Busy, busy!

I'm so stoked about my latest venture. Sooooo Stoked!
I really get in the zone when I'm designing fabric. It's about as close to a runner's high as I'll ever get. I'm not a great runner (to be honest, I'm more of a walker/trotter), but when I'm at my computer with the colors and the shapes, the patterns and the possibilities.... man! That is a high.
I spent part of last night gathering my thoughts about how I'm going to present this to my husband. He's probably going to need a fair amount of convincing, but I figure, if I really have my poop in a group, he might take it seriously. That's the hope, anyway.
I've made my lists of how I want to proceed, and I checked in with mom this morning so I'm not losing momentum. I've added more color options to the collection and I've scrapped the ones that stink. I adjusted a few to be more on trend with the colors I found on the projected trends for the next couple of years and changed the scale on a few of them to have more options. I was inspired by a blouse I saw Kyra Sedgwick wearing on a magazine cover, to really bring the scale down to a tiny size. Wouldn't it be killer if she wore MY designs on the cover of a magazine?
I'm going to go work on the garment designs now. Wheee!

PS - I got the swatches back for the Harriet Collection and the pink did NOT turn out. I'm going back to recolor them, however, some of the designs were fine and they are now available for purchase on http://www.spoonflower.com/collections/17669

Happy Harriet

A few years ago (2007) I was rocking my youngest son, and this little character came into my head. Her name is Harriet.

Hello!  My name is Harriet I've lots of things to say! I have got a different mood For each and every day! There are days when I am happy and days when I am mad and tho' I may get pouty I'm never, EVER sad! I'm naughty and I'm innocent (it cannot be my fault!) There are days I'm just plain loopy, Should be locked up in a vault! If you are emotional But don't know what to say, Get a different T-shirt For each and every day! Harriet(C) is the creation and property of Tracie Hodgdon   tracie@tracie-d-mo.com

I knew she was just a little scribble of a character, sort of like the "Little Miss" characters, only even more childlike. I started a little cafepress shop back then, but never really promoted it, because I've been a little backward about coming forward when it's something like this. No. Really.
Anyway, yesterday I was working on some designs for my Spoonflower shop (http://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/tequila_diamonds - see what I did there?) and came across Harriet in some of my old art files. I knew I had to bring her back when my older son, walked in and said, "Hey! I remember her. That's Harriet!" He was only about 4 when I created her, so that's something. So, here's the link to Harriet's shop where you can meet her in her many moods (there are 7, so you could, indeed, have one for each day of the week). She's pretty darned cute, if I do say so myself. Naughty Harriet is my personal fave, natch.

http://www.cafepress.com/harriet07

Also, coming out in July, I will have a collection of Happy Harriet fabrics on Spoonflower. Any profits made from the sale of Harriet fabrics on Spoonflower in the month of July and t-shirts on cafepress in the month of June will go to the National Autism Association, in honor of my wonderful, brilliant son, who is on the spectrum.