The images I use are mostly from vintage (therefore copyright-free) images that I’ve heavily doctored, and a few other sources. I feel the same creative thrill with every new design that I bring to life as I do when I create a new cowl. I love the design process and can’t seem to stop. I’m addicted to releasing new designs!

You can keep up with all of the new releases on my Etsy store, or here on my website.

I’m catching up on sleep, and watching Netflix on my phone in bed, often starting before 9pm. It feels good.

Leaving my job this summer (in part) to work on Pip full time has paid off. It was my most successful year thus far. I was able to focus on my own career goals and leave a toxic environment that my day job had morphed into. I was also able to keep my child out of full time care, and that has always been a main priority of mine.  My hard work paid off.

Part of my success this year was due to my mustache scarves, an idea I thought up many, many months ago- maybe even last season, but I thought that mustaches were on their way out and that the trend was coming to a close. I couldn’t have been more wrong.  People still love mustaches and think that they’re hilarious, especially on a scarf, so I was very lucky to be able to cater to the masses and get some really good press and sell more of them than I ever thought imaginable. So, thank you for thinking my idea was a good one.

I’m at a crossroads now, wondering if I should brainstorm and try to think of a spring/summer product line, or go back into the daily workforce.  For now, I think I’ll sleep.

It’s a purse. It’s a bum. It’s real hair. Horse (?) hair. It’s definitely a bum.

And the price tag at Winners read $99.99, COMPARE AT: $159.99

Really? Who in their right mind would walk around with this?

In total, I donated $140 to Movember, with the help of you! You little hilarious and sarcastic customers of mine! Way to go!!

Now I just need a name for them! Suggestions are welcome and appreciated!

I’m in The Coast for a second week in a row- but this time it really doesn’t have anything to do with Pip Robins! It’s an edition dedicated to tattoos, and I have a couple of pieces that have to do with my home province, Nova Scotia.

After working for BME under Shannon Larratt and being involved in the body modification community for ten years, I’m a bit of a tattoo snob and will travel far and wide to visit artists that produce quality work.  I’ve only been tattooed once in Nova Scotia- a small comma under my navel, the others were by Johann Florendo in NY and Scott Duncan in Ontario.  Both quality, expensive artists. Some people brag about how little it costs them to get tattooed, I brag about how much it costs.  Quality costs.

The one thing that I love about being a small business is that I can create as the inspiration hits. I don’t necessarily need to be in on the upcoming trends, even though it would be great to be, I love the freedom of working for myself- when, where and how I want to.

Last night before I went to sleep I came up with a new idea for a chunky cowl that closes with a strip of leather.  Here’s the prototype (don’t mind the loose threads!). I’m off to create some new ones!