Pretend you’re designing the future Bike Style Spokane catalog. What would you want to see in it? As we look for additional products to add to the mix, we’ve identified some ideas and need your help as our online focus…Continue Reading
Category: Do You Need to Go Shopping?
Product reviews, “dream” shopping lists of products we’d love to find, and meditations on when and why we should/shouldn’t go shopping.
Bike Style Spokane fills the gap between Nordstrom’s and the local bike shop with comfortable, stylish choices in clothing, accessories, and bike gear. We are constantly looking for new products that fit with our purchasing philosophy and values and that help…Continue Reading
A “buy local/buy good stuff/buy from real people” unmanifesto This site represents the basis for a community of women who bike with style and who support each other. I’m filling the toolkit over time with a few things I hope…Continue Reading
“Did you bike here? Do you want to bring your bikes inside?” Now that’s something you don’t hear every day from a shop owner! What an auspicious start to Saturday’s Bikespedition to Carnegie Square: the collection of distinctive local shops…Continue Reading
We’ll have a booth at the South Perry Street Fair Saturday, July 16. Share the Eventbrite invitation or Facebook event with friends so they know to stop on by. Featured items build on what we’ve had at the first two shopping events.…Continue Reading
“Happy Bottom” is actually my dad’s nickname for my mom, whose name is Gladys. (As she always said, “At least he doesn’t call me Jolly Butt.”) A happy bottom is also what I have on days with a little more…Continue Reading
OK, I’m asking for trouble (or a whole lot of really random and inappropriate blog comments, which I will moderate) with the word “panties” in this post…. Panties are just one of the reasons you’ll want to swing by the…Continue Reading
The post that started it all…. The weeks and months of accumulated frustration that led to this post (which originally appeared on my personal blog in September 2010) also led, fairly directly, to the launch of this blog and my…Continue Reading
The longer I live and the more I learn about how the world works, the more important it becomes to me to pay attention to the impacts my personal decisions have and how those represent my values. Once upon a…Continue Reading
Thank you, ladies, for making last Saturday SO fun! Vendors, shoppers, and helpers mixed, mingled, and massaged while Deb kept the Roasthouse coffee coming. The feedback was all positive and enthusiastic and we’re definitely doing this again! Other views of…Continue Reading
Raise your hand, ladies, if you’re like me in my former life: Always buying another purse in search of the perfect purse. That’s the one that doesn’t weigh too much totally empty, that has the right dividers and organizers inside,…Continue Reading