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You Slacker.

Friday, December 17th, 2010

If you’re anything like us, you haven’t done ANY Christmas shopping.  None.  If you’re a lot like us, you’ve also been working 12-14 hour days, so you don’t feel particularly beat up about it either.  But guys: Christmas is breathing down your neck.  Can you feel the chill?  Why not kill a few birds with one stone tonight?  Allow me to enumerate the birds:

1. jewelry
2. complementary booze
3. free gift wrapping
4. avoiding wandering aimlessly around the mall on 12/24 in a cold sweat.
5. making at least one special lady in your life very, VERY happy.

This evening, stop by Uncommon Jewels, where yours truly and six other high-profile Portland jewelry designers (Alisha Louise, Amy Bengtson, grayling, Lauren Harkness, Sahlia, and stone + honey) will push your gifting across the goal line.  The deets:

Olympic Mills Building
107 SE Washington Street
Portland, OR
3pm-9pm

*Major credit cards accepted.

Etsy Surprise!

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

So let me just start this off by saying I promise this will be the last “OMG I LOVE MY iPHONE” post for the next little bit.  Promise.

This morning, as I was toweling off, W hollered from the living room “Cross! You have to see this!”  And then he totally opened the bathroom door without knocking and I was like OMG, W!  Wut r U doing?!?!

Ok, that last part isn’t true.  But he did pop the bubble of my steamy post-shower sanctuary (maybe my favorite part about a shower) gripping his iPhone and grinning.  ”Look,” he said.  And this is what he showed me:

For the uninitiated, this is a screen shot from the Apple App Store.  It is an Etsy app.  And THAT’S ME in the Etsy App!  How cool is that?!  26OliveStreet has 4554 people who have hearted them and I just happen to be frozen in digital ice time?  How the?!

And that was my Friday morning!  Before coffee even.

***Song of the moment: Sleepyhead, by Passion Pit***

Things that are Cool on Friday: Studio Texture.

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

a large, colorful, gritty, textured window into my delightful daily world:

Oh little lovelies, have GLORIOUS weekends!!

xo~betsy

***Song of the Moment: I Say Fever, by Ramona Falls***

Things that are Cool on Friday: fresh vegetables and pregnant men.

Friday, March 26th, 2010

My sweet sis-in-law gave us 4 deliveries of fresh veggies, fresh eggs, fresh bread, fresh cheese and whatever other fresh goodness local Hood River Organic farm wanted to share with us.  I was GIDDY with excitement over this generous Christmas gift.  Every two weeks when the leafy-green box arrived, I practically knocked the deliveryman over when I jumped on him with jumbled gibberish non-sentence-forming enthusiasm.  We did things with vegetables we’d never done before.  ummmm…yeah.   This is totally PG, people.  Check out the sexy geometry.

root vegetable baked fries.  parsnip fries.  what?  yes, I said, parsnip fries.  root vegetable gibberish so satisfying yum.

crispy mushroomness pods.

beat filled beet bombastic bellies

What the!?  What IS it?  anything that looks this cool MUST be good for the soul.  a little food art dance in my belly.


What??  This is what:  I love veggies and fresh pregnant men!!

A big ol’ fresh Friday to you all.

~betsy

***Song of the Moment: Tonight , by Lovers***