Thursday, September 25, 2008
Friday, September 12, 2008
Introducing Violet at Poppy & Ivy
Announcing a collaboration of Poppy & Ivy's Home & Gift Boutique and Violet's Handmade Boutique featuring the kung fu bambini line. We are now two great stores in one fantastic location at 1315 NE Fremont.
Poppy & Ivy and Violet are pleased to announce our store within a store: Starting Friday, September 12, Violet. Ridiculously Cute. will open up inside Poppy & Ivy. Violet offers couture baby clothing from size 0-3 months up to 8 years. Pants, coordinating tee's, cloche hats and booties. Also look for housewares...old meets new, dishtowels, potholders, aprons, etc.
We are SO thrilled with this announcement. We are two women who love vintage items & support "buying handmade & local". We both have minds racing at all hours of the night..figuring how we are going to create the NEXT big thing. What do we sew, paint, collage, embellish, or find next?
As the flagship retail store for Kung Fu Bambini, Violet will be the only place to get the full collection each season as well as many One of A Kind creations. Look for the new collection of limited edition women's apparel, accessories and housewares, Everyday Violet, in mid-October!
TODAY, Friday September 12th, we offer our 2nd Friday Art Walk & Sidewalk Sale on Lower Fremont. Added participants this time around include, County Cork, La Bodega, Acadia and Rerun. Come check us out Friday from 5:00-9:00 pm. Joining us are many local artists. Come enjoy a dinner in NE Portland followed by our cool, tree lined stretch of shopping, wine and appetizers. We are all located between 7th and 14th on NE Fremont.
We look forward to seeing you all!
- Violet Craft & Amy Hollands
Friday, September 5, 2008
A note to two friends....
... and my lame way of feeding my blog (geez, and therefore probably lame way of feeding my friendship - I owe you guys a pitcher this week for loving me anyway!)
I'm not ignoring you...I'm just ignoring you. wait..
The Gocco is my new mini screen printing machine that is going to rock my (and therefore probably your) worlds. lol! It only prints about a 4" x 6" area, but it's awesome. I have been SO freakin swamped with back to school shiite that I haven't even gotten to play with it yet. Though I whined like a baby for two weeks waiting for it to come from Japan. Seriously, this week has kicked my ass. Both Mia and Cannon going back to school at two different schools which meant two different Meet the Teacher Events, two separate parent orientation nights, two school community potlucks, soccer practice and Mia's first game is tomorrow. Oh, and she's got her first overnight birthday party on Saturday. SO - that all also meant shopping for two different school shopping lists - and then we got NEW lists when we actually met the damn teachers, shopping for all new soccer gear (she actually has shin guards) and general clothes/backpack/lunchbox shopping - and then shopping for back to school lunch and snack food. And this is NOT the GOOD shopping that I know and love. Today I'm off to buy a birthday gift for this party, more soccer socks, groceries and class snacks for next week. Tonight I get to wash all of her soccer clothes for the game tomorrow since she had practice yesterday and their uniforms haven't arrived yet. Thanks Portland Youth Soccer Club! Oh - and the post office called yesterday to let me know that the PO Box that I've been using for a month now isn't really mine and the rightful owner came back from vacation this week and freaked out that they couldn't open their box - so all of that address changing that I did for three businesses just went out the damn window and today I also have to go fill out all new forms and also cancellation forms for the forms I already filled out and then I get to call all twenty seven billion credit card companies, suppliers, customers and utilities to change it again.... and tomorrow I'm meeting with the owner of the store I'm moving into next week for a grand opening event on second Friday. (details to follow soon!) That's right, I still have to WORK too! Cannon starts school on Monday, but can't attend her before or after care for the first two days. So Wednesday. GLORIOUS Wednesday is the Day of all Holy Days. The day where my life may settle into it's natural hurricane state and I can drop our families' personal terror alert from Red back down to that lovely shade of Yellow we've grown accustomed to.
:blink:
I'm not ignoring you...I'm just ignoring you. wait..
The Gocco is my new mini screen printing machine that is going to rock my (and therefore probably your) worlds. lol! It only prints about a 4" x 6" area, but it's awesome. I have been SO freakin swamped with back to school shiite that I haven't even gotten to play with it yet. Though I whined like a baby for two weeks waiting for it to come from Japan. Seriously, this week has kicked my ass. Both Mia and Cannon going back to school at two different schools which meant two different Meet the Teacher Events, two separate parent orientation nights, two school community potlucks, soccer practice and Mia's first game is tomorrow. Oh, and she's got her first overnight birthday party on Saturday. SO - that all also meant shopping for two different school shopping lists - and then we got NEW lists when we actually met the damn teachers, shopping for all new soccer gear (she actually has shin guards) and general clothes/backpack/lunchbox shopping - and then shopping for back to school lunch and snack food. And this is NOT the GOOD shopping that I know and love. Today I'm off to buy a birthday gift for this party, more soccer socks, groceries and class snacks for next week. Tonight I get to wash all of her soccer clothes for the game tomorrow since she had practice yesterday and their uniforms haven't arrived yet. Thanks Portland Youth Soccer Club! Oh - and the post office called yesterday to let me know that the PO Box that I've been using for a month now isn't really mine and the rightful owner came back from vacation this week and freaked out that they couldn't open their box - so all of that address changing that I did for three businesses just went out the damn window and today I also have to go fill out all new forms and also cancellation forms for the forms I already filled out and then I get to call all twenty seven billion credit card companies, suppliers, customers and utilities to change it again.... and tomorrow I'm meeting with the owner of the store I'm moving into next week for a grand opening event on second Friday. (details to follow soon!) That's right, I still have to WORK too! Cannon starts school on Monday, but can't attend her before or after care for the first two days. So Wednesday. GLORIOUS Wednesday is the Day of all Holy Days. The day where my life may settle into it's natural hurricane state and I can drop our families' personal terror alert from Red back down to that lovely shade of Yellow we've grown accustomed to.
:blink:
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
Making New Crayons
Although, we didn't use that first bowl of crayons. Those are our "keepers". We had a whole gallon sized ziplock bag filled with broken crayons saved up.... and we couldn't find them... so we had to scrounge through all of the craft boxes for broken crayons and yep, we had enough! Fun stuff! Where could that bag be?
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