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Street Tree Inventory Launched
RMA volunteers measured ~300 street trees on Embassy Row. Now we will study them to see if our care improves their growth.
Our launch is part of ACTrees' National NeighborWoods month.
See our poster Benefits of Maturing Trees. for why tree size maters.
Our 2013 Treekeeper Season
In 20 meet-ups, our Treekeepers cleared, mulched and watered at-risk city trees. We made tags for some trees to tell the public why it is important. We persuaded more owners to care for city trees. See Our Green Community Grows and Our 2013 Tree Care Season - Looking Back.
- New city tree watered by us
- Treekeepers help 4 new trees in Gandhi Park
- Nick waters thirsty new tree
- Model tree box after weeding, mulching, and watering
- Clearing an overgrown tree box
- Caitlin gets invasive ivy
- Robert removes ailanthus jungle around tree
- Our tag on a new city tree by Metro
- Treekeepers clear boxes in 2200 block of R.
- Joe has cleaned up the Letelier Memorial
Record Turnout for RMA at Costa Rica Residence
Nearly 100 supporters of RMA gathered at the Residence of H.E. Muni Figueres, Ambassador of Costa Rica, on April 23, 2013. RMA President Deborah Shapley described our tree planting, care and historic landscape projects. A.M. Oduber of the Embassy described successful reforestation in Costa Rica.
Thanks to the record turnout and event sponsors - Northern Trust Company and Alex Venditti/TTR Sotheby's International Real Estate - the net exceeded expectations. Thank you!
See Washington Life coverage
Sheridan Circle Renewal Project
Slideshow story: We got 3 zelkova trees planted in 2007 in this bare city land. Since, we got neighbors to water them; our crews leaf-mulched them. We protected them from construction machinery. But the land got overgrown. But the land got overgrown. We were able to clean it up and plant roses thanks to community support.
Reception at Wendell Mansions Honors 245 New Trees So Far
Some 70 guests came to honor Restore Mass Ave at Mark J. Scott's home,the famous Wendell Mansions (2339 Mass Ave). Guests heard RMA President Deborah Shapley report that so far RMA has arranged 245 new trees for Embassy Row: 130 trees to lawns and yards and 115 city street trees. Sponsor Alex & Paul Group of TTR Sotheby's International Realty helped to make it a big success.
2012 Treekeeper Program Wrap-up
Sidewalk street trees on Embassy Row got special care this summer thanks to Restore Mass Ave Treekeepers. Many weekends they beavered away - soaking, weeding, mulching around the trees to extend their health and lifespans. Ably led by Sarah Randolph and Lina Cortas, Treekeepers donated 153 hours and helped 50 at-risk trees. See Lina's Treekeeper's Diary post on our blog.
Protecting Trees from Street Dig
Street-digging machines can hurt tree roots in minutes. Monster trucks can wreck the branches of curbside trees. DC Water (formerly WASA) has begun a "big dig" to replace Combined Sewer System (CSS) pipes below Mass Ave, 23 and Q Streets, we're trying to prevent damage to the precious trees. We posted this notice of DC rules for construction so the public can be watchful. Others can use our pdf when "monsters" visit other streets.
British Embassy Reception honors RMA
The British Embassy hosted a cocktail reception honoring Restore Mass Ave on April 20. Deputy Chief of Mission Philip Barton greeted about 100 guests. He said RMA's expansion of tree canopy complimented his Embassy's vigorous program to lower its carbon footprint by lowering vehicle emissions and a more efficient furnace.
Many of the guests were new to our cause, such as residents near the Embassy's part of Mass Ave, which is now included in our operations. Trees bring people together!
At Indonesia Embassy we pass 100 trees planted!
Above: Embassy staff plant a new saucer magnolia tree.
Left: Counselor Camadi and Embassy staff, by their new Chinese quince tree
Far left: Quince tree fruit.
The Embassy of Indonesia hosted our seventh tree planting with Casey Trees March 18, 2011. The twelve trees added brings past 100 -- to 105, exactly -- the number of trees we have arranged for lawns and yards since 2007.
