Lucky: My Love/Hate Relationship
Lucky Magazine is completely ridiculous. And I read it. Well, “read” might be going a bit far. Is there anything to read in this magazine? No. I look at the pictures. Lucky is a picture book for adult women. Sometimes, if I’ve had a stressful day, I can feel my blood pressure go down as I ogle its pages, much the way they say petting a dog or cat can do. I guess this is one of the pros for Lucky. Also:
Blue Sky Guide and the Green Purse
I have a copy of the Twin Cities Blue Sky Guide, the “green” coupon book. The book costs $20 and features coupons for all kinds of local stores. I’m not a big coupon user but recently I sat down and looked through the book and found a lot of great deals. One of the best offered $20 off a purchase of $50 or more at gift and home store Patina. If you ever shop Patina, you know they often have cool stuff and that it’s nothing to drop well over $50 there.
As it happened, I was in the market for a green purse and had seen one I liked at Patina several weeks earlier. Since first seeing it, I’d read all the fashion stories about the “Crayola colors” trend for spring. Purses should be bright yellow, green, blue, pink etc. But all the bags they featured were at least $200 dollars, often more. This is tricky, because I might want the “Crayola” bag this year and next year I’ll be over it.
As I was walking my dog the other morning, I noticed that the birds were singing. This is quite a change from the deathly silence of morning walks in January and February. Spring can’t be far away now. I do look forward to it so. But… with the coming of spring comes something else not so pleasant (besides slush and puddles). It wakes the sleeping CROC-odiles.
Roll Out the Red Carpet For… Crate & Barrel?
I got an invitation (along with thousands of others, I’m sure) in the mail to go to the Grand Opening of the new Crate & Barrel in Edina last Wednesday night. I RSVP’d. I don’t really know why. I’m certainly not one of their best customers and yet I had a yearning to see what the new, two-story HQ looked like.