Well I’m glad you liked my dress last post. I’ve got to tell you that no it wasn’t specially made for me, although I agree it does look like it was!

I’m conveniently a sample size (although I am way shorter than the average model, my body parts do fit into dresses quite nicely). Trousers are another matter and I need mine turned up big time if I buy anything from a sample sale!

Anyway, I’m finding it hard to buckle down to work this week because those Christmas Jingles keep setting me off.

Besides presenting fashion shows, I work from home quite a bit when I’m writing or consulting.

This week it is dangerous because I have left myself so much to do. And when I get writer’s block, writing those (already late) Christmas cards are a tempting distraction.

Or of course I blog too in the vain hope that I will shift something and return to my project with renewed vigour.

Not so today.

You see I am currently creating my range for Simply Be, which has, I’m delighted to tell you extended now into sleepwear, swimwear and footwear as well as daywear and partywear.

I have two days left to put the autumn winter collection for 09 to bed and although I have a lot in my head, I am yet to get it down on paper.

What does help is looking at the fabric I chose earlier in the year. Here is me inspecting the designs of a company called Print Tank, they have a bursting suitcase full of fabric pieces like the ones I’m looking at here.

That’s the thing that gets most designers great and small started because it’s the print and the patterns that suggest ways in which the garment can appear.

In fact textile designers are the unsung heroes of the fashion world because they are the ones that instigate the latest trends.

Of course my choices are commercial because I work for a commercial company, but designers like Issey Miyake are really breaking new ground with their fabric technologists who create materials with new properties.

If I could find my camera, I’d show you the fabrics I chose but then that would be another marvellous distraction wouldn’t it?

I’m on to me!!!

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2. Clothes!
3. There are times when life is just too glamourous for words.
4. A little present to yourself
5. This week I am mostly wearing…part 3