Full of It

Great ideas, that is! Yesterday even though the craft show was a stinker, I had lots of time to crochet and think through some new ideas I have for my business and my shop. I have always had a hard time confining myself to one style in dressing, decorating, or creating. That's part of the reason I took forever to come up with a name for my shop! But I have reached a reasonable conclusion: my shop needs to be organized into collections, and there are three headings that my pieces can all be classified under. I hammered this out yesterday.

The first one is the Huntress Collection. The key phrase under that is "Indian Rockstar." That's my inspiration. Wild, tough, earthy-- components like feathers, textured yarns, bone, shell, semi-precious stones, organic shapes. For colors think sage, rust, warm greeny blues, browns.

Then there's the Art School/Prima Donna Collection. Shiny retro pop funky loud. Shapes are layered circles, elongated sharp rectangles. Items in bright pure colors, lots of black and white, graphic prints; components: lucite, faux fur, smooth cotton yarns, metal, glass.

The Antiquarian Collection is vintage cultured old world richness. Opulence is key. Ruffles, interesting details, embroidery, varying proportions, lots of texture. Lace, antique hardware, leathers, textured yarns, textual elements incorporated.

I was telling Tom about this and he laughed at me because he says I get all excited over these things. Like the Indian stuff. He's noticed my preoccupation. But artists get obsessive over things, and I'm fine with that! Tomorrow I plan to take pictures of some of my stuff and start posting. I would like to find a model, and there are some girls at the high school I've noticed that are unusual looking, the look I want. But I think they might be freaked out if I asked them for such a thing. Plus I can't really pay them. Ah, well. I'll figure something out!