Patterning!

So I've got started patterning for my Fall 2011 line "Rather Large Rodents" Its inspired, yes, by rodents. I wanted to call it "rodents of unusual size" but I thought that may get me in to some legal trouble! Theres 10 looks in the line 5 for women and five for men. although I realized yesterday that I have no Idea how to pattern for men so I'm looking on amazon for a good book. I plan on making a couple coats too which may be hard. I planned at first to show this line around graduation but found out that lines are typically shown in February for fall and spring is shown in September. So I've lowered the number of garments for fall to ten so I can get them done and I'm soing to start my after school career in September.

Recycled paper ornaments

I decided to use these colorful pieces of paper after finding outside wet from rain. Earlier that day a pipe under the sink had broke and leaked water in to the basement on to dirty laundry. I had asked little sis to take them out and hang them on the fence for them to dry while I cleaned the water up. She instead spread them around on the ground so when I finally got back out to puck them up they were frozen and I then found the paper and put it on top of the close in the basket. The next day Stylish Sis told me that I had washed a book with the close I washed I realized then that it was the same paper and that It was definitely time to put it to use. So the following is how you make paper ornaments like I made from well washed paper.

What You'll need

• Paper in the color of your choice

• Blender

• Water

• Screen

• Bucket

• Pitcher

• Pressing cloths

• Iron

• Ironing board

First collect colorful pieces of paper. If they've been printed on look to see if the ink is glossy and ever so slightly risen. This paper when blended the ink becomes black flecks in the paper that will affect the look of you paper.

Rip the paper in to small chunks and loosely put them in the blender till its 3 /4 full.

Add warm water till it covers the paper at least an inch. Then blend till its the consistency you like. Well blended makes less visible contrast colors light blending makes a colorful chunky paper.

Pore the mush into something that you can pore easy from.

Next you need to put your paper screen on something that can catch the water. Then look through your cookie cutters for the shapes you want.

Put the cookie cutters on the screen and scoop or poor the paper mush in to them.

Carefully pull the cookie cutters off the screen and move the screen on to a towel with some white cotton over it. Carefully flip the screen over and while the screen is still over the shapely paper mush press a sponge over them to get out all the excess water. Then remove the screen you may need to tide up the edges with a fork. You can fold the paper thats out of place back up on itself.

Then put another piece of cotton over the top of the ornaments. Press till dry. Then punch a hole in the top and thread a ribbon through the hole and tie.

Ta da!

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Oh no!

Ahhh all my etsy listings have expired! I need to get busy and put some things up! man.

Graduation Cakes

My mother graduated collage this year and I got to make the cakes!

She wanted the old logo on one of the cakes so I went on the hunt to find an Image of it so I could(I had my sis put it on the cake I was afraid of messing it up) get it right but like I suspected they have wiped its existence from the face of the earth. After paying lots of money for one to replace it I knew that would be the case. I took many photos of all the places I could find the logo to document it egsistance after i found out they got a new one.

Capri To Skirt

I bought myself a pair of Capris but didn't like the length of them so I cut off the bottom of them and made them in to a pair of walking shorts. With the part I cut off I made an extra small skirt.

I am posting it for sale on my Etsy
So check it out! :)

My Small Business

I'm looking to Start my own business soon so I thought I'd better start breaking things down.

I would love some feed back.

What I want to do

• Design Mens and Womens clothing (Draw pretty Pictures )

Where I want to sell

• Down town Moscow
• On line
• Small boutiques in other locations not owned by me

Who I want to hire to work in the shop

• University of Idaho students
• High school Students
• Well dressed Men
• The well dressed
• Fashionable people

What I want The employees to do

• Pattern
• Construct the garments
• Ship
• Website setup
• Research
• Design
• Photograph
• Model
• Learn/Have Exceptional work ethic
• Learn/Have Exceptional People skills
• Learn/Have Exceptional Communication skills
• Take what their learning in school and put it to use in the company
• Advertise
• Blog
• Become my competitors

What I want the Customers to get

• Ready made clothing
• Advice
• Custom garments
• Their designs
• Age appropriate garments
• Internet
• Coffee
• Personalized wardrobe

Target market

• Moscow Location
• College students
• High school Students
• Online
• The young with $

What I want to give my Employees

• Skills
• Experience
• Style
• Free Clothing
• An Opportunity to Advance within the company
• Internships
• Subscriptions to relevant Magazines
• Inspiration

What I want to promote

• Self Esteem
• Professionalism
• Morality
• Respect
• Decency
• Talent
• My name
• Individuality
• Gender Differentiation

After Easter

Mom Brought home two Easter ginger bread houses so us sisters decorated them today this is what mine and K's looked like!!!

Food safe mold

I'm so excited I'm making my very first mold. Its is an old cameo. I love it cant wait to see how it worked