To heck with reality, Christmas is a concept, so as you go about your day

I hope you will have this playing in your head

Peace & Joy This Holiday Season

Wheat, Henry
& Mom/Frances

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Periodically, manufacturers, publishers, editors and distributors, MPED, issue a Call For Designs.

The good news is they can, cause we are still looking and nothing would help more than to find comments providing links to the information we need in support of Muench, or KFI, and Brown Sheep.

So, if you read this far, and have patterns that fit the criteria, you can use comments to leave me the details. Please note, they will not be made public but will be shared with the Retailers & MPEDs clients requesting we conduct the research for them)

Peace of the Season

Wheat

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The last few weeks have just been flying by. With several major projects almost ready to go really public I am sincerely wishing for a really good “voice to text” system from Santa -

As some of you may have read, I have been pretty excited about a new project for Retailers commission by KFI - Knitting Fever. I have been assisting the KFI Manager of Operations with several new things for KFI retailers. It begins with a private Yahoo discussion group for their customers, the retailers. The goal is to provide a place for positive interaction between the more than 1500 shops in the US who offer the products distributed by KFI. I expect once Jeff’s letter reflecting on changes this year and letting their Retailer know a bit of what coming - the KFI-Retailer@yahoogroups.com will be a terrific resource for all involved.

My other big project is for the TNNA-Designers & Teachers as we are all preparing for the TNNA, The National Needlework Association Winter Show holds major wholesale to the trade events several times a year. A group of TNNA-Designers & Teachers are creating an opportunity for the Retailers who will be attending to get a sneak peak. That site will open late next week.

Last but not least, also almost ready to start is a site called YarnQuest - where anyone searching for “just one (or two or many) more skeins to finish a special project will be able to fill out a form and it will be “broadcast” to Independent Retailers who will then email you if they have what you need “on the shelf”. But this may have to wait until after the first of the year. There just aren’t enough hours in the day to get it all done

Now, after a night where it seemed we should be considering building an ark, the sun is out, so the computer is getting “turned off” for a few hours while we put up the outside decorations, then some last minute shopping for the first celebration’s menu.

Once that is done, well it will be back to TCB - Taking Care Of Business & Working Over Time
And all the things on temporary hold

Talk to you soon

Peace of the Season

Wheat

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Something for you to listen to while we are out putting up the lights

It is one of my favorite mixes.

Because my family celebrates both “regular” Christmas and “Real” Christmas in January, we have always delayed setting up decorations until “just before” the 25th.

The off to the store for some last minute ingredients so we can include some of the recipes we found during the Arm Chair Chef’s Holiday Bake Along

Best Wishes for your Holiday Weekend

Peace of the Season

Wheat

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This one is really pretty simple, we don’t need Mirriam-Webster or other sources,

Group Buys are orders placed by a group of folks - either working with a retailer or working around them by going direct to the manufacturer/distributor or other source.

“It used to be” that there was some affinity among the groups. Group member might have been part of a business or social organization, a local craft guild. But generally speaking they KNEW each other and often as not, functioned in many ways cooperatively.

Now, all it takes it Internet access and 5 minutes to set up a group on one of the many online services that support “groups” and poof you are instantly able to organize group buys.

Some of these groups are well run and organized and businesslike in how they operate. Others are not.

Quite simply, they exist so must be considered as a potential competitor for those who really are in business.

Be sure to let me know what you think..