Archive for August, 2009
SUGAR SUGAR GRAND FINALE!
Monday, August 31, 2009 0:00 312 Comments“What about a Grand Goodie bag?” asked Miss K in passing to the easily influenced Miss B, “Okie Dokie.” A grab bag full of goodies seemed like a perfectly sweet finale to 31 days of Sugar Sugar, a first for the brightest spot on the internet. So, Miss B. went off on a treasure hunt [...]
SOMETHING BLUE
Sunday, August 30, 2009 0:00 298 Comments{please visit Something Blue here}
The most exciting thing about following your dreams is that you never know where it will take you. Just ask today’s contributor, Angela Lowell-Schade of Something Blue. The study of metalsmithing and jewelry design has taken the native southern California girl to North Carolina, London, and back home to Los Angeles.
Not [...]
CAJA JEWELRY
Saturday, August 29, 2009 0:00 191 Comments{please visit Caja Jewelry here}
We love a good old-fashioned success story, and if there is a little romance tossed in–all the better. Juan Cano emigrated from Colombia and found himself working in a New York City sweatshop in the diamond district for 18 months. Andrea worked in textile design. They met, married, and created Caja [...]
PAPER PASTRIES
Friday, August 28, 2009 0:00 273 Comments{please visit Paper Pastries here}
I hope you don’t mind us buffing our nails on our lapels today. {puff-puff} We are giving away our first The Bright Side Project exclusive today! That’s right, today’s contributor created a Sugar, Sugar pack of sweet paper pastries for our readers to enjoy.
Not that we would expect anything less than [...]
CRAVE
Thursday, August 27, 2009 0:00 151 Comments{please visit CravE here}
If you have never used a sugar scrub for the body, you are in for a real treat. Oh no, we aren’t suggesting that you grab your favorite ice cream spoon and go to town. These products only smell delectable. Trust us, no matter how tempting the Brown Sugar Body Polish from [...]
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 0:00 143 Comments{please visit Public Library here}
Hello, Kitty. You knew we wouldn’t offer a month of Sugar, Sugar sweetness without the original doyenne of totally cute, didn’t you? Well, you were right. We couldn’t resist offering up celebrity favorite Public Library and their exclusive Hello Kitty tee. And, yes, it’s cute. But it’s also the teeniest bit [...]
CHARMED AND DANGEROUS
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 0:00 281 Comments{please visit Charmed and Dangerous here}
The trend for layering necklaces is the perfect excuse for someone as indecisive as me to buy more than one bauble to die for. I don’t get off easy, of course. Just because you are layering necklaces doesn’t mean you can pile on every charm that tickles your [...]
KAVARI BY KRISTEN MERRY DESIGN
Monday, August 24, 2009 0:00 234 Comments{please visit Kavari here}
Kristen Merry of Kavari first started making jewelry for herself at aged 12. By the following year, she had her first job working at a bead store. As often happens with retail jobs, one thing leads to another and soon she had amassed an inventory of enough beads to suggest she [...]
JENNIFER MERCEDE
Sunday, August 23, 2009 0:00 154 Comments{please visit Jennifer Mercede here}
I may be wound tighter than an eight day clock, but I can still admire, okay, envy, the pluck of the free spirit. Between 2001 and 2004, Jennifer Mercede hitch-hiked to Alaska and back, Heli-skied, lead Wilderness trips in the Everglades, lived in her station wagon on Key West, rented [...]
FORTUNE COOKIE CAFE
Saturday, August 22, 2009 0:00 205 Comments{please visit Fortune Cookie Cafe here}
Jumping Jehoshaphat! That is exactly what Miss B. and I thought when we first laid eyes on these sugar coated shortbread cookie sandwiches. I’m sorry, let me repeat that: sugarcoated shortbread cookie sandwiches. There is nothing more to say. The End.
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