Throwback

I feel like I'm always apologizing for my lack of blogginess, but here I am again. I have several good excuses though! First off, I've been incredibly busy with orders these last couple weeks. That's a good thing, of course, but it leaves me very little time for designing. On top of that, I've been incredibly sick...well, I don't know if sick is the right word for what the heck is wrong with me. It started out as a headache, spread to my neck and then to my entire body and stayed with me for over a week now. However, I am on the healing end of it now and feeling about 90%! In addition to those things my poor little kitten died of God only knows what and everything's been turned upside down! Fortunately, it looks like things are going back to normal a bit, except orders are still piling in, keeping me from adding to my fall collection, so I have nothing to photograph, thereby I have nothing to blog about....

I also spent a few days in San Francisco! I'd never been there before - it's quite an interesting city! I went to a friend's wedding in Berkeley and got to hang out with my cousin, who showed me around the city and I INSISTED that she drive - I've been to countless metro areas before but I've never been so terrified to drive in my life as that city! The hills, lack of traffic lights and people everywhere scared the bejeezus out of me. It's entirely acceptable to just stop your vehicle in the middle of traffic and get out. Crazy.

Here are a few pics from my trip!












But here I am now! I actually have managed to create a couple pieces in the last couple days, though I'm only going to show one for now. That is partly because I'll need something to blog about tomorrow or Monday and partly because I only just finished the second piece and I don't have any photos of it yet. But I do think it'll be a big seller...here's a hint: it's stretchy and soft!

So for today's piece...I actually just finished it yesterday and I took my little supermodel out in it today and I can honestly say I've never had such an amazingly overwhelming response to anything I've ever made before. It's a vintage themed shirt and bellbottom set with a sash and I'm sure to be making more of them soon. It was inspired by a Pink Fig pattern that I saw and fell in love with but I made a few changes to it to make it mine. I realized, after I cut out my fabric, that I really should have made it for my older daughter because the actual lines of this outfit should be longer so keep your eye out for the "real" version coming soon. In the meantime, like I said, this outfit was an enormous hit, even on my younger daughter. She looked like a little doll and somebody actually said she looked like she just came out of a box. I think that was a compliment, right?









I promise to be back soon with pics of the new outfit! In the meantime, don't forget to vote in my poll!