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Mailing Address:     Chalet Publishing

                                2506 Robinson Street

                                Colorado Springs   CO   80904

Phone:                      719.685.5041

                                 800.959.4587

Fax:                           719.685.2347

E-mail:                       info@needlecrafterstravelcompanion.com

About Us

Chalet Publishing was born while Audrey was swimming.  Lap after lap she kept asking where the quilting stores were and how to plan her trips to them.  As she completed her last flip turn, she pondered if others also had the same curiosity. Audrey Swales Anderson is the CEO of Chalet Enterprises which publishes the Quilters' Travel Companion and the Needlecrafters' Travel Companion.   The love of handcrafted quilts and needle crafting grew out of the need to decorate her lovely Swiss Chalet house that was built in 1887.  Audrey is joined in most of her endeavors by her loving husband Marlow Anderson as well as five furry friends:  Leo, Burt, Gauss, Cayley, Newton and our new office mascot, Cauchy.  Their favorite hobby (and the main reason the answering machine kicks in) is SCUBA diving.  Over the years Audrey has been underwater for over 1000 dives in some of the most exotic places in the world.  Their next trip is planned for November to the Phillipines.  In January 2001 Chalet Enterprises expanded to include Tom Culp who is the resident IT and graphics guru and does much of the logistics for Chalet Publishing.  Tom also SCUBA dives so he goes along on many of the Anderson’s adventures with his lovely wife Rona. 

In 2005 we added a another full time member to our staff, Lisa Wiggins.  Hopefully this way you won't get the answering machine.  Lisa and her husband Aaron have three kids, Anthony, Meghan and Patrick.  They've been traveling around the world with the army, but have now settled in Colorado.  They're looking for a house and Lisa will be much happier when she can have a garden again.

Since the Needlecrafters’ Travel Companion is the authority on needlecraft shops in North America, we thought you might want to do some shopping while at home.  This web site encourages customers to browse at all times of the day or night.  By having some of the book’s information on-line, we can also offer new shops a quick way of reaching potential customers between publications.    Let us know if you can think of other features that we should be adding. 

You are probably wondering how the book gets done.  We start with a mailing to all known needlecraft shops in January of odd numbered years.  Information, requests, emails, calls and faxes start flying around Chalet Publishing from January until April when the book goes to the printer.  A proof arrives later in April and many nights are spent pouring over the nitty gritty details of all the shops.  Finally, several large pallets of books are dropped off in June.  We all join together at the new warehouse of Chalet Publishing to repackage, stuff and ship the books out, hopefully arriving at your doorstep in mid June of odd numbered years.  Then Audrey goes diving! 

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