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GIVEAWAY: Meet me in NYC!!!!

Wednesday, June 10th, 2009
betsyfrontbw(Yup, that’s me!  Jasmine Photography took this sweet shot.  Thanks Alexis!!)

Meet me at Shecky’s Girls Night Out!  I’ve got a pair of free tickets that will get you through the door!  Who wants them!?!  I’ll be there all 5 days (June 23-June 27).  (Just leave a comment after this post and I’ll select a winner at random next Wednesday, June 17th…can’t wait to meet you!!)  …okay, it’s (btw, just accidentally wrote “tit’s” and it really made me giggle) decided— this entire post is going to be emphatic!!!

HANDMADE IN PORTLAND AT SHECKY’S NYC!!!:

sheckyshotpicks(betsy & iya as featured in Shecky’s hot picks for the NYC Summer 2009 event!  The Coin Goddess Necklace is featured above… with the massive black arrow pointing to it.)

This will be my first Shecky’s event and I’m trying to spread the word that handmade designers/artists like me will also be vendors there.  I like selling at events like this precisely because an audience that is not typically exposed to handmade might, for once, get a great taste of it.  I think there will be many awesome items to choose from and if people know about the handmade dudes, like me—it becomes all the more exciting.  It’s a tangible face-to-face sense of design, hardwork and community.  Also, those of you who read here from far off lands (slash: NYC or Philly)—we could meet!!  I’m bringing ALL of my jewelry plus loads and loads of new designs that I’ve yet to list in my online store!

This coin goddess necklace will be on sale—(special for Shecky’s customers $10 off):

coingoddesscloseupsmAwesome photo by: Jasmine Photography.  (click and be directed to item in my shop)!

Okay, so if you wanna meet me in NYC, come to Shecky’s Girls Night Out, any night June 23rd-27th…FREE BOOZE, btw!  If you want to get in for free…COMMENT BELOW, you just might win!!

Again, consider coming to support those handmade designers who come (making the trek ALL the way from beautiful Portland, OR…ahem) from faraway to showoff and sell their wares made by their own two hands.

***Song of the Moment: The Ballad of Dorothy Parker, by Prince***

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Outfit of the Day: a mother’s little reflection.

Saturday, January 31st, 2009

mama's little reflection

mama's little reflection

Today, I remind myself of my mother.  It’s a beautiful, comforting  reminder full of breath and weight.

sexy mama

sexy mama

We love HANDMADE!  This cutesy cowl-neck sweater(ish) dress was handmade by my great friend Jen and given to me for Christmas 2007.  I have loved and used it ever since.  The sweet little expandable oldy goldy skin ‘n’ bones belt was snatched up at a ridiculously awesome RV-type estate sale (I know, such a perfect oxymoron) for 50 cents.  Can I just say:  Boo.  YAH.   I seriously wear that accessory belt with so many different outfits.  It spices them ALL up and makes me feel sleek and sexy.  Awesome jeans were made in LA by Freedom of Choice and purchased at a local store that I keep raving about, Pin Me Apparel.

boots boots boots

boots boots boots

Two words:  frye. boots.  I’ve told you before–I LIVE in these boots.  They’re so comfortable.  They’re so rough.  They’re so classic and feminine (by not being feminine at all).  I love them.  They were made in the USA and purchased at an awesome local store, Johnny Sole,  to boot.

most important ingredient: mama's scarf

most important ingredient: mama's scarf

Over the holidays I ran into an old friend, one that used to soothe me on dark days and amplify the bright ones:  mom’s old scarf drawer.  I am seriously addicted to mom’s old scarves.  And I have been, ever since I was old enough to appreciate true style.  My mom’s got it.  I LOVE it.  Wearing her old scarves is much much more than pure style.  It’s familial, it’s like holding an old baby blanket and still sucking my thumb, it’s looking through favorite books on a solo day, eating my favorite meal, smiles, admiration, a deep deep love and more than that, they smell like her—like home.

And so, on these days, I make sure home goes with me wherever I go.

***Song of the Moment: Sweet Heart Fever, by Scout Niblett***

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I really like my outfit today.

Saturday, January 10th, 2009

This one’s gotta be a quickie.

(uh…remember those orders I talked about yesterday (insert: HUGE SIGH), I still haven’t sent them out, so you know what today is about).

But I couldn’t let today’s post opp slip by without a shoutout to today’s rockin’ fashion spin.  Sometimes, especially when I’m not feeling in top form—I gotta fake it.  And sometimes when you fake it.   You must fake it HARD and LOUD.

Check me out:

fashion for health

fashion for health

I think I’m doing mirror-face in this photo—love that.  New fancy jeans from Pin Me Apparel on the fabulous Mississippi Ave where you can also find my awesome jewelry at one of my favorites, Phlox boutique.  And below those jeans you’ll find the old trusty dusty standbys, my dark brown Frye Boots.   I live in these boots.

Do you love the blue disc earrings you see in the photo?  They’re pretty spectacular, I know.  They come in 5 different colors and I can tell you EXACTLY where to find them:  betsy’s online shop.

(I’m also happy to report that even beyond my handmade earrings made in the very shop you see behind me in the photo–everything you see on me is also made by the little people in the good ol’ USA).

Most important thing of the day:  HAPPY BIRTHDAY, SISSY! I LOVE YOU!

***Song of the Moment: Happy Birthday, by Sufjan Stevens***

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