Hello all

This weekend I was asked why my website is called The Purple Hat. The name was inspired by an email I received years ago. I loved it so much that I decided to embrace the "purple hat" philosophy ...

Age 3: She looks at herself and sees a Queen.
Age 8: She looks at herself and sees Cinderella.
Age 15: She looks at herself as the "Ugly Sister"-"Mom, I can't go to school looking like this!"
Age 20: She looks at herself and sees, "too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly"-but decides she's going out anyway.
Age 30: She looks at herself and sees, "too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly"-but decides she doesn't have time to fix it so she's going out anyway.
At 40: She looks at herself and sees "too fat/too thin, too short/too tall, too straight/too curly"-but says, "At least I'm clean," and goes out anyway.
Age 50: She looks at herself, sees "I am", and goes wherever she wants to go.
Age 60: She looks at herself and reminds herself of all the people who can't even see themselves in the mirror anymore. Goes out and conquers the world.
Age 70: She looks at herself and sees wisdom, laughter and ability, goes out and enjoys life.
Age 80: Doesn't bother to look. Just puts on a purple hat and goes out to have fun with the world.

Maybe we should all grab that purple hat earlier.

Hugs, Anne

Dear Friends

We've been busy busy busy! Since our last blog post we've added a quite a few new sets:

• Quick Gift Allsorts Bags 5x7 and 6x10
• Quick Gift Cube Tissue Box Cover 5x7
• Quick Gift Coffee Clutch 5x7
• Funky Food Christmas Cookies
• Baby Max Starter Set 5x7
• Color Me Christmas 5x7 and 6x10

You can find the links to all of these new sets from our What's New page at http://www.purplehat.co.za/DesignCatalog/whatsnew.html

Many thanks to all our wonderful customers who email suggestions and project photos. Your enthusiasm keeps me inspired! The other day I was thrilled to receive an email from Elizabeth Burke who wrote "I don't think anyone can outdo you in the in-the-hoop projects". Wow, that's high praise indeed, considering how many talented digitisers there are and a compliment I will happily accept.

Unfortunately there's also a downside to this wonderful business. Sadly my copyright offender is up to mischief again. I noticed she's sneaking back some designs of mine. I was hoping to post the digitising analysis images to our Newsletter Group this weekend but Yahoo seems to be playing up, so the evidence will have to wait a day or so. Will this woman ever stop??

Anyway, the sun's shining and we're going to have a great day!

Hugs, Anne