Dinner with Strangers 3 was held this past weekend at the Design Firm, Chartreuse, which is owned by my friend and dinner guest, Charity Ewanko.  Her patio there is just lovely and worked out perfectly for the intimate dinner.

Just as dinner guests got comfortable and got to know those that were seated near them, I went and made half of them pick up their trays and move to a new seat! hahhaha! It is not called “dinner with the 3 closest strangers that are next to you” so, i wanted to encourage as many connections as possible.

The theme of this dinner was BBQ, so Chef Ryan Santos of PLEASE Catering cooked up a clever take on the traditional concept and I am shocked that I ate pigs feet and declared my love for them, BEFORE knowing what I had just eaten. ( I am still making up for years as a weird finicky eater)

ABOVE: new friends, Justin Gould and the location hostess, Charity Ewanko

The lovely Serena Harrigan of Gray’s Auctioneers, one of my favorite sources of antiques in town.

The next dinner will be August 29, so if you are interested in attending, please join the FB group HERE.

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so i have been a TERRIFICALLY bad blogger the last two months, but now i am here to show you why!  For the last nine weeks, i closed my store every day at 6pm and walked across the street to the 3000sq. foot space i was going to be using for my June MADE IN THE 216 event and worked till anywhere from 10pm to 2am setting up a temporary store to feel like an extension of my main store ROOM SERVICE.  

This was my 3rd installment of the event, but by far the largest.  not only did i go from featuring 18 designers to 42 designers i also decided to really make the kind of event that i would want to attend and do something different…so i added a lineup of 11 bands and several independent bakers and caterers…..all of which sort of fell under the great umbrella of the design and culture lifestyle that I personally am inspired by.

It was all worth it to see the Cleveland streets filled with people for two days enjoying it all and soaking up a fun summer evening.

I would like to thank you each of you who came out for putting this event, supporting nearly 90 Clevelanders on your busy summer calendars…we all appreciated it greatly!

I am taking a few days off and then will be back to the planning phase of my November show.

Below you will find some pics taken by either myself, Judy of Modern Pixie, Charity of Chartreuse Design and I heart Cleveland blog or Kyle Roth of Epstein Design Partners. (the firm responsible for my store’s logo/branding).

Again, thank you all for your support

xoxo

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