....InspiringWear

Web site goes live!!!

Ina — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 11:25:31 GMT

Wow!!! this is soooo exciting!!! Our site has now gone live!! Go and have a look!

It will be fully functional (God's Willing!) by the end of august 2008.

Here it is.... www. InspiringWear.com

Till soon!

Youth, Children and Man Tees

Ina — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 17:09:42 GMT

                                                                  "I am Extremely Rich"
                                                               in Navy and Black Man style Tees

Have been working on the Website for hours now and do hope something will be available for you to soon be able to purchase your Tees....Even if at first it is something extremely simple! Well....fingers crossed!

Here are some pictures of our Male models taken today. What do you think?

They are showing some of the available colors in the different designs and in Youth as well as in Man styles. They are 17 and 18 so the largest Youth Tee fits them... 5 of the styles are Youth and Children and 6 are Men styles.

What do you think? Do share please! Hope the ladies styles will be displayed soon as well

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you Aaron and Erfan! You made our InspiringWear look even better! You did an amazing job and both look great!

Hope you enjoy your Tees as well

Hasta pronto

InspiringWear goes to Market - Aotea Square :):)

Ina — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 16:47:53 GMT

            It has been such an important weekend!

One I have been waiting for quite a while and we were now ready to make it a reality!

InspiringWear has, now, (hopefully!) a permanent position in the Central Aotea Square Market in Auckland, NZ.

Here are some historical pictures for you to partake of this event. Camera was not at its best performance but did the trick.

See you there if you are in Auckland It takes place Fridays and Saturdays from 10am -5pm.



          A side view from our tent. Pretty clean looking. That is the aim as it is all about the designs. Choose the one and we'll get it in your size



                         "We are all set up to go! Roll on!"



And the day was saved by....Ivo! Our top driver, assistant, helper, carrier, food provider and everything else! What I would have done without you!!!??!!! Heaps of thank!

WEll....See you guys next weekend and God's willing some sort of website, where you will be able to trade, will be ready this coming week! (God's willing I said, right! )

Thanks for you support as always!

No hay mal que por bien no venga .... (Everything happens for a reason!)

Ina — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:24:34 GMT

                                                www.InspiringWear.com

About 30 minutes ago I called our web-designer to make an appointment so we can finish the website and take it live in a few days....

I have been telling the world "Real soon we will have a shop-front where you can purchase our InspiringWear..." since December...

Well.....I got a cold shower...yet another delay is inevitable!

We have to start again. Yes, again! A new!....Paul got an unexpected change in circumstances and can not continue with the site!

....life just happens doesn't it? Once again the virtues of flexibility and patience aught to be displayed.

Yes, I was quite shocked and all this was totally unexpected. However, the thought of the above saying "No hay mal que por bien no venga" (in Spanish), "Vsjako zlo za dobro" (in Bulgarian) and "Everything happens for a reason" (in English) came to mind at once!

I like the Spanish and Bulgarian versions better as I find them more graphical. They literally translate into "Everything bad happens for good" ..... I am taking this on and am already looking for the good that will come up!

May be you know some great web-designer? Or someone talented that is just starting?

Please, pass the word and get back to me ... in the meantime I am already contacting some people and am actively looking for the opportunities that will arise from all this!

I am actively looking for the blessings in disguise ...

Keep us in your prayers, please!

P.S.

I know, this is not quite a calamity but here is a favorite quote of mine....let me keep it in mind...

                                "O SON OF MAN!

                                My calamity is My providence, outwardly it is fire and vengeance, but inwardly it is light and mercy. Hasten thereunto that thou mayest become an eternal light and an immortal spirit. This is My command unto thee, do thou observe it."  (Baha'u'llah, The Arabic Hidden Words)

some of our children's designs exposed

Ina — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 10:59:03 GMT

                            Hurray! A dream come true!

Here are some picture of our first children wear. I have been looking forward to this for sooooo long but didn't seam to find the right Tees...

Please share your views! Suggestions, observation, opinions are all welcomed!

The designs are the same as in the adult collection and check here for the philosophy behind....

The fit is loose and there are several colors in each design. The sizes could vary as the kids vary from country to country and my estimation of age is for large children rather than small ones.



