My own Project Runway challenge

In a way, I'm glad I wasn't cast for Project Runway. I tried out 3 times for Seasons 1, 3 and 4 and I was sad, but I cam home each time motivated to prove Tim Gunn and his people wrong about my designs. That and I always wanted to be recognized for my designs first and if I did cast, it would be like "oh you're the girl who was on PR Season whatever."

Honestly, I would miss my husband and my doggy too much to be away for too long. The good thing is that PR provided me with real criticisms that I was able to improve upon and give my designs a hard look. I think this provided me a good solid base to build my business from and I think it has worked.

I learned, if you are not where you want to be, change your mind set and change your situation. 2011 is my 3rd year of being self-employed on a full-time basis. When I first started, I was scared of leaving a stable income to do this on my own. Just in the last few months, I've had to be harsh on myself, look at my business from every angle and decide what more can I sacrifice or what more can I do. If it means having less of a social life so be it, it's better than the alternative of failing or being bored at home with nothing to do.

I think all my hard work is starting to pay off finally. I have been busy the last 4 months with my brides, fashion projects and preparing for some runway shows. I think I work better when it's complete madness and I have always said that I never wanted to live life bored. So here goes the social life until I am where I need to be.

For the next 5 weeks (I think that's roughly how long a season is) I'm going to complete 3 looks a week. I will post the gowns I am working on, so stay tuned. Since I am doing runway shows with Russian, Couture for Cancer and Retro Inspired themes, you will be seeing a lot of influences from those genres.

Here is the dress I finished last night, I am going to bead it today : ).