Per the GW What's New Banner... Tuesday, December 15th, 8:30am: We are currently experiencing a problem with our servers. You may be seeing missing pages, corrupt posts or inaccessible forums. This is also affecting our mailbox so you may be unable to contact us. If you have a specific issue or your forum will not open, please contact us directly. it looks like the Kitchen Table Forum lost a lot of their pages again. Luckily CH's history wasn't lost again...knock on wood. I'd suggest you just start a new thread...at the KT they gave it a title of REPOST and the original subject line.

I've been using Vistaprint exclusively since 2003 and have received nothing but excellent quality and professional looking products. I always order premium cards with a gloss finish and they look as wonderful, if not better, than any other business card I've seen. The colors are always spot on and I love all of the matching products you can order. I've ordered mugs, tote bags, t-shirts, post-its, note cards, business card calendar magnets, car door magnets, and memo pads - most of those were free or significantly reduced in price because I took advantage of one or their emails. The promotions they send are wonderful and it's a great way to brand your business on a budget. Just my personal experience, ymmv. :))

You really need to talk with the Brother dealer...there are so many choices and you need to make sure you get the right one. As far as creating your own designs (digitizing) the Brother software - PE Design - is pretty expensive; also, you can't just import a picture from Photoshop and stitch it out on fabric. It's much more complex than that to get good results, and photo type designs are extremely dense and stiff when stitched out. There are other digitizing programs that are not as expensive as PE Design - Embird is one. I'd recommend an Internet search for home embroidery software and do some research on your own, but you really do need to talk to the Brother dealer so you get the right box, as they aren't cheap either! Donna

Thanks Sally. That's what we've been doing up to this point and I didn't see any need to change even with a store front, and we'll only be leasing shelf space in another store for now. I told dh I didn't think we needed to do any more than a credit card reader like paypal, but he thinks it would be too inconvenient for the store owner who will be handling the transactions. I doubt we will even have 5 store sales a week for a while.