After quite a search we finally found Discount Fabric Warehouse in an industrial area and it was worth the hunt.

There are four stores total spread around the islands and I don't know if they are all as large as the one I visited in Kona, Hawaii but, the Kona store is HUGE. The selection of Hawaiian prints was mind boggling and there were some unique fibers also.

Stores this large are a little overwhelming, almost like visiting a museum but, here you can actually take a little bit home with you :)

After looking and looking and looking at the HUGE selection of fabrics I finally decided on a green Hawaiian looking border print because the color was a nice solid green and I always love a great border print. I'm thinking about using the fabric for a blouse and orienting the border print vertically. A student used a border print vertically and I loved the result.

Not all my fabric adventures were successful.

At the very small town of Honokaa on the big island of Hawaii I spied a sewing store named Nene's Sewing Corner and although it was the middle of the day, the middle of the week, no one was home :(

Guess that's living on island time.

Missing Missoni

So you had to be on the moon not to know that Target was doing a Missoni launch on Tuesday, Sept. 13 ( even my 80 year old dad knew about the " zig-zaggy " clothes at Target ).

I had a 2 hour afternoon break between classes so I drove to the closest Target to get me some Missoni.

Well there was ALOT of Mossimo hanging on the Missoni racks but not one single Missoni anything, anywhere in the store.

I asked a sales associate where was all the Missoni and she looked at me like I was nuts and said,

" ALL the Missoni sold out two hours after we opened ! "

Not being easily discouraged I was in Riverside County the next day and thought perhaps there hadn't been the frenzy as in oh so stylish OC.

Well I was partially correct. There were no women's clothing items but, there were some kids and bonanza ( ! ) Missoni footwear.

Since miraculously there was actually a pair of flats in my extremely common foot size I took it as a sign that I must buy the flats.

I passed on the little girl cape :)

! OMG!

The Missoni will only be stocked ( or sold out ) until October 22.

Looks like this girl just got the news!!

Feeling Blue ??

Celebrities and stylists are really jumping on the extreme, never found in nature hair colors. There have been lots of bright pink ( Pink, Katy Perry ) but, blue seems to be gaining popularity.

My only question is if blue hair severely limits your clothing selection? I mean if you already have clown hair you would have to be extremely cautious not to wear clashing colors or a clown outfit.

There were some girls with bluish hair when I was growing up but, it just meant their parents used too much chlorine in their swimming pools :)