Supermaggie

Camel & Spring Summer 2011

2011-04-06T13:22:00.000-05:00

Spring/Summer 2011 is officially posted on Supermaggie - Yay!! We have nine new designs this time including Camels and Happy Flowers and 10,000 Circles. We also have a bunch of new bodies and colors that our designs are printed on.

I thought it might be nice to do a little post on each of the new designs. So first up is the Camel. Why a Camel - well why not? The Camel (aka Herman named by Tara of Custard Boutique in Savannah who I believe just received a run of Camel shirts) has been lingering in my sketchbook for a couple years now. I decided he need to get out into the world so here he is.

Camel on an Olive Scoopneck

Very awkward original drawing


Cleaned up and scanned into the computer then printed out as a	transparency.

Screen for the Camel, inked up and ready to go.

We print the camel on a bunch of different tops and tees for women and men so check out Supermaggie to see all the options :)

It's Done! Well almost...

2011-03-25T10:09:00.000-05:00

After an insane amount of hard work Michael has pretty much finished the new Supermaggie website. We are in the process of debugging and editing a few things and we could use a little help. If you have a few minutes check it out and shoot us an email if you find any bugs, if anything looks funky or doesn't load properly. We also posted our new spring line but more on that later.

Unfinshed Stuff in the Studio

2011-03-08T11:52:00.001-06:00

A drawing and some paintings I've been working on, they are not finished yet but I think there is a t-shirt design here somewhere.

Layer cake doodle

One unfinished painting

Another unfinished painting

Around the shop.

2011-02-28T10:51:00.000-06:00

A few pictures from around the printshop! We have been printing like crazy for the past week to get our first batch of spring orders completed and out to your favorite local boutique. What? Your favorite local boutique doesn't carry Supermaggie - well tell them to get in touch! I am super excited about the new prints and bodies we have this spring - we will be posting them soon on the website. Michael has been hard at work rebuilding Supermaggie so it can be viewed on tablets and smartphones (the current site is in Flash) and we are thinking it will be done this week. Fingers crossed.

Squeegees!

Ink mixing table plus too many squeegees.

Tape Wall

Beautifully labeled screens courtesy of Clayton.

Roadtrip photos + POOL Tradeshow

2011-02-23T09:49:00.001-06:00

Last week Michael and I drove to Las Vegas for POOL to show the Supermaggie spring line. We had a good show, saw some of our regular stores and picked up some new accounts. I managed to not go outside for three days because the convention center is connected to the hotel. It's like being on a giant airplane for three days.

Supermaggie booth!


View from our room at the Luxor. I really don't like staying at casinos.

We saw this alien while passing through Roswell, NM

We saw the Hoover Dam from the new bypass.

We drove really fast across west Texas.

We saw some amazing sunsets.

Hello blog, let's try again.

2011-02-18T21:54:00.003-06:00

Ok, it's been a long, long time but I though I might give this another shot. After I smashed my fingers in 2008 it was really hard to type so I kind of lost interest, then I forgot this blog existed.

We have had some pretty significant changes here at Supermaggie. Our beautiful wonderful sweet little dog Joe passed away unexpectedly last year and broke our hearts. After Mr. Joe died, Michael and I decided to move to Austin, TX, something we had talked about but had never gotten around to doing. We moved last summer and we love living in Austin very much.

2008-11-07T08:50:00.002-06:00

Oh dear, it's been over a month.

We have been working really hard on a supermaggie update and it is finally done, well almost. After we comb for bugs it should be posted tonight or tomorrow! We are going to have some amazing one of a kind wallets and pouches from Slaughterhead and and bags from Chia plus a new batch of handmade felt scarves! We have been so behind this fall because of the hurricanes, my broken fingers and an inability to stop obsessing over the election ;)

Pictures of some of the new scarves!

Raspberry and Grape Loop

Fade

Berry Tangle

Bear Millie

In other news we had a mystery-t sale on supermaggie last week and there are a few items left at really great prices. We had years of t-shirt and top odds and ends piled up around the studio and it is a relief to send them to good homes - thanks to everyone that bought a few :) Also I have a box of wraps and t-shirts that I am going to dye, print hopefully post on supermaggie or maybe etsy soon.

