I’m so excited!  The super cute ”Life & Style to You every Friday” blog Seattlepicks featured Moi!  Yes, that’s right my little online accessories boutique is on the front page of Seattlepicks.com.  I am honored and totally stoked!  I love their style.  And they seem to really have their finger on the pulse of Seattle’s shopping, entertainment and local artists connections.  It is so important to support our small local business’ and artists and they put it all together for us every Friday.  What more can we Seattlites ask for, right?  Be sure and take a look today.  OH, Hey! even if you’re not a Seattlite (too bad for you) they feature many wonderful websites that you can browse around in while wearing your bunny slippers, especially katiekay.com.  My featured artist in Seattlepicks today is Heather Lecy’s “It’s Love” sterling bracelet, take a peek, enjoy!

Check it out Dawg.  Oooopppp’s sorry, just finished watching American Idol,  LOVE IT!  Best season ever…Ok back to the matter at hand; new handbags, and new jewelry ARE HERE!  YEEEEAAAAHHHH!  You ladies at the Bags and Bottles event, cleaned me out! A special thank you to all of you, we were able to give Gildasclub a very nice donation.  BUT, low and behold and just in the nick of time I might say, 2 boxes of handbags landed on the door step monday morning.  Woo Hoo!  Take a look.  Please enjoy the free shipping and be sure and browse all my new cool stuff while you’re there.  And, Hey! don’t forget to put a little icing on your cakes.  Get it? Icing, cake, ACCESSORIZE!

I just ran in from a long day at the SHOP 08 & CRAVE seminar series today at the Seattle Center.  1st of all, let me just say that I went because it advertised professionals speaking about advertising, marketing, promoting and networking your business, especially websites.  I am an optimist (most of the time) and hope I will come away from something like this with just one little tid bit that made it worthwhile.  WELL, I am so pleased to report that they served what they had on the menu.  It was great!  I seriously came away with new direction and inspiration. Their panel members were experts on web design, marketing, advertising, mass email marketing, business networking, PR, and so much more.  I do have to toot my own horn for just a sec though and say I felt a teeny bit superior sitting there in some sessions listening to all their advise, because I have implemented (under the guidance of my GURU, Jill Olkoski of Aldebaran Website Design) 5 out of 6 of the experts suggestions website must haves. Getting your Blog on your site, and using WORDPRESS for it, SEO (I know what that means because of Jill), keywords, incoming links, google ad-words and so much more.  I am very pleased with what I learned today, but if I hadn’t been for (you know who) my GURU, I think some of it could have sounded like Japanese.  I especially want to acknowledge a little owned company here in Edmonds, WA called MYSAVVYSPACE a resource website geared toward non-techie and sorta-techie professionals with a vested financial interest to having a social networking presence. Cool Huh?  They are my next venture.  I really think they can help me build a networking/blogging system that I can maintain myself (without working on it 24/7 and forgetting to eat dinner)and really target my audience. Yippee CRAVE!

I am extremely pleased to have found and also add these beautiful works of art to my home decor collection in my online boutique. Vintage papers, hand dyed ribbons, 14 kt gold glitter, and so many more special touches are used in every single art piece they create.  Queen of my heart, Patti Grizani, and Moonlight & Roses just to name a few of my new home decor artists.  Come take a look and enjoy the whimsy, the unique, the superbly beautiful creations of these amazing designers and artists.  

Wine Lover?  Handbag Lover?  Yes!  Well then, have we got an event for you.  Seattleuncorked and Vinolover.com are sponsoring another one of their fabulous events for women.  Their most recent gala “Sips and Shoes” was a hug success!  So, they have decided to follow up with “Bag and Bottles”.  Come and enjoy various wines from more then 20 vineyards and view and purchase handbags from over 12 local boutiques, including ME! katiekay.com.  Sunday March 9th, 4-7pm at the W Hotel, in downtown Seattle on the corner of 4th & Spring Streets.  And…you will be pleased to know that a large portion of the sales goes to Gilda’s Club, a world wide organization helping and supporting cancer patients, their families and friend’s.  To purchase tickets go to www.gildasclub.com  Hope to see you there!   

