November 6th

this saturday is November,6 2010. it is my great niece, agnes' first birthday. it is my parents 66th wedding anniversary (although my mom will be celebrating in heaven) and it is another show day for me. this time i will be in costa mesa. i am attaching the flyer here and will put up pictures of agnes' birthday next week.

really bad at updating

i am so bad at keeping up with my blog. i get started and say i am going to post daily and now it has been over 3 months! i've shown in san francisco, chicago, new york and trying to get ready for the holiday circuit. i've made more rose dresses, emily dresses, dorrey sweaters,elaine dresses. and more. designed and shown my spring line and i am experimenting with knitting and wrapping to make neck wear. my computer crashed and i lost many great pictures. i am trying to take more but as i have said before it is not a strong point of mine. i am slowly trying to fill my etsy shop with new pieces http://www.etsy.com/listing/60497634/knitted-collar and i will get my home page of my website, www.myrebe.com updated with the next 2 months of shows. just a few things to do.

seattle show

thank you seattle for a good show. it was warm up there last week so i came home with most of my coats and sold most of my dresses. we had some great food, happy hour at list. an amazing dinner at kabul with teresa from texture and kate and rachel from spincycle yarns. thank you guys for taking us! before heading home we had lunch at macrina bakery. i bought their cookbook the food was so good.

we got home to 100+ degree weather....not pleasant. i cannot wait to head to san francisco next.

if anyone in seattle realizes they should have bought a coat feel free to email me to see what i have.

by the way happy birthday nancy, i love you!

almost packed

getting ready for shows always seems to be a hurry up and wait process. i am in the waiting stage.

i am pretty much packed just a few things to finish up and a store order to get out. dogs have been walked, bird fed and has clean water. trying to decide if seattle will support me enough to buy one more suitcase and pay extra or if what i have is enough to sell.

while passing time i finished covering a gross of buttons for the maryanne coats(i do have a few odds and ends of these on sale in older colors on my etsy site).

sometimes i wish i could just keep all the buttons together as inspiration, they look so pretty but needless to say it would be hard to close the coat!

sewing and eating

or is it eating and sewing?! let's just talk about the sewing part since i might shame myself discussing the "stuff my face" part. i have been sorting my vintage fabric over the last year that i have collected for the last 10 years. this job requires me to cut the pieces first into pockets for the paula pocket, second into horses for the mobiles, then big and small birds for the mobiles and lastly with the little pieces circles for the covered buttons and good lucks. given i am in a hurry and wait mode for samples, production and individual orders i have been spending the time making good luck necklaces. it is also a good excuse to avoid house cleaning too. i now have several in stock so if anyone desires owning and wearing one i have them on sale if you contact me directly for $40

check out hillery's blog for the mobiles
www.hilleryrs.blogspot.com

great deals

i am out of space for storing some of my old pieces.
i marked down some pieces on etsy
http://www.etsy.com/shop/myrebe
i need these to go quickly!
the hazel coat was $215 is now $60
the caroline $40
dalila $20
i have limited sizes and colors.
i also have dresses and skirts for $40 if you want to email me i will send images.
please pass along these deals to all your friends.
thank you!

long beach this sunday

it's friday already, time is just flying by. next week is july, i've been in the house more than a month now and still have so much to do including taking pictures which i sadly fail at. how hard can it be to just point a digital camera at something and take the shot, for me that hard. lighting, composition and more do not come together, it is a good thing i am a fiber artist and not a photographer.

anyway this post was to be about sunday's show in long beach and to remind all of you to come see me and bring your friends and friends of friends.

here is the link

http://WWW.PATCHWORKSHOW.COM/