july 19, a sunday

trying something new is always a bit daunting, at least for me. it's not that i don't love the challenge--i do--but the prospect of failure creates a fear seemingly ingrained into my DNA. usually this fear is unwarranted--usually i come out the other side unscathed and exhilarated and all the better for the experience. but i know that life is not always like this. the paths we take, the choices we make--they don't always turn out for the best. still, we trudge on, thrive, even, and live to take on a new challenge and a new day.

i'm grateful for the opportunity to try. i'm grateful for the opportunity to make scary choices, to make, sometimes, mistakes; to live through everything and learn from it all. i'm grateful that i've elected to not always take the easy path, the path most blindly trudged--i believe i gain immeasurably from each wrong turn, each new discovery, each time i push myself to face and confront and overtake the scary route. it's the scary route--the challenging route--which gains us greatness, in the end. and greatness is something we should all aspire toward, in whatever capacity it is that moves us. 

my first sale!

today i made my first (and second) sale and it feels fantastic. wonderful in some outlandish, inflated way. i want to celebrate. someone else appreciates my vision! this validation, however tiny, feels priceless.

i love everybody.

The Virgin Suicides

The premise was a daunting one: how to start a capsule collection around a film which ends, ultimately, in great tragedy. The Lisbon girls lived in a time of enourmous social change and excess, a time in which the sweetness of childhood, of girlhood, of coming-of-age was lost in the fray much too quickly. The repressive actions of the girls' overly protective parents served only to cage them and prevent any sort of natural transition into their tenacious environment, ending, of course, in rebellion and their eventual demise. The demise of beauty. Of purity and grace. Of innocence and the happiness inherent to simple things.

In the film, their suicide was a mutually agreed-upon revolt against everything ugly, negative and consumptive in the world.

In my collection i chose to focus on the lasting, inherent and ethereal beauty and grace of these girls.  In spite of their toxic and tumultuous environment, they remained as beacons of hope to those taken by them, even after their untimely demise.  There's something gorgeous about that, something telling. In each of our lives we seek out these tiny moments of beauty to propel us along through the drudgery and frustration that can be the meat of the average day to day.  Here's hoping that this collection brings a bit of beauty into your life, as it's meant to.  

May 30th, 2015

excepting the items for sale, BLBP goes live today. it's a huge step, and a welcomed one after the countless hours that have gone into its creation. future patrons and the otherwise curious will be able to see highlights from my first collection, Lux, inspired by the Sofia Coppola masterpiece and cult film The Virgin Suicides. they'll also be able to get a sense of the look and feel of the online shop, and they'll learn a little bit about me, too. here's to hoping that each and every one of them likes what she (or he) sees. here's to the start of a fantastic relationship between myself and all of you.  and at the same time, here's to making the world just a little bit prettier.