I can see my whole collection now.

I love when the creative process starts to “click”…when it goes from conceptual to…HERE WE GO.  My inspiration is silent film stars meet bohemian modern and this image of Gloria Swanson is my muse.

After months of hunting for fabric, trim and pieces to alter—constant sketching and research—it’s time to look closely at the details of the collection that will make it “walk” really well down the runway.  Here are a few of the inspirations.  I tried to alter my palette to include more grey.  But, I keep coming back to these warmer tones.  I guess I shouldn’t fight it.

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one corner of my studio: before & after

Yesterday I didn’t feel remotely creative.  Over the weekend I showed my studio to my niece and she thought it was cool but really disorganized.  I usually don’t mind my space messy but when I stepped in to the studio yesterday I realized she was entirely right.  It was not very inspiring. There was a lot of garbage around.  And I didn’t know what textiles I had for working on a current project.  So, yesterday when I cleaned and hauled out two large bags of garbage and recycling I did sort of feel like an organizational Rock Star.  When I don’t feel creative, I clean.  I still have a lot of spaces to organize, but it’s a start and doing one chunk at a time is so much less overwhelming than thinking I need to do the whole space.  I was told once that when you have the desire to get rid of things that you are making room in your life for new possibilities.  I wonder what’s next?

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