www.shop-summerland.com

I'm happy and excited to report that Summerland is now open!

http://www.shop-summerland.com/

The lovely M. Bardeaux is behind the shop, and one of my favorite blogs Cat Party.

I'm even more excited to say you can purchase my line there! I suggest the Pony top, since it was a limited run and is pretty much sold out of all the brick and mortar shops:

Happy shopping!xo

They're baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack.......

The Unicorn Dress.

I have never had a dress sell out so quickly. So I made some more!




I named it the Unicorn Dress, since it looks good on damn near everyone.

Available NOW at:

Union Rose

Moxie

Adorn

Velouria - Ballard and Capital Hill (in transit today)

Available in Black and Red.

Alyson Clair's 1st weekend of October Guide

It's the first weekend of October this weekend, THE BEST MONTH OF THE YEAR!!!!!



Friday night:

Plus stop next door to the Bipartisan Cafe and get some of this:



nom nom nom!

Saturday Night:

99W Drive-In Theater Presents:



Epic.

Sunday:

Begin work on your Halloween Costume. Too bad I'm going to be a bride this year. Here are my ideas/suggestions of what to be:

Fall Fashion Shows

This past weekend was Sweet F.A., as always it was was awesome. I'm glad they have made this a bi-annual event.
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I have lost count of how many times I have done the show, but it's one that I always know I can hand off my garments and watch with a cocktail from the audience.

I had the pleasure of meeting Eden Dawn after the show, who is a fashion writer in Portland. You can read her review of the show and see some photos and videos here:
Sweet F.A. - Portland Mercury


Tomorrow I am also showing my Fall/Winter 2010 collection at the EcoTourism show. The lovely Jillian Rabe is behind this one. Anything she is behind the scenes at always turns out fabulous. I'm glad to be a part of this show, since I take such painstaking pride in making everything right here in Portland, Oregon.
Sustainable Fashion Show

Other than that, I won't have any fashion shows again until the Spring. I've got a trunk show coming up on October 1st, but more on that as it gets closer.

If you haven't check out Elizabeth Mollo's Blog InVested. She's one of the producers of Sweet F.A. and I love all the stuff she posts. My MOST favorite being this:
The Black Lodge

The owls are not what they seem.

Fall/Winter 2010 - The Cameo Collection

Finally! It's here, The Cameo Collection - Fall & Winter 2010.

The best job I ever had was working at the 99W Drive-In Movie Theater as a snack bar gal, while I was growing up in Newberg, Oregon. The Francis family owns both the 99W Drive-In as well as the historic Cameo Theater. Built in 1937, the Cameo remains much the same as the day it was built. Brian Francis was kind enough to allow us to come and shoot the collection, it felt only fitting the name it after the beautiful theater.
Photos: Linger Studios
MUA+Hair : Boni Dutch
Jewelry: Jené DeSpain
Models: Boni Dutch, Katie Greiner

my jobs have eaten my life

I have been so crazy busy it's not even funny. Lots of good things are happening which is awesome. I've been neglectful of this blog as of late. I have a camera full of pictures just waiting to be posted. Soon enough.

I took this one the other night when I actually headed home before dark. (rare these days).

It took me a little while to figure out who was spilling grain all over the roads to the studio. The first few weeks last summer I thought someone had a death wish for the pigeons that hang around. Instead it's the grain trucks waiting in line to load vessels.

Back to sewing.

Help a kitteh out

Multnomah County animal shelter is bursting at the seams with kittehs! I heard on the radio this morning that they were in taking 25-30 cats/day. That is a LOT of cats.

They are offering waiving adoption fees as part of their “Certified Pre-Owned Cats” program, to place as many cats in homes as possible. These are cats 1 year of age or older.
As a long time pet owner, I do love baby kittens, but I will never adopt anything other than an adult cat. They already have their personality, and won't climb your drapes (hopefully).

I am offering an item of clothing if you adopt one of these lovely felines. Let's review:

Adopt kitteh + free kitteh = happy you, happy kitteh, FREE CLOTHING!

Here is a link to their website about the program:
http://web.multco.us/pressrelease/2010/07/08/how-much-kitty-window-free

Here is where you can go to find your new BFF:
Kittehs! Kittehs! Kittehs!

(at the time of posting this there were 39 adoptable cats, I think we all know what goes on at the shelter, please save someones life)

Blog for Better Sewing

So as if I don't already have waaaaaay to much to do, I have been guest blogging on this fantastic blog:
Gertie's New Blog For Better Sewing

It's super cute and she's always working on fun projects.
I have been writing about knits. You can see my posts here:

Meet Alyson Clair
Knits in a Nutshell
Sewing Knits Without A Serger

Other than that I have been attempting to swim, my 2nd favorite thing besides making pretty dresses. The weather and my schedule have not been co-operating. If I could just swim all day and my clothes would sew themselves together on their own I'd be in good shape.

Jené DeSpain ! In Portland 7/9

I am so excited to see the lovely Jené DeSpain next week! There is a rather nice write up about her on the Mercury Online.
http://mod.portlandmercury.com/mod/archives/2010/07/02/jen-despain

See her next Friday July 9th at Pin Me Apparel from 4-7pm. Her jewelry is most lovely. I had the pleasure of using it in my Fall/Winter shoot. Here is another sneak peak. Entire collection to hit the interwebs soon.

Vintage Portland

I don't have too much new to share other than my studio has been a sewing storm. Fall photos will be coming soon, as well as lot of garments I am really excited about. (Now if Spring OR Summer would arrive in Oregon that would be nice too.)

I thought I'd share one of my favorite blogs. It is the first thing I read in the morning. I love Portland dearly. Seeing the history is fantastic, along with recognizing the places somtimes almost a century old.