Portland Fashion Week – Souchi: A model shows the latest collection from Portland’s Souchi The bass is booming. Fuschia glows on white curtains lining the room while the smartly-dressed crowd anticipates what is coming. Jess…
Fashion
Hitting the books with Academichic
I am passionate about learning. In fact, “Learner” has always been one of my five Signature Strengths…and I’ve taken the assessment like seven times. I work at a University, consider myself a lifelong student, and,…
Foodie Friday Trend: Magazines
When Linz and I were planning out our new format for this blog we knew we wanted to make sure that we were reflecting on what was important to us. It became clear early on…
The New Design of Sweet Athena
Aiming to keep things fresh and focused at Sweet Athena, we are pleased to announce that we will be adopting a new format for our blog! The Pattern Each season, we will announce a theme…
Crafting with Jessica’s Head
Okay, I guess it’s not really crafting exactly, but we had a lot of fun transforming Jess’ hair this weekend. Upon Jess’ hairdresser’s insistence that we could successfully take Jess from a beautiful brunette to…
The Little Black Dress is All You Need
Today is the last day of a year long endeavor called the Uniform Project. One women was inspired to prove that we really don’t need to run out and buy the latest clothing items to…
In the mood for a little spring shopping
With the sun shinning and flowers blooming it is hard to resist the urge to not want to wear cute dresses and sweet skirts. While I enjoy the idea of bringing out these beloved items…
A bit o’ color
In honor of the sunshine that graced our presence here in the great Pacific Northwest today (sorry, Olympics!) I wanted share a little something that makes me think of spring. Below is a set I…
Short and Sweet
In an effort to save money, I recently set out to learn how to hem pants. I am short and pants I tend to like are not. I figure this is will be a valuable…
Prom Bling
I have started dating a new boy and with that adventure comes the fun of new places and things to do. The boy recently took me to a bollywood prom, where dresses and updos were…
jess + linz
Friends since middle school, we continue to inspire each other to be creative in our big, adult lives. Each season we take on a new theme to guide our crafting, cooking, and creating. We're up for trying anything, and things are bound to get messy. But that's just the way we like it.