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Some of us love clothes because looking good is feeling good.
And when you need to feel best is in the hospital.
Healing Threads offers alternative hospital gowns in flattering colors, and gowns that open up only when you want your doctor looking, and not from behind as you’re walking to the visitor’s lobby.
They’ve been featured locally […]
Author: Kat Powers | March 28, 2008Oh so more than a jewelry box
Can I just say I love my new present?
My husband, guided by my best friend just a little, went to JC Penney for Christmas and got me an eight-drawer jewelry armoire. It’s on sale now for $179.99. I love the color. I love the giant drawers that are so big, I can fit my old […]
Author: Kat Powers | March 26, 2008You can have tea towels that are Grand
OK, just one plug for bunnies before Easter.
On Somerville Avenue, in the middle of a road project, is Grand, a store about lifestyle. Your lifestyle, specifically.
As I wandered through the store — past bamboo T-shirts and funky plates decorated with Russian nesting dolls, I spied these ($15) vintage-looking tea towels.
Don’t call them dish towels, though […]
Author: Kat Powers | March 21, 2008Hemp is so 90s. Wear bamboo socks
At the Walking Company to stock up on foot luxuries (so I can walk to more stores) I stumbled upon these cozy-looking socks by Umberto Raffini.
“Bamboo,” the salesman said. And indeed, they’re 65 percent bamboo fiber.
Knowing how quickly bamboo grows (have you ever tried to keep it from spreading in your garden?) I thought I […]
Author: Kat Powers | March 20, 2008Chocolate is most beautiful around my neck!
I love pearls and I love chocolate and I love eating chocolate while wearing pearls! So naturally when I spotted the strand of uniquely colored pearls under the glass at Gordon Jewelers in Boonville Missouri, I was awe struck. Roz gave me this “I know” look and pulled them out for me to begin my […]
Pasta with a bonus
When you want to impress a dinner guest in your home, you’re going to want to hit Capone’s in Somerville.
Some of the best hostesses I know take their time making the table look beautiful, then run down to the local restaurant with a platter matching the table settings and have the pros set up dinner. […]
Author: Kat Powers | March 19, 2008Paper for so much more than origami
You see lotus flowers in red, pink and black, silkscreened on handmade Kozo paper. I see a beautiful way to enhance the still-beautiful desk that has a scratched table top.
And maybe I can help the kitchen cabinets too.
The Paper Source has fabulous, handmade papers that run 25 1/2″ x 19″ and are under $10 each. […]
Author: Kat Powers | March 18, 2008A present to get all lathered up about
When I had my firstborn, the lady who introduced my husband and I came to the hospital to gloat about her matchmaking skills. She also matched me up with a La Source starter kit so I could have some spa time even while still in the maternity unit.
I have to say, these soaps are as […]
Author: Kat Powers | March 16, 2008Want coffee? Look for the firefighters
Once you turn off Commercial Street in Malden, on a cold day you’ll smell the coffee coming through the heating vents of your car. That’s because New England Coffee Company is busy roasting in the factory just outside downtown.
But don’t think anything is actually burning, just because there are a lot of firetrucks parked out […]
Author: Kat Powers | March 12, 2008When your neighborhood is fabulous too
I know I overuse the word fabulous, but this store actually is.
Boutique Fabulous, straddling the line between Cambridge and Somerville Massachusetts, is nothing but. They’ve got a little bit of everything lifestyle — soaps, lamps, jewelry, dishes, clothes — but what really caught my eye were these signs.
They’re wooden neighborhood signs from a company in […]
Author: Kat Powers | March 11, 2008