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July 14, 2009 - Tuesday 

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping
I just finished these jeans today. I designed and sewed them and I'm really happy with the way they came out. What do you think?



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December 24, 2008 - Wednesday 
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December 17, 2008 - Wednesday 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
'Ghost Hunters' show to feature Thomas Laighton & Isles of Shoals
December 16, 2008
Portsmouth Herald

PORTSMOUTH — In an upcoming episode of Season Five of the Sci-Fi Channel hit show "Ghost Hunters," the Isles of Shoals Steamship Company's M/V Thomas Laighton was used as the vessel to take the ghost hunter investigators to and from Star Island in search of ghosts.

The episode was filmed on November 22nd, of 2008 and will be aired sometime in March 2009. The ghost hunter investigators were accompanied by the crew of the Laighton to set sail in search of Star Island for the existence of life after death.

"The Thomas Laighton has been on many voyages, but this one may have been the most exciting and thrilling," said M/V Thomas Laighton Capt. Jeremy Bell. "The thought of paranormal activity accompanying our boat could provide some interesting future charters."

The Isles of Shoals Steamship Co. was responsible for dropping off and picking up the production crew for the show. This charter was unusual as the M/V Thomas Laighton has not been docked at Star Island since 2004 when the ferry service was discontinued.

Bell and the crew of the M/V Thomas Laighton navigated the boat through the darkness and fog of Portsmouth Harbor and the Isles of Shoals, and managed to dock along the shoreline of Star Island.

What the crew discovered during this charter is not known.
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December 2, 2008 - Tuesday 

Category: News and Politics
Obama announces Clinton, Gates for Cabinet

By LIZ SIDOTI, Associated Press Writer Liz Sidoti, Associated Press Writer 4 mins ago

CHICAGO – President-elect Barack Obama announced Monday that Robert Gates would remain as defense secretary, making President Bush's Pentagon chief his own as he seeks to wind down the U.S. role in Iraq. Obama picked former campaign rival Hillary Rodham Clinton as secretary of state.

At a news conference, Obama also introduced retired Marine Gen. James Jones as White House national security adviser, former Justice Department official Eric Holder as attorney general and Arizona Gov. Janet Napolitano as secretary of homeland security.

The announcements rounded out the top tier of the team that will advise the incoming chief executive on foreign and national security issues in an era marked by wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and terrorism around the globe.

"The time has come for a new beginning, a new dawn of American leadership to overcome the challenges of the 21st century," Obama said as his Cabinet picks stood behind him on a flag-draped stage.

"We will strengthen our capacity to defeat our enemies and support our friends. We will renew old alliances and forge new and enduring partnerships."

Obama said his appointees "share my pragmatism about the use of power, and my sense of purpose about America's role as a leader in the world."

Gates' presence in Chicago made him a visible symbol of the transition in power from the Bush administration to one headed by Obama.

The president-elect, reprising a campaign vow, said he would give the military a new mission as soon as he takes office: "responsibly ending the war in Iraq through a successful transition to Iraqi control." He did not mention his oft-repeated pledge to withdraw most U.S. combat troops within 16 months.

He also appointed campaign foreign policy aide Susan Rice as his ambassador to the United Nations. Obama said he would make her a member of the Cabinet, an increase in stature from the Bush era.

Obama's announcements marked a shift in emphasis, after a spate of appointments last week for his economic team.

He now has selected half the members of his Cabinet, and is doing so at an unusually quick pace during his transition as he seeks to fulfill his goal of being able to "hit the ground running" when he takes the oath of office on Jan. 20.

Obama introduced Clinton first, saying of his former presidential rival, "She possesses an extraordinary intelligence and toughness, and a remarkable work ethic. ... She is an American of tremendous stature who will have my complete confidence, who knows many of the world's leaders, who will command respect in every capital, and who will clearly have the ability to advance our interests around the world."

Clinton will give up her seat as a senator from New York to join the Obama Cabinet. Her appointment was preceded by lengthy negotiations involving her husband, the former president, whose international business connections posed potential conflicts of interests.

The former president also agreed to disclose the donors to the foundation that built his library, as well as contributors to his international foundation.

She said to Obama, in a brief turn at the lectern, "I am proud to join you ... and may God bless you and our great country."

