A LETTER...

Dear
Dream Deferred,
Not There Yet,
Instant Success Seekers,
Unmotivated,
Confused,
and Guidance Seeking,

In the short time that I've launched this clothing line I have had the privilege to encounter all of you. Many of you I have met in my own reflection or seen in people and I often battle to keep all of you within site but not at home. I believe that we as individuals, groups and communities have too much potential to let our dreams get deferred. I understand that sometimes life and fear gets in the way of creativity and innovation but at the end of the day you determine what will be the filler of your time in this space. Lately I've gotten asked many questions about the items that I make and I welcome all of them. A reoccurring theme in these questions is process, not so much creative process, but business process. Now I could easily print a nice hefty report of wholesale vendors, pricing, programmers, pattern makers, vintage fabric store, sewing machine repair shops, and general marketing advice etc. but that wouldn't help anyone. In fact it would be an utter waste of my time because this 'formula' works for me...so far. This isn't to say that it wouldn't work for another. What I'm trying to communicate is that there is no template for following your goals because after all they are your goals. Figure out what you want, and figure out how to get it. If you want a cookie from the jar, first you determine you want a cookie, then figure out how to get to the jar, figure out how to open it, reach your lil hand in , grab that cookie, pull your hand out the jar, bring it to your mouth and bite. That's they way I would get the cookie, what would you do?...hope that helps.

Chanel

ROOFTOP PARTY!

Bk in the summer is most amazing...

USPS SUCKS!!!

...for sending international orders. I spend half the day chasing down a frickn mail truck and none of them would take my box. It was going to Canada...and really boys and girls who would want to harm Canada? Any hoot this was the dilemma, once you print a postal label and pay for postage on the package it have to be sent out that day or the postage is void. Then you have to request a refund. Refunds take like a gabizillion yrs (14 biz days to be exact) to go through. Yadda yadda yadda. So I scheduled a pick up for today. Guess what? No pick up, the mail man delivers all this rubbish in my box and neglects to read the part in the request that says 'pls buzz..international order to go out to day' Frickn tardo! So I have to do the refund thing again...great another gabizillion yr refund. So I said screw USPS (for international packages, domestic is fantastic) and shipped it UPS and for cheaper! Hows that for shipping manager lesson #2. Lesson #1 was don't order boxes cuz USPS gives 'em to ya free. Wish someone had told me be for I ordered boxes from uline and spent almost $40 to get them shipped here.

You live, You Learn, You Laaaa-a-a-augh-Alanis Morsette

I'M SELLING MY BOOTY-FUL STUFF

SOMETHING TO MAKE YOU LAUGH PRT 1

SOMETHING TO MAKE YOU LAUGH PRT 2

NEW FOUND LOVE FOR WILLIAMSBURG

I must admit that I have (in the recent past) spent too much time hating Williamsburg...with all it's hipster scum. After yesterday, I discovered that I don't hate Williamsburg. I actually like it. Guess I'm getting reacquainted. I had a fantastic experience selling my items there. It was the very first time that I was in the 'real world' selling stuff. I met some of the nicest coolest people ever! It was a blast. What better way way to spend a summer day. I'll def be back!

AHH sell 2morrow in Willy B,BK

Okay so I'm a bit crazy....I'm gonna camp out 2morrow in williamsburg and sell my goods...kinda crashing the renagade craft fair...from the outside...so I'm scambling like a crazy person now...ahhhhhhh

No factory style laces allowed

Hey boo boo heads,
I was surfing the internets and came across this site in which this dude, Ian (he looks like the spawn David Hasselhof, Opi and Santa) and has diagrams of 31 different ways to lace yer shoes. Ian knows what's up! Peep game!

POOOOPY #4,5,6,

So I haven't keep up w/ my pooping but this is gonna be a medly of the last 3 days. It's a bit of a build up. As you can see I've been a bit uncomfortable til just a few minutes ago (hee hee)

SKATING!!!!

So I am still experiencing post traumatic stress syndrome from the closing of Empire Roller Skating rink in Brooklyn so ya'll could only imagine how happy I was when I found out about THIS (click to see all the deets)!!

VENDERIFFIC

Hi Ya internets Peoples,
I just got some amazing news! I've been selected to vend my goods at the Afro Punk block party. I can't wait. This will be my very first 'street action vending experience' so I'm very excited. I'm gonna bathe in sun screen grab my goods and a kiddie pool and just chill...and sell stuff too.

SUNDAY, JULY 1st
FROM 12—5PM
AFRO-PUNK BLOCK PARTY
Clinton Avenue between Myrtle and Willoughby

FREE!

Featuring:
DJ's Rich Medina
The Dustbin Brothers
Live Musical Performances by "No Surrender"

MYSPACE DUDES ARE CRAZIES

So most of you are like duh! Look, I know all about stranger danger, but I'm totally over these weirdo dudes who collect vagies (women) for there top friend buckets. I mean...no one believes you. Those girls don't like you...they just wanna be famous. Yer boys don't give you high fives for having the most vagies cuz well they have the same vagies too...losers!

