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Slow fashion for the individual

10 Wednesday Apr 2013

Posted by Charlotte in Fashion

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Bodypeace Bamboo, clothing, colour, Fashion, greenroom, greenroom gallery, women

tobeyourself

At Greenroom Gallery we don’t claim to have the latest fashion from whatever city in the world, if we did we would have missed the point, our point of difference. We do so-called, ‘slow fashion’. We believe in finding your colours, the ones that make you look healthy and happy, the ones that don’t wear you. We want to offer comfortable clothes that you can dress up or down, timeless styles, simple feminine lines that flatter. We don’t do a lot of patterns for this reason. We keep it simple. You can build your wardrobe with basics that work.

This morning, a lovely customer of mine came in to get herself another pair of straight bamboo pants in black……..apparently she lives in them and need a second pair. This lady also got herself a bamboo tunic in burned orange and a modal swingtop in cobalt blue. Three basics that she will wear again and again.

We are individuals with our own taste and most of us know what we feel good in and when you feel good you usually look good. To dress for me is about being myself.

Do you dress to be yourself?

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6th november 2012

06 Tuesday Nov 2012

Posted by Charlotte in Our Journey, Randoms, Uncategorized

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greenroom, greenroom gallery, small business

It’s been 25 days now.

I own a small business, it’s my baby, it’s 24/7.

I had 835 days of non-stop greenroom and then it stopped.

How did I get here, how did I herniate a disc. Well, the short answer is I lifted a table. The long one is, I did 10 years of running, 8 years of sitting creating teddy bears, 2 years of standing in shop, 18 months of zumba without stretching, 3 months of sitting in bed working (during winter) and then I lifted a table.

I heard something snap, fall out, get whacked or pop and I felt a pain suddenly throbbing in my lumbar spine. 10 days later escaped nucleus got too intimate with the nerve which brought pain to a brand new level all together.

After hospital visits, CT scan and stocking up on pharmaceutical, I realised that while I have to wait for the MRI and meeting Mr neurosurgeon, the world doesn’t fall apart.

I called a good friend, Lindy who enthusiastically stepped into my boutique shoes.

 I created an office with everything at arms length…..

The news got out and my friends jumped to this unexpected window of opportunity to fatten me in time for the festive season, bringing chocolates and cakes and all kinds of food with high GI.

This is me after the first week…….

I managed to untangle the hair nest, put my elevated foot down and plead, no more sweets please, can we just do coffee. Apart from coffee shared in my new office, I have also received all kinds of flowers, healthy dinners, domestic service, laughter, sweet texts, phone calls, funny emails, good advice, fat books, thin books, cards and a magic Moroccan green lipstick.

Yesterday a good friend gave me a lift to our local, heated pool. It was so lovely to float around weightless for a whole hour, loved it!

………I can walk upright but any longer than 15 minutes and the pain comes back…..

I have learned an awful lot about spines especially the lumber part. I now know what I have done wrong all these years. Thank you Sarah Key and good friends Sally & Dave who dropped Sarah’s book on my lap ‘Back Sufferers Bible’

Greenroom Gallery is still open Monday to  Saturday. Lindy has been amazing. She loves what we do and has been a great customer right from the beginning. Emma (our eldest) has come home to help us out and is learning quickly.
You can read about our new shop assistants here.

I am on a detour. I didn’t ask for it. I would prefer if I wasn’t on it but I decided from the start that I would not give up what I  can control which is my attitude so I am doing my best with that.

In 8 days I will know a bit more of what comes next.

And finally if you have a spine, I recommend you Sarah Key talking passionately about this amazing part of our body, how it works and what we can do to help.

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Spring into life 2

04 Tuesday Sep 2012

Posted by Charlotte in Fashion, Our Journey

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boutique, clothing, coffs harbour, colour, Fashion, greenroom gallery, spring

I’ve been occupied for a while with our ‘Spring into life’ project. There’s been planning, sourcing, buying, communicating, considering, changing, changing again, graphic designing, advertising, no sleeping, worrying, letter dropping, facebooking, newslettering  and laughing all in a big cauldron brew.

After one last sleep deprived week, first of September was finally here with an early start.

Wayne got busy setting up his art

I got busy with mine……

A picture of the calm before the storm

The white chairs lined the boardwalk, the band was setting up. My models were arriving to get ready. 5 dear friends that had said yes, in a moment of weakness. They got sent out in different directions for hair and make up while customers were coming and going, mainly coming.

Greenroom is a tiny, tiny shop, half a dozen customers simultaneously and it’s crowded. I had organised the shop as well as I could. Pretty much all the art was out with Wayne to make room for us. My, desperate-measures-needed-thank-God-for-tiny-wheels-under-shopfitstand-idea, second changeroom was the hiding place for the models garments and also loaded with  bags, bags, bags. Models come with bags apparently and big ones.

