SOME OF THE FANTABULOUS PLACES I'VE WORKED IN

JUICY COUTURE (a division of LIZ CLAIBORNE) Arleta, California

RAMPAGE, Vernon, California

BCBG MAX AZRIA - labels: BCBGIRLS, BCBG MAX AZRIA, Vernon, California

JOIE - labels: JOIE, Soft, current/elliott, Vernon, California

TARRANT APPAREL GROUP - private labels, Puebla, Mexico and Los Angeles, California

ROMMEL MENSWEAR - labels: Rommel Menswear and Lolita, Los Angeles, California

GUESS? INC., Los Angeles, California

BABYSTYLE, Los Angeles, California

BLEU BLEU LLC - labels: GOA, A.GOLDIE, Los Angeles, California

B.B.DAKOTA, Newport Beach, California

Sharing 25 Random Notes About Me & No One Is Judging - from my Facebook page
Here I go...
1. I learned to ride a bicycle at 40, on the boardwalk during an entire summer's worth of weekends. It was a pink Hello Kitty Nirve and I was totally "Hello On Wheels"...thought I was bad, knew I was bad, yeah! I WAS BAAAAAAAD!!! And, yeah! At 40...which would be quite a few years from now...
2. When no one's looking, I pretend to be a Solid Gold dancer in front of the dogs --- one howls and the other barks like a maniac. I like that. And, yes, I do look like a Solid Gold dancer vixen...in pajamas and comfortable shoes, non-skid with velcro closures. Shoelaces can trip you when the moves involve acrobatics.
3. I am fluent in Spanish but only in the present tense. I will work on other tenses later. Or not. I am the boss of me, after all.
4. I moved to Mexico for a job and realized three major goals: find a good man, have my own business, become famous...okay, it was a small town but I became famous nonetheless.
5. My father never spanked me nor yelled at me. The worst he did was tell me he didn't like what I did. I miss him every day.
6. I won a national essay-writing competition at 10 writing about what makes people lonely. Wonder where I found material at such a young age...
7. I used to write volumes of poetry. Some real deep shit.
8. I can measure your body, draft a pattern, and sew up a couture gown in a weekend to make your old, aging dilapidated body,(for lack of a better word) look like a nubile young thang. Oh sorry, I was thinking of my own body.
9. I am cougar...hear me roar.
10. I was put in a remedial math class in the 8th grade after being "tested" dumb by the local parochial school. I later took the Math award in an advanced class, same year, and maintained advanced math classes throughout my scholastic career. I'm sure this knowledge has come in handy when I measure prototypes at work, especially t-shirts and scarves.
11. I miss my foster child (through Christian Children's Fund) Musembi Kioli from Kenya. I know he is well and that he has grown into a fine young cannibal. I mean, MAN. I was just remembering that great musical group from my days of wine and roses, at the same time. Don't judge me if I can multitask and you can't.
12. I have an insatiable curiosity for all things esoteric and the web is my best friend.
13. I don't like the number 13.
14. I was in a dance troupe in college and balanced candles on my head and the back of my hands while making like Poetry In Motion. I was the shit. Seriously.
15. I can do a mean hula dance thanks to taking years of lessons as a child.
16. I studied playing the piano for years in my youth. But, alas, my fingers (all ten of them) have developed a fatal allergy to ivory. All pachyderms to please take note and confine yourselves within 10 yards of the pachyderm pool.
17. I am a fiercely loyal friend and will remain so until you give me a reason why I shouldn't be. I treasure my friendships knowing good friends are few and far in between. You guys know who you are.
18. I can remember the names of childhood friends and classmates and even acquaintances from the distant past. Don't ask me about dates, though.
19. My mother-in-law taught me how to cook traditional Mexican dishes well...for a full year to make sure her son did not starve to death. I feed him In-N-Out when he's bad and Trader Joe's when he's good.
20. I was on my high school swim team even though I had a fear of deep water.
Deep fear of deep water.
21. I used to design fetish clothing and was friends with a popular L.A. dominatrix. I will continue to search the web for him.
22. I love the color whorefuschia...pink to the rest of you.
23. I am tattooed and looking forward to more. Maybe. It hurt like hell, so maybe not.
24. I am about to win the Mega Millions lottery and would like to advise all of you to be nice to me. Very, very nice to me.
25. I am proud of every single member of my family, each of whom has an IQ above room temperature in the tropics, during high summer, in an unventilated kitchen just before dinnertime.