Portland has been lovely and sunny these last few days and its been hard to stay inside working. I've been talking about how much I've been making and working on without any proof for months now, so I've got a couple snaps just to show that I'm not alllll talk.

Check it out! A huge stack of clothes! All printed! All really neat if I do say so myself!

And look at these! Candles! They smell terrific and they make your home look super snazzy and loved.

I'm actually in the process of looking for a photographer who would like to shoot some photos for the new collection's lookbook and web site. Email me if you know someone! Or you are that someone! Or you take cool pictures and have recently decided to call yourself a photographer!

In other, wedding related, news...I visited the English Department this weekend on my hunt for a little shrug. This dress makes me wish I hadn't bought a dress yet! (Mine is great too, but this one - the buttons!! the net straps! le sigh. its also a size small, which I am not so much able to fit into.)

I'm on my short (albeit self imposed) lunch break and now I'm back to sewing tags.
I'm going to leave with a list of new things I am doing or like very much:
1. thermals all day long
2. hula hooping in the living room
3. epiphytes
4. melatonin
5. Mad Men

Happy New Year!

I'm a few weeks late, yes. But its about this time of January that it finally begins to seem like a new year. Holiday festivities are finished. New projects and ideas are in full swing. And finally, it seems new.

I don't generally make resolutions, but I do try to make a list of ideas and inspirations I can revisit through out the coming year to reflect on what I thought was coming and where I thought I wanted to go. I jot down notes and sketches, paste in pictures and draw on them too, and make list after list.
This year I am:
- going into business more or less full time for myself.
- getting married.
- going to (re)conquer my scuba diving anxieties and swim with whale sharks.
- going to cook more.
- diligently training my dog to be a better behaved little beast in public.
- and more.

I am excited.
I hope you are too.