Spring 2010

What a crazy week! Our Spring/ Summer 2010 Collection is 95% ready to go. We are so happy with it! I will post more pics later this week. If anyone wants a catalogue emailed to them let us know! The bamboo material is amazing!

The business

What a week. We viewed our Spring Collection 2010 for the first time. So exciting- we love all the pieces! Lots of raw edges, great colors and amazing bamboo materials. Our little models to try on all the pieces were amazing. Such cute little girls with great personalities. It was fun to hear which pieces they loved! Today we go to Press with all of our tees and then next week the photoshoot start. Must start bribing my children to be my  models again. Should have a catalogue by the end of next week. We are on our way! 

Motherhood

We have officially joined the blogging world! schatzi inc. is proud to announce that Dona Johnson will be blogging for us and discussing motherhood, fashion, travel and day to day life with kids. I first met Dona overseas. We were both expats, I was living in Oman and she was in Vietnam. Our husbands had worked together in Canada, so when we were traveling through Vietnam we had a great dinner at their beautiful villa. I have enclosed a picture of my kids in Vietnam. Now we have both relocated back to Canada! We hope you enjoy her witty and creative writing style. She will be guest blogging for us every couple of weeks.

Just a side note... We are hard at work at the head office of schatzi inc.! Linesheets, catalogues, patterns, and sample are all being designed and coming to life! Our Spring 2010 line is almost ready. We are excited to share our "green" line with you.

July 14, 2009

When my friend Tanja emailed me to ask if I’d be interested in writing a blog about motherhood for the Schatzi web site, I was one week postpartum. I’d just delivered our third (and final) child, Zoe, and all was pretty much well with the world. Zoe was adorable with her big, crazy mop of strawberry blond hair. Our son and daughter loved her muchly and my husband and I were well pleased with ourselves for having another baby. My mom was staying with us and doing every earthly duty save for breast-feeding the baby. This general feeling of contentment was a welcome change from the general feeling of resentment, which characterized the previous six months. In mid December, we’d moved back to Calgary from Vietnam, and then dealt with a long renovation, a longer winter, and the longest third trimester imaginable.

Since then, the other shoe has dropped. My mom left the building five weeks ago, the kids now think the baby is fine except when her needs come before their wants, which is most of the time. And I’m regularly barely civil to my husband, mainly because he gets to leave the house every day and I don’t.

In addition to guilt and exhaustion, I’ve been wearing a pad for six straight weeks, there are a good two inches between button and buttonhole on all last summer’s shorts, my boobs hurt, the laundry is relentless, and it’s troubling how often I fantasize about getting hammered. I had concerns my blog about motherhood would be the world’s best case for birth control.

But thankfully, every single day, my postpartum hormones do me a solid and the pendulum swings in the other direction. Countering all the negatives is one huge positive: I am deeply and madly in love. I completely forget about the size of my ass when I look down and see Zoe earnestly sucking away, all the while gazing steadily up at me with clear, blue eyes. Then, she pauses with mouth full, to bust out a grin. Later, when she’s dozing in my arms, eyes lolling to the back of her head, she does a run-through of all her faces—smile, ‘ohhh’ mouth, grimace, lop-sided grin, furrowed brow, yawn, sigh, sleep. At those moments, it doesn’t matter that my kids were fighting outside the baby’s room while I tried to put her to sleep or my husband never, ever washes the coffee press in the morning. I am content. For now.

ABOUT THE BLOGGER

Dona Johnson is a 40-year-old mother of three who has recently returned to Canada after spending much of the past ten years in Russia, Indonesia and Vietnam. It bears mentioning that this would be a much more positive blog about motherhood if she still enjoyed the services of the maid, nanny, gardener and driver she regretfully left behind in Ho Chi Minh City.