Sen. Clinton had scarcely finished speaking when her husband issued a written statement. "She is the right person for the job of helping to restore America's image abroad, end the war in Iraq, advance peace and increase our security, by building a future for our children with more partners and fewer adversaries, one of shared responsibilities and opportunities," he said.

Gates said he was "mindful that we are engaged in two wars and face other serious challenges at home and around the world."

"I must do my duty as they do theirs," he said of the men and women in uniform in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. "How could I do otherwise?"

He said he was "honored to serve President-elect Obama."

Gates' appointment fulfilled a campaign promise by Obama, the naming of a Republican to his Cabinet.
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November 6, 2008 - Thursday 

Current mood:  ecstatic
Category: News and Politics
"America is rebecoming a New World." I like that :-) 

 

Obama victory sparks cheers around the globe

By JOHN LEICESTER, Associated Press Writer John Leicester, Associated Press Writer 2 hrs 3 mins ago
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PARIS – Barack Obama's election as America's first black president unleashed a renewed love for the United States after years of dwindling goodwill, and many said Wednesday that U.S. voters had blazed a trail that minorities elsewhere could follow.

People across Africa stayed up all night or woke before dawn to watch U.S. history being made, while the president of Kenya — where Obama's father was born — declared a public holiday.

In Indonesia, where Obama lived as child, hundreds of students at his former elementary school erupted in cheers when he was declared winner and poured into the courtyard where they hugged each other, danced in the rain and chanted "Obama! Obama!"

"Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place," South Africa's first black president, Nelson Mandela, said in a letter of congratulations to Obama.

Many expressed amazement and satisfaction that the United States could overcome centuries of racial strife and elect an African-American as president.

"This is the fall of the Berlin Wall times ten," Rama Yade, France's black junior minister for human rights, told French radio. "America is rebecoming a New World.

"On this morning, we all want to be American so we can take a bite of this dream unfolding before our eyes," she said.

In Britain, The Sun newspaper borrowed from Neil Armstrong's 1969 moon landing in describing Obama's election as "one giant leap for mankind."

Yet celebrations were often tempered by sobering concerns that Obama faces global challenges as momentous as the hopes his campaign inspired — wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, the nuclear ambitions of Iran, the elusive hunt for peace in the Middle East and a global economy in turmoil.

The huge weight of responsibilities on Obama's shoulders was also a concern for some. French former Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin said Obama's biggest challenge would be managing a punishing agenda of various crises in the United States and the world. "He will need to fight on every front," he said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev said he hoped the incoming administration will take steps to improve badly damaged U.S. ties with Russia. Tensions have been driven to a post-Cold War high by Moscow's war with U.S. ally Georgia.

"I stress that we have no problem with the American people, no inborn anti-Americanism. And we hope that our partners, the U.S. administration, will make a choice in favor of full-fledged relations with Russia," Medvedev said.

Europe, where Obama is overwhelmingly popular, is one region that looked eagerly to an Obama administration for a revival in warm relations after the Bush government's chilly rift with the continent over the Iraq war.

"At a time when we have to confront immense challenges together, your election raises great hopes in France, in Europe and in the rest of the world," French President Nicolas Sarkozy said in a congratulations letter to Obama.

Poland's Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski spoke of "a new America with a new credit of trust in the world."

Skepticism, however, was high in the Muslim world. The Bush administration alienated those in the Middle East by mistreating prisoners at its detention center for terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and inmates at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison — human rights violations also condemned worldwide.

Some Iraqis, who have suffered through five years of a war ignited by the United States and its allies, said they would believe positive change when they saw it.

"Obama's victory will do nothing for the Iraqi issue nor for the Palestinian issue," said Muneer Jamal, a Baghdad resident. "I think all the promises Obama made during the campaign will remain mere promises."

In Pakistan, a country vital to the U.S.-led war on the al-Qaida terrorist network and neighbor to Afghanistan, many hoped Obama would bring some respite from rising militant violence that many blame on Bush.

Still, Mohammed Arshad, a 28-year-old schoolteacher in the capital, Islamabad, doubted Obama's ability to change U.S. foreign policy dramatically.

"It is true that Bush gave America a very bad name. He has become a symbol of hate. But I don't think the change of face will suddenly make any big difference," he said.

