Mind over body

muchachos y muchachas!

It's been a while, and my schedule got pushed back because of work and life.. and as much as i tried to schedule work, family, and LPS in one day.. plus the 4 hour commute.. it didnt work out, my body would be so tired.


but hey, you know what? I was reminded of this quote i saw once "Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. Its always tired. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired".
This has been my motto, my mind is always always thinking of LPS and things i should do, mental lists, lists on my mac, lists on paper, new lists, lost lists, ideas, shopping lists, images of things to do, make or draw.. etc. my body.. was always tired.
But, as much as i love my sleep (its a hobby of mine), I have smiles of children imprinted into my tiny brain.

so, i just wanted to let you guys know, we're still on, we'll always be on. and we're still aiming to launch at the end of august/beginning of September.



knitted line is ready for launch, jewelry is almost ready, im working on greeting cards, and ethical blank t-shirts are currently making their journey to my doorstep, so that I can screen print them :)


And our First photoshoot is scheduled for this weekend!


so lots is happening! for the time being, check out these items i made.. the beads are awesome, and come from different parts of the world through fair trade! so we're already helping communities across the globe. small steps. small steps my friends!

i sort of know how to build websites..

I wish building a website was as easy as designing the template in Photoshop. i'd be building one every day!
alas! what took me 2 days of planning on photoshop will take me weeks to make in Dreamweaver, or Flash (which i am completely illiterate in.. but Flash websites are funnnn!)




anyyyyways! I made a few templates with different themes, then chose this one to proceed with..here's a sneak peak :)

draw, draw, draw!

ink pen +india ink + paper = euphoria for a few good hours.
I've been sketching for the website for the past 2 days, and Im sure, at some point.. im going to need someone to take away my drawing equipment because I might just keep going and going.. SO much fun.

also finished, is the site map.. I'm sure my interactivity (aka interaction design, aka website design) instructor wouldn't approve of it, its slightly (or, highly..) indecipherable.. but! it makes sense in my head, I even color coded it. so its all good. As long as at the end of the day, the world wide web gets a website that works..

here are a few of the sketches ive been working on.They're just roughs and i plan to play around with them in photoshop/illustrator or with watercolors/gouache paints..they also might not even end up on the site... I have no idea how this website will look like at the end.. but In my head.. i see illustrations and drawings.. so shall it be! 

Click to open in new window, then click again to enlarge =)

and so it begins..

Five months of summer..I cant contain my excitement!!
I plan to spend those 5 months immersed in my work on Le Petit Sourire (as well as other happenings), and I figured it would be kind of cool to let you guys in on whats going on, since you guys have been with me since the beginning- re: the name contest we had, which ultimately decided this project shall bear the name of Le Petit Sourire!


so for those of you joining us at this point, and are wondering what Le Petit Sourire is..

I have decided that all the crazy ideas in my head and the to-make lists that include accessories, hand made books/journals, crocheted/knitted scarves and hats, sewed anything and everything, screen printed/any kind of printed clothing/fabric crafts, painted/sprayed/sketched/..stuff could be made! and I shall make them for the world!

the jist of the project is this: I make all of the above and then some, you and the rest of the human population on the planet (or a tiny percentile of it..) will kindly purchase them for yourselves, loved ones, anyone! and 60% of what you give will go towards building a school in the world with Free The Children, and 40% goes back into the project for more materials and tools =)

I dont know how successful this will be, i might end up with boxes and boxes of my hand made crafts, or it might actually work and then we'll have a school somewhere for children whose basic human right is to get the education they deserve!

this project and all the effort and passion in me for a better world is and always will be inspired by the restless idealists who work everyday for a better world, and by the smiles on the faces of the children worldwide- particularly vivid in my mind are those smiles of the children of San Miguel de Pomachaca and Gulahuayco in Ecuador who kindly gave me a lifetime's worth of high fives!

join me in this journey! lets see where we end up!