Welcome Fabric Fans!

I hope your July 4th weekend was full of fireworks, parades, barbeques, carnivals, picnics, concerts, sports games (go USA Women’s Soccer) and other special times with family and friends.  I had an exhausting, but amazingly fun, long weekend with my family. I did take some time to reflect on what a great country we live in. The land of the free and the home of the brave. A place where we have the freedoms that other’s around the world unfortunately do not have.  Sure, we pay taxes and have to deal with Obamacare and some other nonsense, but for the most part, we are really lucky. With that, I wanted…

A lot of people like to get married in the Summer, so what better time than now to discuss married bolts?  Let me start off by defining this fabric terminology.  To me a married bolt is when the double and rolled bolt of fabric has more than one single length of fabric on it. In other words, it could be a 10 yard piece and a 5 yard piece rolled together to make 15 yards.  If you really want to get shops mad, you could put 3 pieces of fabric on to one board and that will really drive everyone nuts.  That is a fabric cardinal sin and we never…

Good Day Studioe Fans,   Do you believe in recycling?  I hope you do.  I am a firm believer in recycling.  You should check out how I use recycled paper in the office.  Every sheet has printing on both sides…that way I end up using 1/2 the paper I would.  Haste makes waste!  As such, in honor of my own Father’s Day off present to me, I am going to recycle an oldie, but goodie blog.  Before I do that, let me say that I hope all the Fathers out there had a great Father’s Day!  Here we go with the recycling.     Today, we are going to play…

Summer begins for me today (Sunday, June 14) as today marks the end of baseball and soccer season for my son, Aaron.  I truly can’t wait until both of my boys have sports….then I will just have no life.  These are the joys of having boys! It happens that baseball falls smack in the middle of Saturday and soccer right in the middle of Sunday.  How convenient!  NOT!   I am now the owner of my own weekends which will be really nice while it lasts.  Yippee!  In honor of Summer really beginning, I cut off all my hair.  Well, not all of it, but a lot.   The thing…

  No!  No!  No!  That dirty little word has be driving me crazy lately because I have been hearing way too much of it from people that should be saying YES!  YES!  YES!  I am hearing this from suppliers, vendors, publishers, employees, reps and so many others.  I just don’t get it.  I am not sure if the people are just being lazy or that it is just their nature, but from me, I can promise you a YES!  99% of the time. What kind of business practice would it be to say NO?  A stupid one in my opinion.  The thing that bothers me even more is that when I ask “why not?” the…