Well I'm busy and exhausted, but here to give a tiny update (and it WILL be tiny!).

First off, the new look is a work in progress, as Peter has limited computer time, but I am changing the banner and the front page look, at the very least.

Working feverishly to have the samples done for the Phat Fiber Box and mailed out by Tuesday at the latest.  Today was busier than it was supposed to be, so less got finished than I wanted.  I also have to strong-arm Peter into completing a button for me as well, to go with the lovely new banner, and find three pictures of my stuff and write up a little blurb about me and what I do.  It's valuable advertising for the box, but a HUGE scramble.  I got notified of the box fairly late in the month, and have to get all this stuff together for the first time.  Once things like the blurb an graphics for advertising are submitted the samples will be easy, and I'll have a month to spread them out and work on them, if need be.  But right now it is cram central.

More important than the samples, even, is the custom order I am working on.  I am coming up with an official master colorway for Grass Stain, which despite being slow to sell has been my most popular colorway, in addition to another completely custom colorway that has to be out my door by January 27th.

This would normally not be a problem, except for the fact that the Wensleydale was backordered and arrived on Thursday night, and I've been ridiculously busy with business, family, and church obligations since then.  I am VERY picky about having my custom colorways be as perfect and close to the ideal of the recipient as they can possibly be, so it takes a lot of swatching and time before I am happy enough with my color palette to dye up the final product.  Add in the prep time, dyeing and steaming, finishing process and the dry time?  It's a good three days of work, at the bare minimum.  So I have a lot going right now, and it seems like time is rather short to do it all.

To go with the samples and this colorway I am *trying* to formulate a new label set and business card, but it's trickier than it looks.  Either way, BLAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!  Too much to do, and getting busier!

Oh, and I have to start worrying about the trip down for Erica's wedding, on top of all of this.  It's just over three weeks away, ALREADY!  So planning, packing, coordinating reservations and where I'll be staying and praying to the Lord that Lilah doesn't start melting down from stress and exhaustion by day three (and me right alongside her) is what I am currently occupying myself with.

It will all come together one way or another.  In the meantime I'm only going a little nuts (but amazingly, the house is still looking pretty clean if you don't take a white glove to it.  Little victories and all that jazz).