She Became An Award-Winning Fashion Designer At Home by Rick London

Thanks to newly-transplanted (to Hot Springs, Ar from Portland Oregon) Lee Hiller, her camera, U.S. Keds, and the U.S. Post Office, Hot Springs is turning a lot of heads nationwide and even worldwide. Though Keds and USPS's online associate Zazzle where Hiller houses her online shop.

A whole section has been devoted to Hot Springs architecture in photographs on products such as real U.S. Keds, real U.S. Postage stamps and matching cards, tees and caps, and many other gifts and collectibles, all featuring various Hot Springs landmarks from details on the Quapaw Bathhouse to some obscure tile on the Maurice Bathhouse, to a very noticeable green door that has stood for years across Central Avenue from all the bathhouses that made Hot Springs famous.

Hiller is not stopping at the downtown area either, though that is where she resides. Hiller is a lover of wildlife and plans trips to Lake Katherine in hopes of capturing some of the deer eating from her hand, and plans hikes up the mountain to the tower, and all the wildlife that it has to offer.

She has captured the outside of Capone's Bar on Central, the Arlington Hotel, and plans products from The Ozark Bathhouse (now MOCA; The Museum Of Contemporary Art) which recently featured the huge gold grenade which she has photographed and added to a variety of collectible gifts such as tees, Keds, greeting cards and even mouse pads. Her near-future plans is to capture the natural beauty of Hot Springs including wildlife, nature trails, lakes and rivers, and city events, including Christmas decorations, all to be included in her product line where she proudly showcases Hot Springs, Ar. which she considers her home and "newly discovered southern self".

Hot Springs, known as America's fastest growing small arts community, sits in the epicenter of what physicists and scientists call "an energy vortex" cradled in the center of a beautiful valley which spews thermal hot healing mineral water attracting millions of tourists worldwide annually.

According to Google and MSN rankings Hiller has been America's Favorite Love Columnist for most of 2009 at her LeeHiller.com love advice site.

As of this writing Lee Hiller Designs shop contains over 5000 gorgeous gifts & collectibles, with nearly 1000 of them being womens designer shoes and nearly 200 real U.S. postage stamps.

About the Author

Rick London is founder of Google and MSN's #1 ranked offbeat cartoon Londons Times Cartoons and its peripheral online stores selling funny gifts and does product reviews such as this one on stores selling online gifts.