Obama's victory was greeted with cheers across Latin America, a region that has shifted sharply to the left during the Bush years. From Mexico to Chile, leaders expressed hope for warmer relations based on mutual respect — a quality many felt has been missing from U.S. foreign policy.

Venezuela and Bolivia, which booted out the U.S. ambassadors after accusing the Bush administration of meddling in their internal politics, said they were ready to reestablish diplomatic relations, and Brazil's president was among several leaders urging Obama to be more flexible toward Cuba.

On the streets of Rio de Janeiro, people expressed a mixture of joy, disbelief, and hope for the future.

"It's the beginning of a different era," police officer Emmanuel Miranda said. "The United States is a country to dream about, and for us black Brazilians, it is even easier to do so now."

Many around the world found Obama's international roots — his father was Kenyan, and he lived four years in Indonesia as a child — compelling and attractive.

"What an inspiration. He is the first truly global U.S. president the world has ever had," said Pracha Kanjananont, a 29-year-old Thai sitting at a Starbuck's in Bangkok. "He had an Asian childhood, African parentage and has a Middle Eastern name. He is a truly global president."

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September 15, 2008 - Monday 

Category: News and Politics

Breast cancer vaccine! I had no idea such a thing even existed. Now all I want to know is when is this going to be available to the public?! 

 

Breast cancer vaccine helps body fight tumors

By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor Mon Sep 15, 8:24 AM ET

Researchers who designed one experimental breast cancer vaccine say they have fine-tuned the process and come up with another that they hope will be more effective.

Their new vaccine delivers a cancer-fighting gene into cells, which then produce immune system proteins as well as tumor-destroying cells.

"In our own mind it is a very significant advance because we have put the gene into the cells in the body. The vaccine is produced by your own cells," Wei-Zen Wei of Wayne State University in Detroit, who led the study, said in a telephone interview. "It is made right in your body."

The vaccine eliminated tumors in mice from a type of cancer called HER2 positive cancer, they reported in the journal Cancer Research. HER2-positive cancers account for between 20 percent and 30 percent of breast cancers.

It even worked to eliminate HER2 tumors that had developed resistance to drugs designed to fight them, the said.

The HER2/neu protein is over-expressed, meaning it is over-active, in several tumors including breast, colorectal and ovarian cancer.

Herceptin, also known as trastuzumab, an expensive antibody-based drug made by Genentech Inc, can treat these tumors. But many patients eventually acquire what is known as resistance and the tumors start growing again.

ANTIBODIES AND KILLER T-CELLS

Wei's team made a vaccine using so-called naked DNA from genes that produce the HER2 receptor -- the molecular signal for the breast cancer tumors.

They put this DNA, along with an immune system stimulant, into a ring of genetic material, called a plasmid, from a bacterium.

They used a process called electroporation, which employs an electrical pulse, to force the compound through skin and muscle to immunize mice.

Once in the leg muscles, the genes went to cells, which started producing HER2 receptors that activated antibodies and immune cells called killer T-cells, they reported.

"The immune system goes around the body to look for cancer cells," Wei said.

When they then injected HER2-positive breast tumors into the mice, their bodies eradicated them.

"Both tumor cells that respond to current targeted therapies and those that are resistant to these treatments were eradicated," Wei said. "This may be an answer for women with these tumors who become resistant to the current therapies."

It might even be used to prevent cancer from coming back in women who have been successfully treated using Herceptin or other drugs, she said.

Several groups are working on breast cancer vaccines that target HER2, including Seattle-based Dendreon Corp, which calls its vaccine Neuvenge, and privately held Apthera, whose vaccine is called Neuvax.

Breast cancer is the top cause of cancer death among women worldwide, with 1.3 million new cases diagnosed annually and 465,000 deaths, according to the American Cancer Society.

 

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August 13, 2008 - Wednesday 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Pets and Animals
Ever since I first learned about it in Spanish class in college I've been fascinated by the legend of the Chupacabra (which is pretty much a Mexican version of a werewolf). I was bummed when the strange animal they found last year in Texas was just a Texas coyote but now there's been a more recent sighting and footage of another possible Chupacabra:

Did Texas deputy get video of legendary 'chupacabra'?

Reported by: Joe Balian
Email: jbalian@abc15.com
Last Update: 8/12 8:05 pm

Some believe the legendary animal - a 'chupacabra' or 'goat sucker' - has been caught on tape.

