform. Currently, I'm using Mal's E as my shopping cart - it works great with sending the files to the buyer's email, but ideally I'd like to have the download link available to the customers as soon as they pay right on the sight. So far, I've only looked into E-Junkie as an alternative, but I think that maybe I can find better if I keep looking around. In the meantime, I'm selling the physical items on Etsy & now my Bonanzle store too (see link on the right).

There should be a few cross stitch charts coming to the site over the next few weeks as well - I'm just about finished one that my daughter Deborah & I collaborated on. She had painted a cute little ducking in watercolors that I wanted to capture permanently, so with her permission, I scanned it in & interpreted it for needlework. Meanwhile, she is trying her hand out with the cross stitch software again and may be having her first original chart up in the Etsy store within the next 2 weeks. Way to go Deborah! :)