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| life + style to you: every Friday | ||
| September 17, 2004 |
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Portland Picks is flying into fall with such fierce optimism and wonderful fresh concepts that we apologize for seeming spring-like! We’ve got new shops, names to drop, a fabulous fruity cocktail to concoct and so much more. So, even though our thoughts are turning slowly inward, our hearts and high heels are totally out there! Don’t let the changing season change your festive attitude. This is a wonderful city with so many delightful hidden corners, come dive into Portland’s pockets of eternal sunshine with us. |
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Portland Chick Picks |
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| 1 | Souchi anyone? Cashmere baseball sweaters, cashmere tubes, soft capelets, cardigans with pearl buttons, and many more beautiful 100% cashmere designs created by Suzi Johnson. Suzi Johnson’s Souchi label is carried in the finest boutiques across the country and this local talent has opened her own swanky boutique right here on Northwest 23rd. We need to encourage designer commerce. If they build it, we will come and because we love you, we’re making it easy, Souchi is extending a special offer to our Portland Pick’s readers. Today through September 23rd you can get 20% off any purchase when you mention Portland Picks. So, let’s shop like we mean it! Souchi |
 Souchi |
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| 2 | CocoPink – give out your number with style We LOVE these! How many times have you jotted your name and number on a cocktail napkin-- or been the recipient of one such -- only to never see it again? Ever meet that guy in a bar and want to give him your card, but aren't ready for him to be giving you that surprise call at work? Are you a busy mom, fumbling among diaper bags and purses, looking for a pen to give out your number for carpool? For those people you meet on a casual basis, cocopink has created these hip calling cards. Hand them one of these and you'll be remembered with style. Coco Pink's Website: www.coco-pink.com |
 Coco Pink |
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| 3 | Shower Power! This is not your Grandma’s shower cap, nor is it the boring frumpy one you pilfer from the hotels. These are so cool. Blue Raven’s Cap in a Box! They make the perfect hostess gift. Save your Do with The Kitty Cap (our fave…get it, kitty cap?) or the Lounge Cap and other kitschy and stylin’ caps. You know these are hip since they are sold at Henri Bendel’s in New York. Check out their darling website: www.blueravenllc.com |
 Blue Raven's Shower Cap |
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| 4 | Celebrate the Sweet Life! Rather than sending the traditional bouquet of flowers, why not send something a little sweeter. Now there’s more to sending a greeting — with cards from Candy Care! Each adorable card has a sweet message, plus a delicious candy treat! Love never tasted so good! Tuck a special candy note in your child’s backpack, or send a yummy love note to your husband at the office. Check out their selection: www.candycare.com |
 Candy Care |
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| 5 | WOW Wednesday Kick Off!
For more information and other fabulous offers, log onto www.nobhillbiz.com |
 WOW Wednesday Kick Off |
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| 6 | Bon Chic – Bon Chic is so feminine, romantic, soothing and scrumptious. They carry everything from shabby chic furnishing and pillows, mirrors, fine linens, dainty baby gifts and wonderful accessories for the home. We love their selection of antique brooches, big and small, and want to collect them all. Also their vintage china! If you’re looking for a gift for your girlfriend, they wrap and adorn their gifts beautifully. This is a must-shop shop in the Pearl. The gifts that hurt to part with; the love offering that as your friend opens, you try not to snatch it back! Bon Chic is it. Bon Chic |
 Bon Chic |
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| 7 | Introducing Hannah Claire Designs. Local jewelry designer Hannah Imbler creates one of a kind, eye-catching jewelry designs. Hannah’s pieces include fabulous purple amethyst earrings, a labradorite necklace and yellow jade earrings, and groovy silver chain earrings, Sass. Hannah plans on opening an accessories store later this fall called Pieces. Keep your eyes here for further details. In the meantime, you can view her designs at these favorite Portland Picks boutiques: Dana Lynn, Alloy, Physical Element, Say Say, Mes Amies, and Ella Weddings Website coming soon: www.hannahclairedesigns.com Hannah Imbler |
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| 8 | Kept Couture Lingerie Bag Now there's a way for your innocent intimates and your naughty little numbers to blissfully coexist: the Lingerie Bag. With "wash me" on one side and "wear me" on the other, it lets you button shut the dirties so you're always reaching for the clean. Underwear drawers are for wimps; let your knickers ‘hang out’!
And the best part: 15% of all pink lingerie bag sales will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation!! |
 Maiden America Style |
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| 9 | Invisible Lip Liner: Duwop Reverse Lip Liner. Regular lip liner is out, reverse lip liner is in. And Duwop makes the best liner to keep lip color out of any fine lines you might have around your lips, keeping it in place and giving you a youthful perfect smile. And of course it goes with any shade, like the glamorous siren red we’re seeing this fall. Available at www.sephora.com, Nordstrom, Saks and Blush Beauty Bar.