2008-09-29T10:30:00.002-05:00

We didn't make it to Crafty Bastards. It would have been a two day drive each way and we just ran out of time. Michael and I are both so sad we couldn't make it. But staying home allowed us to do a bunch of catch up work that probably wouldn't have gotten done oherwise. We posted few of our new prints and bodies to Supermaggie and we will be adding more over the next week.

Black Flowers on a Raspberry Longsleeve

Horses on a White Summer Shirt

2008-09-17T21:21:00.004-05:00

These pictures are a little gruesome but I think they are kind of interesting too. A window fell on my fingertips four weeks ago and broke two of my fingers. It also took off one of my fingernails and bruised the other. It hurt terribly when it first happened - it felt like vise grips on the tips of my fingers - then it became a intense throbbing pain, I sat on my friends kitchen floor for a long time, I felt really weak and shaky. I had really weird dreams that night.
This happened while I was in NY for the gift show; at first I didn't think they were that badly injured so I didn't go to the emergency room - also I had no desire to sit in a New York City emergency room for eight hours to be told I had a busted fingernail (I didn't realize they were broken and that I needed stitches at this point). I finished up the show and flew home, my finger was still oozing blood and I was supposed to fly to LV for Pool the next day. I decided to go to the walk in clinic to make sure it was not too bad. The doctor took one look at my bruised nail and decided to drain it. He used a high temp fine tip cautery (it's like a soldering tool but with a really fine tip) to poke holes in my nail, this allowed the blood to drain and my finger felt better then it had since the injury happened. For all you diyers you can do this at home with a superhot and sterilized embroidery needle. Then he looked at my missing fingernail finger and he seemed a little more concerned, he sent me for x-rays and told me he was going to have to clean the damaged nailbed to see what was going on. I got a little dizzy - I was imagining bristle brushes and nurses holding my arm down. I know that's silly. Actually he gave me two shots between my fingers to deaden my finger, the shots kind of felt like the shots you get at the dentist before they fill a cavity. I didn't watch him cleaning it or stitching it up (seven stitches), but after he got done it looked better. He wrapped it up and told me to unwrap it in a few days, keep it clean, dry and covered. He told me both fingertips were fractured. The fingertip with stitches was an open fracture so I would have to take antibiotics for ten days, but I was good to go to LV for the trade show. I also had to have a tetanus shot. He prescribed pain medicine, which I was very happy to have for the next couple of days because those stitches hurt and it would have been really hard to sleep without it.
I made it to Las Vegas for POOL. It went as well as could be expected, then I went to Seattle to visit my brother and his family which was wonderful.

Printing t-shirts has been difficult and scarf making has been out of the question. I was so sad I couldn't make any scarves for the Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago but I am hoping to make some for Crafty Bastards in DC. I will definitely have scarves for winter and the holidays.

My poor fingers before going to the doctor, I don't know how it missed the lucky middle one.

My fingers with stitches and drainage holes three days after the doctor visit.

The palm side of the busted fingertips.

Printing again!

2008-09-04T14:14:00.001-05:00

we are a bit behind on everything here at the supermaggie studios not only because of the hurricane but also because i broke two fingertips a couple weeks ago while i was in new york for the gift show. i have some pretty gruesome photos of the injury, but i am not sure if i should post them...

2008-09-01T22:42:00.002-05:00

gustav has come and gone - i missed it entirely because i am in seattle and won't be able to get back until wednesday. michael is in baton rouge; he and joe rode out the storm at home. i was able to get a phone call through to him, power is out everywhere and there is a curfew in baton rouge. the powers that be are saying it could be weeks before the power is back on everywhere. our house and the supermaggie studios are unharmed but many people have trees and debris on/in their houses and cars. they are saying the damage is worse then katrina and andrew. i am going to fill my suitcases with odwalla bars and batteries and supplies.

2008-08-07T18:19:00.006-05:00

Exciting developments! First a bag collaboration with awesome chia, I am photographing them and they will be up on the website asap! These bags are so nice, they are beautifully made, each one is one-of-a-kind and reversible, I want to keep them all for myself. Second, I am printing vinyl for new slaughterhead collaboration wallets and fabric for new love creatures from dawn and third, all the prints for fall are almost complete. michael is working on getting the new stuff up on the website and i am working out the colors and final placement for the new designs.

