New Year’s Eve beauty makeovers at Blush
December 28, 2009 by karenvitt
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Blush Beauty Bar wants us to get a glamorous start on 2010, and we’re into it! Economic woes in 2009 meant putting beauty on the back burner for many of us (trim your own bangs, much?), but now let’s get a jump on a whole new year of looking hot and feeling good.
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Charles Phoenix’s Retro Holiday Slideshow
December 27, 2009 by karenvitt
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Need an excellent excuse to drag out this Christmas thing just a little bit longer? King of kitsch Charles Phoenix, a pop-culture humorist and author of numerous neat, Americana-themed coffee table books, will present his hilarious Charles Phoenix Retro Holiday Slide Show at Portland’s Hollywood Theatre, 7 p.m. this Tuesday, Dec. 29.
Phoenix, a regular correspondent [...]
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Your After Christmas PDX Sales Guide
It’s Christmas Eve! We shouldn’t be thinking about all the amazing day-after Christmas shopping sales and deals, but how can we help it? Shops all over town, from big chains we like (Anthropologie and J. Crew) to local boutiques we love (Jet, Mabel & Zora and more) will mark down fall and winter items by [...]
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OfficePDX + Egg Press last-minute holiday deals
Holiday shoppers are getting serious this week, and shops like the OfficePDX + Egg Press pop-up store in downtown Portland are making our last-minute gift excursions especially merry. Stop by the airy, modern pop-up store from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 23, and from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Thursday, [...]
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Save $10 on handmade belts at Garnish today
Garnish boutique on Alberta Street will offer a holiday shopping deal on pretty, handmade belts today only! Stop by the shop Monday, Dec. 21 and save $10 on each of these cute, colorful styles by Garnish owner and designer Erica Lurie.
“Unique, handmade, and adjustable for many different sizes, a Garnish belt fits the bill for [...]
Cool, last-minute + local gifts for HIM
December 17, 2009 by karenvitt
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Men are so impossible to shop for during the holidays. We have one week left to find him a cool, manly gift, and we’re over so many boring sweaters and metrosexual grooming products. No offense, but our man is not going to squeal with delight if he opens an expensive jar of shave cream. We [...]
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To the moon and back with Janeane Marie
December 14, 2009 by karenvitt
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Emerging Portland fashion designer Janeane Marie (who you can watch compete on the upcoming Project Runway Season 7) will put on a must-see trunk show and sale this week at the Flurry pop-up shop, in conjunction with two other outstanding locals – Sahlia Michelle Designs jewelry and Varnish Clothing. Sahlia Michelle and Varnish will show first, from [...]
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Save 50% at Idom Designs holiday show + sale
Next weekend, our favorite trio of talented Portland fashion friends will team up once again for an Idom Designs Holiday Trunk Show and Sale, 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 19.
Pieces from Idom Designs (above) and fellow indie designers Emily Ryan and Liza Rietz will be marked down by 50 percent during [...]
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Your local, online holiday shopping gift guide
Why are they calling this weather an Arctic Blast? It doesn’t sound like much fun at all (yuk yuk). Ok, but seriously, holiday shopping in freezing rain is the pits, and we’re on the frenzied two-week countdown to Christmas.
Fortunately, we can still shop online at select Portland retailers who are making it easy to finish [...]
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Lush goodies for the first day of Hanukkah
December 12, 2009 by karenvitt
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Happy first day of Hanukkah! To help you kick off eight days of gift giving, Lush Cosmetics has packaged up this pretty, dreidel-inspired bath set, with the cheeky name “Better Than a Blintz” ($19.95). Inside you’ll find some of Lush’s most luscious bath bombs, scented with lemongrass, grapefruit-mandarin, apple and peppermint. The only way [...]
