This morning I participated in the Boulder walkathon for Multiple Sclerosis in honor of my mother who died of a related disease - ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) in 1980 at the age of 49.  We had a morning that started out cool, but sunny and warmed up nicely.  The care stations along the route had water, sunscreen, fresh fruit and other encouraging enticements.  A good friend joined me for the walk and we caught up with family news along the route.

Early this morning, before the walkathon, I embroidered a shirt to wear that featured my mother’s loved forget-me-not flower (inspired my company logo) and the words “For Barbara”

I am pretty sure my mom was pleased at how I spent my morning.

Today I am brainstorming more styles of quilt labels while my machines are purring along on today’s embroidery orders.

I want to offer labels for quilts that customers make or buy that memorialize the circumstances of their arrival - whether they are a gift from or to a special person, a celebration of a special occasion or whatever the reason.  Sometimes it is difficult to remember these details accurately years after the fact and a label makes sure all is preserved for posterity.

In my mind’s eye, these labels will be very custom and can even incorporate fabric from the quilt itself.  I love the idea of working closely with you to make the quilt label almost as special as the quilt.  So stay tuned as these details are worked out.  As always, I welcome any input you want to suggest.

Two sisters are getting some cute towel sets for Easter and they are part of today’s embroidery projects.  Hailey is getting a seafoam green towel set with our darling luvbug dragonfly embroidery design.  Ava is getting blue towels with the coordinating Luvbug embroidery design.  What a nice alternative or addition to the normal eggs and candy.  I bet they

Today’s projects include working with a customer - or actually a wife of a customer - who accidentally opened up her Mother’s Day gift a bit too soon.  We had to put our heads together for a good female strategy to solve the problem.

Today I took a break from embroidering to tend to my fledgling vegetable and flower seedlings, transfering them to larger containers while letting my mind wander to thoughts of spring and ideas for spring and summer additions to the website - flowers and gardening motifs.

The process of gardening has led me to think of some fun ways to use the embroidered aprons for gardening aprons instead of kitchen aprons.   Stay tuned!

Today I work on some of those cute aprons embroidered with children’s faces and names - such an appropriate Mother’s Day gift for grandmom.

After that, I turn my attention to a group of wedding gown labels for the upcoming June weddings.  When I started those labels, I had no idea how huge they would be.  Brides Magazine even saw fit to suggest them as the something blue” in one their articles.