We offered the Embassy new trees due its fine care of the grounds around its historic building at 2020 Mass Ave. Also last summer, Embassy staff watered the 12 city sidewalk trees near its property. A model!
Six of new trees re-create the historic landscape of second row trees: two at the Embassy; two by the Cosmos Club at 2121 Mass; and two by 23 Street to be cared for by the Church of the Pilgrims.
This planting is 7in line with the Indonesian government"s program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, by reforestation," Counselor Benjamin Carnadi told the crowd. Ambassador Dino Patti Djlal also greeted the planters.
Benyamin Carnadi Counselor (Economic Affairs) spoke: "The embassy appreciates Restore Mass Avenue's program to re-green the area and thanks RMA for involving Indonesian Embassy in the effort. The embassy will always support the re-greening program as it is in line with Indonesian government policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by various means, including preserving Indonesian tropical forest. The planting event at the embassy symbolically shows our government's effort to reduce deforestation by planting new trees."
Particular thanks to the embassy staff who have maintained the property around the building so well and watered the twelve public "street trees" along the sidewalks of Mass Ave and 21st Street.
On hand during the planting were: Ambassador Dr. Dino Patti Djalal, Jim Woodworth of Casey Trees, Deborah Shapley of RMA, and Chair of the Cosmos Club Garden Committee Iris Miller.
Tree Planting Brings Us Near 100
Above: Churchyard trees await planting.
Above: Jas Darland sings "Let It Be."
On Oct 22 we bought to 96 the number of trees we've added to Embassy Row lawns and yards. Our sixth planting with Casey Trees added 18 trees. Thank you, Casey Trees!
Look for eight new elms along the 2200 block of Mass Ave. Look for plane, dogwood and sweetgum trees by the Church of the Pilgrims. The Embassy of Ireland hosted us, with
Jas Darland singing a beautiful rendition of John Lennon's "Let It Be" in Gaelic.
L.K. Bariki, Ambassador of Togo, whose Embassy received an elm, said, "In Africa, we need trees to help fight climate change. We need you to help us." See coverage from the Washington Diplomat at Press and our October 22 slideshow below!
New Maple Honors Albanian Service
On April 28 we planted a new "Red Sunset" red maple in honor of Albania. The site was arranged by Friends of Mitchell Park in a lovely seating area in the park,
which is near the Embassy. Dr. Liri Berisha, wife of the Prime Minister, dedicated the tree during her official visit to Washington. She is president of the
Mother Teresa Cultural Foundation and the Albanian Children Foundation. Students from City Collegiate Public Charter School interviewed her for the school paper after helping plant the tree.
See local press coverage of this event on our Press page.
Above: Students take part in the planting to honor Albania.
Cypriot Ambassador hosts RMA's first fundraiser
Ambassador of Cypress H.E. Andreas Kakouris and Kareen Kakouris were generous and warm hosts for our first-ever fundraiser April 22 at their elegant residence at 2501 Mass Ave.
The 75 people attending enjoyed Cypriot wine and sumptuous food, home-cooked by Board members! Deborah Shapley spoke about RMA's unexpected success in just three years and how donations will
advance its future work. RMA treekeepers served wine and passed trays. A special note was Treekeeper Andy Luse's piano performance.
Coverage of the event by Gail Scott of Washington Diplomat may be found on our Press page.
"Celebration of Trees & Children" Plants 16 New Trees Nov 20th
On a glorious fall morning 16 new trees were planted by about 60 volunteers, thanks to our partner Casey Trees who gave them to five embassies. Hosting this "celebration of trees and children" was the Embassy of Côte d'Ivoire. It followed African custom by having the leader -- the Ambassador -- start the work, as the photo shows. The Embassy of Korea got 6 new trees; the other photo shows Korean staffers "jazzed" about their great planting job! Cameroon, Slovenia, and Venezuela also got trees. 9 of the 16 restore the historic "second row" by sidewalks.
City Collegiate Public Charter School students came to help and were welcomed warmly by the Ambassador of Cameroon and others.
