Wear What When

Sweet Suggestion #3

How to get under the covers with that special someone

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Feb 04, 2010 at 12:30PM 0 Comments

Photo: Image from Blackbird's shopping pages

As far as helpful hints go, what better way to say, “Hey, I’d really like to get under the covers with you” than a rich, vivid, beautiful blanket.

The folks at Blackbird and their sibling shop Field House have an affinity for American and Northwest products, and they’re in love with (as are others in the fashion world) the Oregon-based heritage brand Pendleton.

Couldn’t you be in love with — or under — Pendleton’s Fremont blanket?

All the gorgeously historical and timeless Pendleton pieces in the Blackbird collection (or for that matter at the Downtown Pendleton store) — can be seen as the anti-lingerie. Not that there’s anything wrong with lingerie, but skimpy and strappy doesn’t work for everyone.

If cozy, warming, and private is your idea of sexy, well, you know what to do next.

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Tags: Hamburgers, Locally Made, Valentine's Day, heritage brands, home decor, gift guide, Pendleton

Sweet Suggestion #2

Seattle-based Hopscotch Tees combine wee neighborhood pride with sweet sentiments for little ones

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Feb 04, 2010 at 07:00AM 0 Comments

Photo: Image from Hopscotch Tees

If your favorite Valentine is 9 months old, a box of chocolates is probably a little much. A dozen roses? Not so much. But how about this sweet little onesie by Shana Perrina of the locally based line Hopscotch Tees?

The thing about Perrina’s designs is that they’re customizable; neighborhood pride goes hand in hand with retro-feeling, poppy design.

Check the fine print on the image here: "The sweetest thing in ____________ (your neighborhood here) since ____ (the little one’s birth year there)."

For more tees for boys, girls — and yes, these come in uh, big kid sizes, too — check the Hopscotch’s online shopping page.

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I know, I know, two cupcake-related posts in two days. Won’t happen again. I promise.

Stay tuned for another Sweet Suggestion later today.

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Tags: Valentine's Day, gift guide, Locally Designed, kids stuff

Sweet Suggestion #1

Get fresh with locally made woodsy sweet soaps by Sweet Petula

Posted by: Laura Cassidy on Feb 01, 2010 at 09:15AM 0 Comments

Photo: Photo courtesy Sweet Petula Etsy Shop

Here’s hoping that two weeks from today you’ll wake up with a perfectly wonderful love hangover. If that worthy goal is yours, better get to work now on making it so. Your first Wear What When Sweet Suggestion: Sweet Petula’s soaps.

Down in Pioneer Square, and over on Etsy, Cory Smith’s shop is a cozy boudoir drawer full of Egyptian musk, vanilla, lemon verbena, pink grapefruit, cedar, and myrrh. Smith crafts soaps, candles, bath salts, lip tints, and other lovely things in her studio just beyond the shop and then accesses some centuries old spirit to help her wrap these things in old French postcards and apothecary prints.

It’s gorgeous stuff.

Photo: Photo courtesy Sweet Petula Etsy Shop

I love what she says about her Bonjour Monsieur shea butter soap, pictured here: “When I meet the man that smells like this….I’m going to walk up to him and say, "Bonjour Monsieur!”

I don’t want to speak for Smith, but I don’t imagine she’d mind if you borrowed her line. Just order some soaps first.

There’s a shea soap for friends and mademoiselles as well; visit the shop to put together an assortment of feel-good sweet somethings for someone you love, or go through Etsy and have Smith create one for you.

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Tags: Locally Made, Valentine's Day, Pioneer Square, bath and beauty, gift guide