Ever stopped to consider why we wait for special occasions to break out our best china, write a heartfelt note or give a thoughtful gift? This week, we open up about the unadulterated joy of celebrating the women who make our lives extraordinary, on days marked in the calendar and those that aren't. From our upcoming escapades to France and Vegas, to the simple pleasure of giving unexpected cards, we unpack the philosophy of indulgence and the art of cherishing our loved ones fiercely and often.
It's not about the grand gestures, but the tiny ones that stitch the fabric of our relationships tighter. In a heartwarming walk down memory lane, we reminisce about May baskets and childhood treasures, while also sharing the secret delight in a well-thought-out gift, like the ever so versatile Kitsch hair towel. As we swap tales from shopping excursions to Target with a friend to the nostalgia-infused charm of handwritten notes, we celebrate the connections that shine light into the everyday.
Closing on a note of discovery, we traverse the world of beauty, where we reveal our latest finds that promise quality without the hefty price tag. From skincare gems at BeautyPie.com and BoomBeauty.com to the perfect foundation for aging skin at JonesRoadBeauty.com, these recommendations come tried-and-tested. We round off with a rallying cry to relish in the beautiful chaos of life, urging you to embrace those spontaneous moments of joy with friends—because isn't that what it's all about? Here's to celebrating the bonds that keep us grounded, the laughter shared over aisle discoveries, and the music that binds us. Cheers to you, dear listeners, until our next rendezvous!
Make sure to subscribe to our channel, comment, like, and share!
Amy, Kitty & Stacey
P.S. Isn't our intro music great?! Yah, we think so too. Thank you, Ivy States for "I Got That Wow".
Ever stopped to consider why we wait for special occasions to break out our best china, write a heartfelt note or give a thoughtful gift? This week, we open up about the unadulterated joy of celebrating the women who make our lives extraordinary, on days marked in the calendar and those that aren't. From our upcoming escapades to France and Vegas, to the simple pleasure of giving unexpected cards, we unpack the philosophy of indulgence and the art of cherishing our loved ones fiercely and often.
It's not about the grand gestures, but the tiny ones that stitch the fabric of our relationships tighter. In a heartwarming walk down memory lane, we reminisce about May baskets and childhood treasures, while also sharing the secret delight in a well-thought-out gift, like the ever so versatile Kitsch hair towel. As we swap tales from shopping excursions to Target with a friend to the nostalgia-infused charm of handwritten notes, we celebrate the connections that shine light into the everyday.
Closing on a note of discovery, we traverse the world of beauty, where we reveal our latest finds that promise quality without the hefty price tag. From skincare gems at BeautyPie.com and BoomBeauty.com to the perfect foundation for aging skin at JonesRoadBeauty.com, these recommendations come tried-and-tested. We round off with a rallying cry to relish in the beautiful chaos of life, urging you to embrace those spontaneous moments of joy with friends—because isn't that what it's all about? Here's to celebrating the bonds that keep us grounded, the laughter shared over aisle discoveries, and the music that binds us. Cheers to you, dear listeners, until our next rendezvous!
Make sure to subscribe to our channel, comment, like, and share!
Amy, Kitty & Stacey
P.S. Isn't our intro music great?! Yah, we think so too. Thank you, Ivy States for "I Got That Wow".
All right, I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration.
Speaker 3:Hello, my friends. Good evening Hello. How are you guys Doing great Good.
Speaker 5:Bonsoir, bonsoir, I've been practicing my French.
Speaker 3:Très bien, très bien, mon ami. That means thank you, my friend or very good it means very good. Yes, yeah, so welcome to Three Cocktails In dicting conversations between three friends who have been there, done that and still want more. So why are we practicing our French?
Speaker 5:Yes, why are we? We're going on a trip. I know a couple of us are going on a trip to France, Yay.
Speaker 3:Yes, yes. And before the trip to France, a couple of us are going to Vegas. Baby, I'm the common denominator in this, so I feel super lucky that I get to go both places Somehow. You get two, I get two. Yeah, I don't know so, but yes, so, along the lines of doing something kind of special, out of the ordinary, little unusual, I think we need to talk about celebrating some of the women in our lives and how to make these women happy, mm-hmm.
Speaker 4:Because, when mama's happy, everybody's happy.
Speaker 3:Ooh isn't that the?
Speaker 4:truth, that was like rule number one that Bill taught Bo from a very, very young age.