Afterwards, Ambassador Koffi Y. Charles of Côte d'Ivoire hosted everyone at a delicious lunch. In his remarks, he told us that the tropical forest area in his country has shrunk from 20 million hectares in 1950 to just 3 million today.
11 Street Trees Helped in Root Rescue Project
Above: RMA Treekeepers use the air-spade on a street tree near Dupont Circle.
We loosened the soil around the roots of 11 Mass Ave street trees with an air-spade on Sunday, October 25th. RMA volunteers were led by a professional, Andrew Walsh of Leprechaun Landscaping. Plywood boards, which we held to keep the dirt from flying all over--including on us--were donated by Embassy Circle Guest House. After girdling roots were cut, the soil was amended and repacked. We'll see how this sample of 11 "rescued" trees fare in the future.
Click Here to see the video of our Root Rescue Project (3:28 minutes)
Embassy Open Houses May 2 and 9, 2009
Above:At the British Embassy, mother and child learn about Mass Ave's historic landscape.
An estimated 6,000 visitors to the Embassy of Great Britain (3100 Mass Ave) saw our outreach table during "open houses" at embassies of EU member countries on May 9. RMA was invited to advance the British theme: how we can address climate change. See the coverage at Examiner.com.
The Embassy of Korea helped us host an outreach table near Korus House (2370 Mass Ave) during "open houses" held by non-EU member countries on May 2. The third annual event by Passport DC drew 90,000 visits to these embassies -- vastly more than the first years. We're learning that embassies are very popular!
Planting Day March 21, 2009
The 16 trees bring to 63 the number RMA has added to yards. This Planting Day was our fourth when Casey Trees donated trees to clients we nominated based on their fine care of landscape. Two dozen RMA Treekeepers were among 75 volunteers planting.
You can see our new grove at the entrance to Lover's Lane at Mass Ave and Whitehaven St. The open lawn bordered with majestic-type trees reproduces the shaded open "parks" of Mass Ave in its heyday. We're grateful to the Embassy of Italy for installing this Lawn and caring for the new grove on public land.
Three other new trees rebuild the historic Second Row at the embassies of Romania and Burkina Faso. Another Historic Landscape element is the new Fosters' Holly by Romania's embassy on Sheridan Circle.
We planted Overcup oak (Quercus lyrata), Chinese lacebark elm (Ulmus parvifolia allée), tulip poplar (lirodendron tulipifera), ginkgo (ginkgo biloba) and red maple (acer rubrum). The understory trees by Lover's Lane are Serviceberries (Amelanchier).
The Ambassador of Italy praised RMA's progress at a reception he gave afterwards for volunteers and neighbors. DC Council Member Michael Brown spoke of RMA"s help re-greening the capital. Mark Buscaino, Executive Director of Casey Trees, praised the Casey-RMA partnership. Deborah Shapley, RMA President, explained how this planting advances our Historic Landscape program.
A good time was had by all!
Above: Speakers at Italian Embassy reception
Fall Planting November 22
Above: We did it! These volunteers planted a new red oak where it will shade the sidewalk and busy bus stop. They shaped the mulch to guide the water to the roots
Brrr! In frrr-eezing cold about 50 volunteers planted 12 red oaks (Quercus rubra) in a very busy area at 20th Street and Mass Ave, steps from the Metro exit at Q Street.
Seven oaks are in the lawns between the parking lot and sidewalk. They'll be cared for by PNC Bank, whose President Michael Harreld was on hand to welcome the trees.
Five of the oaks are on the west side, along the sidewalk in lawns by the Hungarian Reformed Federation of America.
Restore Mass Ave arranged the donation and siting of these trees to rebuild the second row of major trees shading the sidewalks that formed the original landscape. We are deeply grateful to Casey Trees for these tree donations and leadership of the event.
We welcome the HRFA as the newest Participant in our historic landscape program. By replacing bushy low trees near the sidewalk of Mass Ave with a fine oak tree – see photo - a longer open view was restored. The new line of oaks will define the corner and frame views of HRFA's Kossuth House across the lawn. More on how long views across open lawns defined the historic landscape is here.