2008-08-02T09:16:00.002-05:00

we are getting our new fall designs ready - i think we will have six new prints for fall and a bunch of new bodies and colors too!

we have had a bit of a setback at supermaggie headquarters - michael's hard drive melted down! he lost a bunch of work for the fall website and a bunch of his email. fortunately we did not lose any of our customers orders so those should go out on schedule.

2008-07-20T16:07:00.001-05:00

This is a map of our trip - we traveled about 5000 miles!

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2008-07-19T22:53:00.003-05:00

Cows in Nevada
There were lots of cows.

Monument Valley

2008-07-18T01:31:00.002-05:00

Yosemite

Mono Lake

What can I say Yosemite was totally awesome and I took an insane number of pictures. We stayed at White Wolf which is a tiny lodge/camp area away from the main part of the park. It was really nice and the guys that work there were super sweet. We left Yosemite yesterday and went to Mono Lake, then took highway fifty aka the loneliest road to Baker, NV and spent the night there.

there's more to come (monument valley, cows and clouds) but i need to go to bed 'cause we have lot's of driving to do tommorrow!

2008-07-14T13:10:00.002-05:00

the renegade craft fair was really great - we saw lots of our wonderful crafter friends and lots of our super fabulous customers - thanks so much to everyone that came out to support us and all the other vendors!!

now it's on to Yosemite National Park!!

there were so many people!

Mucca Pazza - the most awesome marching band ever - they played at the fair - it was so great!

the building the fair was in.

2008-07-12T09:31:00.003-05:00

We made it to San Francisco! The Renegade Craft Fair is today and we have lots of goodies to offer. We left early Wednesday moring, drove all the way across texas to Las Cruces NM the first day, to twenty nine palms CA the second and we arrived in Sf last night.

Texas went on forever.

A cactus on Southern AZ

I was mightly impressed by this palm tree.

Jodhua Tree National Park was amazing! I think we were the only people there except for the park rangers - it was awesome!

2008-07-08T20:35:00.002-05:00

we have been frantically getting ready for the renegade craft fair in san francisco - it is this saturday and sunday. we are driving! it is a thirty hour drive (about 3 days) and i am looking forward to it because i get to read and stare out the window. we leave tomorrow at five am and hope to make it all the way across texas. then we drive to LA and on to san francisco. i will be posting as we go. i got a new little camera so picture taking should be easier

ps
for all you would be burglars, my brother and his large dog are house sitting so don't even think about it.

Tiger Lily

2008-06-22T17:42:00.001-05:00

2008-06-22T17:41:00.002-05:00

These two lilies started blooming while we were gone. The double tiger lilies are next.

2008-06-22T17:39:00.002-05:00

Supermaggie at the Renegade Craft Fair Brooklyn. There was so much good stuff at the fair - I think it gets better every year. It rained terribly at the end of the first day - thunder, lightning, lots of rain and wind in a swimming pool under a metal tent... not such a good idea. I actually really loved it. One of our racks fell in the wind and a bunch of our t-shirts got wet so I though it would be fun to have a wet t-shirt sale but everything dried out overnight so it wasn't really necessary. The second day was really nice, good weather and lots of people.

We will be at the San Francisco Renegade in a couple weeks - this one will be indoors.

2008-06-22T17:36:00.003-05:00

we like to drive to the craft fairs, i really like road trips and michael really doesn't like to fly plus it's a pain to ship everything. i always take lots of pictures as we are flying down the interstate, most of them are blurry or of trees or eighteen wheelers but this on is pretty cool. this is on the way into manhattan approaching the Lincoln tunnel.
we almost got a flat driving into the city, right before we entered the lincoln tunnel we hit a big pothole and started hearing a clicking noise coming from the front right tire. the next morning michael found a huge bolt with the washer still on it stuck into the tire. we were so lucky it didn't go flat in the tunnel - that would have been terrible. but the tire didn't go flat and luckily we have a full size spare so michael change the tire and all was well.

Alpine Motel

2008-06-22T17:34:00.001-05:00

2008-06-12T19:51:00.002-05:00

we are on our way to the Renegade Craft Fair in Booklyn! we left early this morning and have stopped in Abingdon VA at the Alpine Motel (which is an awesome little retro motel just off I-81 - i will post pictures later). our car is packed to the roof with wonderful goodies to sell this weekend and i can't wait to see everyone.

