Who's your hero?

So, you know, you're stuck in traffic, bored to tears, and you make your lists? The list that occupied me for those 30 minutes was...who are my heroes? Thank god I don't live in LA any more or it would have been 2 hours! Maybe my list would have been longer though - cause I could only really come up with two. I'll give you one today... Maya Angelou Even if you haven't read any of her books, just to look at her face and to hear her voice. I don't know - something about quiet strength. And anyone who could come from being mute, to being a prostitute to one of the first woman streetcar ticket takers to - holy cow - poet laureate. That's pretty damn cool. Her books are a fantastic read too, if you haven't picked one up before. Who are your heroes? I love to hear what inspires and motivates my friends - leave me a comment. And tune in next time...I share hero #2.

The new diet craze??? Let's cross our fingers.

So, you've got the South Beach Diet, the Atkins Diet...how 'bout the 100 Mile Diet? If you've been reading this blog for any length of time you've probably learned that I'm a nut for organic and sustainable food. I was reading about this concept a couple of days ago and I really hope it catches on. The premise is that your diet only consists of food that came from less than 100 miles from wherever you are. You end up eating fresher food that hasn't been shipped for days to your market. You support your local farmers, and you get a better connection with the place you live. The tradeoffs? Yeah, no tomatoes in February (they taste terrible then anyway). Anyway, if you want to read more, here's someone else's experience. Where does your food come from?

And the winners are...

Thanks to everybody who placed orders during my private sale yesterday. It was great talking to a bunch of you. The winners of the $10 gift certificates are...drumroll please... Eva Alpert Suzanne Taylor Angela Oldham Thanks again - it was a lot of fun.

Oh, isn't this fun.

There's some hard core shopping going on behind the scenes here. I don't know about you but I get in a frenzy when there's a good sale going on. I'm really glad I don't live in Boston - Filene's basement just sends me into coniptions. It's been fun - I get to talk to some of my old customers, and meet some new ones - and some of Dave's too!

Invites are out

If you didn't get yours, email me.

Aack, where's my invite?????

Looks like the invites for the private sale aren't going to go out quite as early as I had hoped. I planned in my little head for them to hit everyone's mailboxes at midnight tonight, but it looks like they'll be sent out some time tomorrow morning. The newsletter has to be approved before it gets sent out (which is pretty cool of my newsletter service, so they don't let spammers weasel their way into it). But I guess all of their approvers actually like to sleep at night, and don't want to stay up till midnight to send off my INCREDIBLY important email. Oh well, hope that doesn't junk up your plans too much. I'll keep the sale open until Saturday morning to make up for the lost shopping time. God forbid you lose precious shopping time! I'll post on my blog once I'm sure the invites went out. Then you can truly say "Aack, where's my invite?!?"

Hmmm...cut it a little more

I'm putting the finishing touches on the private sale as we speak. It's kind of fun. I look at a price...hmmm...I think I'm going to lower it by $10 more. Good thing I'm having the sale tomorrow - if this lasts much longer I'm going to be paying you guys to buy the stuff! So, I'm scheduling the email to go out at midnight tonight (Pacific time, that is) - first come first served. Check your email, and happy shopping. Oh, and I'm sweetening the deal too - 3 lucky orders will get a $10 gift certificate too, along with their cool lampwork keychain. Are you feeling lucky?

I've gotten out my big red pen

Ok, you may not see it now, but I'm frantically marking down a whole slew of goodies for my private sale on Thursday. Let's see - I think the biggest discount so far is $75 off one piece - which one? Well you'll just have to get an invitation to find out! Want another little hint? Start picking out your curliecue necklace. Or maybe some flowers...lots of flowers.

Back from Puerto Rico

Wow, it's taken a while to get my act together from coming back from Puerto Rico. I didn't get to stay nearly long enough, and didn't get to leave the resort grounds - but what the hell - I was in Puerto Rico on someone else's dime. I can't complain too much. By far the coolest thing I saw there were the unbelievably cute little coqui's all around the grounds. They're these teeny little tree frogs that sing their little heart's out once the sun goes down. Listen to this little guy, and imagine thousands of them all singing together. It was by far the neatest thing I'd experienced in a long time. Between the frogs and the hermit crabs, we were knee deep in critters. There were little crabs everywhere! You'd go to the beach to try and collect a couple of shells to bring home with you and...oop's someone's in that one...oh, someone's in that one too...hey - that pretty shell's walking away! One evening before going back to my room, a friend of mine and I were catching frogs (yeah, some little kids just never grow up!) We put our little frogs back in the bushes and looked down it the ground was just crawling with hermit crabs - and we were quite a way from the beach. Having had a very traumatic childhood experience with hermit a hermit crab (those guys hold on for dear life no matter how hard you shake your hand!!!!!) I was a little hesitant to play with the crabs as much. But the frogs were good fun!.