What a crazy week this has been!
After a week in Houston at Quilt Market and Quilt Festival, I flew home for a day, and now I am in Portland OR for the Color Marketing Group conference. I should buy stock in Hilton – ha!

While in Houston, Bonnie McCaffery and I shot several videos which will be coming to you in the next 2-3 weeks. Watch for the announcement in this newsletter! (…and check out previous show videos on our video page.)

I also took lots of photos of my favorite quilts, and I will post some of those later this week once I finish the color conference.

It is a typical wet gray day here in Portland, but as you may know, the moisture makes the colors of the foliage just gleam. Our fall color is done in Boulder, but there is still lots of red and yellow and emerald green in the hills of Portland.

Hey – if you are in the US – don't forget that Daylight Savings Time ends this weekend so you can sleep an extra hour on Sunday morning. Yeah!

For those of you in the San Jose area, I wanted to let you know I'll be attending an opening at the San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles on Sunday afternoon Nov 21. eQuilter is a corporate sponsor of this show, and I might bring Sophie along too. They are featuring the Marbaum Collection, and the work of my friend Yvonne Porcella.

Also, some of you have been asking me – when is my next big trip? I am going to see the Christmas Markets of Prague, Budapest and Vienna the 2nd week of December, and will spend the weekend of Dec 10-12 in Vienna. I am hoping to attend a special holiday concert in one of the historic music halls, and I'd like to visit a museum, (a textile museum?) so if any of you have information about concerts/events on that weekend, or suggestions for museums, please send me an email at eQuilter, or let me know on Facebook.

Yes we still have just a few spots left in the Bali trip and it IS the trip of a lifetime – with a focus on Art Design and Color. There is still time to sign up! I can't wait to see Princess Mirah's palace, and the batik factory.

I also want to say a big thank you to the NASA Johnson Space Center chapter of Engineers Without Borders – who gave me a VIP tour of the center, took me out to dinner, where I even got to visit with a REAL astronout who is returning to the International Space Station in March. They send their thanks to everyone who has contributed to their work at the orphanage in Rwanda through our eQuilter Charity program. Quilters, Rocket Scientists, and Africa…could you ever imagine how those 3 things would all end up in one sentence?!