Sunday, June 20, 2010

Clutter My World..in Vegas...again!

Hi everyone! Happy Father's Day to all of you fathers out there...it was a beautiful day in Boulder, I hope you were able to take advantage of the wonderful weather! Maybe you even got out with your family and came downtown to Clutter!!

Anyway, you know the saying...what happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas? Well, that's not always necessarily true. Especially when you take a trip with your 23 and 17 year old daughters! My 23 year old daughter, Kelly, just got her master's degree in Environmental Biology at Tulane and will be working for the Bureau of Land Management in Las Vegas starting in August. I had the opportunity to take a quick trip with Kelly and my youngest daughter, Alex, to Vegas to look for apartments. There is actually a real and thriving community just outside of The Strip and there were lots of great apartments and neighborhoods to look at. The scenery is a bit different...lots of cacti and brown and beige dirt but there were "mountains" in the distance and wide open sky. It was actually quite pretty, albeit....Brown! I'm happy to report that Kelly did find an apartment that she likes and I'm sad to say that she will be moving there at the end of July...we'll miss her! It's a bittersweet time for me..I'm excited that she has a great opportunity and sad that she will be leaving Colorado.

Anyway, back to Vegas....the girls wanted to go see a show so we went over to the half price ticket "shop" to see what they had to offer. There were a lot of great shows to see...Cirque du Soleil, Jersey Boys, Lion King, etc. etc....and then there was Divas Las Vegas! Now, you can see a Cirque du Soleil in other cities, you can even see the Broadway shows in NYC and other cities as well...but you can only see Divas Las Vegas in Las Vegas!!

Divas Las Vegas is a female impersonator show and it's star is Frank Marino, who, over the past 25 years, has schticked and strutted as Joan Rivers!! I even heard a rumor one time that he has had plastic surgery to look more like Joan Rivers, but that's only a rumor. Anyway, his show highlights female impersonators who perform as Cher, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Diana Ross, Liza Minelli, Tina Turner, Beyonce and Celine Dion to name a few. I'm not sure I would take young kids but it really was entertaining, totally Vegas and I would rate it an "R" due to profanity...but other than that, everyone is covered up and it's a great show! If you are ever in Vegas and want to laugh and smile, check out Divas Las Vegas www.frankmarino.com

Frank Marino is famous for his lavish on-stage wardrobe...many of the gowns he wears are designed by Bob Mackie and they are truly beautiful! He has a gown change every time he comes out on the stage...probably 10-15 times. Speaking of changes...almost every day, something changes at Clutter. We have furniture coming in and out constantly, almost as fast as Frank Marino changes his gowns! We have such fun re-merchandising based on what came in that day. Below is some of our new inventory...please come check it out!!


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Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Clutter My World with MeeMaw and Georgia!

From the mouth of babes....

Hi everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend and month of May...mine was busy, as usual! I traveled to New Orleans mid-May for my daughter's Graduate school graduation (she got a Master's in Environmental Biology!) and of course, ate my way through the city...beignets, oyster po-boys, beignets, sno-balls, seafood, beignets....you get the picture! I also flew down to Dallas near the end of May to help this same daughter drive the remaining 13 hours home to Boulder...her layover point til she heads to Vegas for a job with the Bureau of Land Management in August...yes, she is one of the lucky graduates to have a job....woohoo!

Anyway, my blog is usually about my travels, but you have all heard about New Orleans numerous times and to be honest, there is not much to tell you about a drive to Colorado from Dallas except to say that there is a whole lot of nothing out there! Oh, we saw a turtle trying to cross the road and lots of farm land, but that's about it! So, my blog is going to be about Meemaw and Georgia!!

A wonderful woman (Meemaw) came into the store last week on the advice of her 2 1/2 year old granddaughter, Georgia!! Apparently, Georgia has been in the store numerous times with her dad and one of those times, she bought a birthday present for her Grandma. The conversation between Georgia and Meemaw went something like this:

Georgia: Meemaw, Do you know where I got your birthday present?

Meemaw: Well Georgia, I'm sure it was someplace VERY special!

Georgia: Clutter!!

I couldn't have said it any better....I hope you come into Clutter and see how special it is!
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Pine Armoire, built in table....$695
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