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Heading to the Summit!!!!

Earth Day Summit 2023

Join us TODAY!!
Friday, April 21
1 - 5 pm
California Market Center
110 E 9th Street LA CA 90079

Please go to earthdaysummit.org or to find out all the details.

A big shout out to the sustainable marketplace!! Come and check us out!

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And a huge thank you to 😘✨💓🌈

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We are so jazzed to be joining and so many others at the Earth Day Summit 2023 Earth Day Summit] !!!
Please go to earthdaysummit.org or Earth Day Summit] to find out more details.

Join us - Friday, April 21
1 - 5 pm
California Market Center
110 E 9th Street LA CA 90079

Hope to see you there!!
xo

My crew is pretty darn awesome.
They are my on-going why.. why I continue to give this business love, time, and allow myself not to give up.
I know you haven’t seen much from us in the last year and even now, the struggle is real and life’s waves are mighty at times.
Yet, I know there is something here and I can’t stop!
So, thanks for hanging out!
Lots more to come.
XO

In the kitchen.
We love lasagna and a family gathering.
Filling bellies.
Making memories. Aprons for life.

Inspiration comes from so many things, places, and of course, people. These are some of our people. My grandmother (sitting on others laps), her sister-in-laws and friends. They all wore aprons. Even my grandfather and great-uncles standing behind wore aprons. In the kitchen, the butcher shop, the studio, the garden, and sometimes for fashion. They were all part of my upbringing and for that I am grateful. So as we more forward into the dawn of a new FARMOR we pay our respects and remember those who taught us, those who taught me so very much. xo

Monday mantra.
Here we go!
One step in front of the other.

It was all about purpose.
I was a couple of years into parenthood and super tired of not having pockets on my clothing. Let alone, tired of my wet front body after doing dishes or handwashing clothes.
I had a pair of second-hand Levi’s I’d purchased soon after giving birth. They no longer severed me, at least as jeans. An online no-sew tutorial and “Voila!” An apron.
Repurposed, on purpose, and ready for the day.
Keeping materials in play.

I remember baking cookies with my grandmother at my parent’s house when I was young. I wore my mother’s apron (which I still have) as we mixed and prepared our dough to bake.
This is my oldest wearing her FARMOR reclaimed mid bib apron, part of our first collection. We made cupcakes to celebrate her sister’s 2nd birthday last week.
Someday, just maybe, she’ll remember too.
Wearing aprons, making memories.

An ode to denim.

Denim, a love story, a first love, an old friend.
No matter what decade one remembers first seeing, wearing that strong woven fabric.
All the styles and uses.
The strength and ability to be loved over and over and over again.

At FARMOR, we utilize your old friends, your worn wears to create new.
A new love in an apron.
Reuse at its finest.

With love,
Always,
Denim.

Our fabulous mascot and family’s best buddy, Stella, had a run-in with a skunk early Thursday morning. It is amazing how fast a simple mistake of opening the back door of your house turns into a scene from The Benny Hill Show. And then multiple days of laundry and cleaning. Stella is recovering well and almost skunk scent-free.
Fortunately, these lovely aprons were in transit to their new homes during the skunk attack. More about these aprons later ;)
And Stella will resume her supervisor position just as soon as the scent subsides.

Today, we are honoring my paternal grandmother, Stella Evelyn Marie (Hoover) Nelson. She was born in 1900 and died in 1996. It is hard to imagine the life that she lived. From surviving the Great Depression, witnessing women’s suffrage, to her husband and then children fighting in each World War and each war after.
I was one of her last grandchildren as my father was her youngest of eight. She was 75 years old when I was born. I have many memories of her.. the taste of her cooked food, the smell of her clothes, and the feeling of her thin wrinkled skin on her hands and arms.
I remember she had a sewing room in one of the kid’s rooms upstairs at their house. She took me up there from time to time. And when they moved my grandparents out of their home into a nursing home, I remember wanting her clothes and sewing items.
Yet, it wasn’t until last summer when I received an item from her sewing room, a gift from my aunt. She gave an antique child’s sewing machine that grandma had given her. It has been through this little piece of history that I have deepened my connection to my grandmother. I feel it in my work, how I mother, treat myself, and how I walk on this earth. It is her perseverance, grit, and commitment to her family, to her living the best she could with what she had that I carry with me into each new day.

It’s been a while since we’ve said hello. Even though we have not shared, we certainly have not stopped. FARMOR Designs is very much alive and aprons are what we do. Handmade in our home-based studio. Consciously sourced and made to last another lifetime.
More from us real soon!
Xo