Home Is Where Your Mama Is

Bonjour Ya'll,

Some years back I gave my mom a fridge magnet that said "Home Is Where Your Mama Is." While my mom and sisters and I have always been a closeknit bunch, this homespun wisdom really rang true on our Paris Montana or Bust Tour that my mom joined me and my fabulous artist friend Meg Harper on this summer.

As always we had a BIG time...including driving through golfball sized hail and technocolor rainbows in Montana, encountering a hole as big as the Grand Canyon in the middle of nowhere Wyoming, and desperately trying to figure out how to kidnap a 20ft pink dinasaur with flirty eyelashes in Vernal, Utah.

But what warmed my heart and soothed my soul was working alongside Mamere (nickname from trip to Paris)/Mama Love (from movie The Client) at our shows across the West. During a downpour at one show when our awning threatened to set sail, Mamere held down the fort while I piled jewels into the Blacktop Boudoir. When we got to Yellowstone Park and realized there were no campsite hookups available, she agreed to sleep in the trailer in a parking lot. And Mama Love is now responsible for the single largest sale in Paris Montana history because she took the time to befriend a customer who just needed a little encouragement to unleash her inner fabulousness!

I thought bringing my mom along would be a little harder but worth it. Silly me. As has been so often in my life..she brought me along...with her knowledge about why there are ripples in the freeway, how beattles in the Colorado trees are part of nature's plan, and why it's so important to live out loud no matter what age or stage in life.

Here's to Mamere/Mama Love and to all our Mamas who continue to show us what's really important in life.

Preview of Paris Montana Architectural Street Chic Salvage Summer 2010 Line

Greetings Y'all,

Here is a preview of our fabulous NEW Architectural Street Chic Salvage Line made from vintage jewelry molds that we delighted upon in our travels. We will be debuting this one-of-a-kind line during our summer Art & Antique Show circuit. We will be at Livingston Depot, Livingston, MT, July 2-4, Teton Village, Jackson Hole, WY, July 9-11, Vail Antique Festival, Vail, CO, July 16-18, and Beaver Creek Antique Festival, Beaver Creek, Co July 23-25.

Don't you love our commissioned Marie Antoinette bust from Paris Envy and the cowskull bottle that Tricia, Vintage Bliss, made for us???

Hope to see you there and down the road!

Paris Montana Selling Online NOW

Greetings Ya'll~

Thank you to all of our wonderful customers who continue to find us at events all over the land! We are excited to announce that we are now selling a limited selection of Paris Montana pieces on line so that you can shop in your jammies anytime! All you have to do is click on the "Shop here" button to the right and voila! welcome to our online store. We will be adding more pieces all the time so be sure to check back!

Also, be sure to check out our "On the Road" calendar for upcoming events.

See you down the road!

Don't Miss Last Third Thursday before Summer!

Bonjour Ya'll~

Come join us for the LAST Third Thursday before the summer heat! The Paris Montana Blacktop Boudoir will be out front of the newly reopened and divine Sirens & Saints, along with Vintage Bliss and others this Thursday, May 20 6:30-10 pm! Wait till you see some of the repurposed pieces we have created JUST for this event. There will be wine and cheese and all sorts of vintage eclectic and fabulous finds at all the shops up and down 7th Ave Melrose Crawl! See you there!

(S&S photo from Vintage Bliss Blog)

FLY

"I feel wide awake." I love that line from Gina Davis in the cult classic Thelma and Louise when they are on the run and up close and personal with all the choices that led them to that very moment when they are speeding across the desert in that magnificent '66 T-Bird...

Maybe you are at a crossroads in life like I was a couple years back...where I found myself staring out the window a lot...remembering my childhood when I would spend hours of unstructured time reading, drawing or riding my bike from dawn to dusk...

Should I stay and work harder to do what's safe and comfortable and keeps me in Armani suits and Ferragamos...or should I jump off a cliff and either plunge into an abyss or...learn to fly?

See, as I stand here in a field of wild grasses, with the Blacktop Boudoir behind me and glittery things all around...I know for certain those girls aren't at the bottom of the Grand Canyon. They flew right out the other side on a wing and a prayer and made it all the way to Mexico.

Maybe your dream's not an Airstream trailer filled with jewels, or margaritas on the beach. Maybe it's to own a pilates studio or to ride a Harley. Whatever it is, gypsy cowgirl, FLY!

See You Down the Road!

Country Thunder and Ron

Well Country Thunder was a hoot! Fun to see all the characters who come out for this four-day country musicfest at the historic Canyon Moon Ranch in Florence, AZ. And, after so many years in corporate America, I never get tired of my "office" being a lush green field of wild grasses.

A major highlight was listenin to legendary Willie Nelson under a star filled sky. That one's gonna stick with me...

My most fun customer award this time goes to Molly, Randi and Ron. Molly's just plain and simple a Paris Montana girl. She fit right in and looked fabulous in everything she tried on (and bought!). Randi was just the cutest little pregnant mom, who was right there with Molly...and Ron? Well, listen up gals, his job was to stand there and look cute...give the girls money...and carry their packages!!! Best part? He liked it!!! I don't know where he came from...but I think every girl needs a Ron.

See ya'll down the road!

Country Thunder Here Comes Paris Montana!

We dusted off our boots from Texas and I just got my Junk Gypsy "Cleanest Dirty Shirt" back from that nice lady who washes, dries, fluffs and folds...which means it must be time to head to Florence, AZ for http://www.countrythunder.com/! This four day event runs April 14-April 17 and will have our fav Miranda Lambert (modeling a Paris Montana design in our last blog!), the Legendary Willie Nelson, Keith Urban, Kid Rock and even Kevin Costner and his band will be there. So git your boots on girl and come on out! Yee Haw!

With all the fabulous finds we picked up along the way to Texas and back, those cowgirls and country music fans are gonna go crazy!

Check out this fun piece called Summertime Fling! We will have this little honey and lots of other great finds out there!

Be sure to look for our shiny Paris Montana Airstream Blacktop Boudoir and stop by to say hi!

See ya'll down the road!