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My Lala & Stitch

A few years ago, I started making dresses.

I wasn’t trying to become a fashion designer. I wasn’t even trying to make clothes that looked professional. Looking back, I learned that there is a very good reason people spend years learning how to make beautiful garments. They fit better, they hang better, and they generally look much nicer than anything I managed to make.

But that wasn’t really why I started.

At the time, life felt difficult, and I think I was looking for a place to put all of that energy. Sewing became one of those places.

I found fabrics I loved and started making dresses for myself. One became two. Two became several more. Before I knew it, there were dresses hanging all over the house.

One thing they almost always had was pockets.

I love pockets.

Every dress seemed to end up with at least one, because I liked the idea of having a place to carry little things with me.

Looking back now, I think those dresses were part of my attempt to create a different world for myself. Not to escape reality, but to make room for something gentler inside it.

Over time, those dresses found their way into LALATOWN.

If you visit the town, you’ll find a little shop called Lala & Stitch.

The sign above the door reads:

IF IT FITS, IT’S YOURS.

In LALATOWN, that doesn’t only apply to dresses.

It applies to dreams.

To second chances.

To hobbies that begin by accident.

To strange ideas that somehow turn into books.

And to versions of ourselves that we didn’t know were waiting to be discovered.

These dresses eventually became part of Welcome to My LALATOWN, because they were part of the journey that led me there.

The stitching isn’t perfect.

The hems aren’t perfectly straight.

But neither was the road that brought me home.