Happy New Year!

I started out this New Year with the annual tradition - A Naked Lady party at my studio space, hosted by myself, Rita and Carolyn. It was a fun time, and we even had it catered by Brass Tacks. A definate repeat for the festivities next year.

So HELLO 2015. I think you are going to be full of wonder and delight. Happy New Year!

Moving Studios

So exciting news! Carolyn and I have upgraded our studio space and added another pal, Rita from Hubris Apparel.

Sunday before last was painting day in the new space. We had a black wall to cover and then some floor painting to do. (previous was a white floor, YUCK).

 

 Our landlord is SUPER awesome and made us a pretty picture of how the layout could look.

My Dad, Jann and Rita got all the pallet racking in on Wednesday and we had to move the racking around since there was a pesky pipe in the way above the proposed wall.

Here's me and Carolyn doing our Glamor Shots poses in front of our cut table. Which now looks TINY!

The pallet racking kind of looks like our new jungle gym.

Then the boys helped move the machines and re-hang our shelves.
(sorry for the blur, I was trying to be covert as they do not like their photos taken.)

More photos to come. It's still kind of a mess, but it will be super pretty soon!

Design Week Portland

What is this you may ask? I'm not 100% sure myself, aside from the fact that I'll be blabbering about making dresses in Portland.

Catch me, Carolyn Hart, and Lizz Basinger - all makers of clothing in Portland, at the Hazel Room on October 11th. Cassie Ridgeway of Mag Big is our moderator and question asker.

Cost: FREE. Sweet.

EVENT INVITE HERE.

ALL THE GOINGS ON HERE. (and there are some really cool things all cheap and free!)

Bowlful of Heart 2011- HUGE success!

I have to say THANK YOU to every single person involved in this drive. I was shocked and amazed at how well it went!

Together we all collected 936lbs of pet food! (not to mention the Critter Cabana left the bin out in Newberg through the end of the month and it was full again!!)

Here are some photos and a dorky video from the drive. I took my car, the Beast Master, out for delivery on December 23rd.

Can't wait for the drive in 2012, and still in a little bit of awe at how generous people were.

Picking up at Salty's Cat and Dog Shop.

Here's the loot coming from Portland.



And here's after loading up from Newberg!

 The Beast Master may have hit low-rider status.

Bowlful of Heart - Pet Food Drive

This holiday season, I'm proud to be on the sponsors for Bowlful of Heart.

The goal is to blow last year's pet food drive out of the water. If you would like to donate, and cannot make it to one of the drop locations please let me know. Myself or another person would be happy to pick up your donation.

Dress For Success Fashion Show

My parents dog Fast Eddie sure is getting popular:
http://www.oregonlive.com/living/index.ssf/2010/04/dress_for_success_fashion_show.html

Tonight is a fundraiser for Dress for Success Oregon. The lovely Jillian Rabe asked me to be a part of the show and I am always happy to work with her, and help out any chairty. My date for the evening will be my Nashionland partner in crime Carolyn Hart. Friday night out is a change from us usually being covered in thread at the studio.

Sweet F.A. Reviews

I'm catching up with my blogging, and I have been meaning to post the links to reviews from Sweet F.A. This year was one of my favorites to date. Reviews (with photos) click the links below:

PDX Neat Sheet

Day After

The Examiner

xo

PDX Collections : After

Thank you to everyone who came to the show, the models, the backstage crew, and of course the designers:

Adam Andreas


Studio SKB

Carolyn Hart

Janeane Marie


and here is one of mine.


(all above photos by Dennis Stafford)

For more photos check here:
Brandon Joseph Baker Photography
Dennis Stafford
Mr. Blair

Stay tuned for more details on the next event!

Fall Production

Fall production has been going nicely. I have quite a bit of material cut out, and am finishing up my designs and will be cutting the remainder in the upcoming weeks. Here is a sneak peak of one of my sweaters being laid up and getting ready to cut out. (I LOVE the 7 yard long cutting table at my work).


I am very excited to announce that I am joining work spaces with 2 of my best friends Sarah Wallace of Lucia Apparel, and Carolyn Hart of Carolyn Hart Designs. We move into our space on July 1. VERY exciting. We all feel like real live professionals. It will be so nice to be able to ride my bike a short distance and be able to access a studio workspace 24/7. The only thing I am not looking forward to is moving my Juki serger down and then up stairs, it weighs a ton. Good thing I have some strong friends. We have jokingly named it the "S.A.C." studio, after a joke we had in school, and our initials, duh.

I am also going to be doing a photo shoot for a model with Pete Springer. Pretty exciting, the gal is super cute, and they are going to use my fall clothing for the shoot. I am really excited about that, since Pete is a great photographer, and I haven't done a "organized" fashion shoot with hair and make up in ages.

On a totally non-apparel related note, I got a word into Urban Dictionary It is "bodangle". Click the link, and give it a thumbs up if you like it. I didn't make the word up, but use it quite frequently.