Clutter My World

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:

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Friday, July 2, 2010

Clutter My World with a wedding in Hawaii-part one!

Hi everyone...well, tomorrow I leave for my daughter's wedding in Hawaii! She is getting married on the Big Island on Saturday, July 10 and we are going to have one great time!! We love the Big Island and have been going there every few years since 1991, when we first went to watch the total eclipse of the sun...what an experience that was, but that's a story for another day.

Anyway, Hawaii is near and dear to our heart and a perfect place for a destination wedding. We are so fortunate to have over 80 people coming to the wedding...from all walks of our life...Michigan, Atlanta, Boulder and points in between. What wonderful family and friends we have.

While I am gone, the store will be in wonderful hands...please be sure to stop in, look around and maybe even buy a piece or two. Say hi to Susan, Diana, Carol, Karen, Julie, and Melissa while you are at it!

Here are some of the great pieces we have in the store right now:

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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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Pine armoire with fold up table...call for price 303-386-3423

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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!