run off

yesterday corey and i did another photo shot up in grand teton NP; that is until these guys ran as off. we waited in the car til they moved on. then continued and got some nice shots.
other than that, i've been dragging my feet about doing work to prepare for the upcoming shows, but hopefully today and next week i can get that motivation back!

new pics

last week corey and i went out and shot some photos of me in my hats for my sites! here are some of the better ones. the background is north of jackson, mormon row in the grand teton NP.
hopefully this week we can get more!

something new

here are photos of some scarfs i put together to sell along side my hats. i thought that they would sell like hot cakes, but no one hardly looked at them. i think they're really cute, but what do i know, i'm just the designer. look for them soon in my etsy shop!

a little down

it's monday, the day after my second sale and it did not go well. this seems to be such a hard time for everyone. so i guess you just count the pennies and keep moving forward, right? good thing for waitressing, which is what i'm currently doing!
anyway last week i got my first order of wool, as i am now a wholesaler. so i have about 50lbs. of wool in my house now. hopefully going to start selling some on my etsy page. it looks like big caterpillars!
i also found a new website i'm going to try out, called smashing darling. its for indie fashion designers, so hopefully i'll have more luck there. also i figure its time to wholesale out some of the inventory left over from the sales.
also, a few weeks ago was my 1 year anniversary for quitting smoking! to celebrate, a necklace i bought from my friend and mentor ms. amy tavern!
so it's back to the grind stone as i have three more sales in the coming months!

Art Wear Fashion Week

after a late night on tuesday and an early morning on weds. the hats for the Art Wear Fashion Week are done and were mailed on weds morning. here are some photos


above 'the ice queen'; below 'aries ode to spring'
below 'the leave are falling'

above 'the bustled bride'; below again 'april showers bring may flowers'

and a few from production line: the 'ruffled jen'
the 'judy'; the 'chuck' in pink

my latest project

in addition to my art and hats and working almost full time slinging ice, i also do alteration. here is one that came in by Corey's co-workers wife. she needed this dress to be part of a wedding and it was too small. the parameters if the dress: must be yellow and must be formal. so here's what we started with....
somethings you can't see. the skirt is totally sheer, we could not even zip it up, it looks a lot better in this photo then the real dress (they always look better in a size 2 as opposed to a size 20, the size i was working with)
and here are the photos after i worked on it......

what i did... sewed in an underskirt so it was not sheer, cut the single shoulder strap off, sewed it to a strapless bodice, put thin straps with the organza sewed on it, removed the sequence and the hip ruffle thing, moved the zipper to the side seam and cut and placed a new nude colored back panel to acomodate the size difference. i think it looks better.

still here...just busy

i have discovered i'm not so good at this blog thing, but here's the latest news. i'm still a little disappointed in the first show... but i realize life moves on and so have my oppurtunities. i have been excepted in the Art Wear Fashion Week in fort collins, CO. they have asked me to display 5-8 hats like my 'april showers...' hat (above).
i also just found out that i have been excepted in both Winterfair shows in ohio, one in cincinnati and columbus. i'm not sue if i'm going to do the sales or not, but it nice to know i have the option.
some other sales this year are 'taken it to the streets' here in jackson, wy part of the fall arts fest and 'November Art Sale and Show' at the Nicolasysen center in casper, WY.
in other news, i have returned to the work force here in the hole. doing what you ask... no, not slinging booze or coffee (though i've always thought 'krista the barista' is too cute) ... i'm slinging ice and meat. that's right, i'm back working at jackson whole ice and game. in the summer we make and deliever ice all over the valley, in the fall we process the game from hunting season. i think i'm the only veg-head who would work at a game processing plant!!

here i am in my new western hat!!