2008-06-03T21:56:00.002-05:00

The Art Star Craft Bazaar was Awesome!!
We went to Philadelphia over the weekend for the Art Star Craft Bazaar and it was really great - we had lots of fun and sold lots of t-shirts. We have to recover for a couple of days then get ready to head to Brooklyn for the Renegade Craft Fair, it's on 6/14 and 6/15 !

2008-06-03T21:07:00.001-05:00

2008-05-07T21:45:00.002-05:00

I now have a place to paint! Since we moved Supermaggie out of our house and backyard shed, I get the shed to paint in. Yay! It's actually been about five years since I have had time or space to work on any paintings so it will be interesting to see what happens.

2008-05-01T21:32:00.002-05:00

Michael and I went down to the beach last weekend. It was still a bit chilly so neither one of us got in the water but it was nice to sit in the sun, drink a few beers and watch the water.

2008-04-22T21:04:00.002-05:00

Another part of our new fabulous work space - Michael's packing area! This is where Michael packs up all the orders and sends them to our wonderful customers :)

2008-04-22T21:03:00.002-05:00

Our new spacious printing area - we were printing everything in a sweet little shed in our backyard but it was only 192 sq feet and I didn't have enough room to set up all the stations on my press but now we have plenty of room!! Our new printing space is 1400 sq feet :)

2008-04-18T22:55:00.001-05:00

2008-04-18T22:49:00.001-05:00

2008-04-10T22:17:00.002-05:00

My dismantled press for moving day - out of the shed and into our new big workspace:)

2008-04-10T22:14:00.001-05:00

2008-04-01T20:08:00.001-05:00

2008-03-29T16:59:00.006-05:00

pictures of the new work space in progress! we hope to be moved in next weekend.

2008-03-20T08:57:00.002-05:00

Happy Spring!

we are moving Supermaggie into a new building! we have been looking and looking and have finally found space that will work for us. it is only five minutes from our house and i think we got a good deal on the rent :) we have been working out of our house for a long time and the t-shirts have over run everything. the building is very very dirty - we spent yesterday pressure washing the shop area and will start painting soon.

2008-03-11T21:52:00.003-05:00

we got a supernice mention in the Indie Fixx Spring Fashion Guide!

2008-03-06T08:05:00.002-06:00

spring flowers in my yard!

red ranunculus with a foxtail fern behind it.

purple anemomes with some dianthus behind them

pink moss phlox

jonquils

2008-02-16T21:57:00.002-06:00

How cool is this!? Below is Courtney Hunt with Quentin Tarantino behind her, her film "Frozen River" won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for drama, but more importantly she is wearing a Supermaggie T! The Tiger in longsleeve chocolate!

2008-01-23T19:29:00.000-06:00

it turns out i am not such a great blogger, but i have been working very hard on our new stuff for spring. i am going to New York next week for the NYGF and then Las Vegas to do POOL. the shows are really hard work, especially getting everything ready for them, but i enjoy it. i love getting to see the city (even in the dead of winter). we are going to have six new prints, a bunch of new shirt styles and some organic t's for men and women. here is a teeny tiny sneak preview of spring stuff with more to come.

sketchy thoughts from december of new stuff

2008-01-03T11:09:00.001-06:00

we had our first hard freeze here last night and my poor yard did not fair too well. i covered a few plants (my nasturtiums) but decided to let nature take it's course with everything else. the elephant ears and banana plants got the worst of it. the mocking bird wanted me to get the ice out of the bird bath.

2008-01-03T11:06:00.000-06:00

happy new year!

2007-12-21T23:04:00.000-06:00

i've posted these scarves (plus more) on Etsy over the last couple weeks.

2007-12-17T22:53:00.000-06:00

it's been over two years since i have posted on my blog so i thought i might give it another try. right now none of the old pictures work due to a few server changes but michael is working on getting them back. it might be fun to look at some of the old posts once the pics are back.

