Back in the Saddle

After a 2 month honeymoon by Seamstress Karin, David moving in over the course of 5 weekends (yeah!), deathbed illnesses, and missing cats, I'm back in the saddle and trolloping around 38th and 39th streets before the stores close at 6pm. I forgot how tiring it is to zip out of work to hit the trimming stores before they close, and then to the fabric store to duck in between the raw silk and the organza to swatch fabric with my own scissors (I don't like the employees hovering over me while I swatch 20 colors, while customers hover over them asking incessantly "Are you busy?").

It's only Wednesday, and my eyes are puffy after 2 compact days of a quick afternoon meeting with Seamstress Karin in my office (Starbucks at Union Square), swatching organza for a katelette for a delightful new customer, Ellen, for an early June wedding, back to the office to show Ellen the colors, hunting for fold-over elastic for the inside pockets on the jewelry pouch to make them easier to dig into to find smaller earrings, unpacking old fabric, uncovering crumpled patterns, and taking inventory of what I have so I can place a new order.

Meanwhile, my website, katie-james.com is up! Rabidferret owner, Jason, has wickedly introduced me to more efficient ways of building the site so that updates to all pages can happen with an update to one page. So, it's back to the laptop, but at least I'm in Coding 102, up from Coding 101.

To keep me going, I'll continue to listen to FolkAlley.com (podcast), but wince when they play a rendition of "Love Her Madly" in folk - and oh god it gets worse - it's George Winston's interpretation...FolkAlley was doing so well! Anyway, we'll see what today brings. Hopefully I find the elastic I need and get an order started.