All posts by Leslie

2010 starts with some good press

This year has started off with a couple of nice press pieces for Cimarrona. First I had an e-mail with congratulations for being picked one of the top 10 eco-friendly hats of 2010 by Greenopolis. You can read the whole article here. Then when we started up our First Friday Open Studio at the beginning of February, the local paper gave us a call and the next day this article appeared: Exposed workings- Artists band together. I am tickled that folks are taking note and look forward to seeing how this exposure increases attendance around town on those first friday […]

Look for the button

The other day I was sitting at a light right next to the courthouse and had one of those start-stop- you-go-first-no-after-you…engagements with a pedestrian. As he passed in front of me, I noticed his hat. It looked familiar- a grey band and an ochre top, I recognized it as a hat I’d made a year ago. The confirmation was the button, when he was just one the other side of the car I saw it. The button on the back with the red thread stitched in an “X”. I have been marking my hats with the button since I first […]

Hello world!

Welcome to the new and improved Cimarrona website. I am so excited about the changes that are being made- even at this very moment. It has been exciting to have an idea and put it in the hands of people that can turn it into a reality. Thanks Mina, Thanks Shannon.