After training

Last week we had our training on the embroidery machines we purchased. Ed came over from Lafayette for this. He'd been to our house a few weeks ago to fix one of the machines when it froze on us. We opted to have the trainer come to our house and train us on our machines rather than go to the Melco facilities in Atlanta. This way, Ed could cover what we wanted to learn, take longer on parts we needed more help with and gloss over those we were familiar with. I had him teach me as much as he could in the allotted time about digitizing as well. I learned a lot and am now practising to try to retain it all.

The weather has been hot and humid here. We went to the nursery on Saturday to get some more plants for the yard. We got a bunch of azaleas for the side yard and some caladiums and dwarf gardenias for the front. It will be lovely to get through with all the planting. But it will be a while before that happens.

Maybe I'll have photos next time. If we do something more exciting than embroidery classes...

A New Post

I know, I know. I haven't been very good at this blogging thing. So I decided that maybe I can keep up and not feel too pressured if I have a goal of 1 entry per week. Another difficulty is lack of material. We lead fairly boring lives and don't have a lot to write about. But then I realized that our friends would like to know what we do any way. So, here's my entry for this week.

We found out Lady likes plain yogurt. I gave her my container to lick one afternoon and, as you can see, she got into it...


















As I mentioned last time, we have started an embroidery business. Here is the logo which I designed and created. I've also learned how to digitize it. Tom has sewn it onto all his shirts which had nothing on the left chest. Our son is going to be our webmaster. We hope to have our website: deepsouthembroidery.com up and running before too long.














This is our workroom. We are having our official training take place this week. We decided to have a trainer come to our house and train us on our machines instead of going to Atlanta. This way we can have him answer our questions and we can pick his brain and expertise on what we need to know.
















And this is Tom's space. He works here on his Primerica stuff and pricing for Deep South Embroidery. He's had to work hard lately because I did the first estimate for a local bank's casual Friday wear. And used the wrong figure. So Tom has had to put in overtime to make sure we don't have to pay them to embroidery their shirts! We agreed that he will do all the quotes from now on...

The Latest

Again, I've been negligent about keeping this blog up to date. I apologize, but make no promises for the future.

We have been busy getting our US lives going again. After the busy year of building the house and moving in and waiting for Julia and then Julia's arrival just before Christmas, 2007 has not slowed down much. I am working part-time at a frame shop here in Hattiesburg putting artwork into frames and taking care of business when the boss needs some time off. Tom has begun working with Primerica, a part of Citigroup that does financial counseling and planning, insurance and securities sales. He is still working at getting licenses and learning the ropes.

The exciting thing we are doing is opening a business. We decided to open a commercial embroidery shop in the upstairs bonus room. Our name is Deep South Embroidery, LLC. My brother is generously sharing his expertise with us so we are (hopefully) able to avoid some pitfalls. Our 2 machines are due to arrive sometime next week.







We will order shirts, caps, bags or whatever for you and then embroider it with your design or name or logo.





AND Julia and Joanna will be here next week for a visit! So there will be lots more photos to post then. Tom and I are going to Knoxville to baby sit for Jo and Dave to go out for an anniversary evening alone together. Then we'll bring J & J back with us for a visit. I'm very excited and looking forward to having a baby in the house again...

Guess that's it for now.

Julia Has Arrived!

Well, here she is! She arrived on 21 December 2006 about 10 pm in Knoxville TN. She only put her mom through about 5 hours of labor - very good for a first baby! She completely turned around our Christmas plans but was immediately forgiven.





















Our little LSU tiger is ready to see the pediatrician for the first time.
















Baby Burrito. Dad Dave is the expert swaddler. When Julia would get fussy or over-excited, Dave would swaddle her and immediately she would calm down and usually fall right to sleep.
















Julia and mom asleep on the couch. They are so sweet when they are sleeping...

To see more photos of Julia click here.