Hi everyone,
        Here is our Fashion Imaginarium video for all who could not make it to the show.
"Love" to all of you and see you soon at our spring show!
"The man who has no imagination has no wings."
                          -- Muhammad Ali

Click the image above to view the video.

Hi everyone,
         It has been the most amazing couple of months watching my "dream" fashion show come to life and working with the most amazing women. And though I'm so glad the crazy work is behind me, I wish I could hit the rewind button, sit in the front row holding John's hand and watch the show. Going "only" forward has it's advantages... Guess I'll have to wait for the video! I thank everyone with all of my heart for the support, help, love, and patience through the grueling experience of being creatively pulled in a million directions. Thank you to all the Magnolia Pearl girls, guys, and models; I love all of you. Thank you Binky and Carol for all of your hard work and being like sweet, silly sisters. Thank you Jo Packham for making it happen and for loving me. Thank you John, my soulmate and wings --Without you I would never fly; I love you so, so much. Thank you Happy for eating my flowers!! Thank you everyone so much. The Magnolia Pearl Fashion Imaginarium will be featured in the November 2012 issue of Where Women Create Magazine.
        Whew!! Now we are working super hard in preparation for Marburger in hopes that it will be the best show ever.... The designs are my favorite by far.
 For a sneak peak of the fashion show, CLICK HERE to see photos on Facebook.

 Also, our M.P. Airstream is featured in the current Where Women Create Magazine - Thank you Jo!
Click Here to view the photos and story.
        There aren't words to describe my gratitude for this life and the love. And though my life is challenged at the moment, it's all beautiful.... It's just so beautiful to be a part. "Thank You God"
                                               Love,
                                                     -- Pearl.
"Do you want an adventure now, or shall we have tea first?"
                                                     -- Peter Pan
"Unless it is mad, passionate, extraordinary LOVE, it's a waste of time. There are too many mediocre things in life. Love should not be one of them."
                                                     -- Unknown

                               "Celebration"

      As a woman, artist, and child of God, it's important to me to celebrate the lives of great women past, present, and future. And while many are not on my "celebration" train, so many are... You who are know that celebrating other women is empowering to the soul... When we acknowledge the "God" or "Goddess" in others, we are acknowledging it in ourselves, and to celebrate the "light" in others is being connected with the oneness of the universe. Women are powerful on their own but when they unite mentally, physically, spiritually, and in their hearts, they change the world. This to me is grace. Women embody grace when they are centered in love and especially love for other women. We need the love and support of one another, and while my father was my favorite human, it was my Grandmother, Brown, who taught me God's grace... She genuinely gave more to others than she gave to herself. I try to live daily in her teachings of love, generosity, and her servant's heart and can only hope that I'm serving her spirit proudly, which brings me to another great woman - Carol Hicks Bolton, an angel, a friend, and an artist who has inspired so many. Her love and grace is quite literally the bow by which the Magnolia Pearl arrow was launched. I love you Carol. Now, over a decade later I'm proud to announce that I will be having my first fashion show at her new store, Carol Hicks Bolton's "Laboratoire de Design", and I know for sure that God is smiling... This is grace.
        I was recently invited to do the PURE fashion show in London, and to any designer this is a dream come true, but I politely declined and decided to do a show here, at home in the heart of the Texas hills, surrounded by love, familiar faces, and "God's grace". John thinks I'm crazy for not going to London, but I explained- "It's about the art, not the ego for me. I would do this show if only our chickens and dog were coming". But to look out and see all of you there will be a spiritual experience for me ---
                           Devine Grace!
                                    Love to all of you!
                                                - Pearl.

P.S. -- This fashion "Imaginarium" will be a one-of-a-kind event with the creative love and genius of my very talented friends; Binky Morgan and Ron Anderson. - A BIG hug and kiss to them!  Also, the very lovely Jo Packham of Where Women Create will be at the event capturing the magic for her magazine...We love you and thank you jo! Wow, so many great women under one roof!!!!!
P.P.S -- This 7ft. "Earth Goddess" chandelier in photo is one of our art "installations" for the event that we just finished, and I'm still working like crazy on all of the one of a kind "Beautiful Wear" for the show..... I hope to see all of you at there.

