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Tory Burch Fundraiser for Share Our Strength

Monday, March 22nd, 2010

Paisley Petunia invites you to join us for a very special event at the Tory Burch boutique on Thursday, April 8th. We are honored to be hosting the event with fellow LA bloggers Dena of Dluxelist and Esther of e*starla to benefit a wonderful charity - Share Our Strength! Share Our Strength works hard to make sure that no child goes hungry.

This private shopping event is free to attend and will begin at 6pm at the TB store on Robertson. Please come out and join us for a night of shopping where you will enjoy a 10% discount, cocktails and h’ors doeurves. 10% of each purchase that you make will be donated to Share Our Strength by Tory Burch.

At the event, we will be selling discounted tickets to the upcoming Taste of the Nation culinary fundraising event taking place on Sunday, June 6th from 1 – 4 PM in Culver City. Normally, tickets run $100 for regular admission and $150 for VIP, but at our special shopping event, you’ll be able to buy tickets in person for $15 off ($85 and $135, respectively; child tickets remain $25). All proceeds – yes, 100% - from ticket sales benefit Share Our Strength’s efforts to end child hunger. It’s a great way to experience the premier Los Angeles chefs and mixologists and taste great wine in one spot for an afternoon in the beautiful California sun while supporting a great cause.

If you are one of the first 50 at the event to buy a ticket at the shopping event, you’ll also receive a luxe gift bag full of a ton of beauty products and other goodies, including Pinky Vodka! In addition, those who buy tickets on April 8th will receive 20% off their TB purchase! All around this is a wonderful event, we are really looking forward to a fun evening raising awareness and funds for Share Our Strength.

Please let us know you are coming by sending your RSVP to rsvp.totnla@gmail.com. We hope to see you there!

xoxo

c + s

Tags: los angeles, share our strength, shopping fundraiser, Taste of the Nation, Tory Burch
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Let’s play dress up…

Thursday, March 18th, 2010

Remember when you were a wee little kid and playing dress up was the most fun you could have in an afternoon? I remember riffling through drawers full of my grandmother’s extravagant costume jewelry and just layering on so many pieces I could barely stand up. It wasn’t a wearable look for sure but it was my 5 year old version of “concept” and the love of creating conceptual looks has lasted well into my grown up years. I love to play dress up with my tables almost as much as I like to play dress up with my clothes! As an event planner, I often have the opportunity to turn a space into something completely different; a ballroom into an outer space galaxy or a garden into an pink butterfly wonderland. I never run out of ideas; I’m only limited by time and budget (which of course, tends to be limiting!)

Recently, along with my friend and new business partner, Erin and my friend and fab floral stylist, Lauren we had the opportunity to create two concept tables for a photoshoot. We immediately decided one would be garden and the other would be, well not garden. Sadly, the weather didn’t cooperate and our outdoor garden shoot had to be moved inside. Luckily, I found these amazing boxhedge panels from Town and Country Event Rentals and it helped bring a little of the lush green from outside in. We wanted a traditional, elegant table where two ladies might have lunch to discuss their upcoming benefit event. I might add that since we had a limited budget for these tables everything shown is either thrifted or pulled from our own cabinets. I made the faux linen overlay with a $10 piece of fabric (an iron and some stitch witchery is all you need.) This was our result:

For the next table, I was thinking modern, almost industrial and Lauren came up with the title “Park Ave Punk.” That was all we needed to start our creative juices flowing. I immediately thought of 60s NYC with the glam edge of Warhol’s Factory. I enlisted the super talented girls from Make/Shift to stud some faux grey suede napkins (again, I bought the fabric and ironed the edges to look like a real napkin for the purpose of this shoot.) I found the perfect sweatshirt jersey for the placemats in the remanent bin. We used a mix of vintage jewelry as napkin rings and filled all the empty containers with bulk nails and screws from the hardware store (these were promptly returned post shoot because while I can justify keeping a lot of stuff, 10lbs of nails is not one of them.) My husband said, “why are there nails in the glasses?” Oh boys, it’s not a real life dinner party, it’s a concept and we wanted to carry that look throughout the table. So, clearly if this was applied to a real event, we wouldn’t serve nuts n bolts in the glasses. Here is what we came up with:

Photo credit for all these images goes to the lovely, talented and patient Leslie Rodriguez whose beautiful photography can be found by clicking here.

Tags: 1960s, be Make Shift, event planner, los angeles, nyc, tablescapes, the Factory, Town and Country Event Rental, Warhol
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Hazy shade of winter

Thursday, February 25th, 2010

We are busy little bees. I mean seriously busy. I am up to my eyeballs in stuff. Projects coming out my ears. S is in FL at the wedding of a dear friend. Anyways, you get it. The Paisley girls are on fast forward!

We promise to catch you up on all the details on Monday.

In the meantime here is a snap from the beach on Tuesday. It was a chilly winter day here in LA and yes, we know how lucky we are. Stay warm east coasters!

{winter sun-photo credit ckm}

Have a happy~happy Friday and enjoy this last weekend of February.

xoxo

c + s

Tags: lone surfer, los angeles, winter beach photos
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Inspiration is everywhere

Monday, February 22nd, 2010

The LA sunshine did not follow me to San Francisco last week. In fact, everyday was foggy and cool. But it didn’t bother me one bit. In fact against those dismal grey skies the pops of early spring are really striking. It’s hard not to be inspired by the colors and textures that come with the promise of mild weather and longer days. Fresh juicy citrus in street side carts, the delicate pink of the cherry blossoms and the vibrant rainbow of fresh spring flowers are all translated into dreamy spring fashion.

{photo ckm; dress Shoshanna @ Bloomingdales}

{photo ckm; clutch Loris Shoes Chicago}

{photo ckm; dress Arden B}

Where are you finding inspiration this month? What’s on your must have spring fashion list?

Tags: los angeles, san francisco, spring fashion, spring inspiration
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