Handbags, we all love em’ can’t get enough of em’ and really? “are we ever truly satisfied with our bag?”  No,  I don’t think so.  Oh maybe when we 1st load her up and take her out for a spin at the next gal pal get together to be greeted jealously with the “ouuuu’s and ahh’s”, but then the sparkle wears off and your just left to diggin’ in it for that lost item. Really, we’re just fickle and alittle greedy.  We want more, more, more.  “Oooooouuu that yellow one, oh girl look at that green one!”  I for one love to change out my handbag once a month, sometimes more, shhhhh, because some like to change their bag weekly, and then there are the ones who like to change theirs out everyday, crazy? I don’t know, but really who has the time? Seriously, we are always on the prowl, endlessly seraching for that next super cute bag to give us that umph! to give us that approving nod from our chick posse as well as total strangers.  And if only to be satisfied for a minute, for a day, for a week, and then to be tossed aside for the next cutie.  Even if you’re a bag hag that needs functionality above style, you too are always searching!  In style magazine has a fun article showing us “in your bag”, check out all the different styles of bags we carry and the can’t live without goodies we toss in everyday, just to build and build to a whole lotta craposis! Instyle also featured actress Rose McGowan’s Pinken Mint purse caddy, which I for one think is fabulous because of it’s ingenious use on the airplane flip down tray.  I swear I wrench my neck everytime I fly trying to retreive my bag from under the seat in front of me.  I’m getting one, now! Anyway, wether your style is big roomy bags or small intimate pocket books, handbags, handbags, handbags, gotta have em’ love to love to love em’ and must find the next one!  If you, like me, have a slightly shallow obsession for  purses, God help you! or let me help you, hee hee…take a look, try one out, my buyers are always very pleased with their purchase, I do not lie, especially about bags! Happy shopping ~ Katie “happy to be a bag hag” Kay

Magical Mantel features Cody Foster, Bethany Lowe, Walnut Ridge and other vintage look goodies.  Beautiful Cody Foster Trees and Pedestals, Bethany Lowe Icicle Trim, Queen of my Heart Prints and Candles, and FG & Co. make a magical and cozy Christmas nook. 

Well Christmas is over once again, another year gone by.  It’s so fun to put it all up and so hard to take it all down.  I love the look of the house at Christmas, it seems to sparkle and glow all on it’s own even when the lights are not lit.  Cody Foster is a big part of my decor for Christmas and every year I add something new from his collection.  Next year I am adding a few new holiday lines to compliment my  Cody Foster, Bethany Lowe, Walnut Ridge , KD Vintage and Boardwalk Originals collections.  This month I will be buying Midwest of Cannon Falls, Raz, & Katherine’s Collection for Christmas 2008.  They are all beautiful and have the vintage reproduction look me and all my customers love.  I thought I would share a few pictures of mine and my sister’s holidays decorations with you. She recently had a photo shoot of her shop and house with Mary Engelbreits Home Companion magazine for an upcoming issue. Take a look at her amazing, wonderful shop, Maxine’s.  Enjoy the lovely photos, and shop my seasonal category, there are still a few gorgeous items left.  Enjoy free shipping too.  Happy New Year!

Hello Friends!

Welcome to my new blog.  As some of you have probably noticed (I hope) I just recently gave my website a little facelift (a procedure, as they call it on Dr.90210, HUH!) and I deleted the cute little commentary area on the front page with my picture (the caricature above that my daughter drew of me).  I have decided to do a blog, everybodies doing it, huh! and I thought I would share with you some of my favorite things and people and websites and show you some really cool stuff.  So if you have time, I hope you will check in on my blog and give me some commentary.  Tell me what you love, what you loath and most of all share with us all your fabulous decorating and style tips.  See you on page 6.  More to come…