2005-11-15T13:13:00.000-06:00

Hey! We got a super nice write-up on the Shirt Snob website. Laura Kovacs has a really cute take on stuff and she picks really neat stuff to write about. We're delighted to be mentioned. Check out the site for lots of links :)

Here's us:
Accessory Friday-Supermaggie!
&
Tees from Supermaggie!

and here's a link to the site itself
Shirt Snob

2005-11-15T13:07:00.000-06:00

We just got back from Austin for the Stitch Festival. You're too late to go, but here's the website: www.stitchaustin.com. We had a blast, and saw a bunch of Austin Supermaggie people, and met a lot of new friends :) !

2005-10-18T13:18:00.000-05:00

New Deerhoof album! They are so popular now that they're written up in the New York Times, and you can't squeeze into a show at all. But I'm pretending I don't know any of that.

2005-10-03T13:21:00.001-05:00

Hey! The Renegade Craft Fair in Chicago was a blast. We took the camera, but we only took one photo - of the garden in Wicker Park :)
We met some folks that have gotten stuff from the website and saw a lot of other vendors who have been web pals.
Thank you so much to everyone who braved the rain to come out! And thanks to all the vendors, and to Sue and Katleen for putting it together! We can't wait for the next one. You can see all the info here: www.renegadecraft.com

2005-09-15T08:46:00.001-05:00

Hey! Our new stuff for Fall is up on Supermaggie.com! Special thanks to our new models Amy and Jessie :)

2005-09-05T17:20:00.000-05:00

besides all the good citizens volunteering and taking in the evacuees this is what is happening in baton rouge. maybe we should sell our house and go back to brooklyn...

2005-09-05T10:52:00.000-05:00

the lsu vet school in baton rouge has set up a temporary animal shelter for the pets of the evacuees since they are not being allowed to take their pets to the shelters. click here for info if you want to help out. from what i have heard they are overwhelmed and need a lot of help.

2005-08-31T16:03:00.000-05:00

we are fine - nothing significant happened here just some wind, rain and power outages. if you are trying to call michael or me our phones are not working. as everyone knows new orleans and much of the gulf coast in mississippi is absolutely devastated. please send your good thoughts to them and if you can donate to the red cross or some other reputable charity that can help.

2005-08-29T08:15:00.000-05:00

hurricane katrina is here. we are getting lots of wind and rain but it's not terrible (although i don't think i will be having my coffee outside today). i haven't seen anything big blowing down the street yet. we still have power. i think the plants in my yard are going to be really torn up and there are some birds hiding on our porch. i will try to post a video later.

2005-08-19T14:21:00.001-05:00

We found the weirdest looking spider in the yard. Check out the close up. We should probably put that on a T shirt :)

2005-08-07T19:06:00.001-05:00

It's never too early to get your holiday shopping done :) We're thinking of doing stockings for the holidays this year. Here's a green and red version; below that a white one and a pink one in progress.

2005-08-05T18:19:00.000-05:00

I love Wikipedia. It squared an argument Maggie and I were having about what a certain backyard bug was called. I said Roley Poley and she said Doodlebug. We were both right.

2005-07-27T17:43:00.000-05:00

A gratuitous picture of Joe.

2005-07-27T17:40:00.000-05:00

A wristband sandwich!

2005-07-11T23:04:00.000-05:00

We got a new grill! Check out those grilling peaches. And those odd tiny turnip looking things are really grilling figs.

2005-07-07T09:04:00.000-05:00

Hey all you Supermaggie T shirt people - here's how to fold your T!
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/fold.php

2005-07-06T08:19:00.000-05:00

We took a quick trip to the beach and made Joe practice swimming. He's a natural! He confuses the sand on the beach with snow on the sidewalk though, and takes big bites of it.

2005-06-30T11:51:00.001-05:00

Thanks to everyone who came by and said hello at the Renegade Craft Fair in Brooklyn! We met some really nice folks and fellow crafters. Here's a photo of Maggie and Joe setting up.

The next Renegade Craft Fair is in September in Chicago, and we hope to be there :) More info here. They're talking about a San Francisco one too!

2005-06-02T10:40:00.001-05:00

we made it. after packing all of our worldly possessions into a 16ft budget moving truck, locking the keys in the cab, running out of gas, spending a ridiculous amount of money on gas, driving through the mountains, and eating lots of road trip food we made it to our new home. all of our stuff is still in boxes. it is hot and sunny here - my yard looks like a jungle.

i have been working on some new tank tops (in honor of the hot, sunny weather and my jungle back yard) - they are posted now so check them out.

