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- Sweetness! Sweet Jayne: designer threads, $18 and under.
OK, so it isn’t organic and it isn’t strictly beauty, but anything that will help me with my fashion fix through the big “R” is welcome in my book. Sweet Jayne opened last month in Portland at 1916 NE Broadway (in the basement under Sofa, Table, Chair). SJ is open weekends only, Saturdays 11-6 and [...]
- My shopping vow- kablooey!
Well, what can I say except I totally knowingly and willingly blew it. I put away all my spring/summer clothes and stared at a closet that was virtually bare. I’ve been doing a good job of passing on the things I don’t actively wear, and there wasn’t much left behind. I went out and bought [...]
- Month One: No New Clothes?
It has been a full month since I took my vow of “no new clothes.” How have I done? I bought a pair of boots that were “allowed” under the terms of the original vow. They will keep my feet dry and comfy while walking around Portland (and Kyoto!) this winter.
I also bought a new [...]
- One year, no new clothes: My crazy pledge
Ok- so one of my customers (Traci) just told me that she and her friend have pledged to buy no new clothes for an entire year. Wow. I am excited and terrified, but I am joining their bandwagon. I am a clothes whore. No new shoes seems especially painful, but I will save a fortune! [...]
- It’s nuts, I tell you.
For the past several days, I’ve had a bitter taste in my mouth. No, not my usual metaphorical bitter taste, but an actual bitter taste. Every time I eat or drink, my mouth tastes like I just rinsed it with grapefruit dish washing soap. As my mom would say, “Ish!”. I [...]
- 30 something…(rock and roll will never die)
I went to see The Kooks last night at the Wonder Ballroom here in P-town with a former house mate and old friend. Good show with an adorable (and o-so baby faced) opening band from Berkeley, The Morning Benders. I was highly amused but somewhat taken aback by the non-ironic Beatles-style screaming the young ladies [...]
- May Day
Happy May Day. When I was a kid living in Nebraska, we used to actually deliver may baskets to our friends. We would line a green plastic strawberry basket with a paper napkin, add a pipe cleaner handle, and fill it with popcorn and candy and leave it on a friend’s front step. It was [...]