Speaker 3:I love it. I love it, yeah. So we started thinking about this as the approaching Mother's Day was coming up. I don't know if it's been different for any of you. Now that our children are older, mother's Day doesn't have quite the same feel to it, and I certainly appreciate the phone calls and the offers of, you know, breakfast and stuff out from the girls, but my girls don't live close. Yeah, yeah, yep. And then we got to thinking about well, why do we have to wait for a holiday? And I think maybe if you've listened to a number of our podcast episodes, you might find this reoccurring theme that we should, one, not be waiting for stuff, yeah, and two, you really don't need a special occasion to do nice things for yourself or for others.
Speaker 4:For sure. Yeah, if you have a fabulous dress or something that's just hanging in the closet, wear it. If you've got china.
Speaker 3:Use it, especially those good fancy glasses.
Speaker 4:Yes, oh yeah, yeah, yeah what are?
Speaker 5:you saving them for right yeah my mom and I have gone to putting, putting our china using it, putting it in the dishwasher and her good, good silverware puts in the dishwasher. I mean, at some point it's kind of like, why are we saving it? You know why are we?
Speaker 2:saving it Never going to use it yeah.
Speaker 5:Why do you have it in a box in the attic? Why not use it and put it in the dishwasher? And it is what it is.
Speaker 3:Yeah, take it out and dry that silverware fast and it'll be fine today, yeah exactly and, I think, related to this topic too.
Speaker 4:I know that this has come up in conversation before that when somebody let's take, for instance, a celebrity, when a celebrity passes away all of a sudden, there's this big celebration of their life. And yeah, I know we can't have a big celebration of life for everybody every day, but why do we have to wait until someone passes away to really honor them and make a big deal? And so I think that kind of feeds into a little bit of what we're going to, what we're talking about today too.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you know, and, and as you said, that my thought went to those people who have been in marriage for a really long time. Why do you only get a wedding shower before you're married, don't you think? And I think about this like with housewarming, with all my new people that are moving into homes, they get like housewarming gifts. Why do you only get that once? Why can't we buy new things or get gifts? I mean, I would kill to have a shower right now where somebody brought me new towels, you know, geez, I could really register for a few things at the Target.
Speaker 5:My vacuum.
Speaker 3:I could use a new vacuum. These silly things. Special occasions France, vegas was a work trip, which you know. That's a special occasion and why do we have to wait? So, on that note, we put our heads together generally and then came up with some of our favorite things. We think that you could buy, gift, provide, do for special people in your life. I mean, mine could definitely be something that's for people, but I think that there's a subset of women out there, both young and old.
Speaker 4:They're going to be in for it.
Speaker 3:They're going to be all down for it. So yeah, Um who, who wants to go first? Should we round Robin this?
Speaker 4:Well, why don't, why don't I just start with with something a little bit uh, something a little bit higher level, and then we'll kind of distill down Higher level. I'm thinking so, and this can even apply to people that we work with, you know, or somebody that might be struggling at work. It shouldn't be as simple as just putting a card on their desk, and when I so, I will be the first one to say I am awful about cards. I rarely buy cards for people because I kind of feel like it's a waste of money. If you give somebody a gift and you have a card, they open the card and they're like, oh, cute, and that's it. But the power of something like that being very unexpected for someone, I think is can be really impactful.
Speaker 5:Absolutely.
Speaker 4:Yeah that you took the time and even if it's not, you know, going to target and pouring through which, by the way, I was thinking about this. So if y'all don't think that Amy takes forever in the candle aisle, do not go to target into the card aisle, Is that even?
Speaker 5:worse.
Speaker 3:If it's not worse. When was the last time you and I went into the card aisle?
Speaker 4:Because I don't let it happen anyway. But, so even if it's not, you know, going and buying a card that has a funny saying or a heartfelt saying, whatever, just writing a little, yeah, writing a little something. So having just little note cards that anytime you can pull out and just say hey, I'm thinking about you today and you know, good luck at that meeting today, or great job in that meeting yesterday, whatever. Good luck at that meeting today or great job in that meeting yesterday, whatever something like that can be really meaningful to people.
Speaker 3:Yes, I'm going to kick off what you said and said. You know what, if you have a friend who likes to go and smell candles and read cards, it would be delightful if you went with them one day as a great gift of your time to spend with the person you really like.
Speaker 5:You make it a nowdy.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I love the gift of time and just going and doing something together.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that really reminds me of early days with the kids, and perhaps you had a friend or a neighbor that also had kids. Do you remember the joy at just meeting somebody at Target or the ball pit at Burger King, another adult who was there to also schlep kids and bags around? It took nothing to make me happy A Diet Coke, an adult to talk to, lifesavers and so many of that. I mean, when was the last time you just went kicking around with a friend to do something as simple as that?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:We don't make enough time for that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yes, so that that is a really good idea. Love the note card and I'll tell you, our friend Lori we've mentioned it before she handcrafts the most gorgeous, cute little cards. I keep them all. I have every single one of them. I've got probably five of them Right now she's got her own bulletin board because they're tucked into all the ribbons and they bring me so much joy to see that little card. They're such a happy little reminder that somebody's thinking of you.