                                        We all have faith, dreams, power 2 create. I use it!
                                    (also available in sand color for boys 6-14 years old)


                                                    "I love, I am loved, I am happy" in English, Chinese and Russian
                                                (Available in pink also for 4-14 years old)



                            "I am Immersed in the Sea of Love, I swim in the Ocean of Gratitude"
                                    (Available in a few different shades of blue Unisex for 4-14 years old)


                                            " I am extremely rich" + 9 capacities in the stones
                    (Available in charcoal gray, military green with Golden letters Unisex for 6-14 years old)




                                            "World Peace is Inevitable, it starts from within"
                                      (Available in a bright royal blue Unisex for 6-14 years old)



                                "DNA"
(Available also in Kelly green Unisex for 6-14 years old)

                                                                                               (And a sneak preview of 1 of the 15 Lady ones....)

A few more children's Tees available and will show you soon...

Exciting moments and bright future

Ina — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:05:06 GMT

          I Love, I am Loved, I am Happy in 3 languages                                                                           Our DNA

                    Yes, it is a very exciting day here at InspiringWear!!!

Our second lot of Tees is out and literally still hot from the press!

The results are awesome and I am so happy that the many months of creation, design work, careful selection of materia prima (the actual Tees we use) and patience has given such marvelous fruits! I can not choose what one to wear, honestly!

We now have out of the 5 new designs

15 new models/styles for Children and Youth Tees
15 new models/ styles for Ladies + the 9 already existing ones making a total of 24 styles of Ladies Tees
6 new models/styles for Man + 10 already existing ones making total of 16 styles of Man's Tees

All that is left now is for more people to enjoy, wear and share our designs and vision. Please, help us with that! Share InspiringWear with your friends and may this idea prosper and spread!

I am hoping that the website will be functional and running rather soon. The structure seams to be completed and my hope is that by the beginning of May it should be fully functional. The meeting with our gifted designer Paul is to be held in the next couple of days and fingers crossed....you can get your InspiringWear on line real soon!

The plans are that in a week or two you will be able to see the Tees on more of our fantastic models.

Thank you all who are part of this project so very much!

A special thank you to Mike Murnane and his boys who plaid a very important part in our team but who unfortunately shall not be part of it anymore! You guys and all your contribution will be missed and I wish you all the very best! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

Be back real soon

Rounding up the Facebook bit...

Ina — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:04:51 GMT

I know! It has been somewhat a long time since I last wrote here....

Well....life just happens and at times there are other "matters" one has to attend to I wouldn't say life spun me I would rather say "I was spinning Life", doing things that required my attention more than my blog...It happens you know

...But here I am again. Whole, happy, fulfilled and inspired, grateful to you all who are part of my life in a quiet or in a more loudish sort of a way

This Social Media Mega Project has been a very interesting and enriching experience and thanks to all the participant and of course, Vivien from InspirationBit, our Organizer, I think it was and it is a success.

Why a success?

These are 8 things (going to name 8 in honor of Vivien as she loves this number!) I know made it a personal success for all the participants and us hosts:

WE all learned something about hosting a Group Writing project (most of us for the first time!) and surely will be able to share the lessons we've learned with each other and with the world
WE all learned important things about the Social Media Sites we didn't know before
WE were each able to apply some of the things we learned on our own account or from the other participants
WE all increased our network of people
WE all welcomed new visitors (some of whom have become friends) to our Blogs who otherwise might have never been attracted to us
WE all got the opportunity to form a new working relationship with people we might have never been able to meet in any other way
WE all learned something of how to communicate with folks from all over the world whilst focusing on a specific common goal without even knowing each other in person
I personally had to opportunity to hear and learn about and of Social Media sites I might have never even bothered to visit. (How come? Well... PCs and I have got an intimate relationship going on but I still prefer spending more time with real people or doing something physically challenging then sit in front of my LapTop surfing the net )

Furthermore, I'd like to thank from the bottom of my heart all of you people out there who contributed generously with your thoughts, time, articles and intention to this project.

Thank you all who submitted your invaluable articles to us here at InspiringWear and to all the other participants and hosts.

This has been something Totally new and Totally different for me and I personally learned so much from you all!

Please, visit and learn from all the articles our friends submitted to us here at InspiringWear:

Gobala Krishnan from Easy World Press the article Getting Blog Traffic From Your Facebook Profile
Simon from Yeepage.com shares his view of Top 9 Facebook Applications
Jacob Share from JobMob offers us his article-review I'm on Facebook - Now what?
Jeremy Lim from Marketing Ruined My Live brings us a very interesting, youthful, point of view in Facebook Ruined My(Social) Life
Vivien from InspirationBit shared with us an interview on Social Media as a New Way of Doing Business .