A Dewitt County, Texas Sheriff's Deputy caught a glimpse of the animal while patrolling the back roads.

Seizing an opportunity, he turned on his dash cam.

The animal was about the size of a coyote, but it galloped. Corporal Brandon Riedel said he's seen lots and lots of animals before, but never anything like this.

Others said it looks a lot like a creature found dead in Cuero, Texas last year. That animal was first believed to be a chupacabra. But tests at Texas State University showed it was some sort of Coyote.

The sheriff said he's eager to share the video with researchers in order to solve the mystery.

A chupacabra is a legendary animal that people in Mexico have claimed to see. It hops like a kanagaroo, has spines like a porcupine, and fangs like a vampire bat.

The story began in Puerto Rico when dead goats were discovered with fang marks on their necks.

Legend says the animal also stalks chickens and some believe it even attacks people. 

There is even a website dedicated to chupacabra sightings.

In the 1990s, a Tucson man and his 7-year-old reported spotting a chupacabra just outside their door.

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August 1, 2008 - Friday 

Current mood:  shocked
Category: News and Politics
By LARA JAKES JORDAN and DAVID DISHNEAU, Associated Press Writers 2 hours, 16 minutes ago

A top U.S. biodefense researcher apparently committed suicide just as the Justice Department was about to file criminal charges against him in the anthrax mailings that traumatized the nation in the weeks following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, according to a published report.

The scientist, Bruce E. Ivins, 62, who worked for the past 18 years at the government's biodefense labs at Fort Detrick, Md., had been told about the impending prosecution, the Los Angeles Times reported for Friday editions. The laboratory has been at the center of the FBI's investigation of the anthrax attacks, which killed five people.

Ivins died Tuesday at Frederick Memorial Hospital in Maryland. The Times, quoting an unidentified colleague, said the scientist had taken a massive dose of a prescription Tylenol mixed with codeine.

Tom Ivins, a brother of the scientist, told The Associated Press that another of his brothers, Charles, told him Bruce had committed suicide.

A woman who answered the phone at Charles Ivins' home in Etowah, N.C., refused to wake him and declined to comment on his death. "This is a grieving time," she said.

A woman who answered the phone at Bruce Ivins' home in Frederick declined to comment.

Justice Department spokesman Peter Carr and FBI Assistant Director John Miller declined to comment on the report.

Henry S. Heine, a scientist who had worked with Ivins on inhalation anthrax research at Fort Detrick, said he and others on their team have testified before a federal grand jury in Washington that has been investigating the anthrax mailings for more than a year.

Heine declined to comment on Ivins' death.

Norman Covert, a retired Fort Detrick spokesman who served with Ivins on an animal-care and protocol committee, said Ivins was "a very intent guy" at their meetings.

Ivins was the co-author of numerous anthrax studies, including one on a treatment for inhalation anthrax published in the July 7 issue of the journal Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Just last month, the government exonerated another scientist at the Fort Detrick lab, Steven Hatfill, who had been identified by the FBI as a "person of interest" in the anthrax attacks. The government paid Hatfill $5.82 million to settle a lawsuit he filed against the Justice Department in which he claimed the department violated his privacy rights by speaking with reporters about the case.

The Times said federal investigators moved away from Hatfill and concluded Ivins was the culprit after FBI Director Robert Mueller changed leadership of the investigation in 2006. The new investigators instructed agents to re-examine leads and reconsider potential suspects. In the meantime, investigators made progress in analyzing anthrax powder recovered from letters addressed to two U.S. senators, according to the report.

Besides the five deaths, 17 people were sickened by anthrax that was mailed to lawmakers on Capitol Hill and members of the news media in New York and Florida just weeks after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. The victims included postal workers and others who came into contact with the anthrax.

In the six months following the anthrax mailings, Ivins conducted unauthorized testing for anthrax spores outside containment areas at USAMRIID — the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases at Fort Detrick — and found some, according to an internal report by the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, which oversees the lab.

In December 2001, after conducting tests triggered by a technician's fears that she had been exposed, Ivins found evidence of anthrax and decontaminated the woman's desk, computer, keypad and monitor, but didn't notify his superiors, according to the report.

The report says Ivins performed more unauthorized sampling on April 15, 2002, and found anthrax spores in his office, in a passbox used for moving materials in and out of labs, and in a room where male workers changed from civilian clothing into laboratory garb.

