LOVE - I N S P I R A T I O N

My life would be empty with out inspiration.  I see photographically, meaning pretty much everything looks like a photo to me.  I see shapes and forms, mentally crop and take note of the quality of light.  I am inspired by the colors of Santorini, the beach, high fashion, costumes, history, music and much much more.  Back in the day I would make inspiration boards.  Hours and hours of  going through my magazines and ripping  out pictures of things I liked, wanted to be or goals I wanted to reach.  I would pin them to a cork board that hung in my room.  Everyday I would look at my 'inspiration board' and visualize what it was that I was inspiring to be or do.   Now a days there's a little website called Pinterest that I am totally in love with. Pinterest is a virtual pin board.  It let's you organize and share all of the beautiful things you find on the web.  Pinterest has totally opened me up to a whole new inspirational level and I can't get enough!  Check out my boards and if they inspire you make your own.

xxoo,


Windsor

BIKINI - D E S I G N

Today is a red letter day.  I am going to San Francisco and having some fabric printed that I designed.  When I was in high school, my crazy art teacher that no one respected told me I should think about going into textile designs based upon some abstract paintings I did.  I thought she was C U C K O O - textile design?  What the hell was she talking about?  I had no idea and I couldn't  grasp the concept because when I was in high school digital did not exist. I would have had to take a slow boat to China, have fabric molds made, dye lots created and many many strike off 's shown to just get 1 yard of final fabric.  Then a few years ago at work we started digital fabric printing and I managed production for small fashion designers based in SF, LA and New York.  I was in heaven and my art teacher's comment came rushing back to me as I saw what the possibilities were for "textile design."  No slow boat to China for me, it was at my finger tips and I started designing like crazy.  Now I have swatches and yardage and color charts strewn upon my work space like a big beautiful fabric bomb exploded.  So, off I go to the city today, dropping off files, picking up some suits from my seamstress and having lunch with my friends overlooking the San Francisco Bay.  Ah life is good.