Speaker 4:Yeah. I have a couple of them in my office, on my little bulletin board in my office, and I've had a couple of people notice them before and they'll say what is that over there? Well, that's from my friend, lori Bell. She hand makes her little cards.
Speaker 3:It's like that's so sweet, they're just awesome. Yep, yes for sure. Yeah, I love that. I love the idea of surprising somebody for for no reason or reasons that nobody else is going to know, especially at work. Yeah, you know, just saying I see you. Yeah, I see you in a good way.
Speaker 4:Amy, do you remember I'm sure you remember so during COVID. So at that time Amy lived in Chaska, which is where I live. And so during COVID, when we were all housebound, there was one day and actually I think you might've done it a couple of twice, maybe I know what you're going to say yeah, you went down to Red Bench, you were going to, you know, maybe? Pick up bread or just going for cookies. But you called me and said hey, are you home? I want to drop off some cookies. I'm like yeah, where else would I?
Speaker 4:be, you came to my door and you handed me cookies and it was the best.
Speaker 3:Yeah, thank you. Those cookies. I still miss them. Peanut butter cookies to die for, and they were massive and I'd always say, oh, I'm just gonna split this in a little bite, sure, yeah, 10 bites. That went down as fast as, like me, and cookie monster dove into those. So, yeah, simple little things. Hey, the unexpected little gift at your door. Who remembers may May baskets? That's coming up. Do you guys remember making those? Yes, out of the construction paper that you rolled into like the cone, or you wove it somehow. Yeah, see, that's kind of what we're talking about here. Just that little itty bitty thing.
Speaker 5:Do you think kids do May baskets anymore? Supposedly do that.
Speaker 4:I don't think it's very common. No no, no.
Speaker 3:I don't know why. I have seen there's a preschool teacher in Chaska who I was friends with. Her daughters played soccer with Ava Jenny Swanson down at the little church in in Chaska church down there. She is beyond creative. The woman is just next level. She's like a cross. She could work for Martha Stewart in just cute sort of thing, but she's got this preschool and I think the little ones for her do do may baskets. You know a version of a may basket.
Speaker 3:It's just really really cute, cute, yeah, with a little candies and hang them on the neighbor's door. I remember hanging them on my neighbor's door, jane, on one side, and I don't remember what the other woman's name, but they had to have been 80 living on their own. And, the best part, you get to hang it and then ring the doorbell and run when it was cold during the you know doorbell. Yeah, yeah, so simple little things, yeah, good, what do you have Stace? What are you thinking?
Speaker 5:Well, I have a pile of stuff over here, depending on how much time we end up, but the first one thing I'm going to show you would be a gift for girlfriend or daughter or whoever, but I got this. Well, actually, I didn't get this one. I got my first one from Kitty. Kitty gifted me a kitsch hair towel. So I, um, are you going to demonstrate how to wear it? No, I'm not going to show you, but you. Basically it's like a, you know, a hair wrap, so it's a hair towel basically. So when I get out of the shower, I dump over and put all my hair in this thing, and Kitty gave me the first one. And again, this is my third one. So I really like this brand. It's Kitsch. I can't tell you how much they are because I don't remember, but it's so soft. That's the difference between this and other cheaper ones. You can get some places. It's so soft, so I just feel like it. You know, doesn't snag up or whatever my hair is.
Speaker 4:So that's one that I like. It's so much better than wrapping up a towel on your head A big towel. Yes, you know, it's so heavy. For a while I did a T-shirt, you know, which just looks goofy, but it's super absorbent and I think that's why those, those are so soft because they're super absorbent, which is perfect to your hair yeah, I love them, I did try one of those.
Speaker 3:I'm always running behind in the morning. I am notoriously late for a lot of things, but maybe if my hair only had to dry for six seconds not that I have Kitty's hair, kitty has the thickest hair, maybe short of Madeline. Madeline and Kitty probably both tied up there with how much hair they have. But yeah, yeah, so so that's okay. Kitty got something else. So that's my first thing. Kitty, you got something else.
