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January 16, 2011

Site Spotlight: Garmz

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I was a little worried at first that this was another crowdsourced site that abuses people’s time and talent. Instead this looks like it’s actually a community driven site where people can vote for designs to be brought to life.

I don’t know what the standard profit for a clothing designer is but 5% does seem a bit low to me. HOWEVER the designer does NOT have to hire seamstresses, deal with employee benefits and taxes, marketing or eat the cost of a a whole warehouse of merchandise that won’t sell. I think this is a fair deal for someone who has talent but doesn’t plan on working their way through the usual channels to become a fashion designer. Great potential for both consumers and designers in this sense.

The other thing I’m VERY happy to see is that “You keep the copyrights to all your designs.”

The biggest bad news in my opinion is that shipping to the US is going to cost 22 EUR … so about $30 shipping. But it’s still overall somewhat reasonable – for example the following cape would be about $135 including shipping which is still in the range of an outerwear cape at Macy’s. Not cheap but not outrageous either.

Check it out: http://www.garmz.com

January 9, 2011

Some blog link love January 9, 2011

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  • Since I have been a little obsessed with the idea of nail polish lately I ran across this post from “Sassy’s Stamping Stampede”, what a mouthful. I had never heard of Konad nail stamps but now I kinda want some. Probably for more subtle patterns but hers are still neat looking. Seriously, I want houndstooth patterned nails.

Closets! A couple of people recently posted some good closet posts:

Jill at Good Life for Less posted “Casa Good Life: My Closet!”:

And Kendi Everyday posted “Create a working closet”:

Both blogs have excellent ways to store and display necklaces and other jewelry.

I’m a bit jealous since the house I’m in has negative closet space (older home) but I’ve been looking at wardrobes / armoires as an option to get more more clothes space and thus more organized.

January 4, 2011

Zoya Loredana, Lulu, & Shiloh

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The three I finally chose as my Facebook promo code freebies were Loredana, Lulu and Shiloh.

I also went ahead and ordered their “renew” product that’s supposed to help revive nail polish that has gotten thicker. I figured it might help if something goes on streaky as well (I have a couple of older ones that are headed in that direction.)

January 4, 2011

Current Obsession – Nail Polish

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Thanks Zoya for sparking me to become re-obsessed with nail polish – sheesh. 🙂

Part of my problem is I lean towards liking colors I don’t think are exactly … first-meeting-with-a-potential-client appropriate.

I knew I wasn’t going to be having meetings around the holidays though so I am actually wearing this color aqua at the moment. I’ll try and take a picture tomorrow before I remove it. One thing I didn’t like was that even being super careful and allowing for excessive dry time I ended up with some smudges. Nothing so bad I needed to redo it but not as good as the opaque white I wore the week before. Maybe I put it on too fast, I’m not sure. I plan on giving this aqua another go after my Thursday client meeting.

I don’t have a ton of in person meetings but a lot of my clients are fairly conservative and 40+ so they didn’t grow up with strange colors being appropriate on nails.

I remember wearing black nail polish back in 1993 and got crap for it from people I went to school with. I’d almost say that certain shades of black are more … socially acceptable now though?? Anyway – it’s leaning on the safe side that had kept me from using much nail polish in the last five-ten years (seriously.) That and the unnecessary chemicals that many of the polishes are starting to slowly remove due to demand. Plus typing used to mean that two days max and my nails looked like crap.

The teal has been going strong for about 4 days now and the opaque white (I don’t remember the name but it was also a sinful colors polish) died on day 7. Day 7 that one just started peeling off in blobs. I don’t think I’ve ever made it that long before without some tip chipping. I used the base coat, 2 coats, and then the base coat as the top coat simply because I didn’t seem to have a top coat polish here anymore.

Maybe that’s what I messed up on the aqua. I did base coat, 2 coats but no top coat (or base as top coat.)

In upcoming days I’ll be posting my research / wishlist for the sinful colors line and also sharing the massive number of spoons I’ve got from Zoya in the last couple of weeks.

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