Cutting-Up’s Artist Blog

Oh, how we love Chicago… new adventures and always welcoming new friends into the Cutting-Up fold to share the positive vibes of our amazing, growing line!  Special heartfelt thanks go out to our cool friend and hip-chick, Bekah, the most adorable bit of sunshine in Chi-town, for helping our postive-vibe traveler, Colleen, at the Stylemax show in this October!  These two made quite a duo and tripped happy-happy as they kept the vibes resonating.  Me? I was blessed to stay behind to continue creating some new works of art for 2009!  Thanks, girls!!!!  ZOMG!  You look SO ADORABLE!  I la la la love you!!!!

Some days I look at the world differently and appreciate people, things, and experiences even more fully.  Of late, I’ve been collecting bids from plumbers for a pipe leak in my 1950’s home, aka: “the craft cabin”.  

Today a plumber stood me up, for the 2nd time, sniff.  (Okay… um, yewww do nawt know me, snap!).  Prior to getting “The Heisman” from the ‘plumber’dzur’, Steve, one of the Cutting-Up partners, decided he would survey my situation, an offer I found endearing from our infrasturcture cultivator, numbers man, & appointed Pres also moonlighting as husband, father, friend, custom home builder, ironman - oh, and he has a full-time, high-pressure sales job.  (As an aside & very appropriately, long ago Jay dubbed Steve with the nickname “Inspector Gadget” and the scope of that title has certainly become more apparent as our time together expands.)

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I was so happy to snap these few quick pics the other day at the office of Brent, April, Wendy, Netty, & little Ava Marie!  Everyday these beautiful people work closest to the details and play a huge role in the running of things - in their own very talented ways!  You guys are the best!  Thanks for all you do everyday! (Ava Marie is the token addition to the ‘cute’ factor, thank you, April!)

Ladies and gentlemen… I give you: Brent Kaiser… (applause)

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This is Colleen, the most fabulous friend anyone could have; and, the kind of business partner who is with you through thick and thin.  Colleen is the yin to my yang… She has a way of helping transfer and express the ideas I dream up to others with a passion and a purpose.  She has the ability to give all the creative effort a direction that the unbridled artist sometimes has difficulty corralling.  She’s the bomb-diggity-bomb! 

There are lots of amazing people now on our Cutting-Up TEAM.  Can’t wait to introduce them all to you over time!