Nature and Design update!

Here's what I've been up to lately:

BBQ's and sundresses

                             
(Isn't this vintage jumper just fabulous? This owner , Tara, OWNS ITT!)

 Oh hi lindsay! I like your house!

My growing little container garden

 (Purple basil? oh sure, why not.)

 My Delphinium is at it's peak right now! It also has pastel lavender highlights!)

I'm making the block patterns for my upcoming new line of dresses and seperates for women. I'm excited to REALLY finally get rolling on this process. For now I'm only doing Small, Medium, and large..but that gives me quite enough pattern work to and fittings to do over the next month! 

(one of my future LBD designs to be made in woven and stretch knits!..S,M, and L)

Working on different fabric painting techniques to give more variety and uniqueness to future designs and to possibly sell by the yard. I personally dig this blood splatter on white leather and this  white checkered cotton. (I think Rachel, Game of thrones and my handwriting analysis of criminals book has inspired me!

This technique took way too long-but I love the result. I hand painted silk screen paint with a fine brush and did polka dots around these bows on some mustard poly crepe. 1 yard took me 4 hours!! I don't know if I'll do it again. But it was an experiment that turned out nicely, so I'll have to do small bags with it or something!

Gotta keep the designs under wrap, but so excited to show you all soon! 

Holy floral updates!

Because Washingtonians spend so much time talking about weather, and use it to good use when it shows up, I thought I'd join suit!  This random sunshine, rain, and watering has really done some good with my tiny garden!  Watching plants flourish instead of watching them and my $$ die is new to me! And super rewarding.

You can check out http://www.millievixen.com/2013/04/porch-garden.html to see some of the progress from a little over a month ago! 

Here are some floral porn:

This iris popped outta no wear in this awesome mexican pot that was given to me. Thanks Brenda (former inspirational porch gardener) and Chris!

                                       

                                           

 Lettuce! Will go in my stomach!  

I found this porcelain foot at a local estate sale. When I found it I was so overjoyed the lady gave it to me! (AND was totally weirded out when I told her I collect fake body parts and usually display them around my house. mmm..yeah. no seriously thanks lady!) 

 I didn't even know what a delphinium looked like before I bought the plant, but it has grown quite tall and can't wait for all the flowers to bloom! 

 End of the poppies...

This poppy plant has different colored flowers (yellow, red, coral, orange) from one plant! What the heck! I had no idea when I bought it (it was half dead on the sale rack!) and have never seen that before. If you know more info about this specifc plant, please share! Every time I walk past it, I am more delighted by it.

This little group of buds surprised me! When the white flowers were in bloom they looked a lot like the burgundy-ish "smoke" trees around here except white.

I fell in love with this pansy when I saw it! Orange/purpe and red/purple are one of my favorite color combinations. I always remember my little italian Nana chastizing me for pairing those together all the time. It always made me laugh! When I inherited her clothes years ago I got no purple or orange outfits.

Container Gardens are awesome. 

Enjoy Memorial weekend all! 

Mid sixties and it's Spray paint time!

I covet those days where it's neither too cold, too windy or hot for spray painting. Monday was one of those days.  Here's some progress:

This is soon to be the frame for our sign out front! I found this amazing hand carved wood frame at the old lady thriftstore in ballard. I always imagined black and love how it turned out. I think I might make it glossy...what do you think?

This hat I respray painted black because of sun damage. My lovely drag mother, Kindra, gave it to me before she left for New York years ago and I finally have an occasion to wear it! It will be dressed up a bit with some feathers and roses and vintage ribbon!   I have a VERY important tea date with some of my favorite ladies this sunday! ;) Pictures to come.

My camera box got golder:

This is my first test of fabric that I made! I used a layering painting technique (I practiced on some graphic photo prints you'll see below) and like the way it turned out! I'll be washing it and seeing how the fabric paint works on this greyish-beige cotton.   I have always dreamed of being a print/fabric designer so this is possibly one option for early manufacturing :) 

These paper prints will most likely turn into cards, hang tags, or business cards. I wanted to test out different colors, fabrics, and layering techniques, while also trying using my my stock of old sturdy magazines and paper products I really don't need around. If you like on in particular let me know! 

^one of my faves!

Favorites layers and babes below:

This was my favorite print of the day. I might even just frame it for myself or a friend! 

Questions: millievixen@gmail.com

Ciao, all!