Dawn Brocco's Life & Design Blog

Well, I finally did it. It's taken me over a year to make the hard decision to close down the Heels and Toes Gazette, but it's done. And now I can go forward.

Today I've been slogging away at a ton of stuff - mostly printing - retail and wholesale catalogs, redoing pdf files, patterns for a shop order. Got in the 10 reams of paper and 6x9" envelopes that I ordered just yesterday! from Staples. Of course I forgot to reorder more sheet protectors. And today I had to order a new maintenance kit and red solid ink for the Phaser. I'm down to the last few hundred pages that this kit will allow me to print, so that new one better be here Monday or Tuesday, as I have a ton of printing to get done and mailed off to the current Gazette subscribers.

I'm disgruntled over the yarn situation. Yarn manufacturers are so overwhelmed with accounts and orders that I can't get an account right now with Peace Fleece. Have to wait til spring and try back again.

And the merino I wanted to use is still another month away from being ready, as one of their dyeing machines is broken. Beans.

And more beans - I've tried 3x again to contact the UK BFL yarn distributor and can't seem to get a reply. All I want to know is if they have the natural color on cones or in hanks, in addition to the pull skeins. I can't dye from pull skeins and rewinding them back into hanks just adds more time and hence added price to the yarn, which I don't want to have to do. BFL is expensive enough - comparable to good merino.

I did, however, get the cashmere in that I ordered, so I can get around to dyeing more lavender for the scarf kits and can work on the beaded hat and scarf idea I swatched. This came in yesterday but I've been so busy. I'll try and get to the dyeing next week. I'd do it over the weekend, but I can't do it with hubby around - he makes me nervous! Or he'll need to interrupt me and I can't have that either. Dyeing is something you do when you don't have people around and can ignore the phone!