must. find. some. air.

I was having my blood drawn last week and the nurse could not

find the vein. Nightmare. After 2 minutes, she found the 

vein and said to me 'you can breathe now'. 

I seriously had been holding my breath for 2 minutes

because I could not even mentally deal with what was going 

on down there. I think that we humans do what we have to 

to get by and then finally face reality when we think

we can finally handle it. 

I have been having a very hard week. There are some issues...

my insanely late swim fabric that has still not arrived and must

be sewn by Thursday, my even later Fall design deadline, 

somehow meeting up with my sister who is in San Francisco

for the next week, and the fact that I have to have a surgery 

next Tuesday and the lovely $2000 we have to pay

until we finally reach our deductible! small 'yay'!

I literally felt like I have been holding my breath since 

Tuesday... totally unable to field phone calls and

handle normal situations. I have even cried! and 

loudly said the F word to my swim vendor yesterday. 

I have lost it. 

I must say though, there have been a couple 

shining lights amidst the darkness... 

My daughter telling me that she'll ' see me soon - bye!!' 

at preschool instead of clinging and crying and 

my husband feeding me and putting the kids to bed

for the last three nights(yipee!) 

And for you... I have the superficial goodness. 

Thank god we are like big children who never lose their

love for shiny things... because yesterday, I 

received some leather accessory fabrics

and I may have to hang them on my wall they make me 

so happy. 

Now, improve your Friday and soak these in. 

neon coral croc embossed? yes please. 

who would not love these plasti prints for 

a little bath bag?

I may eat them.

 

DYING over the ice blue. 

Ice blue clutches for everyone.

 

shiny metallics and red teal purple goodness. 

This is my fave palette, though kind of hard to see from 

the pic....

bumpy leather in bright coral, lemon, soft gold, silver, 

purple-y brown and super soft dusty purple. 

Yum-o. 

and Waxy leather. The yum-est of all. 

here's to breathing. 

Have a good weekend!!

pig squeal!

The weekend started off strong with a care package

from Susie...

that contained MANY feet of beautiful Indian silk!

I completely understand the desire of Indian women 

to wrap themselves in this wonderful creature!

So soft and beautiful!

I really am still overwhelmed by the sheer size of this 

piece of fabric! woooo hooooo!

and a beautiful card with a

neon orange envelope. 

Thanks Sus! I can't wait to work with this stuff!!

I am going to have to lay out a strict plan. 

Another fun box

Another fun childhood box has been rescued from the garage. 

I feel another project coming on..

How cute is this guy, patched from vintage fabric?

I think we all need these for our little ones. 

It kind of reminded me of these sweet pillows

from enhabiten. 

Not that I want you to die of jealousy...

but, I was the hot 2 year old bitty scamping around 

the play yard in this!

A two year old bearing midriff is seriously suspect. 

But, I have to say this is one amazing number.