dolma jewelry

Day 4 in China was almost completely ours. Our vendors needed time to make samples for me to see, so Shannon and I spent the morning going over our orders and deciding what pieces we needed to add to fill in a few gaps. This season I really wanted to bump up our Baby line and our Oola line for the tweens-so we focused on making sure we had plenty of new options.

Look at the cute uniforms at Pizza Hut in Shanghai!

Next on the agenda: get some clothes made! We both had a few ideas of some pieces we wanted to create-and after ooh-ing and ahh-ing over hundreds of fabric options were able to narrow our choices down to a few, must-have swatches. We then began the creation portion, with measuring, tweaking, and changing our minds. Then, the bargaining-which is so annoying when you really have no idea what you should be paying … but I think I did OK, though I did have to walk away twice.

Then, we stopped in to check on some pieces with one of my vendors… and suddenly realized it was 9:00pm, and we were starving and tired. We gave our cab driver the address to a restaurant, but he dropped us off at the wrong spot-after walking 8 blocks in the wind and rain we gave up and dashed into a Pizza Hut.

Me, in all my hotel-gifted gear... out of the rain and into the Pizza Hut!