Inspired by what I learned from Vivien's Interview I went and installed BlogFlog to my Facebook and found another 2 friends of mine who have that application. One of them

Vahid, has written an article on Facebook in his Blog http://internetseeker.blogspot.com/ on "How to keep in touch with my friends? Facebook" and here it is (in Spanish): Como Hago Para estar En Contacto Con Mis Amigos? Facebook

On the other hand, I was reading the latest issue of "Oprah Magazine" and there was an article on Facebook as well You'veBeenPoked! by By Liesl Schillinger

It is soooo growing (the whole Social Media thing!).

I think our need for Intimacy as humans is driving us to the Social Media Sites and we are learning about Intimacy on line. Hopefully this one will assist us and give us courage to start practicing Intimacy in real life. This is the key

(Now, let me clarify, by Intimacy I mean establishing meaningful human relationships where one feels free to share thoughts, feelings, emotions and other stuff only humans are capable of! Very few of us are skillful at doing that in life (I believe) and most of our disappointments come mostly from confusing true Intimacy with being physical with someone... I've gone astray here from the topic somewhat so...)

Thank you all and see you here again soon!

Social Media Mega Project News

Ina — Thu, 21 Feb 2008 22:31:36 GMT

  We've been waiting for you!
                                         What's up between you and Facebook!
                     Tell us!
                                          We wanna know, hear, partake, share, learn!
   Be generous!

Thank you everyone who has very graciously submitted their entries to our Social media project! It has enriched all of us readers and I am sure you authors as well.

Our very valuable participants so far in the Facebook part of the project are:

Gobala Krishnan from Easy World Press the article Getting Blog Traffic From Your Facebook Profile
Simon from Yeepage.com shares his view of Top 9 Facebook Applications
Jacob Share from JobMob offeres us his article-review I'm on Facebook - Now what?
Jeremy Lim from Marketing Ruined My Live brings us a very interesting, youthful, point of view in Facebook Ruined My(Social) Life

Now, Vivien, our coordinator-organizer from Inspiration Bit has announced (with the unanimous support of us all) an extension of the deadlines so you all have some more time to get ready and share with us your knowledge and insight from these Social Media sites.

del.icio.us. Host: Aaron Stroud at On Financial Success
Facebook. Host: Ina at Inspiring Wear
Flickr & Zooomr (or anything photography related). Host: Brian Auer at Epic Edits
Twitter, LinkedIn. Host: Isabella Mori at Change Therapy and Alphablogs
StumbleUpon, YouTube, MySpace. Host: Karen Zara at a1-fan-fun
Sphinn. Host Simonne at All Tips And Tricks
Second Life. Host Dandellion at Living in the Metaverse
Mixx, Propeller (formerly known as Netscape), Squidoo. Host: Pearl at Fresh Perspectives
Sk*rt, Blogging Zoom, Bvibes. Host: JHS at Colloquium
Technorati. Host: Monica at Me Like The Interweb
Digg and Reddit. Host: Vivien at Inspiration Bit

For all the rest of the details go here.

Please refer anyone you know, weather a wiz in any of these sites or simply a starter trying to get a notion of how they work, to one of our co-hosts. We and others would love to hear it all (or parts).

So the new (Re-newed) project time line is:

Start Date: Monday, January 21st
End Date: Saturday, March 22nd
Results Publication Date: Monday, March 24th
Final Collaborative Results will be published on Inspiration Bit on Friday, March 28th

Wishing you much inspiration and focus (and time to write) !

New InspiringWear designs

Ina — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 16:34:06 GMT

Last week and the week before were extremely exciting.

Paul (our graphic designer) and I put 4 new designs together and polished an existing one.

This has given me such a lift and I can't wait for them to be printed!

The challenge is to find Tees we like with interesting colors and styles that complement the designs.

That might look like an easy task but it is quite a challenge, believe me However, I think this has also been resolved and would be taking Tees to the printers soon and you will soon be able to own them! Yuppy!

Here are the designs. Please share your opinion! Would appreciate it very much!

                                            I am Extremely Rich!

