When you’re a total fabric junkie, as I am, you cannot go into a fabric store like Britex without a specific mission. It will simply drive you insane. Gerald and I went in yesterday with one idea: upholstering his favorite chair. It’s really gotten bad. Icky bad. It’s his TV chair, and, as an avid
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Riches Kahala is holding a trunk show for Beachcomber Design this Saturday, February 11, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Just in time for Valentine’s Day gifting, Beachcomber is offering a heart pendant (see above) as a gift with purchase over $75. CHAI Studio Honolulu owner Amerjit Ghag has just returned from another buying trip
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  When we think of women at work during World War II, the immediate images that come to mind are Rosie the Riveter in her overalls, or women toiling over letters in the censorship department. (That second image comes to my mind because my mother worked in Censorship during the war. One of her colleagues
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Imagine my surprise when my husband, Gerald, walked in and plopped this uber-clever tape dispenser down on my desk. How perfect is that? He found it at Office Max on Ala Moana Blvd. for $11.29. What a great Valentine’s Day gift or birthday gift or anytime gift for the girl with a passion for shoes.
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Gerald and I had the great pleasure of attending the wedding and reception of Willow Chang and Jean-Christophe Alleon last Sunday. The wedding was held under a lovely tree in Foster Botanical Gardens. The reception was in a private room upstairs at The Willows . This just in: Someone (I’m thinking a botanist) sent me
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As you’ve read in this blog, Lynda Sakraida, designer of Hadji Baba Bags, is no stranger to color. She thrives on color. She surrounds herself with color. Even her pet bird, Hadji Baba, is a riot of color. Her last show at the Gallery at Ward Center was called “Drenched” and it was a cacophony
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When we were little we loved our rubber duckies, little boats – anything that floated in the tub and kept us amused. Now there’s a grown-up (well, kinda) toy to help us enjoy our baths and showers even more than we usually do. Her name is “Bloom,” and you press her pretty little head to
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At the top of many lists of New Year’s Resolutions is: CLEAN MY CLOSET. It’s the first weekend of 2012, and there’s no better time to attack our closets than right now. So what’s holding us up? Well, lots of things. That crammed closet can be psychological poison.  It can really be a self-esteem issue
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I’m the first to admit there is one chore I really hate: cleaning house. That’s why I am constantly looking for ways to make the task a little more, well, pleasant. Knowing that my office badly needed painting, as did our guest room and hallway, I knew it was time to totally clean out those
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The dawn of a new year is an ideal time to take stock of what we have, get rid of what we don’t want or need and take care of the things we are keeping. I absolutely adore my fashion-oriented mugs (above). They were a hostess gift from Doug Jago, Neiman Marcus’ visual merchandising guru. He
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