Ivins told Army investigators he conducted unauthorized tests because he was worried that the powdered anthrax in letters that had been sent to USAMRIID for analysis might not have been adequately contained.

In January 2002, the FBI doubled the reward for helping solve the case to $2.5 million, and by June officials said the agency was scrutinizing 20 to 30 scientists who might have had the knowledge and opportunity to send the anthrax letters.

After the government's settlement with Hatfill was announced in late June, Ivins started showing signs of strain, the Times said. It quoted a longtime colleague as saying Ivins was being treated for depression and indicated to a therapist that he was considering suicide. Family members and local police escorted Ivins away from the Army lab, and his access to sensitive areas was curtailed, the colleague told the newspaper. He said Ivins was facing a forced retirement in September.

The colleague declined to be identified out of concern that he would be harassed by the FBI, the report said.

Ivins was one of the nation's leading biodefense researchers.

In 2003, Ivins and two of his colleagues at the USAMRIID received the highest honor given to Defense Department civilian employees for helping solve technical problems in the manufacture of anthrax vaccine.

In 1997, U.S. military personnel began receiving the vaccine to protect against a possible biological attack. Within months, a number of vaccine lots failed a potency test required by federal regulators, causing a shortage of vaccine and eventually halting the immunization program. The USAMRIID team's work led to the reapproval of the vaccine for human use.

The Times said Ivins was the son of a Princeton-educated pharmacist who was born and raised in Lebanon, Ohio. He received undergraduate and graduate degrees, including a Ph.D. in microbiology, from the University of Cincinnati.

He and his wife, Diane, owned a home just outside the main gate to Fort Detrick.
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July 28, 2008 - Monday 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Parties and Nightlife
Hosted By: Jessica and Rebekah Brooks
When: Saturday Aug 02, 2008
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Where: 319 A Street - on the roof!
Boston, MA 02110
United States
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June 24, 2008 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  excited
Category: Parties and Nightlife
Hosted By: Rebekah Brooks
When: Friday Jul 04, 2008
at 11:59 PM
Where: The Seacoast Repertory Theater
125 Bow Street
Portsmouth, NH 03801
United States
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June 10, 2008 - Tuesday 

Current mood:  annoyed
Category: News and Politics
Remember a few years ago when there were all those blackouts in California and everyone was wondering what the hell was going on? Then it turns out that a company by the name of Enron was intentionally causing the blackouts to increase the demand for energy and drive up energy prices. Something similar is going on with gas prices right now and someday soon we're going to find out who's behind it. - Rebekah


NEW YORK (Reuters)  May 30, 2008 - A U.S. regulatory probe into potential oil-market trading abuses is focusing on possible short-term manipulation of benchmark crude prices and the use of information related to important oil storage tanks to influence prices, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.

The newspaper, citing people familiar with enforcement priorities of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, said the CFTC is pursuing several oil investigations, and that many of them relate to one another.

On Thursday the U.S. futures market regulator had said it would step up surveillance of energy trading by tracking index funds, and had reached an agreement with the U.K.'s Financial Services Authority and ICE Futures Europe to share information on energy contracts.

The CFTC has been under pressure from U.S. lawmakers to crack down on speculators they blame for pushing energy prices to record levels.

U.S. crude oil CLc1 hit a record high of $135.09 a barrel last week, and is up by more than 40 percent this year.

The Journal quoted CFTC enforcement chief Gregory Mocek as saying the agency has about 60 manipulation investigations open in various commodity markets.

The CFTC has expanded an investigation, disclosed previously by the newspaper, into alleged short-term manipulation of crude-oil prices via a widely used price-reporting system run by Platts, a unit of McGraw-Hill Cos (MHP.N: Quote, Profile, Research).

One suspicion, the newspaper said, is that energy companies and traders have at times issued a flood of orders during a time window used by Platts to determine its reported prices for physical oil transactions, then used the potentially distorted prices to make profits in other markets.

According to the Journal, Platts has said its system has safeguards to protect against manipulation.

Subpoenas on the matter have gone out in several stages, the report cited people familiar with the cases as saying.

The Journal cited people familiar with the matter as saying the agency has also been questioning traders about similar activity in the jet-fuel market.

