Last time I remember, it was the beginning of April and we were in Chicago. Now it is May. What happened? When they told me when I was younger that time flies the older you get, I didn’t believe them. I do now!!
The International Quilt Festival in Chicago was a great show and we thank all of you that stopped by to see our fabrics or to just chat for a while. I can’t think of another business with so many friendly people in it. We returned home without incident and had less than a week to get ready for Paducah. Guess what, we didn’t even unpack the trailer! Any orders we had meant going out there and sorting through the fabrics, but it was a lot easier than unloading and loading it up again.
Paducah was awesome. This year we were at the KY Oaks Mall again and we thank all of you that came all the way out there to see us. We hope to get into the actual show next year. The hours at the mall were too long – 10 am until 9 pm! Ugh!! Fortunately, I was able to borrow my stepson’s motor home and park it right out in the Mall parking lot. All I had to do was walk out of the Mall and into bed! There were nights when that was all I wanted was a bed to sleep in. We met so many new people who had lots of positive comments about our fabrics and samples. Thank you for being there. It makes it all worth while.
During all of this, we’ve been looking for another house. See, we planned on tearing down the barn in our backyard (it was old and starting to fall down on its own) and building a building for my store. Well, I got to thinking, what if we could buy a house WITH a building with it for about what we could sell our house for. The first one we found would have been perfect, but the owner hasn’t finished the inside (studs only) and wanted an enormous amount for the shell of a house and outbuilding. No thanks. We’re still waiting to hear on another house that has 3 outbuildings on 2.5 acres (we like acres!). It is in the being foreclosed on by the bank and we are now dealing with the bank and they seem to work SO SLOW. I really like the house, which has a wonderful sun room! Can’t store the fabrics in there, but it will be wonderful to relax in. Keep your fingers crossed and pray that if this is meant to be it will happen.
Moving you said? Yes, that means getting rid of the clutter and also getting ready to show the house. Not fun. We’ve rented a storage building and have started to move stuff there, but I need my stuff for my business thank you, and that has to be where I can get to it, even if it means moving it back downstairs, then out of the house later on. We also had new carpet put in the area where my shop is and everything was in a state of chaos when I arrived home. I still haven’t found everything! I finally borrowed a stapler from upstairs! The carpet is nice though. A great improvement over what was here. Why is it that you beg for new carpet and the DH finally agrees when we decide to sell the house? Hmmmmmm.
We have new Bali fabrics AND traditional batiks that we will be putting online in the next few days. I’ve ordered lots more of the tablecloth I used in Moon Glow and hope to have those in about 6 weeks. At both shows, everyone wanted THAT tablecloth! It did turn out beautiful, if I may say so myself.
Happy Spring!
Patti
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