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Book Signing. June 17th. Be there.

June 16th, 2010 by betsy

Hi, lovelies!  I’ve been spinning around lately, just returned from a trip down to California to sell at a big music festival, saw Lauryn Hill live, and picked up 2 new boutiques to sell betsy & iya.  Shwew!!

I’m POOPED, to say the least, but I can’t take any days off and here’s why:

You know that AWESOME book I keep rapping about, well…

on THURSDAY, JUNE 17TH, starting at 7 pm, there will be a book signing for the AUTHOR of The Handmade Marketplace, Kari Chapin.  I am sooo excited to have her in my shop and for the opportunity for you all to meet her.  If this is the first time you are hearing about the book, I shout—GET IT!  It is one of the most useful books that has ever come out for us crafter entrepreneurs.  I am so honored her publisher wanted to do the signing at my studio and even more honored that I’m a small blip in the book.

Please come by on Thursday and say hello to us!!

1722 NW Raleigh St.,  Suite #101 (on the corner)

Can’t wait to see/meet you again!

xo~betsy

***Song of the Moment: Ladies on Parade, by Benji Hughes***

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Outfit of the Day: me and the middle.

June 4th, 2010 by betsy

It’s been awhile since my last OOTD.  In an effort to catch up, I’m about to blow your minds with clips from several outfits of the days.

I go through clusters of days (sometimes weeks), when the last thing I want to think about is what my OOTD will be.  I wake up, sloth my way towards the shower, and if I’m lucky, there’s a cup of coffee in my hands before my first wet foot brushes the cushy bathroom mat (yeah, I told you W was awesome).  By the time that’s all finished? …it’s probably time to be leaving for the studio, so you better believe that quality time for cohesive thoughts on what outfit might make me feel swanky for the day is loooong gone.  If I’m super lucky, I will have dreamed it up in the shower—pre-coffee.  And then I’ll use the coffee to fast forward all of it.  No time for questions, just time for doing, blinders ON…go coffee, go!

Sometimes it’s one word: chucks.  Then the outfit blooms around it.

Sometimes a brand:  Noa Noa or Stewart & Brown.

Sometimes a challenge:  stay comfortable all day.

Sometimes a theme:  local.

Sometimes a game: what colors can’t I fit in this outfit?

Mostly, though, it’s super simple:  belt?  (ding.)  …little belt??  (double ding.)  …the cheap one from the estate sale???  (ding ding ding!!!)  …and then the shower has ended, I’m dry, coffee is in my hand, blinders are on, and it’s all smooth sailing from there, baby.

If all else fails, accentuate the parts you love about yourself.  And RUN with it!

It’s Friday already!!??!  What the!?

I hope you all have marvelous weekends.

Shop will be open from 11 to 4ish tomorrow.  Come by and see me! xoxo~betsy

***Song of the Moment: 57821, by Janelle Monae***

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This weekend: shop hours and danish doors.

May 28th, 2010 by betsy

Hi, friends!!  Dag Nabbit (channeling the grandaddy), I’ve missed you guys!!

I wanted to let you know that we’ll be in the shop this weekend!  We’ve had so many shows this month that I know several shoppers have popped by on Saturday only to find an empty shop.  But…NO MORE…well, at least for this weekend and next.  We’ll be here from noon to at least 4 tomorrow.

The shop is still on the up and up.  We plan on having a grand opening by the end of the summer (shwew!).  Little by little, my friends.  This weekend, we’re planning on finishing the miscellaneous drawer front counter wrap and the sliding door!  My design friends were in town last weekend and we took some huge steps forward.  We’ve been running with this white on white on white theme with rustic wood to offset it all.  Courtney called it Scandinavian.  When she said the words, my heart melted.  Some of my most favorite people in the world live there (or near there).

Come by and see us sweating through it all this weekend, say hello, drink a glass of wine, and shop your little hearts out.

big huge love.

-betsy

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Necklace of the Moment: the door knocker.

May 25th, 2010 by betsy

I took these photos of one of my favorite necklaces in the Old Turns New collection, before I handed it over to Thea at Thea’s Interiors on NW Glisan (in Portland).

This one is available exclusively at Thea’s Interiors, vintage living, unless someone hasn’t already snatched it up!

Isaac and I plan on listing our new collaboration in our online shops soon.  Yowzers.  Also, I think I about owe you a new OOTD.  Look out for it all some time this week.

In the meantime, skip the song of the moment and go get the whole album; it’s off the heeeeezy.  wildly inspiring.  gets my fingers moving.

***Song of the Moment: Tightrope, by Janelle Monae***

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