Speaker 4:Well, my thought process around this really mostly went to experiences, sure, so that was most of what I was thinking. But if we do think about products and I usually do this around holiday time because it's easier to find them at Target or Sephora or what's the other Ulta, the combo packs that pull together a variety of brands so they'll bring in, uh, um, like a Tula and a Clinique and others, others, so that you can try different, uh, different brands across a variety of different products. I feel like that's always a hit with people.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and that's that's where I'm going. I'm I have talked to you two about this, but I, I was influenced. I was influenced and I'm going to admit to it. So I don't know if any of you I'm I'm not only makeup. I like makeup, but I tend to wear the same thing all the time. But I've gotten really into skincare products. Okay, can't roll back time, but I'm highly convinced there's some magic formula out there that's going to stop the aging process. I don't know if that's the case, but I love trying all the stuff. I don't know if that's the case, but I love trying all this stuff.
Speaker 3:And I happened on to um. It's a subs. I won't, I won't say it's a subscription service, but it's an online um shop called beauty pie beauty pie. Now you can buy off of there, go to their webpage and buy, but it's expensive. It rivals the high end department store um prices. But here's my thing you buy a yearly subscription, yearly membership, let's put it that way $59. Okay, right now they're giving you 60 day free trial, 60 days to see if you like these products. So once you buy that membership and this is where I was thinking that you know if you've got a mom, a friend, a sister, even a man in your life, because they have men's products too, that loves skincare, loves makeup, loves tools and stuff. Buy them the membership, let them buy the products. So then it's a $60 gift and they can pick out whatever they want. And I've I've grabbed four of my favorites and I even priced them out so that you can see, kind of you know, where the price is. So I'm going to go with I have a question.
Speaker 5:I have a question Is it the site where it has a lot of different brands, or is it just Beauty Pie brand?
Speaker 3:What they've done. There's Beauty Pie, there's a couple other names of them Japan Fusion but they've gone to all the big manufacturers in France and Japan and Korea that make all the high-end product and they've contracted with them to make the same products and they put it in their own market marketing. You know their own. I don't know how to do this.
Speaker 3:I'm not very good at this. Look at me on this sort of thing. Um. So, for example, my favorite. I have quite a few things from this company Japan fusion from beauty pie, so I don't know, can you see that Japan fusion is the name of it? Okay, yep, this is a deep treatment serum with antioxidant vitamin C and grape polyphenols. Okay, um, I have really sensitive skin. I break out. I don't like perfume and as much as I like to smell candles, now, I don't like perfume on my face. I get red and flush. None of the stuff I buy has any of that on there.
Speaker 3:Um two to three pumps on your face, fingertips, massage into face, face, neck, um, your chest, uh, allow it to dry in, then put your moisturizer on your sunscreen. This little serum $22. That's it. You'd pay a lot of money. You'd probably pay 60, $70 for this If you went to like a Macy's or something. So I use this every single night.
Speaker 3:Here's the other thing that I just got, probably two months ago. This is can you see that Triple hyaluronic acid cream? Hyaluronic acid cream for your eyelids to bring up that puffy eyelid sort of thing going? You guys, this little thing is um $22 and I'm going to show you. This is how much you need on your finger for both eyelids this $22, it gonna last me forever. Put that on every night Again. Not smelly, non-irritating.
Speaker 3:So then in the morning, when I'm getting ready, so you take your shower, you put on the Kitsch head wrap that Stacy suggests and then by the time you go to put your makeup on, has your face dried out again. Your makeup on, has your face dried out again, you know. So all these serums and stuff, serums, moisturizer, all that absorbs better if you have moisture on your face. So I bought the Japan Fusion Energy Essence Mist. This is the first thing I bought from them, probably seven months ago. It takes like three little mists on your face. Smells really good. Then you put your syrup on. Totally absorbs in this thing.
Speaker 3:This one cost $15. So we're talking store brand, yeah. And then they have a really awesome setting spray which I never used to use before. So after you put all your makeup on, you actually do give yourself a couple little shots of this and then you have to do this sort of thing. You know, eye mascara and it lasts. So these are my fun things that I've really enjoyed at Beauty Pie and I think that once you get that $60 membership, it takes like I don't know $75 and you get free shipping and they sometimes have you know you spend 90, you get this or whatever. You can spend a lot of 22 or 15 to $22 and not feel like you're breaking the bank, like you're breaking the bank, yeah, so.
Speaker 4:Is it a situation? Is it a situation where so if somebody gifted you the subscription, then do you just have the ability to buy what you want that they have available? It's not a they don't send you, nope, nope, you buy what you want.
