Thursday, May 31, 2007

Back to my old self and I have a preview!

I will be debuting a new product line that my mother and I came up with. Previews will be going up over the weekend and I'll be stocking the store early next week.

Here is a sneak peak at just a few things I'll be putting in the store. I have had a huge creative streak this week so I have so many things to list. I may have to break it out into two stockings so the store doesn't look so cluttered.

Thanks for your continued patience with me. My life has a lot of turns and twists and I roll with the punches. Unfortunately when my life is chaotic I can't focus on my business. Everything seems to be back in order this week, so far so good.

So without further ado...here are a couple previews for you to feast your eyes on:


My BFL has landed! I haven't been able to dye yarn because I was fresh out of wool. I now have 6 kilos of glorious BFL to roll around in...err...dye I mean.



After many modifications and lots of frogging and restarting, my mother has developed some wonderful Tunisian Crochet patterns that she has used to create some gorgeous soakers, skirties and shorts for my store. She used all my hand dyed wool to create these. I will be adding dyed shirts to match these to make sets. They are absolutely adorable! I wish I had known my mother had all this talent before I spent hundreds of dollars on knit items for Autumn when she was born LOL But then again if I hadn't discovered my love for wool I wouldn't be here in the first place. So anywho...

Stay tuned for even more previews. I'm drowning in stuff here! Have a wonderful day!

Saturday, May 12, 2007

Dealing with some emotions right now. I will be taking the summer off.

Hello everyone,
I have been so busy in my children's lives as school winds to a close for the summer. I have had a bucket of clothing on my kitchen table full of already tied and soaked shirts for tie-dyeing for the past month. I never seem to get a chance to get in there and just dye them. I ran out of aran weight BFL yarn and am waiting on a large shipment that should be here within 2 weeks from now (crossing fingers).

I have a few items and sets to list on my cart. I want to add some of the dyed shirts if I can get a chance to complete them too.

Also this past week starting May 7th through May 11th I was called to Jury Duty. I was selected as part of the final 14 jurors for a very serious sexual assault trial.

I found out yesterday at 10:30am after sitting there each day from 8:30am to 5pm each night from Monday to Thursday that I was actually an alternate juror and that I would not be deliberating after all.

This devestated me. The evidence and testimony both are haunting me and it's very difficult for me to resume "normal" life and activities today. I'm very sad and quite depressed today. It was a very emotional week and it's not something that I can easily shake off and forget about.

So if you don't see me stock in the next week or so it is because I'm dealing with these tough issues and also the fact that it's almost summer here and I've been very busy.

I will let you know when I plan to stock. I appreciate your patience. I wanted to be upfront with you on why you haven't seen me around lately and most likely won't see too much activity from me again until the end of summer.

Thank you very much. If anyone has been through something similar I would love to hear from you. You can email me at sales@midnightspectrum.com

Thank you again. Have a wonderful weekend.

-Traci

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