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today is the 1 year anniversary of simplyolive


a little history:

it was started to be a promotional / informative companion to the website my partner & i were going to create to sell our designs. (truthfully, i was a bit leery about doing a blog -- if it had to be done, all i knew is that i didn't want it to be about what i ate for dinner or what the dogs did all afternoon -- even though my 1st post featured a hand knit dog cowl on henry, who now lives with my ex-boyfriend in chicago. . . i also didn't want the blog to be too personal -- so please forgive me today. . .) it also was to be written as if "olive" was 1 person, which was difficult at times, with both of us living in 2 different countries.

the website was going to be called olivebrown -- a name i had written down & filed away for the appropriate moment. (olive green & chocolate brown are 2 of my favorite colors -- i have a yarn stash to prove it!) we both liked that it sounded like a woman's name, since neither 1 of us wanted to use our own name or a combination of our names.

as for the blog name, we spent a lot of time brainstorming & finally came up with simplyolive, which seemed to work with our love of clean contemporary design. (in case you were wondering how the title came about.)

after a few months of posting, a trip to italy to finally have a "business" meeting with sheri, & a bit more posting & discussing of the website, a difference of opinion occurred, & we parted ways. (we have, however, remained friends.) thankfully, i got to keep olive, & she has continued to pursue her love of writing (& knitting.)

so. . .
i'd just like to thank all of you who have read my blog & left such lovely comments in the past year. it has been great getting to know all of my fellow bloggers. you all inspire me in one way or another.

xo
!
ps:1 olivebrown will still be my design label,
.......she'll just be on etsy. . . very soon
.......& also here

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