Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Clever & cute
I heart etsy.
It's diffcult to find things, but their front page showcase is one of the gems of the site.
key cozies by bettysonics.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
kristimon tour: Oregon!
On Wednesday I arrived in lovely Portland Oregon to visit a few pals and my boyfriend's family. I wandered around the neighborhood then relaxed and caught on work(worry free vacation!) until Cecilia got off work. We headed to the Hawthorn area for Pub Quiz- trivia night was was really fun, enlightening, and entertaining. There's several teams of up to 6 people who answer the questions as a team. From pop culture to more scarce references, 4 of us used our noggins to get 6th place. We had a skeleton where we had to name all the bones, "name this tune", what youtube video phenom, and god oldfashion what point guard won the XYZ award, and what author shot his wife during a drunked william tell reenactment?
We also watch eternal sunshine of the spotless mind- which I found sad but intriguing. Is it a commentary on destiny? That we must have certain experiences in order to progress in life... otherwise they will re occur- or occur no matter what- because of our instinctive tendancies?
Thursday I headed downtown- in a attempt to get a cute outfit for the coming weekend(that I forgot I was supposed to pack) as well as just exploring the pearl district, Powell's bookstore and seeing the neighborhoods. I got talking to this one lady who commented that man people here(in portland) were rude... amoung many other interesting remarks. I missed my stop by about five, met a sweet old gramma, then headed backwards where I perused Powell's then met up with Cecilia for dinner at a WONDERFUL cuban place. We got a sampler incluing a black eyed pea fritter, fish and potato croquette, and a chicken corn empanada, AND a shredded beef empanada. SO good. For dessert we got a lime cake! So good! Oh we just melted over the food it was SO good.
We walked some more and hung out at the store (being product designers... kinda a habit) We critiqued packaging, talked products, trends, and were inspired to make macaroons. So we made macaroons, realized we HAD to have them with chocolate lactose free ice cream, ran out and had a great dessert while watching zoolander.
Friday was so relaxing and wonderful! Oakes amusment park, people watching, hawthorne shops, and more macaroons. I saw a little girl at the amusement park with a string of pearls and a photo of herself on her shirt. Aww precious!
Timon flew in that night, we had a wonderful dinner on the patio at his sister's in Tualtine, then crashed. Saturday was began with blueberry picking for a homemade breakfast, a walk in campoeg park, then timon's birthday celebration , bowling, dancing, and arcade games.
phew!
8 more days to the kristimon tour! Hope to see you there!
We also watch eternal sunshine of the spotless mind- which I found sad but intriguing. Is it a commentary on destiny? That we must have certain experiences in order to progress in life... otherwise they will re occur- or occur no matter what- because of our instinctive tendancies?
Thursday I headed downtown- in a attempt to get a cute outfit for the coming weekend(that I forgot I was supposed to pack) as well as just exploring the pearl district, Powell's bookstore and seeing the neighborhoods. I got talking to this one lady who commented that man people here(in portland) were rude... amoung many other interesting remarks. I missed my stop by about five, met a sweet old gramma, then headed backwards where I perused Powell's then met up with Cecilia for dinner at a WONDERFUL cuban place. We got a sampler incluing a black eyed pea fritter, fish and potato croquette, and a chicken corn empanada, AND a shredded beef empanada. SO good. For dessert we got a lime cake! So good! Oh we just melted over the food it was SO good.
We walked some more and hung out at the store (being product designers... kinda a habit) We critiqued packaging, talked products, trends, and were inspired to make macaroons. So we made macaroons, realized we HAD to have them with chocolate lactose free ice cream, ran out and had a great dessert while watching zoolander.
Friday was so relaxing and wonderful! Oakes amusment park, people watching, hawthorne shops, and more macaroons. I saw a little girl at the amusement park with a string of pearls and a photo of herself on her shirt. Aww precious!
Timon flew in that night, we had a wonderful dinner on the patio at his sister's in Tualtine, then crashed. Saturday was began with blueberry picking for a homemade breakfast, a walk in campoeg park, then timon's birthday celebration , bowling, dancing, and arcade games.
phew!
8 more days to the kristimon tour! Hope to see you there!
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
new stuff
This fun inflatable building was actually a movie theatre showcasing the new Christmas carol movie.
cool vintage artifacts from the charles dicken's museum in london, also from the disney train. Which reportedly had a pretty big draw in LA.
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My cousin and I saw this fun building while searching for a lil resturant in downtown. It was a cheap but well decorated pakistani resturant behind where forever 21 is. The waiter was soo nice but we couldn't really understand him. Great food!
Monday, June 22, 2009
www.acmebaggage.com
acme baggage is up and flying once again! I revised the site this past weekend, and still finessing some of the words. We had it up about 2 years ago, and now are rarin to sell our stock! I wanted a simple clean face that showed the simplicity as well as quality of the product.
Haiku:
Leather is yummy
Acme sews things together well
Is strong and fragrant
Monday, June 8, 2009
marketing TO the faith community
This Faith based marketing article from the Huffington post was a fresh view(to me) of the christian consumer. Typically I imagine a christian consumer shopping at costco, being pretty economical and not a super shopper...although I do know more than a few christian spenders. It was interesting hearing them talk about christians as a subculture, completely objectively, and sharing some interesting observations:
"The lesson to take away is that since Christians are the most socially connected demographic in the country (most meet face to face at least twice per week) you must give them to the tools to spread the word about your film, product , or service."
"..most socially connected.." 140 million church-going consumers. The consistency of meetings and the encouraged mingling or fellowshipping is a recipe for guerilla marketing that I never really noticed. Subconciously it makes sense. My parents advised against selling girls scout cookies at church.
I've seen gimicky and cheesy christian products, and not really any "hip" ones. But Christians will also purchase things solely to support a christian business, venture, project....
"The lesson to take away is that since Christians are the most socially connected demographic in the country (most meet face to face at least twice per week) you must give them to the tools to spread the word about your film, product , or service."
"..most socially connected.." 140 million church-going consumers. The consistency of meetings and the encouraged mingling or fellowshipping is a recipe for guerilla marketing that I never really noticed. Subconciously it makes sense. My parents advised against selling girls scout cookies at church.
I've seen gimicky and cheesy christian products, and not really any "hip" ones. But Christians will also purchase things solely to support a christian business, venture, project....
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