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 DuWop |
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| 10 | Welcome Mat! The microbes and dirt go marching into your home by the millions! But now you can stop the little buggers in their tracks. There’s a knock on the door. It’s Jimmy the neighbor boy wanting to play. He is welcome but you give the evil eye to his germ infested Sponge Bob shoes. Rather than making him take them off, just kill those little suckers on the Dr Doormat welcome mat. Jimmy is welcome; the germs are not. We know we are a little obsessive about germs. First there’s the antibacterial wipes for our hands, and now the kitchen, the bathroom, the Purel, the doctor’s masks, heck we might as well live in a plastic bubble. But wait, now you can rest easy with Dr. Doormat. You just wipe your feet and wha-lah,
What will they think of next?! And it’s really quite normal looking, so you can be savvy and safe. Available online at www.drdoormat.com. |
 Dr. DoorMat |
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| Travel Pick: | |||
| Ho-hum, fall is here, and with it the eternal months of gray. We’re not complaining, mind you. That’s why we choose to live in this fair city, but sometimes we get a little SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder) and we need a little shot of sun and fun to remedy our funk, like, say, a periodic visit to our own private tropical island. Yes, that would do the trick. Wouldn’t it be lovely to live on a 1,100 acre private island in the British West Indies? Picture yourself: 8 miles of shoreline, a 5,200 foot paved jet strip and customs house for your travel convenience, three miles of white sand beaches, a member’s lodge and spa. All this and so much more is yours for the taking at the proposed Turks & Caicos Sporting Club at Ambergris Cay. A fortunate few will build their homes here, or forever wish they had. Waterfront home sites range from $500,000 to $3.5 million. Now is your chance to lay early claim to one of the British West Indies' few remaining pristine islands. Spectacular seascape home sites and private equity sporting club. Ahhhhhhh, it’s so dreamy. Take a visit: www.tc-sportingclub.com |
 Turks & Caicos Sporting Club |
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| Portland Pick’s Cocktail of the Week: | |||
Rasmopolitan (from www.Marthastewart.com) Bring the summer cocktail season to a sassy close with Martha Stewart’s clever take on the traditional Cosmopolitan cocktail. In a salute to the end of the balmy weather and the end of Martha’s legal troubles, we bring you the Rasmopolitan. We love you, Martha! Makes one cocktail:
Fill a cocktail shaker halfway with ice. Add vodkas, Chambord, limejuice, simple syrup, and cranberry juice. Shake or stir until well chilled. Strain into a martini glass. Garnish with raspberries; serve. |
 Rasmopolitan |
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| Portland Picks Book of the Week: | |||
1000 Places to See Before you Die Introducing the Eighth Wonder of travel books. A joyous, passionate gift book for travelers-both the real and the armchair variety-1,000 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU DIE delivers exactly the promise of its an around-the-world, continent-by-continent listing of places guaranteed to give you shivers, the unique and wonderful places you must see on and off the beaten track. Perfect gift for your just reaching mid-life friend. Take a safari into Botswana's Okavango Delta, the world's largest oasis, where "if you see 10 percent of what sees you, it's an exceptional day." Sail the Grenadines, 32 islands and hundreds of dot like cays strung like a necklace of gems across 40 miles of pristine waters. Tour the covered souks of Aleppo, where the labyrinthine streets seem straight out of A Thousand and One Nights and frankincense and myrrh are still sold. Hike the Tasman Glacier. Climb the Tuscan hills to San Gimignano. Stay at the Hassler in Rome, or Paris's Crillon-you must, at least once. There's Canyon de Chelly, Tokyo's Tsukiji Fish Market, the backwaters of Kerala, Ipanema beach, the Buddhas of Borobudur, Mesa Verde's cave dwellings, the Oaxaca Saturday market, Ballybunion Golf Club. (And there’s places right here in Oregon!) |
 Buy Now |
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| Website of the week: | |||
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Now this is a website after our own heart… Founded in 2000, StyleMaven features reviews of over 150 specialty stores in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and London and has been featured in Vogue and InStyle magazines. Before you go shopping, go visit StyleMaven.com |
 Style Maven |
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| Career Opportunity with Portland Picks: | |||
We are growing! You read us, you know us, do you want to join us? This is a golden opportunity to participate in an intellectually stimulating, market focused, people celebrating enterprise. Portland Picks is invested in this community and the women who live and work here. Marketing Associate/Westover Media (parent company)
Interested candidates should send inquiries and resumes to this address. If you know of anyone that might be appropriate, please share this exceptional job opportunity with them. Contact: contact@portlandpicks.com
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Hip Happenings: |
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Welcome Olivia Belle! You are invited for wine and hors d’oeuvres In celebration of the Grand Opening of the Pearl’s Newest chic boutique Seven o’clock, Saturday September 18th |
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| 2 | You’re Invited! Heather Killough & Richard and Trudi Bloom Present Slippers for the Nutcracker Ball Featuring Couture Mule Designer, Wendy Holden R. Bloom’s of Lake Oswego, 449 3rd Street, 503.636.5876 Two Showings:
A benefit for OBT Pointe Society |
 Wendy Holden Shoes |
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So, darlings, boutiques and everything chic, we never tire in our desire to set your world on fire! Thank you for all the great ideas, suggestions and fantastic, enthusiastic support you have shown in your letters and emails. Portland Picks reads everything and tries to go to every recommended location. We will eat extra cheesecake, have one more cocktail and if, god forbid, we must, we will shop longer and harder to give you the best of the best in our own little corner of heaven. Live well, celebrate everything and then tell us all about it! |
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