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SUMMERANA MAGAZINE |October 2018 |The "Fall" Issue

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<strong>SUMMERANA</strong><br />

<strong>MAGAZINE</strong><br />

And I’m obsessed with watercolor fabric. I work with<br />

artists to create exclusive designs, so I’ll commission<br />

them to make a watercolor painting, and I’ll just give<br />

them a general color palette and theme, and then they<br />

create a painting that we then transfer to fabric, which I<br />

then make into a dress. So I guess we’re getting inspiration<br />

from each other, and that’s my favorite.<br />

Image courtesy of:<br />

Regina Moneypenny Photography<br />

Dresses: Little Dreamers Tutus<br />

Model: Briana Marie Munoz<br />

Words to live by?<br />

“Never let anyone keep you down. Never give up.”<br />

If I didn’t live by those words I wouldn’t be where I am<br />

today. Everyone, especially our families, thought we<br />

were crazy when we started this business 10 years ago.<br />

Because it’s scary to not have a “secure” job with health<br />

insurance and a regular schedule, but I wouldn’t go back<br />

and I wouldn’t change a thing. It was so much hard<br />

work getting here, but here we are and it’s a wonderful<br />

place to be.<br />

What's your favorite season and why?<br />

26<br />

Fall, because October is my favorite color. And I love<br />

sweater weather, and when there’s a nip in the air.<br />

Coffee or Tea?<br />

Neither. I’m a Dr. Pepper addict.<br />

Image courtesy of:<br />

Regina Moneypenny Photography<br />

Dresses: Little Dreamers Tutus<br />

Model: Marilyn Nicole Magana<br />

Early mornings or late nights?<br />

Definitely early mornings. I love getting up when it’s just<br />

starting to get light and everyone else is still sleeping and<br />

everything is quiet. I get my best ideas in the morning.<br />

And I get super grumpy when I’m tired so staying up late<br />

is a no-go!<br />

What is one thing You can you find wish Little you Dreamers knew when Tutus here:<br />

www.littledreamerstutus.comF<br />

you started your business?<br />

FB: Little Dreamers Tutus<br />

IG: @whitney_littledreamerstutus<br />

Well I didn’t know anything when we started this, I was<br />

a photographer major in college, I hadn’t taken a single<br />

business class, and my sewing skills are totally<br />

self-taught, so there was a lot I wish I knew! Probably<br />

the most important thing I’ve learned, which is the same<br />

as the one thing I wish I knew, is that it’s okay to accept<br />

help and that you don’t have to do it all on your own.<br />

That was something that was really hard for me to<br />

accept, and to be honest, is still something I’m working<br />

on. If you work with others who have been where you’re<br />

at you get farther and grow faster and have a community<br />

of support around you. I fall into the trap of thinking that<br />

no one is going to do it as well as I am because no one<br />

cares as much as I do about my business, and that’s not<br />

true. I believe the world wants you to succeed, and I believe<br />

that everyone can succeed, that there’s an endless<br />

amount of opportunities to be had, you just have to<br />

work for it

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