Speaker 3:And you don't have to buy a specific amount every month. Nope, not at all. It's a membership. So it's like a Costco membership. Okay, you know you buy the membership. How many times you go, how much you buy? Yeah, seeing that I'm not married anymore and nobody's watching my credit card bills, when I logged on, it claims I've saved $1,600 this year. Oh my, wow. Let me just tell you that if I had to pay full price for all these things, I would not have bought them. There's no way in hell I'm spending that much money on face products when that could get me a pretty good down payment on.
Speaker 3:You know the facelift. Yeah, you know the facelift. I'd like yeah, so yeah, it's $60. Really nice, easy gift for anybody who loves hair stuff. I'm not talking tools, I'm not talking curling irons and stuff. You know, not so much of the hair, but great, face, body, some makeup. I have a little lip thing that I love, little lip stain. It feels like colored chapstick, so. So that was a good influence thing.
Speaker 5:That was well as long as we're talking about that, I'm influenced constantly.
Speaker 4:You guys, we are, we are and always have been. That's what marketing is. So don't feel bad. I just say that. To say don't feel bad, I just say that Don't feel bad yeah.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 5:So I've been. I would say for the last year and a half. I've been looking for a new foundation because I've been a bare minerals user, which is powder, for years and years, a lot of years, and you know all the. You know influencers say as you age, you need to do more cream makeup, right, so that's everything I see. So not powder, because it's supposedly, you know, sits in your wrinkles, whatever. So anyway, I've spent a year and a half trying to find a foundation and I think I found it, and I actually tried the Jones Road.
Speaker 3:Oh you did. I've been curious about that.
Speaker 5:Yes, and they call it what? The Foundation, which I think is funny anyway. But yeah, it comes in a little little thing right Jones Road and it's you know, it's just like you would think, foundation in a little pot, but I like it so far. They market it saying that it's so light and moisturizing that you may not need a moisturizer. And I don't, Because if I put this on, it's you know dewy moisture very dewy.
Speaker 5:That is exactly what they say. It'll be dewy. Yeah, okay, that's my one. The others you know that I've gotten I've seen that ill maquillage. I wasn't like that yeah, no, I wasn't impressed with that one, and there's another one too. I can't think of what the name I don't know, but anyway if anybody, so how do you put it? On um fingers or do you? You can do either way, and I'm a finger person, so I do it that way. Yeah, so, but you can use a brush, you know?
Speaker 4:yeah, they show people have you guys tried any of the dibs products, the what Dibs D-I-B-S? Uh-uh, they make a really really I should have. I'll bring it next time we gather. But they make a really great dual stick, and so it is. So on one side you've got your contour and on the other side you've got your blush and they are cream and then. But the reason I mentioned is that they have really great brushes, and so it is a cream blush brush on one end and more of a powder brush on the other end, and I um so, even if you are a finger applier, I find that using those brushes and more like, instead of like doing this, you're just kind of bouncing. It really gives you a nice blend and gives you more of an airbrushed. Yeah, I'll bring that next time we gather.
Speaker 5:It's like it's like a stick. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 5:yeah, like those little duos yeah, my next product, if I can, is a little thing like this. This is called Boomstick and there's see, boom. Yep, it comes in three, so there's three, it's a trio. There's that one that I showed you was the shimmer. So, like you use it to contour or to highlight or you know something like that, you put, use it as eye shadow if you want to do that. There's color, so that one's, you know, kind of like a looks brown, as I showed on the screen, but it's um maroon colored. It's for blush. Um, some people put it like on their forehead up here to make it a little contoured. So blush or lipstick can be lipstick Does that have any scent to it.
Speaker 5:No, there's no scent. No, no scent. And then there's just a glow stick that is just moisturizing. So say you need spot moisture somewhere. So these are good. Oh, I didn't say the cost. The Jones Road, what, the Foundation, I think is $44. But you might be able to find a, you know, 10%, 20% off deal. Oh sure, Boom Trio, I think is $80. But I've had these for a long time. They last me a long time. Yeah, for the cream side of makeup anyway.
Speaker 4:Lots of good products out there and it is fun to try different things and have it not be super, super expensive to do that. Yeah, those are really good suggestions.
Speaker 3:Now there isn't. I don't know how you'd work this into a gift, but I'm thinking. I'm thinking on it Because, again, another influencer, gary V. Thank you, gary V. Thank you, gary V. I want to introduce everybody to Wine Text Wine Text.
