Blue Windows

The show is open! The first stop is the best stop…Handmade! This is where we’ll meet some of our favorite design­ers we know and love, like Jeanine Payer, and meet new design­ers we hope to bring in the store for the first time. This sec­tion is the creme de la creme of my buy­ing. I get so excited to start. Let’s see what we found…

Always a plea­sure to see Jeanine Payer and dis­cover her new designs for the sea­son. Needless to say we spent a bulk of our time in this booth talk­ing, pho­tograph­ing, order­ing and just soak­ing in all her jewelry.

Lulu’s jew­elry is amaz­ing in a dif­fer­ent way. Her line is so diverse. I love cre­at­ing a story with her jewelry.

Lots of new finds com­ing to Blue Windows…

I met Laurel Denise last year at the New York show. I am so happy that her jew­elry con­tin­ues to sell. She is so sweet and you can tell that her jew­elry is purely her. The words inscribed on her  jew­elry are her per­sonal script. She just had a baby and is learn­ing to appre­ci­ate the “small” things in life.

LOVED Amy Peters dis­play this year! This line is fun and whimsical.

New line Peg & Awl…husband and wife team.

A bit of “bad” good food before see­ing the musi­cal Once…

This show was more than I could have hoped for. One of my favorite things about New York is you can always see a show! We satyed a bit after to get auto­graphs from the cast. I love when my play­bill is full of auto­graphs. I have about 15 in my col­lec­tion just from New York. They are one of my favorite things. So, Day two was a suc­cess for work and play!

Day three to come…

Time for New York! I can’t believe it’s that time of year when I am think­ing of Fall and how to set up my store for Christmas. This year I decided to take my man­ager, Holli, and make it more than just work. We took the red eye flight on Thursday night and arrived very early Friday morn­ing. After a long train/subway ride to our hotel we had a bit of break­fast, took a 2 hour nap and then headed out to do some shop­ping in SoHo!

They change the mats in the elevator…so cool.

The most com­fort­able beds.

a lit­tle street art…

You can find inspi­ra­tion any­where you choose to look.

stopped for lunch at my favorite spot…

never hurts to just try shoes on…

Holli took me out to din­ner to one of her favorite Italian restaurants…

Day one is done and tomor­row we start the Gift Show.

Looking for­ward to find­ing great mer­chan­dise for Blue Windows!

Monday night we got Cash Mobbed!  “A cash mob is a group of peo­ple who assem­ble at a local small busi­ness and all buy items from that busi­ness. The pur­pose of these mobs is to sup­port both the local busi­nesses and the over­all com­mu­nity,” Living Long Beach. They are told to bring $20 to spend at the secret loca­tion. Monday night they met at Paradis at 7:00pm, tasted some ice cream sam­ples and then headed to Blue Windows where they would spend the $20 they were told to bring. Stacia, from Frosted Cupcakery, brought cup­cakes as a treat while they shopped. After the mob sev­eral of us went to Boubouffe for din­ner and drinks. What a great night full of com­mu­nity! I am so blessed!

                                                   On there way in…

                                                     we were busy the whole time…

                                                 Heather and Stacia (Frosted Cupcakes)…

Heather and Lailanie (Precious Lamb Preschool)

Heather, Dede, Stacia, Gill

Blue Windows, Belmont Business Association, Frosted Cupcakery and Paradis

Three local busi­nesses rep­re­sented that night!

I can’t wait to par­tic­i­pate and spend my $20 next month at another secret location!

Heather