IT'S THE PLEASE MAKE IT GO AWAY SALE!!!

I'm almost out of here.....to Atlanta.

No posting tonight (SORRY!) - but there will be one later in the week. I am in transit to the Gift Show in Atlanta for 6 days. Time to get shopping!

Check in by the weekend for a report from the gift show - so exciting!!!!!

Have a great week!!!

JJ

Episode #67

A holi-day in Seattle.....

On Monday, the lovely Miss Barbara and I took a day trip to Seattle...just because. I just really needed a day away and Seattle's downtown / Pike's Market area is especially lovely during the holidays....... We wandered around the market aimlessly and decided lunch was in order so off to the lovely Pink Door on Post Alley....it has been there forever, and has never had a sign on the door, only the pink door..... turns out that on certain days during lunch and during most dinners during Xmas there are girls on trapezes above your head performing......we were in on the wrong day! Drats...could have been super cool. Anyhoo..they have a fantastic cocktail list and, of course, we had to partake...Proseco, Clear Creek Pear Brandy, rosemary simple syrup and a bit of lemon...DELICIOUS!!!!! If you are in Seattle and have the chance, give it a try...so lovely!

More from Pikes Market in Seattle.

I love this place during the holidays. Sure wish we had a market with
this kind of atmosphere in Portland!!!.... It makes Xmas shopping
special...

EPISODE # 65

HI GANG!!!!! Here is episode # 65...straight from my office. Sue, Bridget and I were at the Driftwood Room (Inside Hotel DeLuxe - SUPER COOL!!!) last night for cocktails, but the lighting was really low and it would not work from my phone...I know, I know...I need to upgrade to the new iphone with a better video camera......but it is all about budget at the moment!!! Tune in later for some photos of the lobby of the hotel that I took last night....still working on that......

Se here it is: Please go to http://qik.ly/CAJNy8Ud5rKjVKt99NnnG6Z and see OUR latest video
that was created using Qik VideoCamera application for the iPhone.

Sent from my iPhone, so I apologize if there are spelling errors.

Camera not working.......so here are some photos

This morning I was at the flower market, picking up a few things for the shop...and my, oh my, it was BUSTLING! It actually started to feel like the Xmas season. For some stoopid reason, I have not been feeling the holiday spirit...that is, until today. The smell of the cut fir and cedar boughs and wreaths was wonderful. The poinsettias were beautiful. I bought the loveliest, darkest red - almost black really - poinsettia...looks great in a black pot in the shop.......

The above photo is of my favorite succulent vendor......look at all these little lovelies......

This is actually a bent piece of wire mesh that had been icicle flocked....rustic and cool....and quite festive with this little display of bulbs and twigs.....

...it is all about the marketing....clever, very clever!

The begonias are indeed beautiful......

But so are the poinsettias.....

...and a few more photos.....

My iphone will only let me email 5 photos at a time so this week needed two entries. I really love the petite cyclamen...my favorite are the white ones...but they were out of them this morning at the flower market.....

One of my favorite vendors at the flower market sells nothing but boxwoods. Beautiful boxwoods. I do love a tight, clipped boxwood. How very Dutch. My favorite are the small and perfectly round clipped boxwoods. I love to put them in pots...all lined up straight in a row......

Oh the lovely tillandsias...... We have at least 6 varieties and at least 100 plants in the shop....

A delightful little bromeliad....I l.o.v.e. the flower market. See you next week!

HECK OF A SALE AT DIGS - START THE SHOPPING SEASON RIGHT!!!

Episode # 64

HAPPY WEDNESDAY! It is raining like cats and dogs here in P-town...it might even snow this weekend - the weekend before Thanksgiving. Tonight Sue, Todd and I are at Clark Lewis - seemed like a cozy place to be on a Winnie the Pooh evening.......

go to http://qik.ly/BVjHVeDaDFUSLaVfNHR4mYM to check out this episode!

Sent from my iPhone, so I apologize if there are spelling errors.

You know it's the holidays when.....

Click on the link below to see our Jib Jab holiday greeting. These things are hilarious! This is Frenchy (husband) Stella (our dog) and me! HILARIOUS!!!!!

http://sendables.jibjab.com/view/7T6hw2Pn6eYbLaIG

episode 59 - part one

I am a total lame-o and hit the off button during this taping so we are broken into two parts. Sorry! Here goes nothing...

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that was created using Qik VideoCamera application for the iPhone.

Sent from my iPhone, so I apologize if there are spelling errors.

episode 59 - part 2

Here is the super lame-o part two, which, I have just discovered I filmed in black & white...Geez.....cant seem to get it all together!

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that was created using Qik VideoCamera application for the iPhone.

Sent from my iPhone, so I apologize if there are spelling errors.

IT'S THE PLEASE MAKE IT GO AWAY SALE!!!

And she's off....

Sue, that is.......she took the rest of the week off to go see a few plays in Ashland at the Shakespeare festival and was unavailable for filming and I was supposed to be in Paris this week at the Maison & Objet show, ( you will notice that I am not - the picture is from last year...) but that is a whole other story (grrrrrrrrr!!!!) ....so I guess I should probably come up with something on my own........

I will have something posted by tomorrow, I am sure! I have a great client event coming up in a beautiful new space tomorrow....so maybe something about that....

Just have to wait and see......... until tomorrow then!

episode 57 part one...

SORRY! We lost our link while doing this weeks' video, so we had to split it into two parts! YIKES!!!!!!

This is part one of Episode 57....... on location at Fenouil in the Pearl District. Killer happy hour, BTW. Try the mussels....

Here is the link........http://qik.ly/78PErswQ4B1cMaWVJef3KH to see our latest video
that was created using Qik VideoCamera application for the iPhone.

Sent from my iPhone, so I apologize if there are spelling errors.

Part two of episode 57

Here is part two....thanks for your patience!

..and here's the link to http://qik.ly/CVgaEM9DNQ61GjN99NPVvhp

Sent from my iPhone, so I apologize if there are spelling errors.

TIME TO RE-OPEN!

Next week, I Promise!!!!

Since we have really been working on the water damage at my shop and since I have been travelling this week, we (once again) don't really have a video episode. Terribly sorry - but things are more than a little chaotic....

I got home this morning from the Las Vegas Market and I found some pretty cool things....so instead of a video this week, I have photos of some of what I found...enjoy!!!!

WHEW! There was a lot to see in a very short period of time! More later........

We've sprung a leak......

Terribly sorry! No episode this week....

A pipe burst in the ceiling of my shop last night dousing half of the shop in brown sewer water - did I mention that it was brown?????? - and I have been rather occupied trying to get it all cleaned up. We are going to have to be closed - probably through the weekend. I am totally bummed!

Anyhoo......that's why we have no new episode. When Sue and I actually got together last night (while the poor sweet plumber - Steven Jr. at Ackerman Plumbing - was toiling away) I just did not have it in me to be very perky on film. Perky, ok - VERY perky...not so much. So I had a lovely carafe - seriously - OK, so half a carafe of White Sangria at LoLo on Alberta...yummy!

Next week, I will be at the Las Vegas Market so you will get a full report...........

Have a great week.........................