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I have to get out of the house and start shopping. I’m nearly ready for the holidays … I desperately need to do some retail therapy for myself. Did I mention Nordstrom’s is having their half-yearly clearance sale? Bonus – Clinique is having their gift with purchase sale! You know you love all those mini [...]
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I wasn’t shopping today until I came across (while cleaning out my email I’m innocent here I tell you) a blurb from Garnish (one of the best NE Alberta has to offer) about their 50% off silk sale. How can you not answer a 50% off silk sale? Excluding wedding dresses and slips of course. [...]
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Have you seen the documentary – and I use the term loosely – called Whopper Virgins? It’s about people from around the world who have never seen, tasted and/or heard of a Burger King Whopper or a Big Mac. Seriously. Watch it … it’s aahhhhh interesting. http://www.whoppervirgins.com/
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Yes I know. Kind of confusing. Have you seen the Flor carpet squares? I’ll drop in samples of the different varieties as we speak. tehe. Form and function. You can look at all the variances all day long (which you can catalog now.) Well they’re not all squares. They came out in 2003 and I wrote [...]
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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 [...]
Filed under: Miscellaneous, NE Broadway, Shopping Neighborhoods | Tagged: blog, collectibles, Fremont, Poppy & Ivy, shop, vintage | Leave a Comment »
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 love love love Greenloop. I always forget they’re right here in Portland because they have such a fabulous web site. They carry Toggery t-shirts and Raw Earth Wild Sky shirts (don’t you love this one? I even love the colors). For the next 5 days take 25 percent off all mens and womens [...]
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Oh how I hate to be cold. Which I’m not, actually. Portland is seeing the big dog days of late summer. But I was shopping online … imagine your surprise … and had to show off these three four coats at Nordies. Check them out: This Houndstooth jacket is by Sola & Kyo sells for $350. This [...]
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“To find in ourselves what makes life worth living is risky business, for it means that once we know we must seek it. It also means that without it life will be valueless.” - Marsha Sinetar Tonight is lower NE Fremont’s Art Walk and Sidewalk Sale including Poppy & Ivy, County Cork, La Bodega, Acadia and [...]
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If you you love the song, you’ll probably love the store. It’s not just a song by Kenny Loggins but a home décor, furniture, haute couture furnishings store in Troutdale and they’re having their fall sale. Love the store. Note to self- must get out there next week! Through Oct. 12 there’s up to 20% savings. [...]
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“When you’re following your energy and doing what you want all the time, the distinction between work and play dissolves.” - Shakti Gawain It’s Chumby dammit! Well, that had to be said. You know instead of It’s Gumby … well if I have to explain it… heavy sigh. Have you seen the Chumby? It’s the [...]
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How did that creep up on us? OK me. Yes, in fact, it is. In New York. Which seems so very far away here in Portland. If you don’t read Cathy Horyn’s NY Times Fashion Editor’s blog … well what can I say. She’s the go to woman for NY Fashion. But there’s a piece [...]
Filed under: Fashion Week, Portland Fashion Week | Tagged: Alice Dobson, blog, Cathy Horyn, Fashion Week, Lucia, NY Times, Sofada | 1 Comment »
“Outside of a dog, a book is a man’s best friend. Inside a dog, it’s too dark to read.” -Groucho Marx Love that quote. Speaking of dogs – this weekend is the Tour de Lab – a benefit for Portland’s DoveLewis Animal Hospital. The benefit is a 18 or 30-mile bicycle tour to the three Lucky [...]
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I’m dedicating this post to my darling daughter Suzanne who is the queen of the clean and the uber-organized among us all. I’m sure part of her motivation is OCD and another part psyche but she’s been this way ever since she was a toddler. I’m sure one of her first words was disgusting. She [...]
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Honestly, do designers think women can wear those four-inch heels and still walk when we’re over the age of 30? Crying out loud. For some reason though I still secretly crave wearing them, but just can’t walk more than 50 feet in most of them. Silly … I’m just saying. My Fashion Life has a [...]
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Don’t we love to love Martha … or at least dish about her. It was cupcake week on the Martha Stewart Show. Who needs that kind of harrassment? I almost got in my car and headed down to St. Cupcake. And it’s Friday even so they have those red choclatey ahhh…. the red velvet cupcakes! They [...]
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Yeah yahoo! Thanks to my brother Greg – I’m finally blogging again. Not exactly shopping and writing yet. But writing. OMG I’ve missed writing about shopping. I’ve been doing wedding (son getting married) stuff … going to Spokane for the bridal shower, buying a dress (I finally found one at David’s Bridal of all places [...]
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