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Fashionista Prep

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My friend and fabulous designer, Kathlin Argiro just forwarded me information on an amazing new fashion program for teens! It gives them a peek behind the runway as well as an opportunity to meet and be mentored by industry leaders.

Fashionista Prep offers “hands on” fashion experience through programs and classes taught by fashion experts, including nationally known designers and P.R. gurus. The program is offered to junior high through college-aged students, “leaving no Fashionista behind.”

With unforgettable experiences – only made possible by industry insiders – students will learn things that they never imagined possible and emerge with the edge they need to make it in uber-competitive world of Fashion.

Here is a look at some first hand experience (SO cute!)

Fashionista Prep Goes to Fashion Week from Kathlin Argiro.

For more information visit the Fashionista Prep site or e-mail info@FashionistaPrep.com. (For a quick view of upcoming class dates and details AND a chance to win a free class, click HERE)

Sharyn Blond Linens

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I came across this linens shop website recently (sadly I can’t remember where I saw it…) and I wish it was in DC instead of Kansas City.

Shayn Blond, has a wonderful eye. Her selection ranges from traditional to whimsical, but never strays from her obvious good taste. Apparently she is a bit of an expert on fine china, crystal and silver (these are a few of my FAVorite things…la-la-la-la…). Which is clear to me from the styling of her website images.

Love these. (See the Imari plate in the first one? That was almost my china pattern!)
















View more HERE.

Mothers Day Giveaway from Fifi Flowers

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Winner: Congratulations Heather!

It’s time to start thinking about gifts for the important mothers in our lives. Our moms, aunts, friends…even ourselves. Everyone has someone to celebrate Mothers Day.

In honor of this Hallmark holiday (I know – first I scoff at Valentines day and now the most holy of the greeting card occasions…I’m such a cynic) I will be giving away this lovely little painting from Fifi Flowers…


…AND a book of Coco Chanel (a matriarch of fashion) quotes with Fifi Flowers illustrations.

Want to win this for one of the important mothers in your life? Or just for yourself…it’s a giveaway in honor of mothers, not necessarily FOR mothers. Either way, here’s how to enter:

Visit Fifi Flowers’s Etsy shop OR the painting gallery (see tab at top of the Fifi Flowers site) and comment here about your favorite item(s).

For additional entries you can:

1. Tweet, Facebook, e-mail to friends… Just let me know and I’ll give you another entry for each.
2. Follow Wishing True (and yes you still get another entry if you are an existing follower)
3. Follow The Big Piece of Cake (see above)
4. Follow Style Key West (see above)
5. AND if you post something on your own site, I’ll give you FIVE more entries

(Don’t forget to give me your e-mail address if your comment doesn’t link back to a website where I can contact you if you win.)

I’ll stop taking entries two weeks from today, Wednesday, May 5 at midnight EST and will select the winner via random.org.

Good luck!

Rosie Campbell Belts

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How cute are these?









Discovered through a comment on one of Friday’s posts, Rosie Campbell immediately caught my eye with those bright colors and whimsical animal designs. If you ever asked me if I wanted a blue belt with a big pink buckle sporting a seahorse I would have laughed. But these are just too adorable. I want one of each!

More Interiors in Art: Page H. Laughlin

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Recently, both Table Tonic and coco+kelley featured the work of Page Laughlin. And I was captivated.














Laughlin “examines fantasies presented in popular magazines.” And the paintings are based on photographs from Architectural Digest, Nest and other high end publications.

I pulled the artist’s statement from website, because a paraphrased version would lose too much of the fascinating vision:

I am interested in illusions, in things not being quite what they seem. I am attracted to painting because it allows me to create an illusion and simultaneously reveal the means of its production. Oil painting’s wet viscosity allows for ongoing shifting of structure; it is does not have to be “either/or,” “on/off,” “0/1.” I prefer to use paint to maximize this characteristic – its ability to both make an image and revert to material.

In the subject matter of my paintings, things are often not quite what they seem: lovely interiors, on closer consideration, lead to disquieting seduction; wallpaper details, luscious statuary, give way to recognition of issues of power and subjugation. I try to make work that has beauty to attract and complexity to sustain observation.

I would LOVE to see an exhibition. The texture apparent in the images suggests a very three dimensional quality, and I can only imagine how the scenes would come to life when viewed from different angles.

Knack Studios

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DIY, refurbishing old furniture, finding possibility in junk yards… All very popular right now. And none of it is new to me. While growing up, I knew many creative people who had this kind of vision.

To hear a little more about that and then view the beautiful work of Knack Studios, come visit me today at Style Key West.