Having fun testing a new shoe pattern! There’s TOMS® and BOBS®, I figured why not JANES! What do you think of JANES for American Girl® Dolls?

If you want to get involved personally with Esther and her Needs Care Center in Zambia, you can! Just go here to learn how: Kids For The Kingdom

Okay, so the winner of the 5 pattern giveaway is Daphne comment #54! Congrats She has been notified through email.

Here is a beautiful new video of Esther and the wonderful children we help support in Zambia – through Liberty Jane Gives Back!

We’d love for you to watch the video, and just for fun, if you watch it, and then comment with 1 thing you appreciated about it below, we’ll choose one comment at random, and give the winner a fun prize. A Coupon For 5 Free Patterns From http://www.libertyjanepatterns.com. (Void where prohibited, no purchase necessary). The winner will be chosen on Friday, March 16th. Hurry, watch & comment now…and please share it & pin it & if you want to support Esther directly through Kids For The Kingdom, go to this page and donate via Paypal: http://www.kidsforthekingdom.org/Countries/Zambia/Zambia.html

Don’t see the video above, click here: http://youtu.be/If38zrGn_aA

This is a quick heads-up to let you know we are closing enrollment for the Design Academy at 6pm on Sunday night. If you haven’t yet signed up, this is your last chance.

And we’ve got one final surprise for you. If you’ve been paying attention to our Youtube Design Contest you’ll know we had over 2,700 video responses. The winner will be announced this next weekend. The winner gets their outfit made for them for free … and Cinnamon will feature this project in the Design Academy. She’ll walk you through the step-by-step decisions associated with taking a drawing – and turning it into a real outfit.  So if you want to learn from her through this process, the Design Academy is definitely for you.

Remember, enrollment closes at 6pm Sunday. Sign-up Today:

http://february-2012-design-academy-enrollment.simplelander.com/

I’ve got some exciting Design Academy news to share…Earlier this month I spent 3 hours with veteran designer Karin Pascho, discussing the Design Academy and plans for 2012.

If you’re not familiar with Karin, she is a veteran designer who joined Liberty Jane Clothing last year. She comes to us with 13 years of experience as a Senior Designer at Nordstrom’s. She worked in their Juniors Line and designed tons of stuff. It’s crazy, she can point out items in Nordstrom’s that she personally designed, (how cool is that!). Plus she has an undergraduate degree, as well as a graduate degree in fashion. A true master designer.

Anyway, I asked her if she’d be interested in joining me as an instructor if enrollment got over 25 students, and she said she’d love to. I didn’t want to announce it prematurely, but she’ll definitely be on the instructional team with me at this point. She’s really excited to work with you guys. And you will be blessed to learn from her. So, if you haven’t signed-up yet. And you still want to, then here is the link:

http://february-2012-design-academy-enrollment.simplelander.com/

This month we are making a smaller change that some of you may notice. We are starting to bundle patterns more, and sell them at a lower price, than if we sold them as separates. For the last two years we’ve sold mostly single pattern guidebooks, (just a top, a skirt, a jacket, etc.) always at the $3.99 price point.

But many of you are asking for complete outfit guidebooks, and so we’ll begin publishing them more and more. The cost structure will be something like $5.99 for 2 items, or $8.99 for 3 items. Our goal is to continue to find ways to make our guidebooks affordable.