2005-05-21T08:12:00.000-05:00

michael and i and jo jo are moving - we bought a house down south. we leave on Wednesday 5/25. we are driving a 16 ft moving truck with as much of our stuff we can fit. nyc and brooklyn has been an incredible wonderful place to live for the last eight years but i'm ready for a change. i want a yard and more space and i want to be closer to my family and michael wants to be closer to his. jo jo just wants a yard. i will miss brooklyn and ny so much - i am sad to leave but happy to try something new.

2005-05-14T21:44:00.000-05:00

we are making a few changes to the blog right now - please excuse our awkwardness...

i went to the city today and walked around - i had an iced coffee and grilled sesame bagel with cream cheese from Brew Bar - it is my favorite coffee place.

2005-05-12T21:21:00.000-05:00

Hey! Check this out: hummingbirds in a nest from egg to flight. Very cute. I guess I like birds more than cats :)

2005-05-12T18:13:00.000-05:00

i think the kittens are cute.

2005-05-12T15:19:00.000-05:00

This is either one of the best or one of the worst things on the internet. I can't decide.

UPDATE: Yikes! Make sure to read the comments too.

2005-05-02T22:33:00.001-05:00

Boy, that snake has been up for too long :)

2005-04-22T16:57:00.001-05:00

There's a snake in our backyard! I caught it and took it's picture to try to figure out what kind it is, but I'm stumped, so I let it go :) Leave a comment if you know what kind it is.

2005-03-28T15:31:00.001-06:00

We've just put up some new bead Lariats :) Here are some detail pics

and here's a link

2005-03-22T10:12:00.001-06:00

MMMMMMmmmmm. Tofu/Miso/Broccoli/Noodle Soup!

2005-03-07T10:18:00.001-06:00

We're working on some new flower colors for fall. Here are a Baby in Deep Blue and a Swirl in Raspberry.

2005-03-07T10:09:00.000-06:00

We got a very nice email from Sarah of The Small Object. She has tons of fantastic and supercute stuff for sale over there. Check it out
www.thesmallobject.com

2005-03-07T08:09:00.000-06:00

BoneJour - scarves for dogs. Very cute. This may be a good market to get into :)

2005-02-24T15:34:00.000-06:00

it is snowing!!!!! lots of thick white snow!!! joe loves the snow - he likes to eat it and dig in it and chase snowballs. the first time we took joe to the beach he got confused by the sand. he tried to eat it like he eats the snow.

2005-02-21T20:47:00.001-06:00

We're working on our new Fall line. This is a preview of a new scarf we're calling the Necktie, though we're not sure the name will stick.

2005-02-21T20:18:00.001-06:00

Joe smiling. Maggie thinks I'm posting too many pictures of Joe :)

2005-02-20T21:33:00.000-06:00

we just put up a bunch of new sample sale flowers - time for some almost spring cleaning!

2005-02-14T19:55:00.000-06:00

i don't know if these mannequins are effective sales tools.

2005-02-13T10:26:00.000-06:00

We put a whole bunch of new T's up in the Ones of a Kind section
We've had them in a stack for a little while and finally photographed them :)

2005-02-10T21:59:00.001-06:00

Trying something with video. Press the play button and if it works you should see poor Joe getting a bath...

2005-02-10T21:10:00.001-06:00

It almost looks like this street marker reads Bungalow Land, but it really says Bungalow Lane. It's in the Spanish Town neighborhood in Baton Rouge. It is kindof like Bungalow Land down there.

2005-02-10T20:48:00.000-06:00

We've been working on some new T shirts. This is a photo of the "tag" printed on the inside:

2005-02-05T10:03:00.000-06:00

Fashion tips for men from the Manolo

2005-02-05T10:02:00.000-06:00

How do you like the new green and yellow Supermaggie color scheme? Too soon for Spring?

2005-02-03T14:34:00.000-06:00

We had Green Chard and Potato soup for supper. The close cropping of this photo belies the messiness of the kitchen.

