Terracycle Success

This week I worked about 13 hours and made some negative progress on the camera case. Sherri pretty much told me to abandon the camera case because it is too small of a scale to be sewing on the machines. That is probably good advice seeing as I'm not sure why I was making a camera case in the first place when I want to make laptop cases...sometimes I get sidetracked a bit.

I went to a business school conference on Sustainable Design on friday where the keynote speaker was from Terracycle, Tom Szakey. The company I talked about before that teamed up with Target and Newsweek to make the ReTote bag. I came prepared to the lunch with a sample of my plastic bag bags (gotta work out a better name for them...) I stalked him for about a half hour before his lecture – he was on and off the phone, in and out of the room – because I was a little nervous to approach him. I finally got up the nerve to go up and introduce myself and my idea to him. He was really enthusiastic about it and gave me his card. He told me to email him the laptop case design when it's done and he can pitch the idea to Target! That was a little surreal. I mean he could be all talk, but still, wow. Now I have to figure out how to protect my idea without him stealing it? eek.

Definitely going to log some more studio hours tomorrow because I want to get cooking more on the laptop case!