This planting brings to 47 the number of new trees we've arranged for property owners along Embassy Row; 28 of them re-create the second row of majestic trees.
What's next? The city will plant several new street trees in the 2000 block of Mass. We urge property owners up and down this block to take care of them!
Finnish Embassy
HE Pekka Lintu, Ambassador of Finland, personally
planted a new 'second row' linden tree and hosted
a reception for Restore Mass Ave, on June
5 at the Embassy (3301 Mass Ave). The new tree
is part of Finland's program to "green" its Embassy as a
model for others.
Read the great coverage on this event in our October 2010 feature in Washington Life!
Planting Day
Above: Ambassador of Zambia, H.E. Inonge
Bikusita-Lewanika, thanks the planters for the trees and spoke about deforestation in Zambia.
Restore Mass Ave arranges for Embassy Row property owners to receive new trees. We request the trees from Casey Trees, which will donate them to those who will care for them.
At our second Planting Day on April 19, 2008, 22 new trees were planted in the 2400 block of Mass Ave, by >130 volunteers.
The Embassy of Zambia (2419 Mass) received 15 trees for its yards. In the photo to the right, volunteers plant four elms of the disease-resistant variety, Ulmus americana 'Princeton,' in the lawn in front of the Embassy.
We plant them in a line along the sidewalk to rebuild the second row that made a shady allée parallel to street trees by the curbs (right). The sidewalk here is a terrible 'heat island,' but these elms will make it cool and shady.
We planted four trees at the rear of the Embassy of Slovenia (2410 California Street): three more elms and a white oak, Quercus alba.
Two European hornbeams, Carpinus betulus 'Fastigata,' were planted at the Embassy of Paraguay (2400 Mass). A black gum, Nyssa sylvatica, was added to the federal park known as "Emmet Park" (Mass Ave at S and 24th Streets).
Our partner Casey Trees posted a slideshow of the event.
Read the great coverage on this event in our October 2010 feature in Washington Life!
Earth Day Breakfast
Above: Michael N. Harreld Regional President of PNC Bank (blue shirt), and Deborah Shapley, RMA President, with Mr. Thomas (right) and some of the guests.
Members of the area's business community attended an Earth Day breakfast April 22 to learn how they can help city trees. The event was co-hosted by PNC Bank and Restore Mass Ave. The featured speaker was John P. Thomas, Chief Supervisory Forester of Washington.
In his remarks Mr. Thomas said rails around sidewalk trees are 'the best investment' a business or resident can make to "extend street trees life." He also said his agency "100% supports" the work of Restore Mass Ave.
PNC has installed 11 iron rails for all the curb2ide street trees at its busy Dupont Circle branch; it now cares for these city trees.
Islamic Center's New Tree
Restore Mass Ave arranged the planting of a "fringe tree" in the lawn of The Islamic Center (2551 Mass Ave). The planting ceremony was part of an Interfaith Eco Tour April 27 that highlighted "greening" projects in DC.
Embassy Open Houses Showcase RMA
On May 3 and 17 dozens of Embassies held Open Houses for the public to visit their countries – by walking through Embassy doors. Passport DC, as it was called, included information tables and exhibits about Restore Mass Ave at the Embassy of Slovenia on May 3 and at the Embassy of Paraguay on May 17. Thousands of visitors learned how we try to stop tree loss and restore the urban forest canopy.
Above: outside the Embassy of Paraguay May 17. At far right is one of the two hornbeam trees we had planted here on April 19.
Planting Day May 2, 2007
Did you know the word "Guatemala" means tree? We didn't until the Embassy of Guatemala extended formal thanks for two new trees we planted to shade the sidewalk on our First Planting Day May 2, 2007.
Eleven new trees, most of large types such as willow oak and linden, were added to the neighborhood. Eight fill in the second row line which will shade the sidewalk and recreate the historic landscape.
The trees were donated by Casey Trees and marked the beginning of a partnership for which many on Embassy Row are grateful.


