So, the Holiday design book I edited for the Henna Tribe is up!!! Yeah. Get it here: http://www.hennatribe.com/patterns/freepatterns.htm

I gotta say though, that there was some chaos at the end. I got the damned thing put together and THEN I was told that there was a problem with uploads. Wow that would have been good to know before I put about hours upon hours into the thing! Anyway, once that was worked out I was emailing it to an administrator to upload and realized it was almost 50 megs!!! My preferences were set wrong on my page layout software. I thought it had been reducing the images to screen res at the size I made them in the document. Nope, that wasn't turned on! At the last minute I had to go back and shrink ALL the images down then replace them into the document. ARG! Took me most of the day. (I should have been sewing the quilt for Jon that I kept having to put off because he kept being home sick!) The really frustrating part was every time I'd delete an image the pages would fall apart even if I used a place holder and I have no idea why. I miss pagemaker. It always did what I expected.

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And... da da da-da-da! My new shopping cart!!!! http://www.hennamuseshop.com! Come and see. I still have some dead links to clean up in the articles on the old page, and I want to make some informational pages on the store site that link back to the articles on the old site. It's all there through, and ready to use. I just have to go through and make sure it all blends together well. After my library job on Monday the kids will be spending a few days with grandma and I'll get all that finished.

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NOW! I have to get the house clean, wrap the hubby's presents (and add a few finishing touches on his quilt,) Make a few shrinky dink ornaments for gifts I didn't quite get to, go by parmesan cheese, make stuffed mushrooms, make sure everyone has clean close to wear Christmas morning, and get ready for my dad to visit tonight! Ack! Better get going. (sometimes Christmas seems like way to much to deal with. I mean, I kinda consider myself a religious hybrid, which makes it seem a little silly to make jesus' birthday the zenith if the year. Oh well, at least I get to see the whole family that over 2 days time every year, even if its not for one of my favorite holidays.

Happy-whatever-winter-holiday-you-celebrate!!! Or Merry-Merriness as a friend of mine says.