Another area of concern for CFTC regulators is whether the owners of crude-oil storage tanks use their knowledge to make bets on oil-futures markets.

In theory, the owner of a tank could issue misleading information about the tanks being full or empty, leaving the wrong impression about whether oil is in plentiful supply.

Then they could make trades to profit on the misunderstanding.(Reporting by Steve James; Editing by Jonathan Leff and Michael Urquhart)
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May 19, 2008 - Monday 

Category: Pets and Animals
I found Gypsy tonight! I found her hanging around near the dumpster outside our apartment. I didn't know if it was her at first because she ran away from me when I called her but I continued to call her name and the next thing I know I see a black cat in the woods staring at me. I called her name again and I noticed she was meowing at me. I got really excited and started off into the woods after her but she took off and disappeared into a thick briar patch/woodsy area that I couldn't get into. I realized running around like that wasn't going to get her to come to me and I figured she must be hungry if she was dumpster diving so I went inside and got her cat treats and came back out and started calling her name again. As soon as I start shaking the can of treats she pokes her head out of the woods and starts inching towards me very hesitantly while meowing the whole time. Eventually she came right up to me, ate a few treats and I grabbed her and brought her inside. She's as skinny as a rail, the poor thing! She had a couple of ticks on her that our friends Jim and Nicole helped remove and I gave her a flea/tick bath. I don't know why she's been living only a few feet from the apartment building all this time but never came to the building. I guess she must have been scared. I'm so glad I found her and I want to thank all of my friends and neighbors who have been looking for her with me and calling me about sightings of her! I'm so happy!
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April 28, 2008 - Monday 

Category: Pets and Animals



She ran away last Wednesday night through a door that was accidentally left open and she hasn't been back yet. She's very timid around people, hates loud noises and loves to hunt so I suspect that she's living in Garrison Hill Park hunting birds and chipmunks. I've had her for 14 years, even since she was a little kitten, and I miss her so much! If anyone has seen her please let me or my husband Matt know!
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February 28, 2008 - Thursday 

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping

Hey everyone,  I recently set up a new myspace page for my shop at www.myspace.com/garrisonhilldesigns so if I haven't added you yet feel free to add me to your friends. I will be doing all of my blogging for the shop over there from now on. I'm slowly adding more and more stuff to the shop so it's starting to expand a bit. In the coming weeks I'll be adding new dresses, more tops and some cute cropped jackets as well as other things so keep checking back.

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January 14, 2008 - Monday 

Category: Fashion, Style, Shopping


I'm in love with this new dress I made this week for my etsy shop www.garrisonhilldesigns.etsy.com. It's a two-toned Mod dress. I've been wanting to make a Mod dress for a while but couldn't settle on a specific design. The funny thing is I still can't. After I made this one I decided I like it so much I wanted to make more in different styles. I think I'm obsessed :-)

This dress is made out of 100% cotton. It zips up in the back and has bust darts and an a-line skirt. It has a yoke in the front and back of the dress which can be the same color or a different color from the rest of the dress:






The photos really don't do this dress justice. It is way more adorable in person and I really wish the photos came out better but black and white clothing is really hard to photograph so I'll just deal with it.

I've named this design the Brett Ashley dress after the Lady Brett Ashley from one of my favorite Hemingway novels The Sun Also Rises. She wore a lot of sleeveless dresses and tops and I remember finding the quote about her bare shoulders really funny because it seems like the most innocent and least-controversial part of a woman's body. I always thinking about that quote now whenever I put on something sleeveless.

I'm hoping to have a new design finished by next week to show you but I've got a busy week ahead of me filling orders and I need to make a dentist appointment for sometime this week and then Matthew and I will be going to the Boston Symphony next Saturday night for a Mozart and Schubert concert so I'm not sure if I'll have enough time. I will try my hardest though.

I hope everyone enjoyed their weekends and hopefully some of you have an extended weekend due the storm. I had a quiet but nice weekend with Matthew watching James Stewart movies (The Man Who Knew Too Much and Harvey), going out to dinner (Chili's - we had a gift card. Their vegetarian burger isn't half bad but everything else is pretty horrendous) and then we went to the movies to see Sweeney Todd which I absolutely loved. I can't get those songs out of my head. Still, I can't wait till the spring when we can get outside again and don't have to spend all of our time sitting indoors. See you all later.
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