Speaker 3:So one of Gary V's companies probably the first thing he started was this wine library and they call wines from all over the world to keep really good price points, to bring us very good wines way under what the pricing is. It's free and every day I get a text and it's a promotion about a wine. It sends a photo of what the wine is, tells me how much it costs. They have a program called Build a Case so you can buy one at a time and they just will keep until you get 12. And then you'll pay for shipping and they'll ship it right to you. Shipping for me last time 12 was $24 delivered right to my home.
Speaker 3:If you did have parents, sister-in-law, friend, boss, somebody that is big into wine and you wanted to start now and get them a Christmas present, you could build a whole case and send it to them over a year. I mean I've started now on the ones that I've been buying, which I have loved, every single thing I've bought from him and I don't recognize any of them. So I just I. I don't hardly know anything about wine other than oh yeah, I like that. Oh no, I didn't like that. Um, I've started to save all their pictures and so now I have it in my phone, of what it was, how long it should. Should I drink it now? Is it going to be better later? Um, I think that you know, introduce your wine loving friends to this. This business, it's, it's fabulous.
Speaker 4:I like the idea of building it over time. And then yeah, and then the gift.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they will. Also, if you buy a whole case, you know, 12, they'll ship it to you free. Um, I like to give a little bottle of champagne or some Prosecco or something like that to my new homeowners, and I keep waiting for there to be a champagne, prosecco, cava, sort of special. And then I am hitting the 12, because most of the wines that I'm buying probably retail between $50 and $75, and I haven't paid more than $25 for a bottle of wine. So for me, I'm getting an opportunity to try a really good wine, yeah, and not pay.
Speaker 5:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I'm not paying liquor store prices. Mm-hmm. So, it's fun.
Speaker 4:And again, it's giving you an opportunity to try something that you wouldn't normally. You wouldn't normally go in and spend and spend that much.
Speaker 3:Right, and I never would have known about this, ever. And if you and you know sweeping generalization, if you live out in the middle of a rural environment and you have one liquor store and their idea of wine is a box of Franzia, you know, or they don't have wine, or you know what a perfect gift, what a fun thing to do to just maybe you've got a wine club, maybe your book club. Wouldn't that be fun if you had a book club and everybody got to pick, you know, a wine that they wanted to add to it? Yep, that could be a lot of fun. Yeah, we used to have a book club. Yes, we did.
Speaker 3:And then it became a wine club, yeah, and a cocktail club, yeah, and now it's three cocktails in. It is.
Speaker 5:It is, it is for sure. So that's a good experience. That is yes.
Speaker 4:Well, and I can't let the episode go by without saying also that fun fashion jewelry is also a wonderful gift for your friends, yes, and family members. So we'll drop into the body of this podcast a link if you guys are ever curious about good glam. So the pieces that I'm wearing this evening actually the pieces that I'm wearing yes, stacey, you're always rocking the good glam.
Speaker 5:Well, because you know, I buy so much stuff from you, Kitty, I buy so much stuff from you, and then I got to wear it.
Speaker 4:That's the point. Wear it, use it yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh, my gosh Kitty, I saw a woman post in your group all of her jewelry that she had bought from you Uh-huh, and she rivals your supply and you're the sales person I know and I have a whole room full. It's impressive.
Speaker 3:It was very impressive. I'm like whoa, and I will tell you the thing that's so awesome about it. Not only do your followers, your wonderful customers, they share what they wear every day and what they're putting together. I love that, yeah, and a number of them have really done an excellent job of keeping everything that they've bought out, because isn't that the kicker? Yeah, like so many things, I talk about this when, when people are buying homes too, in the kitchen, you know you have those appliances, you have those things, but because you can't see it and you can't get to it, you never use it. Yeah, out of sight out of mind.
Speaker 3:Put that jewelry out, do you know? Keep it where you can see it, and how much fun is that? I love my, my paparazzi jewelry. I do wear it. And I love their rings yeah, I wear their rings quite a bit.
Speaker 3:And the bracelets I'm a good bracelet girl, so yeah yeah, you guys are good, good glam dolls um, I think that, as you talked about dropping it in the comments, I think that we'll put in the comments um links to this other stuff that we're talking about, in case something hits somebody's fancy and you two have seen an advertisement for it. You didn't know whether or not it's a real thing or a scam. Isn't that half the battle?
Speaker 4:Yes.
Speaker 3:You see stuff online and you're like is it real, is it not? Yeah, I know.
Speaker 4:So I'll always go and look at comments. But then I'm thinking are these real comments? Yeah Right, yeah, yeah, I was actually. So you guys, what is with this? I was looking at something on Amazon last week and I'm looking at the reviews, reviews and so, and, and it was now. It's interesting because now they'll put a little thing on there that'll say frequently returned item. I love that. Yes, so it it really does, you know, prompt you to go and look at the reviews. So I went down and I was reading and there's thousands of reviews, but they were for a different product. Oh yeah, if you don't look closely, you don't realize. Oh, all of these bad reviews are for this. It was for these, um, hair scrunchies, and that's not the product that I was looking at.
