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The good news here in the tropical land of children’s clothing is that the World of HOPE response rate is up. I guess some people heard my plea for humanity! And the people who respond are open minded and full of life. Thank Goodness, because those are the only type of people I want to work with!

The partner-up news: It’s a real challenge. The people that are really interested are full-on business people and frankly the older the men are, the scarier they are. It’s really hard

Read more... | Published: 10/11/08

Okay I’m disillusioned here in the world of children’s clothing. Actually I’m pretty disillusioned with people in general. If you’re reading the blog you may or may not have seen HOPE’s new campaign called World of Hope. In a nutshell HOPE is setting up a program for retailers where we will send product at no charge, with no obligation. All we ask is that the product goes on a rack so that customers can buy them if they like them. If items sell, then the retailer pays – oh and I

Read more... | Published: 10/10/08

Okay so the last painful photo shoot of the autumn children’s clothing is finished, along with a few photos of clothing for mom and dad! (Men and women) Let me just say that knee-length boots in the tropics is quite comical!

So the photos were under our belts on Sunday. Monday we walked into a computer place and had the slide-show done within 30 minutes. Now we’ll probably wait for three weeks for someone to flip the switch or put in the right code or whatever it is

Read more... | Published: 10/06/08

Because the tropical autumnal photo shoot was a disaster due to an uncontrollable climate, we rescheduled. Because the children were far from enthused by the idea of another afternoon of photo attempts, we bribed them. HA! Actually we even let them pick out their clothing and take photos with whichever friend they wanted to. No hassles, we would make it work. We talked about how fun it was going to be all morning and got them all psyched up. Minutes before everyone arrived Deva came strolling down the stairs grinning from ear-to-ear. “Mommy,”

Read more... | Published: 10/03/08

So when you live in the tropics and you design children’s clothing and you plan a model shoot for your winter line, make sure the power doesn’t cut out. It makes for hot, sweaty, irritable crying kids and really, really bad photos like this: “Dad, I’m boiling!”

Yep try dressing your kids in a turtle neck, tights, corduroy jumper w/ cotton apron, put them in a steam room and then ask them to be cute and smile. Trust me, ice

Read more... | Published: 10/01/08