FGI meeting and Mina's!

susie picked me up from work at about 4 and we headed up to ft collins. we were meeting with the student chapter of Fashion Group International which is way different than an international fashion club!
anyway. it was great to meet with them and throw around ideas. it seems like the timing probably isn't right for them to help us with the actual designs themselves but if they can get enough student interest they could produce the show. the only problem is that our date is after their graduation so it would mostly fall to the students who live in ft. collins/denver area.
they are going to donate some t-shirt art to the sale/auction though! which is great. it also looks like we'll be able to collaborate on a few things in the future so it was definitely a good connection for us to make.

so...back to finding fashions. i really think in order to pull this off considering we're running out of time, i'm going to need to give up on the idea of the fashion having an international theme, being inspired by the 7 countries Room to Read works with. one of the girls at the meeting suggested maybe working with Ten Thousand Villages and having them supply the clothes for the fashion show which i think could be a great idea but i think i'm leaning more towards sticking with local fashion designers. i was thinking about contacting The Fabric Lab and seeing if we could collaborate on something.

on the way home we stopped in Erie (first time ever in Erie!) and went to the best restaurant ever! it's called Mina's Latin Restaurant. at first glance it's like any other mexican restaurant around but the food was so interesting, not typical mexican at all, which i guess is why it's called mina's latin not mexican. i had a bbq chicken but the bbq sauce was chipotle and included pineapple, bananas and nuts. they also had a salsa bar where you could sample as many salsa's as you wanted. it was funny because they had a mild, medium and hot section but there were no salsa's in the mild part. poor me!