Amazing photographer Lisa Warninger, the woman behind Portland's Urban Weeds street style blog, gave us mad props in this Willamette Week Q&A session! We're feeling supremely honored to be listed as one of her favorite places to shop in town! If you haven't had a chance to check out Urban Weeds, please do, and if you've got great style, get in touch with Lisa!
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Tons of thanks to Lisa for this shout out, and, particularly for letting us know about the shout out. In spite of our diligent efforts to scan Google Analytics and to program Google Alerts to keep track of our press, with a name as common as Golden Rule, it's been getting pretty hard to catch everything. If you're a member of the blog or print press who's covered us, let us know!
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Funding for Project Grow may be on the cutting block in upcoming budget decisions. Please call Representative Tina Kotek at 503-986-1444 or send her an email at rep.tinakotek@state.or.us and tell her how much Project Grow means to you! Thanks!
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In addition to calling Representative Tina Kotek at 503-986-1444 or send her an email at rep.tinakotek@state.or.us, if you're a FaceBook person, please share this opportunity with your friends via this here FaceBook invite. Please save Project Grow.  
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It's been a really long time since I've done dance therapy. In fact, it's been since like, December, with the exception of this one lost-and-found video from February. Apparently I need to get back at it. Must be out of shape. I popped a rib out this morning. Much pain ensued, and while I'm grateful to the relief provided by the AWESOME chiropractor upstairs, the bill not so much.
Moral of the story: Golden Rule is closing an hour early today by Doctor's orders. Bed rest and ice packs it is. Like, I can't breathe without intense pain. This is all really scary because, well, what with the intense bodily disassociation I experience, it's very rare for me to ever feel pain. So to feel this bad as this means I must REALLY be fucked up! More dance therapy soon.
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Our friend, collaborator, and fellow capital letter enthusiast Sarah Radcliffe has been working for a long time to launch her Yo Vinitage e-commerce site. This week she did it! We're very proud of her! So much work it took, I know, and the results show!
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Please check it out for yourself--it's so impressive (and very motivating for us to follow suit)! You can also meet Sarah in the flesh next week at Frock Off, a pop up collaboration between Yo Vintage and Palace, at 220 on December 29th. 6-10 p.m.
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Strange, but true. The Settlement (comprised of four artist-run galleries called People, Place, Store, and Trade) is a new 10,000-square-foot contemporary arts space at the top of Pioneer Place mall in downtown Portland. How this all came to be is quite confusing (and AMAZING). I won't even try to explain it (you can hear all about it via KBOO's Eva Lake on last week's Art Focus). Or you can ask Gabe Flores of PLACE gallery anything. The space will be fully "activated" December 18th, from 6-9 p.m. during an art opening IN A MALL! Come see this space (which is just a small portion of the whole) filled with art:
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Oh yeah, also, we've accidentally become involved in this. PNCA's MFA program was supposed to curate the 3,000-square-foot space called Trade, but were unable to "activate" the space before February. So last week Research Club called us up and said, "Uh, so, there's this space we've got to get some stuff in, and we know you have stuff . . . " So now we'll be contributing a last-minute installation to the space in collaboration with Tori Abernathy of Recess Gallery, Elizabeth Lamb of U of O's White Box Gallery, Nim Wunnan of Research Club, and Max Odgen. What have we gotten ourselves into? An exciting mess!
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Our neighbor May at Nationale is taking a break from solo art shows this month to focus on a showcase of regional saleables. Stop by from now until christmas to shop for leather and metal jewelry by Hunter Gather(er), one-of-a-kind ceramic necklaces by Emily Counts, amazing bags by Ampersand AS Apostrophe, new bead necklaces by Anna Weber, and lots, lots more.
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As with many of the other stores in the 811 Design Building, Nationale has extended holiday hours. We're having a little trouble tracking the hours, though, so please check Nationale's website, or give them a call at 503-477-9786. Sword + Fern, Redux, Haunt, and Stand Up Comedy may also have late-night shopping hours, so check them out as well. We're open 12-9 p.m.   
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Little Edie's Five and Dime is a place I used to love back in the day (haha! The website says Little Edie's just opened in August of 2008 but it feels like SO much longer ago. Really? I could have sworn I bought that snakeskin telephone back in the mid-2000s?). It was my favorite place, but it seemed like it was only open late at night during shows at The Waypost (now it's open 12-6, every day but Tuesday). And then I moved to SE, and you know, that venture to North-North just doesn't happen all that often. Huge thanks to owner Penelope for coming into Golden Rule and putting lovely Little Edie's back on my radar!
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This is what to look for!
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Tons of treasures and magical displays herein!
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Little Edie's gives our tiny menswear collection a run for its money. Need something for your sweetie? Seek no farther!
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Just like Golden Rule, Little Edie's is dog friendly!
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Covet. Covet. Covet.
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They tally up purchases on a giant calculator and keep their daily books on a typewriter! How charming!
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I got a spare moment away from the space today and headed straight over. Oh. My. Gosh. My arms were full in minutes! So many wonderful treasures in there! I had to remind myself, "You're shopping for yourself, not for the space," several times because there were so many affordable pieces I knew would be perfect for upcoming themes at Golden Rule. Fortunately, we're going to be doing a little inventory swap with Little Edie's here soon, and hopefully an ongoing collaboration will be formed! And who knows, maybe we'll put Penelope's other business to help use whipping the chaos land that is our basement into shape!
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This awesome feature on the 811 Design Building's late hours just popped up on our Google alerts just seconds after I'd thought about closing early because, well, it's been about 7 hours with no visiters and I'm pooped from First Friday. Guess not!
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So far our late night hours have only been mildly successful, which is to say one day out of seven has been worth our while. We're hoping this trend will change soon, otherwise we'll be going back to our regular 12-6 and by appt. schedule in January.
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We'd been hurting for a month or so without our fancy Japanese Masking Tape from Alder & Co. Finally got to stop in to visit Carla last week. Now that we're stocked up on non-plastic tape, we're ready to make you all some pretty Christmas packages!
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If you haven't had a chance to stop by Alder & Co. please do. A customer very accurately described them as "a female version of Canoe" (another of our favorite downtown stores from where we're secretly hoping to get this for Christmas). Good stuff!
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Yesterday Navid suggested we check out some new antique store he'd stumbled into last week. Seek The Unique, at 931 SE 6th Ave., Portland, OR 97214, is a fascinating place of antiquities, industrial furniture, and other oddities. After two years of being an auction house w/by-appointment-only retail, they opened two weeks ago in a retail-only capacity. Glad they did. Although there are very few for-resale scores here (in other words, we won't be shopping for Golden Rule here), the prices are not too much higher than they'd be at any of the other places I pick for my own home furnishings, and the selection is great.
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I fell in love with this industrial mail cubby :(
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Butterflies!
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Bones!
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Old vellum drafting plans
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A bowl of raw wool!
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Limited but lovely fashion (and LOTS of great wool blankets!)
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Want. So. Bad. These anatomy figures!
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There are so many beautiful textiles.
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I most wanted to take home their dogs.
Since there's very little web presence for the place, I'll say it feels a little like This Is Not Ikea in LA, with less of a Mid-Century/Industiral edge and more of a cassic antique/industrial curation. It's a huge warehouse, with lots of light and strategically sloppy arrangements of large pieces of furniture and decorative items, with not much small stuff, but great big stuff. As a whole, the place is a little to "interior-designey" for me personally (not quite sure how to explain that except if you were to contrast architectural photos from Architectural Digest w/those from Apartamento you'd get the idea), but the parts are great.
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