Well, it was pretty smooth getting from point A to point B with this yoga bag. I’m excited to try other color combinations & a little embellishment here & there in the future. Not exactly sure where this one’s home will be, but stay alert… I’ll tell you when I know.

Second yoga bag is half done. I’ll have it available for sale either on etsy or at subdivision soon.

Thank you, NaBloPoMo for mucking up the blogosphere with more irrelevant, blogging-for-the-sake-of-blogging posts than usual. And why exactly do we need new posts every day of November? Le blogosphere does not have a shortage of (relevant or irrelevant) posts, so it’s not like, say, writing a letter every day of the month so you can remark upon what it used to be like “back then.” No… blogs are now & not in short supply. The only hope I have is that by purging oneself of posts for 30 days, maybe the toxins will float away & the December posts will be amazing, concentrated, intelligent writing the likes of which haven’t been seen since Paris in the 20’s. I happen to know that that’s mere fantasy, for if it were true, this here post would be pure gold, due to the purging of my thoughts since my last post on October 4th. Oh well.

(Oh, and one more piece of advice. I wouldn’t recommend sounding out the “word” NaBloPoMo for the fun of it. At first it’s a nice little word game solitaire but soon you’ll find your brain intoning it in the little crevices between thoughts. Before you know it, you’ll hear it in your head and just when you assume you’ll have another normal thought you’ll just think, NaBloPoMo and then you’ll kind of see the word floating in front of you like a screen saver and you’ll hear it again until you have to physically shake it off. Not good for the blogosphere or the head are you, National Blog Posting Month.)

What else have I been doing besides crafting in my head a bitchy blog post about blog posting? Mostly work at the wine store, but also some studio time & a lot of designing. I’m kind of a fuck up in that I have pretty low stock, a low amount of supplies and three projects in the design stage even though I’m 9 days from the biggest buying season of the year. What better thing to shoot than your own foot, I ask you? So I am currently looking for twenty dollar bills on the street to help me pay for some lining and then I’ll be set to sell plenty of interesting accessories sometime in mid January after everyone has bought all they could buy and put their wallets away until April.

I just finished the yoga bag and I’m just about ready to bring the new pieces from the design world into the real world. I’m probably going to do a line of mini-v.5 bags and more Cordura c2 bags.

I had both Tuesday & Wednesday off completely this week, so I decided to spend the whole time doing studio work. I have a lot of little projects waiting for attention and a lot of little tasks that I need to work on, so I was looking forward to crossing things off the list. But as soon as I got to the studio on Tuesday, I could tell it was going to be a battle all day. I just couldn’t think much… I had the dumb. So I moped around a bit and then worked on some other geeky projects that have nothing to do with ish (fixing a couple x-ray light boxes… yay! and at least stuck out my time there, hopefully exorcising some of the demons. Well it worked. Wednesday was start-to-finish what a typical day at the studio should be like. Days like that make me believe that I could spend days on end in the studio, though I know half of the days would be like Tuesday. I really wanted to tackle a new project, so I made a Cordura version of the c2 bag. I considered starting the backpack, but I don’t have enough fabric to justify that right now. I am really happy with the way the c2 came out, but I’m even happier that I was able to start & finish it completely within a day. I built it as a no-frills prototype with no external pockets & absolutely no decorative elements at all, both things that slow down the process a little bit. Overall it is a good achievement to balance out the underachievement of Tuesday.