This
website is the culmination of an
import business which already
draws many groovy customer friends and strangers to my
home boutique inquiring as
to when I would introduce a
website. This import business
itself is a result of friends'
encouragement to continue
bringing back some more exotic
finds from my annual Asian
travels.
back in 1994 I started to travel
to Thailand each year to continue
my bodywork education by studying
Thai massage in Thailand, After
the first visiti I discovered
Bali on a brief side trip.
Subsequently I
would sneak off to Bali each
year to buy more goodies and
delight my friends. Buying off
the rack soon proved routine and
confining and what slowly
evolved was a designing mission
for more original styles,
fabric motifs and more sensible
sizing to fit some REAL
bodies. I just couldn't help
myself. Currently I could be
described more like an
addict/junkie buying up
fabric with reckless abandon.
The beautiful hand done batiks
offered in Bali are too
irresistible not to be cut and
combined and further created to
adorn the expressive and artful
parts of us women. So I
became a designer. I
offer pieces that you are
unlikely to spot anywhere else
online or in the mall.
These "artful threads" in my
collection will appeal to people
who are drawn to more flowing colorful simple
clothes...happy clothes that move...garments that drape
well. Rayon does that, you know.
There are mass quantities of
form fitting plainer clothing
out there, so I specialize in
comfort clothes..clothes you
could hide in after a big meal.
My customers wear
things that will cause folks on
the street to come up and ask,
"where did you get that"??
Thanks to all for your
enthusiastic
encouragement.
It is important to listen to
what your customer/friends
requesst. Sourcing
a business of designing and
selling imported clothing and
jewelry was never even on my
list. How fun to recreate
oneself.
I now have a well stocked
boutique that is outgrowing my
home.
And the jewelry designing. What
fun to have discovered in Bali
that artsy silver jewelry is so
prevalent that
there exists an entire
silversmith village called Celuk
which is dedicated to
the silver and gold customer. I
have been shopping there for 13
years now and
have only begun to scratch the surface
within this unique village. Becoming a
jewelry
designer sounded kind of cool to
me---I guess one who designs
jewelry IS a
jewelry designer, yes? It began
with drawing a design idea on my
cocktail
napkin underneath a
Margarita...now I have more
ideas than my silversmith has
time!! Make that silversmiths,
plural. But none of them know
about each other. Shhhh...
My prices remain well below what
you might expect from retail
shopping. there is no middleman,
only this middle woman! You may
find pricing so
reasonable that I may need to
reassure you that the gem stones
are authentic and the silver is
sterling.
so this massage therapist of 18
years morphed into designer and
is now sharing
samples from her collection via
cyberspace.
Suzi Wagman