Fashion Imaginarium
With "Where Women Create" magazine at Carol Hicks Bolton's "Laboratoire de Design"
Saturday February 18th @ 6pm.
301 S. Lincoln St. Fredericksburg, TX.

"Cherish your visions; cherish your ideals; cherish the music that stirs in your heart, the beauty that forms in your mind, the loveliness that drapes your purest thoughts. If you remain true to them, your world will at last be built."    ---- James Allen

I love you John.

         "You become what you believe"
    When I was younger, no one planted the seeds of belief in me to grow my dreams, so I started planting them for myself, and magic has grown in my life. Yes, life is a miracle, but what we do with that life is an even bigger miracle- everything we do affects the lives of other people and to what degree is up to us. 2012 is the year of "belief", the year to manifest our dreams. There is a "knowing" in each and every one of us. A knowing that we came here to do GREAT things. Sometimes that knowing is only a little flicker that needs some encouragement to be ignited by the love, creativity and passion of others who have "woken up" and are on fire with their purpose. You know these people when you see them - they glow from their soul. 2012 is the year to "glow from you soul"
 Here's something amazing that Oprah said on her life class last night about finding your true calling and having faith in yourself. It totally resonated with me.
 Oprah - "This is what I know for sure, had I not been on television and been working in a shoe store, I do believe I would be the person who would be selling the most shoes and I would like to come around to have the conversations that we would be having as we tried on the shoes. So I never Imagined that what I would be doing would be sitting on television talking to you all, but the nature of my personality and the nature of my belief was that whatever I would be doing.. I would find a way to be really good at it and excel at it. That is what I believed about myself. So, Jk Rowling had some of that same stuff, she was a writer and she knew she was a writer and what writers do is write. They write whether 15 people or 15 million  people are reading it. If that is what you believe you were born to do - you do it! You find a way to allow the truth of yourself to express it's self because thats what we are all looking for. We are all looking for the highest, fullest expression of ourselves as human beings, and unless you are doing that - unless you are finding a way for what you believe to be true about yourself to express and manifest itself in the world, you are not livng your fullest life. You are worthy of happiness, love and peace. Believe it."


       This is our year to glow from our souls. If enough of us are glowing, we can change the world.
                              Love to all of you soul shines!
                                              - Pearl.
                       "Life is a symphony. Be the conductor of your                      life!"
                                                             - Pearl.

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       Today I was talking with a friend about how amazing life is and what a miracle it is that we are here...all of us. Life is our first and most precious gift. I think everyday that mine is not to be taken for granted for so many reasons but mostly because I came from a beautiful and very broken woman who had lots and lots of obstacles in this life. It's hard for me to imagine that she could consider giving life to me and four other children with her painful past and relentless drug and alcohol addiction. It was as if darkness and defeat rode around on her shoulder as constant companions. I've explained to some of my siblings that, yes, our life was chaos with tons of pain, but we are "here" against the odds - rejoice in every second of this life! Every minute that we are alive is an opportunity to give back, which brings me to something I wrote in my book ---

"The Art of Giving" :

      I believe that life is the first and best gift we receive. My parents taught me that. The awareness of that gift creates gratitude, and gratitude is reflected in giving. We all have something to contribute or share-the amount depends on your perception of abundance. the act of giving creates abundance in return, and I believe that is a universal law; not to mention it just plain makes you happy.
      Happiness is an art; a feat unto itself, but giving helps to contribute to happiness. One of my father's favorite sayings was: "A poor man shames us all. Do you like my song? I'll sing it for you!" A generous spirit is contagious and breeds more generosity. If you doubt it, start giving and see what happens.
      After reading this book, I sincerely hope you come away empowered to follow your heart and find your inner artist. Have and open mind for what is beautiful  to you and tap into that inner voice. When you stop listening to the external voices and listen to what resonates inside of you, then you are really on the path to creating a beautiful space. When you approach things from that perspective, staying true to yourself and the things you love, you never go wrong. Whether or not something is beautiful is completely up to you. If you don't like it, do it over . . . and remember to have fun in the process!
                             - Pearl.
      "Thank you Mother for being so unselfish and giving me this amazing, amazing opportunity. I love you."

"Find ecstasy in life; the mere sense of living is joy enough."
                            - Emily Dickenson

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