Alia Michele’s Blog

—To know someone here or there, with whom you can feel there is understanding, in spite of distances or thoughts expressed, that can make life a garden. Goethe

Introducing the My Garden of Friendships Collection; the beginning of a line which will be named after my friends who have made my life blooming great! This line is an introduction to my new idea REVERSIBLE CLUTCHES as well as a new material: Wool Felt!  And tomorrow there will be a separate post for each featured friend this year. So, let's start with the A+ Collection.

In college, my friend Sulei was convinced I had a group of elves in my room helping me make things. Outside of my school work I was making books for people, bags, and laptop sleeves. I can't believe I did all of that to this day! Anyway, the other day my friend Aletha said to me that I should make laptop sleeves again, and her husband Andrew agreed. And I thought to myself why not. I had a case for my old computer, but since then I have found that I prefer to have my laptop in my handbag when I travel, rather than carrying a bunch of bags!

In college we were always a group of nerds with our Mac laptops, and glasses (some of which were really not necessary). Anyway as some of you may know (or rather the people who have seen the light) when it comes to a Mac you have to keep it simple, sleek and awesome! So simple envelopes inspired this collection. I didn't want anything to be girly, over the top...just simple and worthy of holding a cool laptop! Andrew and Aletha are simplistic people when it comes to their style. You should see their apartment!! So I called this collection A+...simple and sleek on the outside, but bright and lovely on the inside...just like them:)