Even as I left Florida~

So say hello to the new addition to the Alexander and Laika Collection. As you can see the exhaustingly bright sun of Florida has bleached my creative influences and caused me to design of beige purse that I am quite fond. Citrus, palm prints, and sun. That's the reason why I named this purse Florida.

And now for a song(not that it's at all related I just like it)

to listen---> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bTjjS_palc

to understand what the hell he's saying heres the lyrics

"Florida"

Although we often wondered
It was no thing of wonder
The shit that flew from our minds
Grass stains and fresh fruit
Reminds our shoes of horse glue
On this ridiculous climb
With great tunnel vision
We built ourselves a mission
To ride out motives decide
Oh, with vague description
Of what we have been missing
So why would anyone try?

It was always worth it
That's the part I seem to hide
And the busy ant empire
Put all your clothes inside

I wasn't always cargo
I was once kind of my own

I guess I'll pack up my mind
It took so much effort
Not to make an effort
Oh, what a flawless design

It was always worth it
That's the part I seem to hide
And the busy ant empire
Put all your clothes inside

Even as I left Florida
(yee-ha)

It was always worth it
That's the part I seem to hide
And the busy ant empire
Put all your clothes inside

Even as I left Florida
Far enough, far enough
Wasn't far enough

Couldn't quite seem to escape myself
Far enough, far enough
Far from Florida
We were all drowsing in cruise control
Far enough, far enough
Wasn't far enough

I stood on my heart supports thinkin'
"Oh my God, I'll probably have to carry this whole load."
I couldn't remember if I tried
I couldn't remember if I took my brain out, threw it so directly a the goal
I couldn't remember if I...
I could have my mind erased
And still not know exactly what I don't already know

Even as I left Florida

The Jacqueline Dress

This is perhaps my most favorite dress so far. It was inspired by the very girl whos wearing it. Ive just always really liked her look and if I could sum that up with her personality it would be this dress. Her name is not Jacqueline however, I named the dress Jacqueline because the Franz Ferdinand song of the same name inspired a sort of romanticism of the name. The dress seemed best suited for the name so thats what I used.

It should be obvious by now that everything I do is inspired by music at least a little bit. I swear its not intentional. I don't name anything until after its done. I have to see it in its final form to decipher what best sums up it in a name.

As usual I put up a post on my fan page so go check it out and click the like button to become my fan! http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rock-the-House-Clothing/125433577530068

NEW DRESS!

I just made a new dress that I have named The Xavia Dress. Its a slightly more edgy style than the others you have seen so far. The name was inspired by yet another song, Xavia by the Submarines.

I really do adore the model for this dress. Her name is Dyana and she is a spunky wonderful woman who just happened to have the perfect look for this dress as I am sure you can tell by how wonderful she looks in these pictures. Dyana if your reading this thanks a bunch!

FAN PAGE LAUNCHED!

Hello guys I just launched my snazzy new Facebook FanPage for Rock the House! I am quite excited to drum up some fans. Here is the link

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Rock-the-House-Clothing/125433577530068?sk=app_190322544333196

My new Spring/Summer line The Alexander and Laika Collection is underway and here are a few looks from it.

It's a very whimsical line and one of my secret inspirations for it is the album Funeral by Arcade Fire and more specifically their song Neighborhood #2(Laika) where I borrowed both the names in the line from. What I love about that song and the album is the beautiful combination of adventure and whimsy that I feel when listening to it. It's a strong inspiration in my work for this line.

SHOP!

I have gotten around to putting a few things up on Etsy. Theres only one of each with the exception of one item so you better not wait!

http://www.etsy.com/shop/Briannin?ref=seller_info

The Harriet Top

Tada, new shirt. This time I'm showing you a few work in progress pictures as well, unfortunately they uploaded in descending order and I'm in too much of a rush to fix that. So this is all you get today but I'm sure the pictures speak for themselves anyway. I gotta go now, my friends impatiently waiting to get dinner.

Playing a Little Catch Up

I can now show you the sweet fruit of my horrid and exhausting month of October and what Ive been up to so far in November.

Lady Gaga Caution Tape Body Suit.

Doing this was no easy task. I first had to make fabric out of a role of caution tape by sewing together pleats and cutting those up to sew them back together as 5" rotated squares for one side and for the other sewing unpleted strips of caution tape to pleated strips. Then I called my unsuspecting client over and kept her 3 hours where I literally formed the entire thing around her. I cannot explain how I did this, all I know is it was done under the apparently effective cocktail of stress, desperation, exhaustion, and determination. The next day, I put in the zipper and satin lining(without any patters, also dont know how I did that) and she picked it up later that night.

HUZZAH! FINISHED!

She did her wig and wrapped the caution tape around her head and leg and such and apparently this website(name on the bottom left of the picture) snapped a photo of her. Needless to say she was very happy, and so was I because I stuck it through to the end and I MADE IT BABY!

The very next day I went to the Fun. concert(check em out, their newbies with tasty talent) rather exhausted but happy I had time to enjoy myself.

Also I went out and bought clay, I love sculpting little things. Ive been meaning to do this to make wall ornaments and other things and then I found myself making what is soon to be a necklace.

Its all foresty, mushrooms, logs, squiggly green plant things. I need paints though, its a work in progress.

Then I sold a few Megan Tees I needed to get rid of, I put em on sale. I dont believe Ive showed this before but the first time a customer buys something from me they get a unique cloth shopping bag with my logo on it. Heres two examples.

AND IVE JUST FINISHED A NEW SHIRT LAST NIGHT!

My model will be coming tomorrow and Ill show it then. I also got the whole work in progress in pictures to show you(drafting, pinning, cutting)

Well thats it, were all caught up to the present now. Check back tomorrow for the shirt : )