Each morning I receive a Quote of the day from Brian Tracy.  My quote of the day is “Time Flies.  It is up to you to be the navigator”!  This quote was first by Robert Orben, but it is so timely, I just had to share it with you.  Thank you Brian Tracy for those words of wisdom for the day!

I am sitting here in my bed, recouping from surgery with my foot in the air!  I am working from my laptop, my phone is ringing off the wall with requests for digitizing of embroidery designs, emails are coming in with  more requests for embroidery designs and I am trying to prepare for Lesson 2 of our series teaching home embroiderers “How To Create Their Own On Line Embroidery Marketing System”!   I thought the quote was totally prefect for the day and I know that all embroiderers will understand when they read this email.

When you are involved in your own business, you do not have the luxury of taking too much time off.  You have to keep going and adjust to whatever the circumstances are that are thrown at you from hour to hour.  This is especially true for embroiderers.

Last night about 8pm my Son came in, Mom I need a favor!  He is still the manager of the embroidery shop that I owned for 25 years.  He had a last minute order of caps that needs to be done today and of course had no design for it.  He did not need the digitized design until noon today!  Of course Mom came to the rescue!  I was preparing for my upcoming webinar at that time, but dropped  what I was going to digitize his design!

That is a typical in the life of an embroiderer! That is unless, you are the type that has everything planned out and lets nothing change your plans!  Do you know anyone like that?  I don’t!

Stop, Have A Cup Of Tea And Laugh!

Just remember when you day starts off like this one has for me, the first thing you need to do is Stop, have a cup of tea and laugh!  That is My Quote for the day!!

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Tonight is our Embroidery Webinar of the Month.  I am going to be teaching you “How To Create Beautiful Monograms Using Your True Type Fonts!” 

You may be wondering, What is a true type font?  There are two types of files that have been installed on your computer that are available to you when you do your word processing.  One is a True Type font and the other one is an Open Type Font.  The true type fonts will always work for embroidery, but sometimes the open type font will work also.  In many embroidery software programs they are interchangeable.

Sometimes the open type font will work in one version of the embroidery program and yet will not not work in another version.  Some of the open type fonts that are available will work great in Version 11 of the Tajima by Pulse DGML software but Version 12 of the same software will not recognize them at all.  In Version 2009 of the Tajima by Pulse DGML software they work great!

There are also a lot more fonts that are available that you can purchase at your office supply store and you will also find them in your artwork programs.

You have many choices of true type fonts and they make excellent and very beautiful monograms.  Many times we are of the mind set that we have to have a monogram font that that has been digitized for our embroidery program  in order to be able to create beautiful monograms, but this is not the case.  You  have a totally unlimited variety of fonts that are available and I will be teaching you how to create these monograms using some of the true type fonts.

This is the completion of a 2 part series.  I presented the first part
last month, “How To Create Beautiful Large And Small Monograms Using
Your Existing Embroidery Fonts“!  This “How To Create Beautiful Large And Small Monograms” video program series will be available on DVD after the webinar tonight.

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I want to wish you a very Merry Christmas.  I hope that you have had a super successful embroidery selling season during this busy time!  Make sure that you take the time out for your family and friends and don’t forget to remember the “Reason For The Season”!

I will be sending you a special Christmas present, something that  you can use when you are creating your monograms.  This will be sent to you in a separate email.  Enjoy all of your holidays!!!

Joyce Jagger
The Embroidery Coach
EmbroideryTIpsAndMore.com

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Creating and maintaining a good work flow with both your embroidery processes and paper work is extremely important to any sized embroidery organization.

I am currently working with a company that has been in the embroidery business for many years, but has recently been sold. This is a medium sized company with several multi-head embroidery machines that creates a top quality finished product!

The new owners are…

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