My original plan was to close the shop for 45 minutes, during fashion show, so we could do our changes of clothes in private and get sorted in peace. That didn’t work out. I had a boutique filled with customers wanting my attention, models undressing in every corner. I was getting dressed, looking for shoes, struggling with jewellery while serving customers. And you can ask my gorgeous, long suffering and gracious model friends about the last couple of minutes when I was trying to explain which way around the walkway. I vaguely remember them telling me to breathe, breathe…….no Lotta a slow breath, take a biiiiiig slow breath. No, you’re not breathing.

And then we went out.

Sharee is wearing a dress in tencel and Lauren and myself are wearing hemp dresses.

Susie is in a bamboo kaftan and the scarf is merino wool.

Lindy is wearing bamboo, pants with an overlay tunic and a silk chiffon kaftan.

Christina is dressed in modal and silk chiffon

The crowd was great, cheering and smiling, Coastal Soul set the pace. Every shop had a first and then a second round. So when we came in from our first walk we had to quickly change into the next outfit and wait for our second turn. The funny thing was, we had customers coming in wanting to buy what they had just seen and no it couldn’t wait. I managed to guide them back out promising I put the garments on hold.

Here we are after the second round, everyone dressed in the gorgeous hand painted silk chiffon kaftans and kimonos. Two minutes after this photo was taken, our shop was jam-packed with customers. I have no photo to show you because I was run of my feet serving and helping. It was messy, noisy, chaotic and loads of fun.

You can’t have your very first fashion parade without a flash-mob zumba. My gorgeous zumba teacher, Mariette had come down to lead us all. I was behind the counter with a line up of customers when I heard the music come on. The shop owner left the customers with a ‘ooops sorry back in a minute, I gotta zumba’.

You can’t see me on this video clip by Patricio but I am there at the back outside greenroom, having a ball.

The zumba was a success. ( If you want to join us, Mariette teaches at Genesis Fitness, at Coffs Coast Health Club and a class at Korora Primary School. )

Coastal Soul kept playing until 1pm while Shearwater Restaurant and Mangrove Jack’s brought out free food samples. The sun kept shining of course. The ‘Spring’ project was always gonna be about fun, colour, friends, good vibes and saying goodbye to winter. I think we did just that.

A big thanks to Gail (Hair at the Promenade) for doing our hair and Beauty on the Promenade for make-up, to Just Joyce for the gorgeous flowers in our hair, to Coastal Soul for awesome music, to everyone that made it down to The Promenade.

The other shops are Retreat Day Spa, Seasons Boutique, Sensara, Melanie Jayne and Kennedy Jewellers.

A really big thanks to my models Lauren, Suzy, Christina, Sharee and Lindy.

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‘Spring into Life’

30 Thursday Aug 2012

Posted by Charlotte in Colours, Fashion, Randoms, Welcome

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clothing, coffs harbour, colour, greenroom gallery, spring

Wayne and I reside in an icebox, at least in winter. We are still contemplating a fire place of some sort and have been for 12 years now. We’ll get around to it eventually. How does one keep warm in this country I wonder, being of Nordic descent and grown up on central heating and insulated walls. Oh, that’s right you get double socks on your feet, beanie and scarf to match and you go to bed straight after dinner. My bed became my office around June. 3 extra pillows, laptop, glasses, notebook and a hot chai. Great for heat retention not so good for lower back.

But of course all good things must come in the end and spring is about to dawn upon us. It’s the same feeling of relief every year, we did it, I did it, I prevailed through another Australian winter. I think spring is worth a welcoming and all our neigbours on The Promenade agree with me.  But we are not just welcoming spring, we are welcoming you to come out and enjoy the sun, great music, nice surroundings, spring fashion, food and drink among good friends and good vibes by the creek of  Coffs.

If we all have a fun time then it is mission accomplished.

See you on the Promenade

Charlotte

Our spring fashion will be on about 11am on the boardwalk.

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A journey 4. Greenroom gallery is open

11 Monday Jun 2012

Posted by Charlotte in Our Journey

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gallery, greenroom, greenroom gallery, greenroom visitors, opening night

art by wayne french going up on our walls

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After two days of intense painting, late take away meals and no sleep, we cleaned ourselves up and prepared for …

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‘A Journey’ 3. Getting Busy

29 Sunday Apr 2012

Posted by Charlotte in Our Journey

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‘Happy are those who dream dreams and are ready to pay the price to make them come true’   Leon J. …

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‘A Journey’ 2. What’s in a name

10 Tuesday Apr 2012

Posted by Charlotte in Our Journey

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best wave, boutique, gallery, good vibes, greenroom, greenroom gallery, surf

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We needed a name for our business. A name is always a challenge, if it’s a baby or a shop …

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‘A Journey’ 1.The Idea!

10 Tuesday Apr 2012

Posted by Charlotte in Our Journey

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boutique, coffs harbour, gallery, greenroom, greenroom gallery, idea

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It’s not always easy to know where one journey ends and a new begins, when an idea first springs to …

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