Shop Open!

Yes!
The Shop is now open for business. There are a small quantities of ready-made items available to ship immediately, and I will be taking a number of custom orders for select items.

It is definitely Holiday Sale season! These are a couple I'm planning to attend. Cheryl is showing her work here:

Hadley and Clare are showing their work at this sale:

...along with so many of the women (in addition to Clare) Jeana has featured on her Closet Visits!

* Thanks to Mallory, Anne-Marie, Kate & Jeana for mentioning my work on their blogs.

Have a great weekend!!!

**NOTE: Apologies- I've had a problem today with shipping fees being charged on the Big Cartel end of things. I believe this error should be corrected by now. Rest assured, shipping is FREE and once I receive your payment I will refund you ASAP for any shipping fees charged. Sorry for any confusion or inconvenience :)

ERMIE Lookbook!

Here it is! The ERMIE End of the Year Collection.
Go to the Shop (which will open tomorrow, Friday 12/ 3/ 10 10:00 am PST ) for additional photos, details and pricing.

The Fire Season Shift Dress

The Bling Print Knit Dress





The Magic Marker Print Shirt Dress




The Fragment Print Shift Dress



The Bokeh Print Shirt Dress




The Bling Print Knit Top and
The Electric Garden Print Short Skirt





The Mariposa Print Long Skirt




The Magic Marker Print Shift Dress



The Bling Print Silk Scarf

All Photographs by Jeana Sohn.

Model: Carlee Fernandez.

Textile Designs © Jennifer Parry Dodge & Tomory Dodge 2010

Special Thank-you's :

To Jeana Sohn who did an amazing job with the photography for the lookbook.
To Carlee Fernandez for being the perfect model & muse for the clothing, and a good sport to boot!
To Katie Hanburger of The Slow Season for designing the new ERMIE logo, business cards, hang tags, and garment tags.
To Irma Paz, the talented seamstress I have been working with, for all of her hard work with making my crazy visions a reality.
To my husband, Tomory Dodge, who co-designed both the Magic Marker Print and the Fragment Print. I definitely would not have been able to pull this off with out his patience and generosity.
To Cate Wood and the Wood family.

To you, my blog readers and supporters!

A few notes:
Shipping will be FREE on this collection, but because this is literally an end of the year collection, and many of the items will be made to order by hand, I unfortunately cannot guarantee arrival of items by Dec. 25th. See this page for details.

5% of profits from the sale of each item will be donated to charity.
The charity selected for this collection is the American Cancer Society, in memory of Alice Veronica Wood.

Thanksgiving Weekend

After hosting Thanksgiving, we took the train down to San Diego for a couple of days with our good friends Gian, Sandra, and their son for some R & R.

**The Shop should be open sometime this week. I'll be offering free shipping to anywhere in the world :)

Keep Feeling Procrastination *

Above: Image from "More Last Minute Gifts" by Joelle Hoverson.

Above: Chanel. Image via the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.

Above: Both Balenciaga. Images via the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.

Above: Chanel.
Below: Frances Denney.
Images via the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute.

* with apologies to Joanna ;)

OK-- the Thanksgiving Holiday is almost upon us, and the title of this post is a slight exaggeration, (but not really). I did brave Food Hole - whoops- I mean Whole Foods yesterday to pick up the 20+ plus pound bird that we will attempt to cook tomorrow for 12 adults and several kids, and entertain house guests the past couple of days, and enter data into Big Cartel for the shop, etc. etc.

BUT- I am also addicted to procrastinating from all the cooking and cleaning that must happen by posting images from the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute to my Tumblr (above are some Christmas-y/ Holiday images from the Met I decided to post here), and making these little bracelets also pictured above (which may make their way into a couple of ERMIE orders as surprise gifts) based on the Seed Stitch Bracelet project from More Last Minute Knitted Gifts.

I wanted to tell you, too, if you are in the Los Angeles area about this Holiday Sale going on Sunday featuring the work of Katie and Julie from the Slow Season. I may not be able to make it- but maybe you can!

Happy Thanksgiving!!

Light

Textile Designs © Jennifer Parry Dodge & Tomory Dodge 2010

Good light the last day or so. Soaking it in.

Thank-you Ursula and Natasha for the lovely Lookbook Preview mentions on your blogs!

ERMIE Lookbook Preview

All Photographs by Jeana Sohn

Model: Carlee Fernandez

Textile Designs © Jennifer Parry Dodge & Tomory Dodge 2010

In my post yesterday, I said that Jeana was professional to work with, fun, takes amazing photographs...add efficient to that list! Within a few hours of completing our shoot yesterday, she edited and sent me these images to post here to give you all a little peek of the ERMIE lookbook.

...add thoughtful to the list, too :)

Enjoy, and have a great weekend!

Newness*

*thanks to HBT :)

Love my new Wiksten Tova Pattern dress that I made yesterday. Working on this kept my mind off of worrying about the photoshoot that took place earlier today for ERMIE.
I'm glad I got a dress out of it --but I really didn't need to worry. Jeana was utterly professional, fun, and took amazing photographs (let me stress that the above snapshots are not hers, but cruddy cell phone photos I took...what's up with me forgetting my camera all of the time?) and Carlee looked great!
So exciting!

...Oh, yes, and love my new red/orange Rachel Comey Shoes, too! They are so comfy. We also used them in the photoshoot! Can shoes count as a business expense/ tax write off ;) ?