presently experimenting with new magnetic closures for spring bags. presently very frustrated. seriously considering velcro! items coming soon…

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i’m closing the SWANclothing for a week starting this Monday… in preparation for spring and to make sure all your present orders will get out in time. it’s been an exciting time lately. and a challenge to keep up with the orders. i have some simple, hopefully beautiful ideas for spring. and have collected some fabrics i am also very excited about. it’s been quite a mission, through blowing snow often. though i do love the snow, here’s to spring!

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I have resisted buying an iPhone. But broke my cell phone on my recent trip here. Now I can’t close it?! Hard to deny the fact, that an iPhone would allow me to reload sales if I am out and about. Damn. The analog me, keeps getting fainter.

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it’s a talky.

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your modem is not your sewing machine pedal. so stop stepping on it with your fancy shoes!

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ok so my furniture hasn’t arrived. but i traveled with my sewing machine of course. a suitcase full of cables, powerbars, 2 hard drives, laptop, speakers, awesome cds by Jim, tripod, scanner, cameras. 3 bags of sock garter elastic [i’m here for you people]. wow. and 1 change of clothes.

so the SWANclothing sewing hint #1 for sewing in the big city, with no furniture, is- don’t wear tight jeans while using your sewing machine sitting on the floor. yup. challenging.

xo

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sorry, i disappeared into the sky for a moment. but have now landed in Toronto and am so very happy. with my bamboo floor and view of the skyline and subway riding. yey!

this pic is from back in the day, and in Toronto. but i used to wear that outfit a lot. the Bent Boys [who were 2 girls] gave me the dress or i bought it and those were my 60s platforms. and yes, garters. this would have been my 1st job actually. funny. i guess i was 15? it was shot on the lakefront here in front of the old bath house? ignore the ketchup smear. hmmm.

anyway, just wanted to say hi. hi :) and i’ll have a little shop announcement tomorrow.

xo

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a skirt from La Meow of the dreamy and fantastical clothes! frothy. lacy. see-thru. pale-blue. & teeny tiny pleats! i love it so much. and can’t wait to make an outfit with it. maybe something over black opaque tights or black lace tights, black ankle booties [whether the world tires of them or not!] and then some more black too… thank you La Meow!

followed by… The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton. an incredible book. so bright and insightful, so naturally spoken. but i don’t know if i can finish it. it’s too sad. i love this cover. and her dress.

and about moving… wow, to sort through a life! i want to bring as little as possible to Toronto. but it exhausts me to rank the things i own. and then of course to get rid of things responsibly. i mean i have the most wicked sticker collection ever! [i should give that to Jen…] and deleting data! data stored on old mediums- jazz disks? floppies? cell phones! how many old cell phones do i own? and do i want all these old photos? some of them make me want to cry. i cry! oh my goodness. sometimes i really feel that what i own, i just want to own it online, and share it. like photos on flickr. and if i want books i can get them from the library. music i can download, and so on. i get scared to think that one day i would wallow in memories instead of just live! but what if i forget? oh, i can barely handle this…

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just a quick note to say that my SWANclothing store is closing December 11th at midnight Pacific Standard Time. i will reopen again early 2010 boxing day (with sweet deals), and my fall/winter items will continue to be available then. you can sign up for notification of the store reopening through my SWANclothing store.

you can always contact me through this blog or my twitter/flickr/facebook pages, i will continue to use them over the holidays. or email me. i am always delighted (!) to hear from you and want to thank everyone for visiting me online and for your continued sweetness and enthusiasm.

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hi everyone. i just wanted to say thanks for the recent blog posts and tweets about the SWANclothing sock garters. i’ll be doing a proper “thanks all!” post and linkage soon.

and i’ve finally updated my LINKS section. which is now a mini links section on my sidebar, with a More… links section within the blog. i don’t know how ideal this is. visually i like it. morally?! not sure. i may revert back to bringing them all to the sidebar again, we shall see. feel free to chime in if you are happy or perturbed.

also, thanks for the people who are following me on my new SWANclothing Facebook page, and new Twitter followers. i feel like i am almost getting the hang of this tweets business.

and… it’s really my friends over at Bento Box who do all the updating around here. including the fabulous delicate reinterpretation of my banner, which was originally created by my sister Katie. this would be just a few of the many people on team Swan. and i wanted to say thank you!

that is an embarrassing amount of thank yous!

oh and thank you to my mom for this photo.

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