Last post 174 days ago! Yikes.
So sorry, kittens! I WILL try hard to blog more often. I HAVE done a better job of keeping some commentary going on the Dresed Up Cat's Twitter (@DressedUpCat) and on my Facebook page. (If you aren't in Facebook, you can just go to my homepage,
www.dressedupcat.com, where you can also see my commentary from Facebook. )
I'm getting ready to enter the upcoming Independent Handbag Designer Awards in New York--have a few pieces in mind but no final selection yet. What do YOU think I should pick? I'm partial to a new series I have featuring shells. Shell Shock, Shell Game....... My biggest success with the Awards was in 2008 as a finalist with "Summertime". SUCH fun! In fact, I want to savor that just a little more--will you indulge me please?
Here I am again, at the Awards show at the New York Historical Society hall in NYC, June 16, 2008, with my entry "Summertime", which was selected as one of 5 finalists for "Best Green Handbag". That year, the second for the awards, received over 600 entries from all over the world for the 5 categories! Since then, Emily Blumenthal, genius creator of the awards, has picked up mega name sponsors like InStyle magazine, Swarovski, Timberland, Vitamn Water and others. This year's Iconoclast Award will go to Peter Dooney of Dooney Bourke. Who DOESN"T love their lush, delicious workhorse bags. The year I was there the Iconoclast went to Judith Leiber, who I had the thrill of meeting! Any otehr indy designers out there seeing this? Throw your hat--make that BAG--in! It's great fun!
handbagdesigner101.com/ihda 
Have some other goodies up my sleeve, including some new distribution avenues, and soon hope to have news on the possibility of the first book of my bags, along with their limericks, of course. What do you think? Thumbs up? Thumbs down? Great idea? Lame? Let me hear from you!
Thanks so much for your interest in my work.
Know that I wish you All the Best!!!