Happy Happy Feedback

A nice bit of feedback I just received on Etsy: "What a beautiful, BEAUTIFUL hat! It is meticulously hand crafted from the delicately pleated ribbonwork to the hand-stitched inner band. Just lovely. I am so happy to have this hat! On a more practical note: I
received the hat in a timely manner and in perfect condition ...right to the tips of its feathers. The hat box presentation is charming. Thank you so much!"

Custom Order: More Minis

Here are some quickie photos of a couple of the hats I just sent out toward a big custom order for a lovely customer in Australia.

John Galliano Menswear Spring 2011

Check this fashion collection out, it's all based on the silent film era, especially comedian Buster Keaton. It's funny to see the models walking so seriously while dressed in these deliciously silly clothes & moustaches. And so many hats! Here are a few shots from it:

Leather Sweatbands

Here's how my new leather sweatbands look inside full size hats.

Color Brides

I love when brides choose *color* for their wedding outfits, it's so much fun. (Mine was lipstick red.) I've had custom requests for hats and hair pieces in a range of colors and styles, including a charcoal gray pirate tricorn and a brown steampunk mini top hat. Here's one of my favorites. These photos were sent to me by the bride, who is really beautiful, tall, has bright red hair, and wore a purple dress with a big rhinestone clasp on it. She looked gorgeous!

Coast to coast to coast to coast

I'm finishing up several hats for a great lady in Australia today. And the other day I sold a hat to someone in France. I've also sent hats to people all over the US, and to the UK and Canada. I need to make one of those maps with little pins in it to show House of Nines' international reach...

Jill Tracy / David J video

Everybody's favorite chanteuse, Jill Tracy, just let me know that she'll be wearing a House of Nines Design custom hat in her upcoming video with musician David J, of the legendary bands Bauhaus, Tones On Tail, and Love and Rockets. I'm all aflutter.

I love playing the '6 Degrees of Separation' game. Turns out Juliet Landau will be in the video as well (she played Drusilla on Buffy the Vampire Slayer). So, that means I'm only a couple/few degrees from all of these musicians whose music I love, the whole Joss Whedon clan, plus Gerry Anderson's 1960s sci-fi empire: Juliet's parents were in Space 1999. Oh! And they were also on the original Mission Impossible TV show.

An aside: did anybody else notice a similarity between the recent Leonardo DiCaprio movie Inception and Mission Impossible? Joseph Gordon-Levitt made the greatest Barney (the 'electronics expert' who was on every episode, and was the secret genius behind every mission): he was tough, no-nonsense, unflappable, and just took care of business, even when flying around weightless. Fantastic.


I'll send an update once the video is out!