The Company Men filming outside Oak

A location assistant came in here yesterday to let me know that next Wednesday they are going to be filming a movie across the street! It's a new Ben Affleck/Kevin Costner/Tommy Lee Jones movie called The Company Men. Should make for an interesting day...

Crossing my fingers you can somehow see the store windows in the background in the movie...

Air Tran magazine May issue

Another little blurb about Oak in the AirTran in flight magazine! I wish I could get my hands on a copy! A customer just came in today and mentioned it to me or I never would have known!

Cover:

Nice day in Bostonnnnnnnn

It was supposed to be gross and rainy today but it turned out to be really warm and sunny. Just had to turn on the AC so I didn't melt in here.

Just changed one of the dress forms into my favorite new outfit.

These tank tops almost sold out at Stylefixx yesterday. Every single person walking by would stop and say to their friend "Do you remember that song??" It was funny to watch. The medium on the dress form is the last one.

I'm also in love with those high-waist ruffley silk skirts that came in.

Stylefixx

Oak is doing Stylefixx again! Next week on Wednesday and Thursday (the 13/14th) at the Cyclorama in the South End.

You can get 40% off your tickets by entering the code "Oak-style" during check out at Stylefixx.com

Shopping, drinks, makeovers... come visit me!

Spring windows

Trying to make some quick spring windows today because it was definitely time for the scarves to come down! Just a quick clothes line and tissue paper flower bit. Copying my mom's store display!

The glare was too strong to get a good picture outside right now :( But, I will try again when the sun goes down a little bit more.

Swim suits are arriving! The next few days are going to be kinda rainy in Boston, but then the weather should be nice again.




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North End

I was in the North End again this morning and took a few more pictures on my phone. This store window is what inspired me! The North End is basically the Italian neighborhood in Boston. Lots of awesome food. Lots of history. Lots of old Italian guys sitting on the sidewalk in chairs listening to sports radio.

<- I love the "we got PING PONG BALLS" sign. HA.

Marathon Monday!

I just went to get some coffee and see what Copley was like 3 hours before the first batch of elite runners will cross the finish line. There are already lots of people claiming their spots along the finish lines. There is a huge jumbo tron too! You can see half of me in the far left of the jumbo tron picture.

It won't be until 11 or so that the crowds really get going around there. They are still setting up a stage next to the Prudential Center right now. It better not be Ernie & the Automatics playing... my mortal enemy.




EDIT:
some more photos of the women's elite finishing. Too bad Kara Goucher didn't win it for the US. The winner last year DIRE TUNE (best name ever) came in 2nd.

Tax Day at the 24 hour post office

There is a 24 hour post office in Boston near South Station and (of course) I didn't have my taxes done until the last minute yesterday. After closing the store and watching Lost I had to make my way down to South Boston to drop off my forms before midnight. (I was there around 11pm)

It was waaaaaaay crazier than I expected it to be. But, it is probably the only 24 hour post office anywhere in Massachusetts so every procrastinator had to drive out here. They had police officers directing traffic to keep everyone moving somewhat smoothly.

They had postal workers standing all along the sidewalk so that you could just hand them your mail from your car window and keep driving. I'm definitely glad that I pre-stamped my mail before getting there.

Horrible phone photo at night time, buy you can kinda get the idea.

STREET CLEANING

can ruin the life of any Boston resident with a car. The first day of street cleaning is... today. I need to prepare.

So, I just spent about an hour making this map so we can hang this on the fridge with little magnets of our cars.

Maybe I shouldn't have this map of my apartment on the internet...

Boston's North End

I had an appointment in the North End this morning and spent some time walking around after I got out because it's finally nice out again in Boston.

You can see the circus in the background of this one.


I forget what they are calling this area... the something Greenway.... but you can see the TD Banknorth Garden in the way back. Home of the Celtics/Bruins. And the picture on the right is Hanover St, home to 99% of Boston's Italian restaurants.

St. Patrick's Day

Today is the day of Boston's St. Patrick's day parade. It's starting to look a lot more like springtime, and the snow is slowwwwwly melting.

I won't be at the parade, but when I was getting my coffee at about 10am I definitely already saw people dressed in green drinking beer on the streets. Should be an interesting day.

just another snow day

After a few days of 40/50 degree weather we got a bunch of snow to make up for it.

work projects

It is very cloudy and gray outside... the clouds look like they could dump water on Boston at any moment. I've started a few different projects at once (always).

Changing the earring cards on the rack was a much bigger task than I anticipated, and the earring cards I ordered are tiny... also not what I anticipated.

Stamping shopping bags. Sometimes I get them pre-printed, and sometimes I order them blank so that I can stamp them in different colors.... depends on my mood!

Winter clearance sale!

Just put a bunch of items on sale over at oakboston.com. Scarves, jackets, lighting, stuffed animals and much more! Click here to shop online.

It's back to freezing in Boston after a week of 40 degree weather. It's crazy to think that March 1st is only a few days away! February went by so so so fast.

Soon enough we will be getting in new swim suits and tank tops and complaining about the heat.

mmmm dessert

I had to take a picture of this beautiful creation before ruining it. My friend Eric and I went out to eat at the Cheesecake Factory and I was too stuffed to eat my dessert at the time, and will be enjoying it shortly.

Brownie sundae cheesecake. Mmm.