The new dress form arrived last Friday. She is quite fantastic. Thank you for all the name suggestions. I was originally leaning toward Laura's idea for Violet because her comment was rather clever, but when I unpackaged the gal she said to me, "Hi, I'm Kate." So Kate it is.

I can now get the first design photographed. The pattern has been edited, I just need to do the layout and plunk in some photos. My target date for release is July 15th, but it completely depends on if I will have my website ready. I needed to install a new shopping cart on the website because the current one can't do pdf downloads. Since I was installing a new cart I thought I might as well give the whole site a makeover. It's coming along well and has some new features to make shopping easier. It's what I call Phase 1, just so I can get the new pattern up. Phase 2 will add some additional features to make the site interactive and fun. More on that later.