Clutter My World: August 2010

Saturday, August 28, 2010

Clutter My World with consignment shopping in Vegas!

Hi everyone...and Welcome Back Students! It's been so much fun to have you come through Clutter, either with your friends or your parents, finding treasures to furnish your apartments, houses and dorms. I did the same earlier this month with my middle/second daughter. She graduated from Tulane with a Master's in Environmental Biology and was fortunate enough to get a job in Las Vegas with the Bureau of Land Management! All she had for her apartment was her bedroom furniture and her collection of knick-knacks, wall art, mardi gras beads, Zulu coconuts, and a couple of cases of Abita Strawberry beer! So....I flew out to Las Vegas and spent a few days driving all over the city in search of furniture and home/wall decor. It was a great exercise for me...first of all, I was able to get a glimpse of my daughter's taste (she has great taste!) and I was able to experience consignment from a shopper's standpoint...seeing some things we liked, measuring them, putting them on hold, checking out other stores and eventually going back and buying what we liked. I also found out that the prices in Clutter are pretty darn good and that Clutter is a unique store and shopping experience! The consignment stores in Vegas are thousands of square feet and almost too big to have a personality....I'm glad that I/we have Clutter.

Speaking of Clutter...boy, do we have the furniture in the store right now! We have been busy all month and furniture has flown out the door almost as fast as it has flown in the door! We had 2 large deliveries this week from consignors, so the pictures you see below are some of the new things that have come in. If you see anything you like, don't wait to long as it's likely to be gone by next week!

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Upholstered Chairs....SOLD!

Thursday, August 12, 2010

clutter my world...with students!! Welcome Back!!

Hi everyone! Well, it's that time of year..the students are back!! Usually I write my blogs about travels or wedding or races or whatever but today, it's all about the students!

Dear CU Freshman, Sophomore, Junior, Senior, Law Student, MBA student, PHD student, Med Student, Naropa Student, Front Range student, you get the picture! Welcome back (or if you never left, welcome to the new year of school!) I hope you are as excited to be back as we are to have you. You bring a certain amount of Vitality to Boulder and yes, a certain amount of news, at times. You rock the stadium when the Buffs are doing well (or not), you keep the bars and restaurants hopping til all hours of the night, you are diligent about hiring taxis when your DD can't drive (I hope!), you provide great people watching on Pearl St., you bring business to the tattoo parlors, nail and hair salons, and the Sink, and you bring business to stores like Clutter when you are looking for that perfect piece of furniture to fit into that odd nook and cranny that is in your new apartment!

Speaking of Clutter...we have some great furniture in the store right now at great prices. I hope you will take the time to walk down Broadway, cross Walnut and come into the store with the yellow awnings...I think you will like what you find! Here is a sample of some of the things we have in the store:

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Sunday, August 1, 2010

Clutter My World...with a Wedding in Hawaii! Part two!

Hi everyone! Well...I've been a bit distracted of late....first with a wedding (my oldest daughter got married in Hawaii on July 10!) and most recently, with moving my middle daughter to Las Vegas (she is going to work for the Bureau of Land Management) and helping her to furnish her apartment. However, that will be the topic of the next blog! Let's talk about the wedding!

It was perfect in every way! The setting was on the beach at the Fairmont Orchid www.fairmont.com/orchid on the Big Island of Hawaii. We have been vacationing on the Big Island since Kimberly was a little girl (1991) and she has grown up to love everything about the island....from the different colored beaches, to the black lava with it's white coral graffiti, to the large telescopes/observatories on the summit of Mauna Kea that you can see from the ocean on a clear, blue sky day, to the turtles and manta rays that come into our little bay where we vacation, to the multitude of fish, eels and octopus that we see while snorkeling, to just hanging out on "our" beach in Puako. The Fairmont Orchid was a perfect place to have a wedding...the setting on the beach was incredible, the reception spot near the hotel was beautiful and intimate (it was supposed to be near the beach but the forecast was for 25-30 mph wind gusts that would have blown sand into all of the delicious food), the staff was attentive, food delicious and gratitude and love was in the air. We couldn't have asked for a more perfect night with perfect guests and of course, a perfect couple!

Of course, just because I go away, it doesn't mean that things stop at Clutter (ok, maybe the blogs get fewer and farther between!). The incredible women who work at Clutter keep it all going, from taking in consignments to merchandising what we have. We have some great furniture and home decor in the store right now....perfect for furnishing your new apartment, condo or home. We have been selling things almost as fast as they come in...so don't dilly-dally...come on in and if you see something you like, be sure to take it home with you before someone else grabs it! Here's just a sampling of what we have: