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Yesterday I decided it was time to do something I liked to do. So, a sewing project of some sort. I dug through the stash and found some green print fabric that I had always liked. Not much of it left, but lets see what I can do with it. I have enough for 10 large blocks, but will only be sewing out 8. Gotta leave some left over in case I screw up later.

Second: Flowers. It’s Spring after all. Again, into the stash of embroidery designs already purchased. This project is going to be Stash Only. Don’t buy a thing. So, the Long Stemmed Wild Flowers from Emblibrary.com. The first one sewed out so well that I just kept going. Turned the TV on mute, plugged the Zune into my ears and listened to a shuffle of everything from Kiss to George Jones to Papa Roach.

Here’s the beginning (sorry, the scans suck)-

Then, fire up EQ6 and begin with a simple layout, bring in the scanned images, play around, scan some more fabrics, redo the layout, recolor, play, play, play until I end up with something like the top image.

Here are the scans of the fabrics I’ve used for blocks & borders-

I’m not sure if I like it yet, and maybe I’m not finished scanning fabrics and bringing them into the software to see what it will look like. All I do know is that it’s fun to do it ‘computerized’! A lot less ripping out seams.

When I’m done with the layout and design I’ll be sure to post the finished directions for anyone to download and use for themselves.

WebCalendar for quite awhile, but always seemed to have issues with exporting schedules into Outlook. I did a few weeks worth of searching and reading online before deciding that WebCalendar Pro from MitriDat was the best answer.
While I did put a link for the software it is… … only so that any interested person can further look on his/her own. It is not in any way a recommendation for the software, nor the company that sells and supposedly supports this program.
The installation on my server was easy. No issues at all. Basic learning of the software such as adding, editing and exporting schedules was also very easy. However, I did have two issues. Below are copies of the two support requests I made on July 16, 2006. (Links have been removed for security reasons.) Just two days after purchasing and installing the software.

============== Title: ==============
Support Request- Remote Calendars

============== Question: ==============
I have tried the remote calendar functions of the Web Calendar Pro software
and neither work. Yes, I did change the paths to fit my installation. Each
call for *.php files that are not included in the zip file-
‘remote_calendar.php’ and ‘remote_homepage.php’. Am I missing something?

Here is where the remote calendar functions should show-
as includes: http://www.highdeserthats.com/******/page–************–**********
Here is where my public calendar is installed:
http://www.highdeserthats.com/******/index.php?calendar=************

I appreciate you time and assistance.
RoxAnne Johnson

And question number 2-

============== Title: ==============
Guests are editing calendars

============== Question: ==============
I have a calendar set as Public so it can be viewed without creating an
account. This is an order schedule calendar. However, when when viewing the
public calendar link as Guest, they can then click a day, week or month view
and edit the events. This is then saved to the event and then my calendar!
Is there a way to turn off Guest editing of a calendar?
Thank you,
RoxAnne

After 5 days I had not received a response, there were no updates and I was getting a little peeved. An automated response is just not sufficient. So a third message was sent-

============== Title: ==============
How long does it take support to repond?

============== Question: ==============
I posted two tech support questions 5 days ago. As of yet I have received only
the automated response that the messages have been received. I’d like to use
this program but do need some support before it goes live.

I’d hate think I’ve wasted nearly fifty dollars and a weeks worth of time on
this.

I check in every day for a week longer to see if there is any new news. Then I quit, give up, figure it’s a waste of time. I have work to do, right? Otherwise I wouldn’t need this friggin’ calendar software to start with.
Today I log into my ‘account’ to see if there have been any updates. The website says I will receive an email when it has, but I haven’t seen one of those yet. Maybe it was lost in cyberspace.
Oh, yes it has been updated! Today as a matter of fact. All three support requests were officially resolved!

Really?! Resolved? Well, what’s the answer? Where’s the solution? Was that email lost in cyberspace and just didn’t get saved in my ’support account’?

Well, as you can guess I am still peeved. They’ve got fifty of my dollars. Why the heck should they worry about any questions I might have. Done deal. It works.
Fine. Want to play that game? We certainly will. I will call the US office and attempt to speak with a human and get the issue resolved that way. If not, I will be calling the bank that issued the credit card I used to pay you and have the charges reversed. Not only will I get my $49.95 back but you’ll loose the charge back fee on top of it. Oh yeah. And then there’s this post on my blog for anyone typing in MitriDat or WebCalendar Pro in a search engine to find.

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One thing I do try to take care of are the roses. About 10 years… … ago I planted many roses thinking I would have a grand yard with beauty everywhere one’s eyes rested. Then 6 years ago I decided being an entrepreneur would be great too! The business is a great success, the yard is not.

So, this year I am watching and watering and feeding those roses that survived the growth of my business. Here are two photos on one special rose named French Perfume. It is my favorite for many reasons.

Here is trio of the same roses. As the sun touches the petals the color changes from soft yellow to almost neon pink.

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Embroidery Software and Vista Beta. If you read that post I was then having a hit and miss with… … the Combo unit.
Today I installed a CD-R drive just to test my theory. I love being right. The CD-R drive read all the cds just fine.
Pre-Design installed and runs just fine. I attempted an install of Embroidery Magic 2 but ran into a *.dll error that I need to look into farther before posting any sort of result.
I should also state that Vista’s UAC has been completely turned off for all my software installs as of a few days ago. I would bet big $$ on UAC being the culprit of most of my software install issues. Sure would be nice if I had received some sort warning, pop up window, ‘hey stupid!’ response at the time.

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