In fact if one has ever randomly encoundered a myspace pal in person (not one you knew before myspace, a newbie). It's actually quite erry. I can't image what it's like for some weird pervie dude..."Hey gurrl...remember me? You posted your booty in my comments. Perhaps you'd like to have tea with me?"

POOP #3

My poor digestive system...this is poop # 3. I did have a nice poop before this one (a day before) but I forgot to take a pic. Pitiful huh?

THREADLESS HATES ME

Occasionally I'll submit a tee shirt design to threadless.com, but it usually gets rejected by there panel of judges and never even gets to get voted on. Sux huh? I think that the topics of the shirts may be too subversive. Last night I submitted this tee. Let's cross our fingers that they accept it. This tee is pretty much an ode to Brad Neely and his brain fugglers. The brain fuggles are characters that pretty much fuggle your brain when you aren't paying attention. They come from his Baby Cakes series.

THE ATTACK OF THE JESUS PARADE

Good morning...or urg afternoon. Many you had the pleasure of waking up to the sounds of summer...gentle birds twirping etc. Not me, I woke up to a freaking Jesus marching band parading down my street. The only issue that I have with religious enthusiasts is that I hate having belief systems shoved down my throat...or enter my blissful Saturday morning dreams.

I HEART THE NOISETTES

On Wednesday I went to a super fantastic show and met some super fantastic (thesaurus please) peeps. My 'bosom buddy' in Toronto turned me on to this UK group called the Noisettes. So when I checked to see if they were playing soon at a venue near me and hot potatoes they were. For all yalls not in NY, let me tell you the hassle it is to get tickets. First off its it's a club you have to RSVP via email to ensure that you get in free or pay a reduced rate. if it's a movie on fri or sat...fandango. I once went to see a 3a (that's right am) show of Spiderman 3 and it was sold out. What a bunch of freaks. Because it was so late/early. It's not like I could buy a ticket for another movie, use the potty and end up in the theatre I really wanted to be in the first place. Still, I refuse to buy tickets in advance, cuz after all what if Paul Monney shows up at my apartment and wants to have tea? What am i gonna do? Say, 'Sorry Mr. Mooney I've already purchased tickets of a lame ass movie or better yet an over rated concert". Nope not me I'm no body's sucka and i do things my own damn way. I knew the Noisettes tickets would sell out and there was a chance that I may not get in and have to cry myself home in my pretty concert ensemble, but that chance was slim. So I got to the concert and the door men at THE KNITTING FACTORY were being shitheads and making all 10 people out side stand in line...behind the red rope...not infront. Low and behold he's cattling Shingai and Dan (2/3 of the Noisettes). What a loser. So I start chatting it up w/ them and they are super nice and they put me on the guest list and I saw and amazing show. The Macabees were really good too, but you know where my heart is.

poop #1 YAY

Hi my friends, as promised I am keeping a dooky log. You've tuned into the first posting of this log. This is a healthy shit...not too soft not too hard. This was yesterday's shit.What was consumed you ask. This is the list -Unsweetened Tamarind -Portabella mushroom burger(whole wheat bun, sprouts avocado spinach and tomato)with organic fries -fresh juice: carrot, ginger, and apple -peanuts -2 hard boiled eggs w/ paprika sea salt and black pepper -Fresh juice: cabbage, lettuce, and broccoli

GO GO PENIS POWER!

I know that this absurd footage is pretty long but you have to get to the part when she talks about the heat and intensity in the penis that you can feel it radiating through there clothes. Knowledge is power. Wise up!

sucky non-poopy blogger

I'm such a sucky blogger! And the bad part is that I spend most of the day on the internets. O'well. Um happy 2007. I've been a busy beaver and have set up a store with stuff I make. i'll tell you more about that later.Most of it doesn't involve figurative shit but that's ok cuz I've been keeping a shit journal, for real. A real live document of poop. So if you have a weak stomach I suggest this be yer last visit to this site. I have a few reasons for doing a shit journal.

1. I'm a health conscious vegetarian who runs 3 miles 3 times a week and have the worst digestion ever. When i poop laxative free it's a really good day, spare your suggestions, flax seeds, active enzymes, soluble and non soluble fibers, Senna etc. You name it I've tried it and it works for a while and then, I'm stuffed up all over again

2. The metaphor of shit is perfect and a bit ironic for me. Most consider shit bad, it smells, and it mean your in trouble when your in it. For me shit is a really good thing. It means flowers. It means my bowels are clean and I'm a step away from colon cancer.

3. The last and final reason for the shit documentary is that I think I am suffering from a rare genetic mutation called Peutz-Jegher's syndrome. Oooh genetic mutation like one of the Heroes, nope not so lucky, can't fly, can't read minds and I can't poop. This mutation causes growths to form on the walls of small intestines causing blockage. Sux huh, So lately I've been a primarily liquid diet. Which isn't so bad. I work from home so after my morning jog I juice fresh fruits and veggies and hope that shit will come today. as part of the poop celebration I've started the journal.

Hope it doesn't gross you out too much