PR Client: Color Me House

Urban Bliss was asked to help out with blog and social media outreach for Color Me House, a Portland, Oregon-based and family-owned business that creates fun, cool recyclable cardboard play houses. These products are awesome. We LOVE them! With two kids, and another business that focuses on supporting mom-owned businesses, we found the Color Me House to be a huge hit with kids who come to the Urban Bliss Studio for meetings, and we have the Color Me Rocket at home. What's great about both products is that they fold up easily, so we actually keep the Color Me Rocket folded up and stored behind our couch at home and then our kids get the fun of putting it back together to play with for their playdates. The blank walls invite kids to tap into their huge imaginations and go wild. They are sturdy, so believe me when I say that after having dozens upon dozens of kids color, draw on, paint, run in and out of, use as indoor forts, we were totally impressed that the products are still standing strong! Check them out and order them online at www.ColorMeHouse.com.

PR Client: Metro Parent's 2nd Annual FREE Education & Enrichment Fair

Metro Parent's 2nd Annual FREE Education & Enrichment Fair
If you’re a parent, you know that navigating the halls of educational and enrichment programs for your child can be a daunting task in today’s world. There are more options than ever before, making it difficult and time-consuming to choose the right one for your children. Waldorf or Montessori? Language immersion or after-school language program? Music and movement or classical piano?

Metro Parent is helping parents make the research process easier by hosting its second annual Education & Enrichment Fair, on Wednesday, Nov. 19 from 3 to 7:30pm at the World Forestry Center's Miller and Cheatham Halls (4033 SW Canyon Road). Parents of children ages newborn through high school age will benefit from attending the fair. They can visit with approximately 40 local private and public schools, as well as businesses offering enrichment opportunities, such as music, language, athletics, tutoring and other programs. Attendees are also eligible to win a $500 “scholarship” to one of the exhibitors or a basket of toys, books and games.

The event is FREE to the public.

Scent-a-licious

i purposefully wrote that silly title just for one of my clients, because i think she'd find it amusing. julie bennett owns bistro candles, a fellow mom-owned company based in beaverton, oregon. i'm doing the pr launch of her new nouveau bistro line this month. if you don't have one of her candles in your home, stop reading this now and go to her website for store locations to find the nearest retailer and then book it over there to grab one of the heavenly creations before they sell out. no, really. go. go now!


(pause. tapping my toes to the beat of coldplay, which is a slow beat so there's not too much tapping. i'd be whistling along if my daughter weren't sleeping right next to me, sweet baby).

ok. assuming you have run to your nearest store and purchased your bistro candles, just try to not fall in love with them once you've burned them in your home. you can't do it - i know you're hooked already. they are magical, lovely, and burn beautifully. i'm a candle nut, and these are truly the best in the world. i've been to paris. i sniffed their candles. bistro candles take you there -and to other heavenly locales - for under $30.

















their new line, nouveau bistro, speaks to me. the packaging design is way cool. love the chocolate brown base (of course i do, have you seen all of the things i design?), and the bold colors that pop on the wrap arounds. they've all got little retro designs on the boxes that are embossed.

if you weren't able to find a store near you that carries them, then head to your favorite chic shop and demand that they carry bistro candles nouveau bistro line. what discerning shop owner wouldn't?

i'm smelling nectarine basil right now. yum.