Hello! So I know its been a while (1.5 months) since my last post, but I'm back with a vengeance. I have so much to update on and I promise that after this entry, my posts will be much shorter and more frequent. Life has been a roller coaster ride but things are finally falling into place. Let me start from the beginning:

I moved back to Seattle the week before Thanksgiving. There were a few reasons for my decision, including my general distaste for LA, but primarily my motives were financial. Attempting to start a new business while paying over $2000 per month for rent and gas quickly became more than my bank account could bear. As much as I felt an outward stigma of moving back home with my parents, the truth of the matter is - I love it. Lame, I know, but true. Pillow top mattress, souped-up cable package, and, best of all, practically zero expenses. And my parents, of course. They are cool. And the snow on the mountains around Seattle makes for some killer skiing.

Since I moved back I have started studying for the GMAT in (distant) preparation for applying to business school. If my recent endeavors in entrepreneurialism have taught me anything, its how much I DON'T know. If I could, I would go to business school right away, but apparently its virtually impossible to be accepted to any of the top programs without at least 3 years of real world work experience. Fair enough.

In the meantime, I have been working at a swanky restaurant, bar & lounge called Twist, down in Seattle's Belltown area, near the Pike Place Market. It has been a great way for me to meet new people while also making a nice sum of extra cash! Because my expenses living at home have been so low, nearly everything that I make goes toward Saxie Beach or (god willing) to some traveling a couple of months down the road.

Most importantly, I have not given up on Saxie Beach! It has definitely been a challenge to keep things going in LA while I am up here in Seattle, but things are coming together slowly but surely. My website is in the works, and a 24-piece sample collection of the entire Spring/Summer 2008 line is being sewn in Los Angeles. With some luck, I should have a professional photoshoot with all of the new pieces completed by the end of January. I have also been talking to a couple of different showrooms in LA and New York about picking up my line. Very exciting!

I realized while in LA that when I am working on my bikini company as a complement to other things going on in my life, it is refreshing, invigorating, and fun. When I was in LA it was my entire life - I lived it and breathed it so intensely that I could hardly separate the business from myself. Being back in Seattle has helped me find a better balance and a more detached perspective on whatever happens with it.

So this has been the past month and a half in a very very abbreviated nutshell. More updates to come!