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  • Black, White, and Read All Over

    ByHeather Bailey

    June 25, 2009 Arizona Republic I always forget to post these things, but not today.

    Check out the big ol' cover story
    in today's Arizona Republic newspaper — on me.  In the article photos,
    I'm talking it up in my studio, one of those mid-sentence
    shots.  They wanted pictures of me working in my authentic environment. 
    However, the studio was clean when they came.  Yes, I insisted on
    messing up my desk — authentically.

    HeatherandMom Another big article I never mentioned was a feature on me and my mother
    over at Creating Keepsakes last month – for mother's day.  My mom is a
    funny writer.  You should at least read her interview if not both of
    ours.  Click the 'next' button to read through each page of the
    combined interviews (there are 5 pp. total).

    Sending out the June newsletter
    momentarily.  Any minute now.  It's like 5 blog-posts worth of good
    stuff.  That's right.  Then back to the sewing pattern I'm designing — and
    loving.

    (Sign up for the newsletter here if you like.  But hurry.)

  • Smoochy Pops

    ByHeather Bailey

    Valentine09
    Valentine's
    Day is even better when it falls on the weekend.  No
    school-night-date-night conflict and there's time to have fun with the
    kids as well. 

    I've been working on some interesting design
    projects this week.  It drives me crazy that I can't show sneak-peeks. 
    Some of my contracts actually prohibit me from letting the cat out of
    the bag – or the hen out of the haystack, to start a new cliche.  While
    I'm plugging away on product-design, I'm working on package design as
    well — and I love it — I love designing boxes.  My inner engineer
    gets the baton.

    Perhaps next year, I can make some funky, 3-D
    valentines for folks to download and get those folds, flaps, tabs and
    tucks out of my system.  I wish I had thought of it last week, but was
    mightily engaged in the storm of drawings and prototypes strewn across
    the studio.

    I'll make a note.  Till then, here's wishing you a
    Happy Valentine's Day weekend! Go smooch someone cute, or someone
    sweet, or someone cute and sweet. Or eat something cute and sweet if
    you have no one to smooch.