I am in the midst of hiring a new website builder/ web designer/ search engine optimizer... 3 in 1 seems like a pretty farfetched wish, but I'll keep looking I guess.  I am excited ton start work with a possible new web-woman (what I like to call it)  named Aymee.  She seems really nice and I feel like a woman will have the perfect touch to make Shop Stix and Stones everything I want and more.  I'm ready for a major re-vamping of the site and I'm going for a really girly, Anthropologie-style look!  

So excited to welcome a few new lines also.  In the next few weeks I will FINALLY be receiving pieces from Dolce Vita, Linea Pelle and Foley & Corinna.  I can't wait! The price points for Dolce Vita are so great right now, I'll be getting sandals and closed flats for under $100 and heels for under $200. 

I'm also about to get my first order of Capri Blue room sprays, fragrance diffusers and glass-jar candles.  For those of you who don't know, Capri Blue is an awesome line of candles made of food-grade soy wax.  The wicks are zinc wicks and 100% environmentally safe.  I've been buying these candles for years and I'm so happy to welcome them to Shop Stix and Stones!

Well, I'm off to prepare for tomorrow's event at Grass.  Hopefully it will be a big success! Keep posted next week, I'll be part of Shop Miami on Thursday at the Moore Building!

I go through periods where I forget to blog and I haven't written in weeks... and it's DEFINITELY NOT that I have nothing to write about, so I apologize. I'm just soooo tired, but here goes:

My 22nd birthday was 2 weeks ago and I had the best bday ever.  I celebrated all week long. I started off with a family brunch on Monday, then Wednesday (the real day) went shopping with Mom, dinner with family and out for drinks with my besties!  I discovered this new place called Crazy Pianos and it was a blast!  Two guys battle it out on the piano, they sing and play the drums and I have to say their performances were a little better than mediocre, but we had an awesome time.  I've never had more fun singing Piano Man, Outfield and Santeria.

If that's not enough, I continued the celebration Friday night.  Went to Michy's (Michelle Bernstein's restaurant) with my boyfriend Mario and his family, the food was AMAZZZING!  One of my best friend's, Jamaloan, works there in the kitchen and I've been dying to go.  The restaurant was everything I expected and more.  

I spent Saturday and Sunday in the Keys with Mario, most of my friends and my brother Derek.  Of course there were "extreme thunderstorm warnings" on Saturday.  I must mention that it's sunny down there 99% of the time, so this rainstorm of course scheduled itself for 1 of the 2 days of my mini vacay!

Either way we had a great time and the perfect weather on Sunday made up for Saturday's monsoon.  I went parasailing for the 1st time and LOVED it!! We rented jet-skis and drank pina coladas and just layed out all day.... What a good week. :)

Back to the real world, though..  Work and school and more work.  Saturday I'm doing an event at Grass I'm excited about.  $5 admission, great shopping, free drinks and the best part, free food!  Hopefully it's a success.  We'll see....

♥ -A