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When It Was We Almost Got Croaked
One year me and Troy Patterson and Johnny Gregg from Karnack cornered the market on bullfrogs---not to sell, but to eat. Johnny's old man was a river rat, and spent much of his time on the water, running trotlines and selling catfish from the Big Cypress. He had several boats, and had given names to them. They were just beat up old flat bottom boats, bent and dented like a stomped beer can from being jammed so many times between cypress stumps and hanging up on high center in the sloughs.
Of the four boats, Johnny's favorite was "Yellaw", which was a green boat with some black wiggly stripes brush-painted down the side. I noticed that the tan colored boat was named "Old Bloo", and Johnny confirmed what I had began to suspect.his dad was colorblind. He identified the boats in ways other than the color, and that was obvious.
The three of us favored Yellaw because it was narrow and ran shallow. We could ease along the banks and sneak up on the frogs without disturbing the landscape and causing them to jump. Frogs had little Doppler radar units on the sides of their head, like kettledrum covers, and they could sense vibration and noise better than old man Gelling who ran the theater could. Actually the whole thing with old man Gelling reminded me of frog catching, the way he would kind of crouch and spring at you just when you thought you were hidden. See, the thing was, you slumped down in your theater seat and kind of shrieked during the most tense love scene, and someone in the audience would shout back "Quiet!" That would get an exchange going and here would come Gelling, his flashlight searching out the culprit. He had radar like those frogs too, and many a slumping kid got pinched on the ear and walked out into the lobby. Some of those kids never returned. His office in the lobby was undoubtedly like a frog's den, with musty moss and slime, and piles of bones from the kids that had created ripples on his pond.
Johnny hung just over the prow of the boat, Troy skulled it through the water, and I sat in the middle with the tow sack for the frogs. We would start at the tip of Pine Island, and run the sloughs along the banks. Both Johnny and I had big flashlights scanning the shoreline like pattern searchlights, looking for the frogs. Once pinpointed in a crossbeam, we issued direction and target distance back to Troy, who would slip us over there quietly.
We had a gig, but Johnny only used it for situations where the frog was just out of reach. He preferred to hand-grab the frogs, which minimized the damage to them and kept them fresh and lively all night.
We just crept up on them and let Johnny do his magic. My only test came on the hand-off, when it was my job to take the catch from him and put it into the tow sack. Once or twice in a night I would drop one, because frogs have a way of squirting you from unpredictable but very precise angles. They are engineered and designed like a pivoting water pistol but you see the thing is, it ain't river water that they're squirting.
All of us marveled at their enviable ability for omni-directional squirting. You had to be careful, though, for as a weapon, it was unreliable. If pointed at Troy for example, the shot might discharge instead at a perfect right angle, or worse, sometimes as a backfire, dangerous to the shooters own face and eyes. A face shot would cause you to immediately have to dunk your head in the river, always at the risk of drowning.
Well, if I dropped a frog and forbid it got away, Johnny would give me a cold silent stare like I had walked on his grave. Lucky for me, Troy saved a few mishaps by holding them down in the bottom of the boat with his paddle. All this commotion in the boat would sound like someone dumped a box of bricks into an attic fan. In the still night air; the noise from such a frog scramble inside an aluminum boat would travel to Jefferson and back. It was particularly irritating to Johnny, since all that activity disturbed the calm of the slough and jumped the frogs. I would remind him often that my career record was way over 90% overall. His look assured me that wasn't good enough.
We usually did pretty well, and would call it quits after twenty or twenty-five frogs, or when the air got too damp, whichever happened first. We would clean the frogs on the banks, and throw the innards back into the river for the catfish. Nothing wasted. Then we would pick a Saturday that we could all get together, and Johnny would cook those frogs. We cooked outside, on a butane burner his father melted lead with to mold his trotline weights. Johnny would fry them in a big, well-seasoned iron skillet---a critical and essential vessel for frog legs or catfish.
There was nothing finer. Johnny would drench the frogs in a beer batter, made up of flour, Cajun spice, and a light dusting of corn meal. We would all gather up close to the cooking, because right at first, those legs would usually jerk from the hot grease and tension on the tendons. Johnny said if the frogs in the pan didn't hop, it was bad luck, and your next frog trip would be bad.
