….. spinning round and round ….

….. spinning round and round ….

This day has been like moviemaking,  one year of hard work displayed in less than 2 hours.

Our yesterday local sale hit the topchart of nice salesmoments for us. I thought that we had nothing to offer and displayed little of this and that which was found in the far far away back corner of our store. To my surprice this item was sold the most and therefore we start designing the saunacollection to its final stage.

Once I changed my mind about this saunacollection and cut off the creative cords to this project. Today I found the inspiration to pick up the pieces and continue.

 

We will launch the never displayed collection  in April 2012

What is the Right Choice?

What is the Right Choice?

Now when the work is overcoming us we’ve got winterflu, all of the personel, one week at a time…

Nothing bad that doesnt bring something good, while spending time at home with flu I wrote an small novel out of an dream I had, it didn’t leave me, just spinning in my head, so I had to write it down. My own private and personal developement found an answer on a lifelong questioning;

Why does the same people just achieve, develope and bring sucess over and over again while I’m standing still?

Found my answer that was an missing piece in my puzzle of life… the answer was found in my own head from deep down in my subconsius mind. The story that I made based on my dream will be published when it is translated into english.

Some might ask why I mix personal life and thoughts with work and business? Well you see, everything that is deep down in the head of the CEO will reflect in the business both good and bad sides. No matter how professional someone is to concentrate at work, the true personality control a lot of our decisions.

We are making big structural changes right now that will help us towards success. To finally reach success I had to change focus into few important things that might stop us. One of the things was the way of making decisions, the art of thinking that will take you out of the vacuum that exists in between “back then” and “now”.

JUST DO IT NOW! is an standard phrase used by many consults as the only way to explain not to wait until tomorrow. For me this has been hard to understand since I’m making my desicions now, I’m doing that part right. “From NOW on, this and that will change” It looks great and functional but a few weeks or months later we are back from where we begun.

There is an major step missing in the phrase “DO IT NOW” that never has been told to me. Before any plans will take action into an consistent change, the individual attitude has to move away from the stage “inbetween then and now” to finally reach the NOW that is in the phrase.

I dare to say that any attitude is right, as long it’s not holding you back. So… what does hold you back? It wasn’t the attitude that had to change? Nope…

“Get rid of your emotinal luggage”, is another phrase we’ve heard. How many people hasn’t tried to dig deep down in their own mind to get rid of something they don’t find, or desperatly tried to get rid of some feeling that do exist, wich actually is an important part of your attitude? My story is that no extra hard or heavy luggage ever existed, instead there was something missing. It’s as hard to know what’s missing in someones life, as it is to explain the colour red to someone born blind…. Close to impossible, since there are no references. In the end of one journey (before) and right before the beginning of an other (now) I found my vital missing piece. Hopefully my story, soon to be published, can help someone else to find theirs.

 

Quality plan… and of we go!

Quality plan… and of we go!

Finally!!

I’ve found an academic student that are willing to help me read and understand the twist and turns when digging deep into the ISO 9001:2008 standard.

This matters a lot for both me as an individual and for Centertex as an growing company. We have only started and put up the goals, timeschedule is tight but I think we’ll make it.

It took both me and my two menthors more than 1 year to find someone willing to make Centertex’s Qualityplan as an subject to their Master’s thesis work, so I’m truly happy for this once in a lifetime opportunity.

Of course it means that I have to work myself up and into the clouds, but it actually feels neccessary right now.

The way to find out how to make an good pair of trousers

The way to find out how to make an good pair of trousers

My kids at 3, 5 and 15 years old are in that state where the hunt for an beautiful pair, with the right decorations and details takes a week to find.
When counting the potential hours of future shopping for my youngest daughter I decided to finally use my three year long studies in patternmaking and design to its peek of performance.

Last friday I spent an whole day just to figure out how to make the patterns to trousers for both bigger and smaller size ladies. Even if my kids look perfectly fit today I know that they will soon be like me.
In other terms with the characteristic Pearshape of our family and the attitude that aren´t nor popular or accepted in our community in Northern Europe.
My family are just a little bit too front forward, or as teachers says in preschool …difficult… we want to know why, how and if it works before we let go of the issue.

In the last year I managed to turn my attitude to work for me instead of fighting it. Only that is an blog of  it´s own

This is my worktable as I left it on friday and found it on monday…

In many years I´ve had an question that none has been able to answer with ease.
I´ve found out that there aren´t many brands available that makes beautiful trousers for sizes 44 and up, except jeans then. In the smaller sizes there are a wide range of variety thou.
This weekend I´ve managed to get the geometric formula right so the trousers are right mesured in most of sizes.
If this formula is counted right then I have the base for an lifetime, with only one number for correct size, two if  I want to change model from european measurements D to C or B.

Mostly in my head, not in paper

This is the base of calculation. 96 pages of info. 3 years of study, 17 years of shopping for the right trosers.
Now making them myself, and it took its own time for finding one short formula.

Today I start making the prototypes… then I probably have to make some patterndesign protection before starting the manufacturing…
For the eager reader I have to say that it will take it´s own time before the collection is in a store near to you.

Right now I make everything by hand because the use of an expensive program with huge database is not an option for me yet.

Wish me luck on this project :)