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About two weeks ago, things were getting stale. We were feeling a little BLAH and the ho-hum-drums of everyday life were getting us down. We started daydreaming about moving, about buying a fast new car, about what it would be like if we were still in our twenties. We were basically feeling really old and boring. We determined that our lives, at least recently, did not contain enough drama. No sooner had we concluded this, than some drama (the good kind) came knocking on our door. At least enough to knock us out of our funk…

So it turns out a big fan of the shop is this nice guy named Nathan who works side by side with this nice gal named Amy, who owns a nice business called Design for Home. They were putting together a model condo in the newish 937 Building in the Pearl District and asked if we would be interested in helping them out by loaning out some of our most prized possessions to help accessorize and furnish the place. They said, “Pleeeaaase” and we said, “Why not?”. And so the fun began.

We got to spend a few days giving our two-cents about where the paintings should go and how the end table should be styled. We got to rearrange our schedule, take phone calls about the appropriate color for various vessels and search the city over for the perfect air plant to place on the dining table. This was seriously fun for us. We love this kind of stuff and we never get to do enough of it or do it in such a fancy place with such fancy people. We really want to thank Nathan and Amy for letting us help bring a little Eastside flavor into their sleek and shiny Northwest space. We think it turned out great and hope you do too. Here are a few pics we took at the open house last week:

Above, you see a picture of some super great soy candles made by local gal Amelia Blakeman of Hopeful Monsters. When we sat down to write this post we decided our feelings about these candles were best detailed in the email we sent to her right after she had dropped off some samples at the shop. Below, you can read an edited (to protect the innocent) version of that email:

Hi Amelia -

Well, we’ve made it nearly 2 and a half years dutifully refusing to sell candles. Every rep in the Pacific Northwest has tried to push ugly, smelly, garishly packaged candles on us and failed. Every one of them looking at us like we were crazy for refusing something that was such a “hot seller”. Gag. We hate candles as a general rule. It’s in our business plan.

But then we came to work today and saw YOUR candle and we were moved. There was a white, not-too-smelly, locally made candle in a beaker! (We love beakers.) This is a candle we might consider. This may be the only candle we will ever consider.

Thanks for thinking of us!
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