I heart the 80's

Today I came across an image that instantly brought me back to my youth. These satin braided ribbon barrettes were all the rage when I was about 11 or 12. I spent countless hours at the Rockville Centre Woolworths buying satin ribbon with my allowance.

These were the days when my friends & I could walk to town & back by ourselves. Crazy to think I could spend spend an entire afternoon buying stickers, window shopping, looking at parrots (Parrots of the World), sorting through albums at Record World & getting some fro yo at Rainbow Yogurt. I feel old. I miss those self-indulgent times.

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Here is a little tutorial in case you are old like me and forgot. I totally plan to on making these with my little girls ASAP!

http://remarkablydomestic.com/2010/05/13/remember-these-80s-braided-ribbon-barrettes/

Too much. Too soon.

A little update on the Nordstrom order:

After countless rounds of sampling...I am not at a place where I feel comfortable proceeding. I had to make the sad decision to cancel the order yesterday. I am totally feeling sorry for myself & wish I could have kept my big (excited) mouth shut until it was "real".

I am trying to be hopeful I can get to a place where it will work.

Helping Japan

Tamiko is available in my shop. All proceeds will go to the Red Cross in efforts to help Japan.

Hold please...

So..imagine you have this product that you designed and developed and people really seem to like it and want to buy it. You can't do it all yourself, but then you get this big, amazing order & you can finally justify having someone else make the product for you. You spend months sampling with a factory only to find out they just can't meet your expectations.

That's kind of where I am at. ;(

Stay tuned...