Thanks to your purchases of my Teeny Genie necklace, I’ve sent a check for $1260 to blogger Janet of Je Ne Sais Quoi (as well as a Teeny Genie for her daughter). As you might recall, Janet’s husband took his own life in January, leaving behind no insurance, savings or 401K for his wife and [...]
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Thanks to your generous donations, over $5,000* has been raised to help Janet, a fellow blogger in need after the death of her husband. Of that money, $4,200 has come from direction donation via Paypal. (You can donate that way by clicking the Paypal button on the upper right corner of this blog.) The rest [...]
I’ve got bad news for you. Blogger Janet of Je Ne Sais Quoi (also known by her blogging identity, iheartfashion) suffered a tragic loss this week when her husband took his own life. He had been unemployed for a period of time. Janet has two children, ages 7 and 9. She needs some financial help. [...]
People who haven’t tried Twitter assume that it’s nothing but dull announcements of intake and output: “Making lemon bars…yum!” “I need to go pee.”* There’s a lot of that, but Twitter also can be very interactive and I’ve had great conversations there.
Some of my favorite dialogues have been with a Twitterer who isn’t online that [...]
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Doing some last minute holiday shopping for a Team Jacob Twihard? If you’re a teenage girl or acquainted with a teenage girl, you know I’m talking about a fan of the movie The Twilight Saga: New Moon who swoons over the werewolf Jacob Black, a character played by the frequently shirtless Taylor Lautner. The opposite [...]
December’s Jewel of the Month is my most complicated mechanical piece yet: the two-pun Virginia Woolf Whistle. The whistle pops open to reveal a Little Woolf with tiny diamond eyes. But the mechanical marvel is that the whistle really works. Make a working whistle that opened was a huge challenge because any gap that lets [...]
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I’ve been so busy lately that I haven’t been able to post quite a few photos. Time to catch up!
House photographer GeorgeB took this picture of me, my designing friend Zang Toi and Zang’s friends at the holiday sale I had at Zang’s showroom last month. From left to right: Don, me, Zang, Jassemine, Jackson [...]
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I was amused to read that actors and ex-lovebirds Jude Law and Sienna Miller were spotted last week at the restaurant Emporio, home of my favorite peach sangria.
My former employer, People.com, earnestly quotes a restaurant source as saying that couple opted to sit out front rather than in a “private seat in the back of [...]
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I wish I could list all the people who made my holiday sale and pop-up shop such successes, but it would take me so long that — if this were an awards show — the orchestra would play me off stage. So I’ll simply say thank you to everyone who blogged, Tweeted, attended, shopped (both [...]
Hey, New Yorkers! Don’t forget that my pop-up shop will be open from 12 – 8 PM, today (Friday) and Saturday. Come visit me at 48 Greenwich Avenue, near Perry Street. The location is conveniently close to the Union Square subway station.
Hey, everyone! I recently gave gorgeous blogger Susanna a little inside information, but now [...]