Here's the recipe:
1 Bunch of Green Chard
3-4 Medium Potatoes (Yukon Gold are good)
1 Head Fresh Garlic
1 Qt Stock
2 cups Water
Olive Oil

Peel and cube the potatoes to 1/2"
Wash the chard, cut out the stems, and roughly chop. Keep some long thin pieces as well as some fine confetti pieces.
Roughly chop the garlic, then toss it into the hot oil. I like to saute it very lightly, to the detriment of anyone who gets too close for a while afterward (unless of course they've had the soup too).
When the garlic is done to your liking pour on the water and stock. Homemade stock is good if you've got it. Imagine Foods (terrible name, good products) makes a fabulous one called No-Chicken Stock (that contains no poor chickens). Bring to a boil.
Add potatoes and cook till almost tender
Add the chard and cook uncovered 10 minutes or so

Wah-La! Salt to taste.

2005-02-02T09:00:00.000-06:00

Hello! I'm Michael, the other half of Supermaggie (Maggie being the first half). We're making an effort to keep up with our blog (of course, everyone says that, but we are!). We're thinking we can post cool links and also notes about what we're going to be up to in the future. For instance, we're going to be blogging more (!), and we're changing the website homepage and colors today (once I make all the edits).
Also, we're going to be making a new batch of T's over the weekend so keep your eyes peeled for inventory to change :)
More later.

2004-10-21T12:07:00.001-05:00

we have been so busy with our fall orders!! it's really great. i have been expeimenting with dying silk - i want to do want silk and felt scarves.

i am also working on a new batch of t-shirts - long sleeved and more sizes (finally).
this week i traded with lagustas luscious and the food is super yummy!

2004-10-03T22:27:00.000-05:00

Pack of Rats

2004-07-08T21:01:00.001-05:00

we posted our fall scarves and flowers - we are so busy - although i did take some time to try some new ice cream - ben and jerrys peanut butter cup - it was pretty tasty. Michael and Joe and i went on a road trip a couple of weeks ago - we drove down the Blue Ridge Parkway and we were going to camp but all the campsites were filled with serial killers so we stayed at a sketchy biker motel instead. then we went down to Louisiana to see the families and attend a pre-nup party for my brother. then to Bay St. Louis for lazy beach time. then to Savannah (we were thinking of moving there but it didn't have enough vegetarian food options - it was beautiful though) then we drove to NY from Savannah in one day got back at 2 in the morning and went to bed.

2004-04-01T16:34:00.000-06:00

i want it to be spring.

one of my cousins sent me a big beautiful box filled with food goodies from louisiana. last night i made the 10 bean cajun soup and it was so yummy. it was perfect for this chilly drizzly so called spring.

i have been working on some new flowers (they are up now) and i was calling them trash flowers but alison called them rag flowers so i might change the name.

2004-03-21T14:36:00.000-06:00

today we had some of our friends over for brunch. i made figs stuffed with a goat cheese, chive and pistachio mix, chocolate/pistachio phyllo rolls, coffee cake muffins, wilted spinach salad, and a cheese and leek bread pudding. The bread pudding was really yummy. The wilted spinach salad was more like sauteed (it was still tasty) and everything else was pretty good. We also had bloody marys.

now it is back to the flower making!

2004-03-19T08:26:00.001-06:00

i have been working on some new stuff for next fall...

and after some protest for lack of a picture here is the new do and a before. cutting off long hair is very liberating. i almost went for a pixie cut but maintaining it would have been trouble.

2004-03-16T20:41:00.000-06:00

bad bad bad nasty weather. boooo.

i had a haircut today - now it is very short - i donated my ponytail to Locks of Love

2004-03-07T17:19:00.001-06:00

the new and improved supermaggie is up and hopefully running without any probelms. we have added a FAQ section, t-shirts, and lots of other new stuff. we still have a few things to touch up but it is pretty much done!

the crocus are coming up in the park - that means spring is coming!

2004-03-02T13:51:00.001-06:00

two days in a row!! i had to put these up right away...

chubbies!

2004-03-01T13:00:00.000-06:00

i made chocolate bread last night with the bread machine - all the chocolate chips disappeared... i also made white bread and raisin bread. now i am out of flour and yeast so i will have to stop.

yesterday i went to the new whole foods flagship store at columbus circle. it was a total zoo - so many crazy people and very slow, confused tourists. the weather was really nice - 58 degrees i think - i didn't have to wear a scarf!

we are almost done with the new supermaggie site - it has taken a bit longer then we thought it would - details details....