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Lily Atelier in Camas … you know the other side of the River? Owner Dawn Stanchfield is an incredible buyer. I was there last Monday checking out all the cute little boutiques downtown. I asked Dawn where she goes to market and her answer was the same as most other clothing boutiques in Portland. She shops in [...]
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Do you have walls with cracks, holes and and/or walls that could use a disguise? I had walls like that in a couple of houses I’ve owned. If I’d had access to The Design Public Outlet I could have transformed them with Modern Wallpaper by Inhabit. This wallpaper is incredible. It comes in 18×18 inch wall [...]
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OMYGOD. I haven’t blogged in five days. FIVE DAYS??? And I haven’t even been on vacation or anything. Well, not really. I did clean off my desk one day. And another day was spent preparing a pitch for a new client. Other than that, I can’t account for my time. Crying out loud. That’s scary. [...]
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I’m so easily impressed. Answered my cell this afternoon and barked into it as usual, antcipating another sales person that won’t leave me alone and caller was Mark Schwartz (shoes as art) thanking me for the blog I did yesterday and he’d noticed I hadn’t put a link to his blog. Mea culpa! Somehow [...]
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Oh this is too much! How could anyone love CSI this much? It’s the crime scene tape scarf with the words “Crime Scene DO NOT CROSS” boldly emblazoned across it. Bad bad bad idea. You can also use the scarf to scare the crap out of your housemates when they come home late and see it wrapped [...]
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I was listening to Krista Colvin’s O Myth Blog Talk Radio show – “The Smart Women’s Guide to Doing It All.” Love Krista. She has a home-based business called Organize in Style and a web organize your own self business called theSheBang! Good stuff! Great ideas on organizing. She’s helped me a lot. She lives in [...]
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Hurry, run, quickly, as fast as you can …. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to catch one of Leanne Marshall’s by-now-famous designs at Seaplane or Foundation Garments here in Portland. If you do happen to see one of Marshall’s designs, grab it up and buy it before someone else beats you to it. I [...]
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Fabulous photographer. Don’t know where I was or what I was doing but I came across this freelance photographer and I was very impressed. Check out her portfolio if you like. Her name is Jill Johnson and I think it was her photo of Kitty Wigs that I initially saw. Ah… life is too short [...]
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It’s opening night of Portland Fashion Week tonight at 14 Square (1330 NW Overton) with Icebreaker kicking off the festivities along with a production dreamed up by the Art Institute of Portland. The alumni of AI will reveal their repurposed graduation duds aka the “little black dress” contest. The first ever all-green fashion show – [...]
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Just got a note from Amy Hollands at Poppy & Ivy on NE Fremont. She’s going to be open seven days a week! Now open Sundays and Mondays. Cool. It seems like it’s always Sunday afternoon when I’m on NE Fremont down there by Whole Foods and that restaurant on the corner that I can’t [...]
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OMG – Rosie is back! Well she’s going to be back on the night before Thanksgiving. NBC is giving her a variety show! I thought that genre had died its final death by no interest? I just can’t see Rosie getting much out of that type of show. She’ll only be on there to introduce [...]
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Today and tomorrow – Dress For Success Benefit Used Clothing Sale at Acey’s Closed in the Hollywood neighborhood at the corner of NE Sandy and 37th (next door to the aforementioned store). Today 10-5 p.m. and tomorrow from 12-4. Meet me there! Suits are $25, Jacekts for $15 and blouses, pants and skirts are $10 [...]
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The Secret Life of Bees … Remember how good the book? By Sue Monk Kidd? Loved reading that book. It was one of those you wish would keeping going on for another 300 pages! The movie has Dakota Fanning and Queen Latifah. Comes out first week in October. The Queen has lost 20 lbs on [...]
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I can hardly wait. It’s 1.5 hours and counting! I’ll be watching the debate and twittering …. Tweeting? Current and Twitter are teaming up so you can tweet and watch at the same time. Does it get any better than this? If you’re in Portland (OR) you can join others to see the debate at the Baghdad Theatre [...]
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Calvin Klein. Need I say more. I was looking online the other day at their jackets and came across this three-quarter length sleeve, black jacket on sale for $124.60. Nice very nice. Great for fall with the shorter sleeves.It’s really different. I like it. If you miss the sleeves you could always add those long [...]
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