Now that I have officially survived the holiday season and the start of the new year I am going to be focusing on my projects with a renewed vigor. My resolutions have been two fold, first is to work on my health, eating, exercising, taking time to generally make my body and mind a priority. The second part of the resolution is to build my business. I have started by getting in touch with several agencies that will help me start all of the legalese required to have a business. (Here I was hoping that seven years of college would be enough, shows that you can always learn something new.)
The holiday season was good to me, I was able to see my Aunt and Cousin from Denmark, all of my friends in Michigan, some from Chicago and a slew of my Michigan-based family. Greetings to all of you from down here in Sunny (but unseasonably "cold," O.K. so we have had frost 3 times this week, when you have palm trees that counts as cold) Florida.
In addition to the joys of seeing everyone and visiting home there were other benefits to Michigan including snow and having my work put into Trillium Art Gallery in East Lansing, MI. Stop by and talk to Kali, the owner, if you are in the area. She specializes in local artists and Fair Trade, since I have worked with her for going on ten years she counts me as a local still.
This past week marked my first Florida retail venue, a big mile stone to check off on my business plan, I now have a small selection of scarves at Catai Trading at Wilburn's Inc. in Dania Beach, Florida. In Caryn, on of the owners, I found a kindred taste, her shop is a lovely combination of international fabrics, vintage costume jewelry, sculpture and assorted antiques. My heart was won over by the comfy couch, piled with Indian silk pillows draped in fabric situated in a window over-looking the street.
Yet more good news for the budding business; I was able to make enough sales over the holiday season to order more supplies, they just came in today! I am thrilled with the quality, gorgeous stuff, heavy silk charmeuse that feels like butter, luxurious mat-finished crepe de chein, gauzy silk chiffon and more acid etched beauties in both satin and velvet. My mind brims with ideas for turning these into finished pieces. So keep your eyes open for some very exciting new material in my Etsy shop in short order here.
Here is an example one of the previous batch of crepe de chein scarves to tide you over until I have new pictures to post:
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