"Metrics"

This tutu is 16.7% Orange

When did we start calling statistics "Metrics"? Was it the same time we started "thinking outside the box" or "shifting paradigms"? Was it when we started "pinging" people or "leveraging" our "deliverables".

I started making a good old fashioned paper chart of my some of my sales numbers and Rick asked what I was doing. I replied "Charting metrics". Hmmmm. It seems moving from the corporate world to the world of the handmade cottage industry hasn't been as seamless as I thought.

Oh, Rick wanted me to mention that statistics are not the same as metrics. He has some grand theory about it, but I don't know. Anyone care to comment?

Here we go!

So I make tutus. I started making tutus because I wanted Kitty, my February '07 baby, to have something special to wear for her first birthday. I started looking online and in all of the local shops here in my neighborhood, and I found tutus everywhere. Most of them were either flimsy, or single color, or waaaaay over-priced. I knew I could do better, and so I set out to make her the perfect tutu. The result can be seen on the left. I was so pleased with it that I thought that other moms and dads (and aunts, uncles, and friends) might like customizable, affordable tutus for the little girls in their lives. And Nate and Cate Designs was born!

I'm pretty new at this, and I thought I'd start this blog to keep everyone up to date on the shop, and to document how this whole "Hey, let's open a business!" thing is working out for me!