Goodbye Fabric Books!!

A few weeks ago when I decided to clean out my office and paint, that meant I had to carry hundreds and hundreds of fabric books out of the room. UGH!! This is a very long and tedious process. Over the past year I have collected quite a collection of fabric and trim books. Some of them I use ALL the time and others I had to knock dust off of. It got me thinking about my fabric needs and how little space I really have in my office for shelves of books. While it is nice to have such a selection of amazing fabric books, I just don't NEED all this stuff!! It was time to make some hard decisions. I had to part with some of the books!!! This is really hard for me as I LOVE fabric and having it surrounding me in my office is truly inspiring. However, I felt like the walls were closing in on me!! After looking through 100's of books, literally, I ended up with only one shelving unit full of books!! Its amazing and my office is HUGE now!! I love it!! And I am left with the books I use the most and still inspire me!!


If any of you are looking for fabric or have a fabric that is "to the trade only" please let me know!! I would love to help you out!!! What good is being "the trade" if I can't help people out!!!

Working in the Gym...WORKING, not working out!

Sometimes when I am designing a fabric palette for a client, I need to remove it from my office so I can really see what it looks like. I am surrounded by so many fabrics, colors and chaos in my office, sometimes, I just need to step away and get a new perspective. Today I found myself working in our home gym. I'm not really sure what prompted me to go there, maybe the sunlight from the window, the simplistic (or non-existent) decor, I have no idea. But I really had a revelation while working in the gym. I have really been struggling with the color combination I chose for a client. I just couldn't get the window treatment fabric to look the way I wanted it to with the chair fabric. But today it clicked! I am so excited to show my client what I have come up with! I think they will really like it!! I had some great inspiration in the gym today! Where do you go to get inspired??