I'm leaving tomorrow for Montana to visit Anne, my very best friend.  I'm SO excited!!



While I'm gone, my jewelry shop will be open.  I'm having a big sale there.  Any orders placed will be shipped as soon as I get back.


And when I'm back, I'll be getting my new charts ready to go!  My local printer will be doing lots of printing for me while I'm gone.  AND, I'll be going to Stitcher's Stash in Fairfax, Virginia on Saturday, February 16th from 11:00 to 3:00.  I'll have my new charts and models and can't wait to visit with everyone!

Talk soon!

Remember a few weeks ago I told you a basic schedule of when I was going to start releasing my sampler designs?


Well, forget all of that!

I've got a whole bunch of files in my computer called "Little Kathy" and I'll tell you why!

Before Christmas last year (2011), my Mom went through tons of photos she had of all six of her children when they were children.  She had some of the best ones blown up and framed and gave them to us as Christmas gifts.  I was lucky enough to receive one!  You will find a cropped version of it below:


I was probably three years old in this photo.  I have no memory of the photo being taken, but am sure it was taken at Christmas.

So, I took the photo, scanned it and sent it to Chelsea, website designer, author, dancer, graphic artist extraordinaire.  I asked Chelsea to play around with it.  And play around with it she did!  Look at the photo below to see what she did:


How fun is that??!!  I'm even wearing jewelry!!  And my cheeks are pink!

Then I took that image and played around with it and turned it into the most fun business cards ever!

I've had that urge again to clean out my Etsy Shop.  It hits every now and then.


So I put every single thing on sale.

And whatever doesn't sell......

It'll be like having a ton of new stash!!

Available here:  FrenchSentiments.Etsy.com.

And now I'm off to really clean my house cause it's being shown tomorrow.  I never had such a consistently clean house!!