Good Morning South Africa

I slept well last night and was up a little after 8am surprisingly after being up so long the days before the trip. This morning I'm watching Santi work. I love to watch Santi at work on her designs. I learn so much just by watching although she can't teach me her "artistry". Of course there is the "work" part of the design. Right now Santi is color sorting her new Paisley collection to make sure it all sews in the right order and there are as few jump stitches as possible. I think that is the real beauty of her designs. She doesn't make you work as much as other digitizers.

It's a beautiful morning here. It's not too hot and I'm not sure if it will get hot or stay as beautiful as it is now. One thing I didn't realize is that summer here the days don't stay light longer. I just assumed it was like summer at home! Silly me! We all know what happens when we assume now don't we? I need to get the camera out today and see if I can get some pictures of Santi's office so you can get an idea of where she works.

They recently had to move the "office" into a new facility. For so many years they worked out of the convertered garage at Santi's condo until someone complained about the parking situation here. There isn't a whole lot of parking here in the complex and with the girls coming and going it created a little mess. So the office was moved down the street. It makes life a little more difficult for Santi when she is working on her designs. It use to be that she would digitize one element of a design and have the girls test it out to see if she was on the right track. Now it takes a little longer to get the testing done which can be a distraction of it's own.

Right now, doing the color sorting and the finishing touches on a collection with 10 designs, she needs to concentrate on what she's doing. That's kind of difficult to do with the phone ringing all day long. Add into the mix she now has company sitting on her lap watching her every move. She's funny as she sits here and talks to her computer. I know I do it when I'm at home hoping that the computer will do what I want it to do and not what I tell it to do! LOL

I saw Liese and the kids last night. Declan is growing like a weed and his little sister Zoe looks so much like him. I think both of the kids look a lot like Liese! Liese looks good and I think she's done with her morning sickness. The new baby boy is due in February and of course Liese has that glow of a new mother! I won't see Cara until after the 8th of November since she is still traveling in the US. I'm sure Stefan will be happy she's back home after 5 weeks on the road.

Well, we have some running around to do today and I guess we'll get started on it soon!