So… as a confirmed list-maker and life-long-planner, 2020 has been a VERY hard & frustrating year! Can you relate? After watching almost all of our plans for 2020 evaporate one by one, it’s pretty hard to get excited about making big plans for 2021… especially since we know right off the bat that our first three trade shows of 2021 have ALREADY been cancelled! That leaves only the Houston Quilt Market & Quilt Festival in October as “possibilities”, and that’s just not an optimistic way to be starting a new year!
But here’s the deal… After spending the better part of 2020 trying to find ways to offset the loss of these retail shows… and tweaking our Website and working real hard on growing our Social Media presence… and experimenting with various advertising & promotional outlets on the Internet, I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s just no substitute for face-to-face contact with our customers!
So… until such time that we can all pack in together in these large convention halls again, I’ll be working real hard on creating as many new designs as I can so that our comeback show will be our “Show of Shows”!!!
With that in mind, my goals for 2021 are…
- Publish 3-4 new patterns in 2021, which along with the 3 we’ve already published in 2020 will give us 6-7 new designs to display at the Quilt Market & Festival in Houston next Fall. I can’t even begin to think about how I’ll arrange my booth for that many new patterns, but it’ll be so exciting to figure it out, and what a glorious reunion show it should be! I can hardly wait!
- Be ready for the next show… whenever/wherever it is! Since we’ve never yet taken more than 3 new designs to a show, the prospect of taking 6 or 7 is totally daunting & I already know there’s no way I’ll get all that product along with everything we have to take into that Toyota. We’ll likely have to trade for a larger vehicle. Right now we’re thinking we’ll need to trade for a minivan of some sort.
- Go on Vacation… preferably far, far away! The only time I truly relax, recharge and totally forget about what going on back home & with the business is when I get several time zones away
- Figure out what I want my hair to look like after I let all my old haircolor grow out. Right now we’re about 1/3 of the way there and I honestly had no idea that from my ears forward my hair is virtually WHITE! My hairdresser give me some highlights to disguise the white skunk stripe that was progressing down my part, but I’m not sure I’m ready for my hair to be totally white around my face… but time will tell! Stay tuned!
So in closing, I am SO grateful of your support in 2020 and for the past almost two decades. Every morning I wake up to new orders and everyday I know how fortunate I am to make my living do what I most love doing! Heres hoping 2021 deals us all a better hand!
And now…. it’s YOUR turn!
Do you have any big plans or goals for 2021? If so, please feel free to share them in the space provided below along with any suggestions for shows that you find out are actually going to be LIVE in your area that we can consider! And remember, we love reading your comments and answering your questions too, so please feel free to leave either or both in the space provided below.
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I think you should let your “wisdom glitter” grow out. Gray/white hair is beautiful! I’m doing the same. 🙂
For 2021, I’d like to make a new Everyday Attaché. It’s my favorite purse pattern and now that I work remotely full time, I find I don’t need a huge purse anymore. I’d like to figure out how to make it from cork.
My biggest goal for 2021 is to set up our new vegetable garden. We moved in October so I’m starting with a blank slate. We need to set up beds and get the perennials started. I also have to clean up and figure out the landscaping in front of the house. I know next to nothing for those types of plants.
I’ve seen folks use Cork successfully for the Everyday Attache on the exterior. I’d be careful about using it on the side panels because it will make them sriffer and tougher to work into place along the curves of the bag. Thanks for commenting and it sounds like you’ll have a BUSY year & I’d love to see your bag when you finish! 🙂
I don’t color my hair because i’m too lazy to spend the time and too cheap! Although I did have a conversation a few years ago with a lady who wnated to know how I got my pretty gray streaks. Did I color them one by one? Never could conbince her.
You look great.
That’s funny and thanks! 🙂
I love the way your hair is now ! It really suits you. Softer and prettier somehow. Being diagnosed with cancer as Covid 19 started, I lost all my hair during Chemotherapy. That was pretty traumatic. Now in remission and hair growing again, it has come back curly, (it was straight as a die before) and it is also almost completely white. I shall be leaving it that way too. Currently it is only about an inch and a half long, but at least it is hair, a big improvement on baldness. All the best for your plans for 2021, Health and Happiness to all.
Gosh I’m sorry to hear this Norma! I have a couple of friends that this happened to as well. Their formerly straight dark hair grew in curly and light, but it did eventually go back to the way it used to be so I hope yours does too! Thanks for commenting and for the kind words. 🙂
I think your hair looks very pretty and flattering
We sll antique lighting and use a mini van to go to shows—–get one that will allow you to remove the middle seat and fold down the rear seat.That will give you lots of room,we even pack the pieces of our booth inside with boxes of our lamps and parts.
I would love to know what kind of minivan you have Marje. We are considering a Toyota Siena because we’ve had such good service from our various Toyota vehicles. Additionally, my daughter has Siena and has driven a HARD 175000+ miles.
I love your new look. It is soft and very complimentary.
I also love your patterns and your news letters. I always enjoy spending time reading through them all. I learn so much from you.
I also am looking forward to life as we used to know it. Hopefully, this will be a better year.
Best wishes and looking forward to reading you next time.
Thanks So much Jeri! Such kind words! 🙂