Stream of Consciousness

I've got everything I can possibly think of on the web (okay, there are still a handful of items).  That must mean a truck is about to back up to the door and unload some pallets!  We've gotten in American Craft's Gift Wrap which is darling.  I' m not a very good gift wrapper, but it definitely perked up the gifts I gave this weekend. These are from the Celebrations group.

We also got in 84 of the 92 colors of RJR's Cotton Supreme Cotton Solids, which was like getting that huge box of crayons that had the built in sharpener!  I'm thinking of all sorts of crazy ideas for projects with solids.

Speaking of colors, we are working on a way to make it easier to accurately match colors across several product lines on our site, but that is a few weeks away.  Did you know the human eye can see 6 million colors?  And that humans can distinguish more shades of green than red?  Some of the interesting facts I'm discovering in my color research frenzy.  Why do I care?  Because computer monitors have definitely come a long way in displaying colors, but every monitor and video card display colors their own way.  And with the web, photo file sizes are kept small so that they load quickly, which means some of the color data is lost in the compression.  So we are working on a solution to quantify the colors of our fabric scientifically, allowing you to search for and compare them when shopping on the web with something more meaningful than "light blue".

I also ordered a bunch of Simplicity and Burda patterns.  The Simplicity's are here.  I'm working on some ideas for cute tops and jackets.  I've been eyeing Tory Burch's website- she's got beautiful clothes, none of which I can justify in my jeans and T-shirts wardrobe, but inspiring all the same.  I'm envisioning this tunic in Alexander Henry's Mocca in White.  The closest I found in Simplicity was #6086, which I think I can remake the collar and make it work.  I'm also envisioning a jacket out of some of our cotton canvas.  I'll report back.

By the way, I had to look up the title of this post because I couldn't remember if Stream was plural or singular.  I guess it could depend on how good or bad your writing is.  Wikipedia says "Stream-of-consciousness writing is usually regarded as a special form of interior monologue and is characterized by associative (and at times dissociative) leaps in syntax and punctuation that can make the prose difficult to follow, tracing a character's fragmentary thoughts and sensory feelings."  That pretty much sums it up.