Speaker 3:Hmm, so here's kind of I don't. I can't speak to how it's working right now, but when I worked for the quilting company, amazon will say that they will ship things from company ABC. Company ABC has a store. You're buying their product ABC product from Amazon because it's cheaper. So instead of going to the ABC store to buy it where you know it's ABC product, um, from Amazon because it's cheaper. So instead of going to the ABC store to buy it where you know it's a ABC product, you're going to go get it from Amazon because it's free shipping.
Speaker 3:We would hear this all the time Um, amazon has so many vendors, so many sellers, that they get inventory mixed up all the time. So you might have ordered a product from company ABC, they've pulled it out of bin XYZ and sent it to you and it looks the same, but it takes a trained eye. There were so many knockoffs that were being sent out that were trademarked and copyrighted products that this woman owned that were false. Probably about every month we had to do some sort of post or some sort of discussion during one of her shows that said hey, this is by the time you get it at home. You've bought, you've, you've got the wrong one because they were cutting things and they weren't lining up.
Speaker 3:It's like well you know, now you got to send it back. This is a knockoff. Please report it. You know it's one thing to say this is a dupe of yeah. It's another thing to say this is that Is that yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, yeah. It's another thing to say this is that is that yeah, yeah, yeah, yep, so, um, that goes right along into your whole thing about. Wait a minute, is this what I'm really looking at? Yeah, I try to only look for reviews that actually have somebody's face. You know, if, if the comment is from somebody that's got, um, an emoji or just a photo of something and has a whole bunch of letter numbers in their name, I'm like no, but probably not Right, but that's you know what.
Speaker 4:I think isn't there also like can't you you get a designation of verified, verified reviewer or something like that?
Speaker 3:What's the deal with that. I kind of thought that, to be a verified reviewer, have they sent you stuff and you're reviewing it for them? I don't know what the rule is on that. I don't think so. We need to write that down for one of our upcoming episodes. What's? With that Somebody? Has a list. What's with that?
Speaker 4:That is going to be an upcoming episode. It's coming up next week Following week.
Speaker 3:It's coming up soon Next week so we have been accumulating a list of things like huh, what's with that?
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, and I am very happy to report that our episode on high maintenance. I have gotten some very nice messages and comments from people saying thank you for helping to set the record straight on that Right. So if you guys didn't catch, last week's episode, we talked about um being called high maintenance, what that really means and basically the fact that if anybody calls you that, they're wrong and and you just walk the other way you pull a monica, a monica from friends that that's right.
Speaker 4:Um, we're starting to get close on time, but I need to tell you guys something a very, very cool experience that I had yesterday. Okay, so we had a work function yesterday. We had a client who was doing a fundraiser. Um, our client is called Home for Life and they are an animal sanctuary that's headquartered here I think the sanctuary is actually in Wisconsin and so they do this gala fundraiser every few years, and so we were working the show yesterday. So we did all the audio video, lighting, staging, et cetera. So I was there on site and, um, the guest speaker was Isabella Rossellini.
Speaker 4:Oh wow, Was she fabulous. She was absolutely fabulous, and so you know she's.
Speaker 4:So she's 71 years old, beautiful gorgeous yeah, gorgeous and um, so here here was my interaction with her. Um, so after she got there, she was in the green room and then she wanted to go out and go over and talk to the sponsors. So I'm with the clients and she said let's go talk to her because we needed to find out what kind of what kind of mic she wanted to use. So, um, lisa, our client, introduces me to her, so I'm face to face with this international movie star, the face of lancome, ingrid bergman's daughter. Um, you know, she was married to Martin Scorsese. Oh, my gosh, she was on friends, okay.
Speaker 4:Um, so I say, you know, shake hands, say good evening, and then, and she's just looking right at me and she's just this beautiful soul, and and I say, ms Rossellini, would you like a handheld mic this evening or would you like a lav mic? This was my interaction with her. Oh, oh, I will absolutely have a handheld mic. I'm fabulous with a handheld mic, wonderful, thank you. We will make sure that you are seen and heard this evening. Thank you very much.
Speaker 5:Lovely.
Speaker 3:Okay, how does she compare to your meeting, martha Stewart?
Speaker 5:Oh, she was so much more warm and and oh geez, would you imagine that?