I remember too that Johnny told me once you could make a bull-nettle poultice out of urine mixed with chili powder and axle grease. If that was true I figured, the cure was worse than the injury. But he also said one time that if you thought about it in depth, the movie Psycho was really a love story; so Troy and I had obvious reason to examine his thought process. But we always felt the need to be accommodating to Johnny and not to challenge or scoff at his stories. We knew he was the only way back out of those sloughs when it was after midnight and you couldn't tell one inlet or pass from another.
We had four or five frog cookouts in the summer, and never ran short of supply. Johnny's older sister sometimes would make us her special hush puppies and would cut up some new potatoes and onions to cook with them. It was some of the best eating we ever had, just sitting in the yard on some old stumps, swilling iced tea with lemon, and french-harping those frog legs.
Frogs were food for the gods and exceptionally fun to catch, until Saturday May 20th in the late spring of 1961. That night, we were one man short, as Troy had been grounded for egging his math teacher's house. That meant I had double duty with both the paddle work and bagging, and Johnny had to shine the light as well as do the grabbing. I had brought one of my grandmother's garters with me so I could quickly tie off the tow sack and still paddle the boat. I admit I was not as good with the paddle as Troy, but he wouldn't make much of a sack man, either. Besides, you don't stand under a streetlight when you're up to egging your teacher's house.
We were out of our usual slough, closer to the river edge beyond Pine Island. I was running a little more parallel to the bank, because the soft current was pushing against me, and I couldn't keep the boat altogether crossways. We had gathered maybe a dozen big bulls, and Johnny wanted to stay close to the river. We kept brushing into low hanging Spanish moss and cypress limbs, and were having to duck and weave our way along.
We were drifting quietly past some brush, with the big flashlight focused on a frog the size of one of those chalk dogs you won at the fair. It was truly an exceptional one, and it didn't see us coming.
Just then, the dead quiet was broken by a loud mushy thud in the middle of the boat.
I stopped paddling and pondered that sound. It was nothing like I was used to, such as the sharp thud from the heel of a boot. Yeah, mushy truly and accurately described that sound.
"Quiet, dammit!" said Johnny firmly, but almost in a whisper. "Did you drop that other big frog?"
My next words carefully formed the world's most absolutely perfect sentence, spoken with utmost care as if being analyzed by Miss Selma Brotze for clinical annunciation and grammar. It was a simple, eloquent phrase:
"That wasn't me."
The sound of those words chilled us both, as if suddenly the night fog had draped over the two of us without warning. Johnny turned and shined the light around in the boat. There, parallel to the bottom of the gunwale, was an especially solid, fat, water moccasin. It had casually dropped in on us from one of the limbs we had brushed. We both recognized it as a moccasin, because the snake rule was simple: All snakes dropping into your boat at midnight in the river are cottonmouth moccasins, period.
Questions flashed through my mind as Johnny froze the light beam along its wavy shiny figure. "Does light blind a snake?" "Don't they have to coil to strike?" "When you slash across a fang mark and suck out the poison, what if you accidentally swallow some, or have a cavity that hasn't been filled yet?" I began to regret having played sick to skip my last dental visit with Dr. Pierpoint.
There were no answers to these or any other of my electrically charged thoughts.
Suddenly it was if the world's tardy bell had sounded, and the same level of panic hit both of us at once. Johnny was beating the snake with his frog gig and I with the paddle. It was as if all the Maverick Band drummers had been transfused into our arms at once. Our weapons were flailing at the speed of fan blades, and the boat was rocking and pitching wildly. The flashlight was now on the floor of the boat, illuminating everything like a flashing strobe. As it rolled and bounced, it was hard to tell where the snake actually was. Then, with a lucky stab, Johnny speared the snake with the frog gig, just behind its neck. That allowed me to pin it down. Only one point of the gig had pushed through it, but it was enough to lift it out of the boat. The snake coiled quickly around the pole of the gig, and Johnny heaved it as a complete unit off into the river. We were more than pleased to donate our fishing gear to the Big Cypress.
