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Skin deep

“I really didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I took this leap of faith,” explains Shawna Villegas regarding the upcoming one-year anniversary of her store, The Skin Shop, Wednesday, April 15. I celebrated early with a little pampering. Located in the historical Yuncker Manor, The Skin Shop’s waiting

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Skin deep

“I really didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I took this leap of faith,” explains Shawna Villegas regarding the upcoming one-year anniversary of her store, The Skin Shop, Wednesday, April 15. I celebrated early with a little pampering. Located in the historical Yuncker Manor, The Skin Shop’s waiting

Cult of the Crab

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Cult of the Crab

Sea Grill is an airy room with floor to ceiling windows all around and a clear view straight into the kitchen. The inviting look of the restaurant is mirrored by the staff. “Are we celebrating anything this evening?” general manager Mike Neumann warmly asks of a couple he’s just seated.

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Cult of the Crab

Sea Grill is an airy room with floor to ceiling windows all around and a clear view straight into the kitchen. The inviting look of the restaurant is mirrored by the staff. “Are we celebrating anything this evening?” general manager Mike Neumann warmly asks of a couple he’s just seated.

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Brow fix

Located in an alley between downtown Tacoma and the Dome District is a quiet little salon hideaway, Steven Christian. Once a coffee warehouse, the building’s ultra tall walls, ceiling-to-floor windows and airy floor plan are inviting. Almost everywhere you look, potted plants grow; the greenery softening what might otherwise be

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Brow fix

Located in an alley between downtown Tacoma and the Dome District is a quiet little salon hideaway, Steven Christian. Once a coffee warehouse, the building’s ultra tall walls, ceiling-to-floor windows and airy floor plan are inviting. Almost everywhere you look, potted plants grow; the greenery softening what might otherwise be

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Megs and Mo

Personal style, perseverance and vision. These three concepts are what has allowed owner Lisa Murphy to take a typical North End home in the Proctor District and transform it into Megs and Mo, the new comfortable, brand name women’s resale clothing store. Murphy incorporates the entire house, too. Each room

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Megs and Mo

Personal style, perseverance and vision. These three concepts are what has allowed owner Lisa Murphy to take a typical North End home in the Proctor District and transform it into Megs and Mo, the new comfortable, brand name women’s resale clothing store. Murphy incorporates the entire house, too. Each room

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RAGS

Year 15 has arrived for RAGS, an annual charity fashion and art fund-raiser that benefits Pierce County’s YWCA Domestic Violence Programs, which is scheduled for March 13-15 at Larson’s Mercedes-Benz of Tacoma. More pointedly, the wearable art sale and gallery competition is a favorite among those who like to shop,

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RAGS

Year 15 has arrived for RAGS, an annual charity fashion and art fund-raiser that benefits Pierce County’s YWCA Domestic Violence Programs, which is scheduled for March 13-15 at Larson’s Mercedes-Benz of Tacoma. More pointedly, the wearable art sale and gallery competition is a favorite among those who like to shop,

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Artful dodging

Considering the economy’s crappy turn in 2008, Jada-Moon Gridley, the pixie behind Moon On Hilltop and Jada-Moon Creations, is one of the lucky ones. “I have managed to make it through the last six months without a job-job,” she says. Say what?! Gridley crafts and fashions a plethora of different things

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Artful dodging

Considering the economy’s crappy turn in 2008, Jada-Moon Gridley, the pixie behind Moon On Hilltop and Jada-Moon Creations, is one of the lucky ones. “I have managed to make it through the last six months without a job-job,” she says. Say what?! Gridley crafts and fashions a plethora of different things

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Washi jewelry

A woman who turns a phrase in many a language, Roberta Armstrong began her love affair with the Japanese washi craft/art in 2001 while visiting her son in Japan. With washi, a handcrafted paper, Roberta creates delightful jewelry — necklaces, brooches that double as pendants, earrings (both clip-on and pierced),

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Washi jewelry

A woman who turns a phrase in many a language, Roberta Armstrong began her love affair with the Japanese washi craft/art in 2001 while visiting her son in Japan. With washi, a handcrafted paper, Roberta creates delightful jewelry — necklaces, brooches that double as pendants, earrings (both clip-on and pierced),

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Resale fun

Britney Spears blared on the sound system as I walked in. Scanning the packed store, I was easily 10 years older than all the other customers. Every third female sported a trucker hat and an oh-so-not-from-the-sun tan. Ah, the youth of America. Plato's Closet in Olympia is a buy-sell secondhand

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Resale fun

Britney Spears blared on the sound system as I walked in. Scanning the packed store, I was easily 10 years older than all the other customers. Every third female sported a trucker hat and an oh-so-not-from-the-sun tan. Ah, the youth of America. Plato's Closet in Olympia is a buy-sell secondhand

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The February kiss-off

How to tell if you are one of those couples: You hold hands all the time. You no longer refer to yourself as “I,” and you answer any question about your upcoming weekend plans with “I’m not sure what we’re doing.” You grin like an idiot. A lot. You’re the

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The February kiss-off

How to tell if you are one of those couples: You hold hands all the time. You no longer refer to yourself as “I,” and you answer any question about your upcoming weekend plans with “I’m not sure what we’re doing.” You grin like an idiot. A lot. You’re the

Embellish Style Annex

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Embellish Style Annex

A good haircut brings out the real you   Another wickedly smart idea Tacoma can benefit from has, not surprisingly, sprung from two women who possess the much sought after Midas touch. Patricia Lecy-Davis and Julie Bennett own Embellish Multi-space Salon and urbanXchange respectively and have added the exciting element of Embellish

Embellish Style Annex

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Embellish Style Annex

A good haircut brings out the real you   Another wickedly smart idea Tacoma can benefit from has, not surprisingly, sprung from two women who possess the much sought after Midas touch. Patricia Lecy-Davis and Julie Bennett own Embellish Multi-space Salon and urbanXchange respectively and have added the exciting element of Embellish

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