Speaker 4:It was so funny because my picture with Martha Stewart just popped up on my phone the other day and if you didn't know that I was actually standing next to her, you would think that I was standing next to her wax.
Speaker 3:Um madame trousseau's, is that what it?
Speaker 4:is yeah, because, because she was just, you know, usually even celebrities was this, you know, usually even celebrities, usually they'll, you know, you can put your arm around each other, but no, she was. Oh, that's funny that is funny.
Speaker 3:That is so cool.
Speaker 4:So cool. Still, I'm still kind of riding high today on that. I would be too, I know. Was her skin just just amazing? I'm still kind of riding high today on that. I would be too, I know.
Speaker 3:That's a cool experience. Was her skin just amazing? Yeah, yeah. And what if she uses booty pie? No, she uses Lancome, lancome, yeah.
Speaker 5:High-end stuff yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, and women who can wear the really short haircut, and the really short in the front too. It's just I. That's just such a beautiful who's the who's the woman that Ava had her on her wall in her bedroom. Audrey Hepburn.
Speaker 3:Audrey Hepburn.
Speaker 4:Yeah, with the really short, you know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:Um, and you know, and I don't know if, if Isabella dyes her hair or not, but jet black hair. So every time I think of her, I think of her in one of those really fabulous white button down shirts with the collar up. Yes, yeah, that that for me. That's kind of a little goal thing that I'm working on. I love that look I can't find one that fits quite yet that. You know, shoulders and bust line and everything, but I think that there's something about turning maybe like 70. Um, and those women who really, you know, as they continue to get older, they start just wearing crisp white blouses all the time with big jewelry. I'm thinking that's might be where I end up going. I like it, yeah, as I wear black for the fourth episode in a row. Oh well, we all have. We all have goals. So yeah.
Speaker 3:Right, well, yeah, I've enjoyed this. Love your guys' recommendations. Let's drop links and stuff in the comments, so if people wanted to to check them out, they're welcome to. I'd love to know what you guys are thinking are are excellent things to do to make other people around you feel special.
Speaker 5:Right, I can't wait around you, special Right, I can't wait. Yeah, yeah, I can't wait to see if someone you know people give us ideas as well. Yes, yeah. Yeah, I could absolutely use them.
Speaker 5:Yeah, so I have something before we close. Oh okay, I don't know how this relates, other than these are the women I like to celebrate. So my other you know girls group right From we all graduated from high school together and we get together once a month. We hadn't gotten together for a couple, a couple months, because there was just all sorts of stuff happening. But anyway, we got together last week and my point to this is you know when you get together and you have fun. I was going to describe some of the topics that we discussed.
Speaker 2:Yes, please.
Speaker 5:Yes. So when you get together with your girlfriends and you feel like the conversation is going 50 different directions, that is perfectly normal because here is the gamut of what we talked about. That is perfectly normal because here is the gamut of what we talked about. So we talked about death of our parents, and all of us got a little teary eyed for sure, because we've all had either one or both parents pass away. We talked about grandbabies, and there's a grandbaby that's coming within our group. We debated whether you should spend a lot of money to color your hair or spend a little bit and DIY it at home. So that was a big debate. We talked about, you know, upcoming vacations, trips with siblings and the different you know, challenges that that has. And last and at the end of this but well, really, in the middle of this, we said, okay, we got to this point, we're dead, we got to go home. We talked about facial hair moles and skin tags.
Speaker 4:Oh yes. That's the end of the evening.
Speaker 3:I know, at that point we just said oh my gosh that's it Quite frankly, that's when you need to have that third cocktail Right. Either you did have the third cocktail and that's where you ended up, or you need a third cocktail to get out of it.
Speaker 5:Yeah, we probably needed. Yeah, we needed, yeah, yeah. So that was our evening and it was a lot of fun. We have a ton of fun every time, even though we talk about those topics.
Speaker 3:There we go, right, all right. The gift of time, the gift of friendship, yes, can't hardly ever go wrong. So take your poor friend to the Target aisle and let her read cards with you. Absolutely, yeah, all right, ladies and gentlemen, until next week.
Speaker 5:Cheers, cheers, cheers, bye-bye.
Speaker 1:All right, woo, look, I got that. Wow, who wants some heads up right now? We got that. Turn it up loud. I know you're wondering how.
Speaker 2:I got that. Wow, here I go. Here I go, coming. I can't ever stop. I'm a tour de force running. Get me to the top. I don't need an invitation. I'm about to start a celebration. Let me in Brought a good time for some friends. Turn it up loud past 10. Turning up the crowd when I hit them with a pow.