OK! I'm getting dressed already!

Good Morning Lovelies, 

I realize I don't post many pictures of myself on my blog and so I am making an earnest effort to do so. Behold, me with my morning cup of coffee in my Neil mug. Yes, I drink out of a mug that has my fiance's name on it- that's how I roll. Don't judge. Also, don't judge me when I tell you I may have had ice cream for breakfast. 

I am slow moving this morning although I will say I did something remarkable and strange this morning. At 5am I scrubbed the crap out of our bathtub. Don't ask me why. It just happens sometimes. Speaking of getting up at 5am, I'm not sure how this happened. Sometime in my late twenties I started getting up at ridiculously early hours whether my day job demanded or not. The result is that I need a nap mid day and drink dangerous amounts of coffee throughout the day to keep me moving. On my off days I find that if I don't get to the studio before 9am I become useless. What happened? Is this getting older? I used to be at the clubs all night dancing to New Order remixes in my heels and was able to sleep until 12 noon the next day. Now I'm lucky if I make it to 6am. C'est la vie!

I have one week of work left before I am let loose on the summer with my dreams of design and craft nights. To get me in the mood, I tried my hand at domestica by making a giant stuffed eggplant dish last night. I failed of course because it's freaking hard to cook eggplant. Neil ate it anyways and was kind enough to say it was tasty even thought the eggplant was the consistency of rubber. I was going to post pics of my failure but was too lazy and hungry to pull out my camera.

I hope you all have a fabulous day and I am trying so hard to get this blog up on a regular basis. I have so many things to tell you and now I may actually have the time! 

Ice cream for breakfast? Anyone? Don't leave me hanging!

Weekend Rewind: Farmers Market

Hello Lovelies,

This past weekend marked the end of the school year and one last week at my day job. I am looking forward to a nice summer of designing, crafting, cooking, hanging out with friends and my man. I just finished a custom designed wedding dress for a very lovely bride. She invited us to her wedding on Saturday, which just so happened to be at the same place we're getting hitched next year. The dress looked great and I felt rather proud. Sunday we wound down at the local farmers market and got to visit with one of our favorite peeps, Sonja. She was visiting from Las Vegas. Here's some pics of our lazy Sunday at the market.

Farmer's Market at St. Phillips Plaze full of local goodies

Yummy baked goods from a cute French bakery. I was impressed with Neil's French accent- the baker not so much :)

Very tasty brew

Awesome Mexican Folk singer with a harp!

Me lounging by the fountain 

Another pretty fountain at the plaza

This is the biggest Bull Dog I had ever seen! 160lbs and sweet as a teddy bear. 

Beautiful flowers

Considering another pastry from the French bakery

Sonja and Neil (Amy photo bombing the background)

Local veggies

Wonderful soaps by Desert Oasis. We got a sea scrub, lemongrass and a lavender- I went a little crazy

More treats, and a refreshing strawberry lemonade

We brake for egg rolls!

He's cute even when he's eating

Demonstrating my egg roll technique

What did you do this weekend?

Hello Lovelies,

Please bear with me while I try to redesign my blog with little to no blog design knowledge. I am trying. 

In the meantime I realize I never shared the result of my art/fashion installation last April. Sadly I don't have a lot of pics of the installation as a whole, but I do have some awesome friends that were snapping pics left and right. The concept was about Juliet and her crazy ass family from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. I made dresses for each stage of Juliet's life and created corresponding paintings (I'll post those tomorrow). We then set up an installation for each painting/stage. It was a huge success! I kept hearing "I have never seen anything like this before" which made me feel like I had accomplished something good.

Fashion shows exhaust me and are so divided. There's the runway, you sit here, you watch for 11 minutes and you go home. I wanted my fans and customers to be able to interact a bit. To walk into a story already in progress. To explore. I'm not completely off runways mind you.

I hope you enjoy the pics provided by Jessica Vining and Jason Gorman.

What do you think? I think the girls look amazing!