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Guidolfo

Have you seen the documentary, Being Elmo? It's fantastic. Very inspirational. If you have a Netflix account, go watch it right now.

In fact, it is so inspiring that....

While I was cooking dinner tonight, Isaac began to enumerate the many reasons why he would have made a great puppeteer. When I insisted it was not too late to become a puppeteer yet, he said, "Okay!" and headed into the other room.

After five busy minutes, he came back to the kitchen with a new friend—meet Guidolfo.

Hubbub & Hullabaloo

Apron and kitchen towel artwork is shipped out. Now I'm in a holding pattern, waiting to finalize two design contracts. Each correlates to a collection due on or around August 1st—two projects I'm excited to work on.

On top of that, Isaac's mom is on her way here from Washington. And we're moving into the expanded design space this week as well. It's going to be a wild two weeks.

Expanding

It's time to expand our workspace again. This time we're connecting two of our three home offices for better workflow. It's going surprisingly quickly. Isaac is the Incredible Hulk in there, tearing through walls, grunting, chewing on nails.

What a dusty, snarly, gratifying mess. There's insulation, wood, nails and sheetrock everywhere. Raaargh-yaw!

Isaac used to remodel homes back in college, so I'm in good hands. Of course, he did saw through some electrical wiring, leaving us without internet for a few days this week.

Everything is connected back up now—see those two gray junction boxes on either side of the passageway, with the wiring strung above?

The new sheetrock goes up today and then it's onto mud. We haven't decided what we're going to do with the wood floor yet, but we'll figure that out after we sweep up.

I plan to make this space into a pattern workshop down the road: sewing machines, cutting tables, dress forms, fabric stacks, thread. What I really need to do is host a talent search and get more help. So You Think You've Got American Sewing Talent?