“Why do you work so hard?
Why not quit for a while…
take a breather.”
I do reflect for a minute.
After all,
I have been working this LisaLesa.com gig since 2008.
Perhaps the time is ripe to hang up the Sharpies for a while.
Roll up the photo-shoot backdrops.
Finally sort out all the raw materials I have gathered in 4 years.
Forget about doing our LisaLesa Fall photo shoot…
slated to start this weekend.
Give the girls the summer off .
Let them worry about getting
Too much sun
vs
Not enough lighting
Stop production on the uber cool promotional tool that we are currently developing.
I plan to use it along with my own sales savvy
(20 years in total)
for our tiny rocket-launch as we
send our design ideas up
and
out
into the strata that is the world-wide wilderness.
To land somewhere on the unexplored terrain that is art and fashion
I am preparing to unify my message.
Who I am
What I do
Why I do it.
oh, I always forget this last one…
How much it costs!
Perhaps just cool it on making connections with people who may dig the LisaLesa.com Out-L@@K
Cancel running The Cool Shoeshine(tm) and The Only Pair on the Planet(tm) concepts up the proverbial flagpole to see who salutes them.
Hang out the ol’ hammock and just sag on in for a spell.
No.
The mere thought truly strikes terror to my heart.
I love what I do.
It does not feel like work at all.
True, occasionally I may overdo.
It is the nature of the beast I am afraid.
You get into a zone and you work.
Besides,
I like to be busy.
I get restless sitting with my hands folded.
I have drawn and painted and written tons in these amazing four years.
As I worked I learned my craft.
My Graffiti attitude.
My spin.
Developed my style.
Increased the quality of the work I produced
I now proudly wear my own work.
I am humbled to be considered an emerging sustainable designer/artist in the ginormous world of fashion.
I am a Upcyclist first.
I see the need for those who claim to be fashion forward to include the value of applied design to pre-owned garments, and pairs of already great shoes, boots or purses, clutches and bags.
Re-styled and re-worked with a level of commitment that results in one of kind offerings.
I believe people will understand what I do once they learn more about it.
I will continue this work as long as I am able.
I hope that will be till I am 92…like my Dad:)
I have never been this committed to anything in my life.
Well…except for my family 
But even then, they have had to learn that when I work,
I work alone.
I get immersed and I need to concentrate.
I have always been a loner.
July 13 I am having my first of 2 surgeries on my thumbs.
I have over use injuries
It is a very straight forward procedure so there is my long-awaited break!
I have reduced the amount of blogging and actual creating
My Dad taught me the value of work for its own sake.
Of squaring off to a problem and figuring your way through it.
LisaLesa.com has been just like that for me.
Something to solve.
I think I make neat things and offer a very unique application of Graffiti-esque art to a speak protest in a very non violent way.
I have many different levels of work with this undertaking of mine.
It seems I have to work a bit at healing but I am still doing limited pieces to keep nimble.
Here are the Cherry Blossom Graffiti Pumps
under construction but soon up for offer.
BeDazzled Chrome Stacked Platform Peep Toe Pumps
size 7.5
I have to do a bit of this and that everyday!
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