Worlds collide

This photo makes me laugh. Back in my "glorious" days of textile (read: carpet) design I knew the pattern name and manufacturer of this carpet... Now, just like the rest of the world, the carpet is just a distraction to the image I wanted to get....

We used to make carpet and hope it could be considered art... We gave it names like "oxygen" and "soul"... And in the end, it was just walked on.

Talk about a great learning ground (no pun intended) for design... Work like it is high design, and eat humble pie in the end, so you can never really get a big head... I'm glad I started out that way... And I love where I am now, too. Even with packages on my dining room table and a studio that never gets organized due to my constant influx of inspiration.

I must say, I have loved the journey so far. Its been a great story and I know its just gonna get better.

From public relations to art history to drawing to a summer in Italy doing figure drawing and textile design to carpet design to jewelry and collage to studying painting at the Art Institute of Chicago to skirts, bags, baby slings and more jewelry to.... Who knows????

Baby sling

I love seeing my friends happily using my baby slings... Baby Riley
couldn't be happier here.

can't stop thinking about

dresses.
i am now on a quest for the perfect sundress... i have no idea how to describe it - because i will know it when i see it, but this reminds me of the summer i spent in florence, italy.
i have unbelievable shopping luck, and always have - but this was unheard of.
i still wear some of the dresses (the ones i fit) that I bought that summer.
by the end of the summer, i was hiding them from the people around me as i brought them into our house - i may have been buying one a day on a starving student's budget - but i had to have them.
i still don't regret buying them.

Making lemonade

On my way to a boutique yesterday, I was an hour into the drive when I
got a call from J. "you didn't mean to leave this big white basket,
did you?" (um no. The one with my tablecloth, displays, money, receipt
book and change of clothes? Oh man.)
I arrived, with a stop at a grocery store for cash and an emergency
tablecloth and a venti latte... Found this couch cover that I had been
meaning to return to use as a tablecloth, and made lemonade from my
lemons.
It turned out to be an okay day after all. I brought my handstamped
charms and for the first time, had the nerve to make them on the spot.
(I sold out)

Few and far between

Scenes like this (sans the wrinkles) were a lot more plentiful when I
was in college in Malibu... But even a hard earned half hour at the
beach alone is good these days.

Inspiration

Better than retail therapy.

Oh, I could die... I want to do this!!!!

I simply can't believe how gorgeous these are... wow...

I think Grace says it all in her blog...
I feel like I need to get out the paints and find something to work on!
(as if my to-do list needed more)

What should I name this new skirt pattern?

Taking votes...

They're UP!

Hooray!
I finally was able to get the saddle bags and other purses up tonight onto our etsy shop
have fun looking at all the images and let us know what you think!
libby

Am I man enough?

Since I was a little kid, I have loved Pocky sticks

(among many other Japanese treats!)

... I grew up in a neighborhood where I was a
minority, so I had quite the exposure.
Anyhow, I recently saw these and laughed out loud.

Why on earth do only men get the dark chocolate?
I originally bought a pack for J, but ate most of them...

This one I am eating in secret. (well, not anymore)