coral & labels & stripes

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Everything feels a little sped up.  Or a great deal. But everything is great, and more news coming soon.  In the interim:

snippets:

I just brought a bunch of new colors and styles over to The Merchant Company.  Check them out if you are all the way over there on the other side of town!

 

new labels in my always-favorite color.  Buying a real batch of professional labels is something I’ve put off for a very long time, as it’s a big(ish) purchase that doesn’t directly relate to more revenue (or profit.)  But I’m thrilled with them.

and, the language of the month is….ITALIAN!  Actually, that was the one Daniel was happy to learn with me.  Plus, through vagaries of coincidence, many to most of our friends are of italian descent, and speak it in their own capacities ranging from fluent to broken.  C’è una lingua molta bella.

and more downeast images.  The most gorgeous cheese plate ever from The Lost Kitchen (Belfast)…Food per se is not on the immediate program, but one of the lovely sidelights of hanging out downeast.  (well, midcoast.)

 

 

vacation land.

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I love love love maine.  I can’t stand the weather february through april, but the rest of the time is great.

Was reminded on the importance of vacations last week, and how they don’t have to be expensive or huge time commitments to be rejuvenating.

Daniel and I just drove up the coast-  Camden in the off-season is cheap, but the full-time residents make great food options. (try Long Grain.  amazing. home made rice noodles/ authentic thai food.)  Camden is right in the center of several pretty, interesting, little towns:  Rockland, Rockport, Belfast, Lincolnville, and up to Bar Harbor.

With work across the street from home, it’s almost impossible NOT work if we stay home.  and so, for me to feel the tethers of the studio releasing, I have to travel sans computer.

but it’s worth it.

switching servers post.

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testing. 123

 

yeah, I just switched web hosting from yahoo over to webfaction.com .  Yahoo, where I’ve had my mail for years, has been functioning more and more poorly of late.  The mail has one of the most annoying bugs I’ve ever seen- (“temporary error 0″) that goes like this:

write an email.  several paragraphs of an email.  press send.  it attempts to send for several minutes, clearly not going to recover, and does NOT save a draft, meaning that those paragraphs have to be rewritten.

a second, frequent bug is the inability to save a draft, and the inability to send emails altogether.

since switching email is a headache I don’t want to even attempt to consider, this isn’t the point.  I have used yahoo as a backup hosting solution for a while now-  since paying for business mail (the @brookthere.com address) includes webhosting, whenever I have a crisis at another host, I transfer things back to yahoo.  BUT THEIR hosting is god-awful.  Slowest host I’ve ever seen.  Frequent inability to load page elements.

that’s today’s rant.  done.

 

 

the fantastique/ formidable collection.

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when I was designing this collection I kept thinking of this thing one of my dear friends had said-  ”when I wear your underwear sets I feel like a superhero!”  You know, I’m not totally sure what she meant, but that was somewhere in my consciousness when developing these new styles.  They are bright, they are high contrast, they are super comfortable, and they fit smoothly.

For the base fabrics, as always, I used either an organic cotton jersey, or a bamboo/organic cotton jersey blend.  Jersey knit fabrics have the best stretch/ recovery of the knit styles I’ve tried, and these have a small bit of spandex woven in.

The primary trim is a stretch silk satin-  92% silk, 8% spandex.  It’s a very high quality silk, with a beautiful shine.  It takes dye very well, resulting in brilliant colors.  I use low-impact fiber reactive dyes for many shades-  these are permanent, but non-toxic.

The bras are a slip on style with elastic in the back.  The wide silk band around the bottom fits smoothly around the ribcage, provides a little extra structure and support, and is as soft as can be.

the garter style is my favorite-  it slips on, meaning that there are no clasps for a sleek silhouette.

and the eye masks are the best!  excellent silk, matching colors, and wide straps.  I need eye masks whenever I travel, and was tired of the airline variety.

 

check out the whole collection online.  enjoy.