                                                "Happiness" collection

The main inspiration for this was the following quote by Baha'u'llah
:

"Man is a mine rich in gems of Inestimable Value." and then goes on to say" Education can alone cause it to reveal it's treasures and Enable mankind to benefit therefrom."

I memorized it 15 years ago and have been in love with it ever since....

It is extremely common in our world that money and material possessions are considered to be the sign for prosperity, happiness and richness.

This design is meant to focus our attention to other, more important riches, the only riches we can "take with us" anywhere we go (including the next world . The writing is meant to be read by the one who wears it hence the "reverse" view

It is important to point out that the print will be in Gold foil and will be much more striking as it will occupy the whole front of the Tee.



The precious stones say: Vision, Love, Ideas, Choices, Dreams, Powers, Capacities, Trust, Courage

                                                   Our DNA

                                           ( "Education" Collection)

This design was inspired by the same quote as the "I am Extremely rich" design and the catalyzer was a film "The Biology of Believe" by Bruce Lipton Ph.D.The just Lipton's findings is that our Perception of the world around influences our reality as deep as the nucleus of the cell where the DNA is. Our Perception of the world around us affects our cells and from there DNA profusely .

(the theory is far too complex for me to explain so you may wish to read the book or see the film.)

So I thought "...if more of us actually believed the fact that "Man is a mine rich in gems" and that only Education can help us benefit from those gems (discover them), then, here, let us put words together that represent some of our human capacities, abilities, virtues and weave them into the DNA structure!"

Further, by studying theories such as the one by Bruce Lipton Ph.D., we can learn and take better advantage of our Unique Human Nature, and discover our Gems! Science is an extremely important part of our lives!

                                So, in celebration of our True Human Nature comes this:



The words on the DNA are: Moderation, Wisdom, Love, Perseverance, Compassion, Creativity, Dreams, Truthfulness, Determination, Trust, Faith, Imagination Forgiveness, Choices, Courage, Generosity

(The other DNA-s are just a repetition of the first, same as our cells, similar but different )

                               I Love, I am Loved, I am Happy

                                          ("Unity" collection)

I've always wanted to do a design with different languages and here is the first one...

The words will give us an affirmation and focus our attention to all the love we have around us.

One of the quotes that has inspired this design is: "Love me that I may love thee, if thou lovest Me not, My Love can in no wise reach thee." by Baha'u'llah

Although this is telling us that if we don't love God His love will not reach us I feel that even amongst humans, no one's love can reach us (affect us) unless we love them. So the first step is to love and then we will feel all the love that surrounds us and Be happy!



                           Ocean of Love - Sea of Gratitude

                                ("Simply Inspiration" collection)

I can not think of a particular quote that has inspired this design but it's roots are definely in what I've read in sooooo many places during most of my conscious live....

The words of this particular design came about during my morning meditation the day I was to meet Paul and put the rest of the designs from the paper draft onto a PC format....



                                                    Time
                                              ( "Love" Collection)

The actual look of this design is "hidden" at the moment...will give it to you soon....

The quote that has inspired it has been with me for over 12-13 years and I absolutely love it!!!

It says: "When there is love, there is always time and nothing is too much trouble." by Abdu'l-'Baha

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Hope you have enjoyed our new creations and look forward to feed back.

Be happy!

Facebook articles

Ina — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:45:36 GMT

Thank you all who have already contributed with your articles to our Project and to all those who are working on something to contribute to it

There have been some interesting articles so far and here they are in a nutshell:

Gobala Krishnan from Easy World Press the article Getting Blog Traffic From Your Facebook Profile
Simon from Yeepage.com comes Top 9 Facebook Applications

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One of the different experiences I've had over the last couple of weeks with Facebook was with a group I was invited to join: SalsaDance.co.nz - Auckland. The group is intended for News and Event invitations for salsa events here in Auckland, NZ. Dance is one of my hobbies and passions so I like to keep up with what's happening.

I do participate in other groups as well but this one has been the most interactive one so far. I was able to confirm attendance to a certain event I was invited to and see who else was coming or wanted to come! I found this extremely fun, handy and convenient!

Can't give you intricate advice on how to use the Group application but would highly recommend it if you have an interest and want to keep up seamlessly with people who share it - get a group formed.

Thanks for being there and until the next time.
I'll share some more discoveries of mine on Facebook or something on our new designs that have me toooooo excited Yes, got to show them to you and share the inspiration for them....soon.....