We had the presence to shine the light around the boat for another, as Johnny said often they twist and weave together in the trees like giant black licorice sticks. I didn't like licorice much anyway, it reminded me too much of castor oil. But I absolutely never had another plug of it after hearing that.
I pushed us back out into the current, and we headed back, a journey that seemed like an eternity. The dim lights at the pier on Pine Island was the most welcome landmark I can ever remember.
We talked about that close call many times, and each time the snake got bigger, until its girth approximated Mickey Mantle's upper arm. The frantic and furious beating took on the dimension and character of a collective crew of railroaders pounding spikes in unison on a stretch of track. I would tell the story, and Johnny would corroborate it, then vice versa.
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The Missoni Collection crashed Target's website in a matter of seconds. Within 20 minutes of stores opening, the women's wear line was almost completely sold out. Soon customers were lined up at the check-out aisles, their carts overflowing with merchandise baring the Italian designer's unmistakable zigzag pattern.
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But if you're one of those lucky shoppers who managed to lay a hand on the luxury brand's limited-edition collection of home goods, ranging from bedding to dinnerware to picture frames, you may be wondering how to incorporate those bold pieces into your existing home decor.
Baltimore interior designer and stylist Stephanie Bradshaw suggested adding from the collection one piece at a time.
"There were some select pieces that I really liked," said Bradshaw, who owns Bradshaw Styling. "But I wouldn't want my room to look like I bought the entire Target line."
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"She said that she spent $1,100 on one Missoni scarf, she might as well spend that money on this entire collection," said Anitra Washington, executive team leader of guest experiences at the Target on York Road.
The collection, which featured more than 400 pieces for fashion and home, ranges in price from $2.99 to $599.99, with most items less than $40. The collaboration, which will be available through Oct. 22, marked the largest collection ever in the history of the national retailer.
"Our past collections don't even compare to this," said Washington, in reference to the shopping frenzy her store experienced Sept. 13, the day of the collection's unveiling.
"People were lined up at 8 a.m. Someone was literally pushing on the doors. They went straight to women's [wear]. They cleaned that out within 20 minutes. People were running for shoes. Some were running for home [goods]."
Within hours, most of the Missoni collection was completely gone in Cockeysville and at other Targets around the region. Officials for the company, based in Minneapolis, Minn., have said that stores will be restocked with certain merchandise, but not an entire restock of the collection.
Nonetheless, Bradshaw said the piecemeal approach fits perfectly with what her customers want.
"Our designs are very eclectic anyway," she said. "They are more statement pieces. You don't want your room to look like it exploded with Missoni."
Contrary to popular belief, Bradshaw said that it won't be hard to incorporate Missoni's iconic zigzags into your current home décor.
"Mixing and matching patterns is really trendy," she said. "We're doing it in fashion and home décor."
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Professor Peter Diggle, Distinguished Professor in the Faculty of Health and Medicine at Lancaster, has been confirmed as President-elect of the Royal Statistical Society. He will take up the post on 1st January 2015 for a period of two years.
Professor Diggle was Professor of Statistics in the department from 1988 to 1997, prior to his founding of the research group CHICAS (Combining Health Information, Computation and Statistics) in the Faculty of Health and Medicine. In addition to holding a Distinguished Professorship at Lancaster, he is also professor at the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health, University of Liverpool. In 1997 he received the Royal Statistical Society's Guy Medal in Silver.
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I don't really know what to say about the Epilogue, my thoughts are still all over the place. I didn't enjoy it at all. That's not entirely a criticism, though.
The episode changed my opinion on both Jessie and Louis, and in a way kind of ruined it for me. Louis seemed completely evasive and somewhat up himself, and I found the whole situation of messing Stanley about throughout the interview highly irritating, to the point where I wanted to switch off. Jessie, similarly, was a cold, hard cow and I wanted to slap her silly. She was not the Jessie she had been portrayed to be throughout. This isn't, however, a criticism - it went hand in hand with Stanley asking how fame had changed them - they couldn't necessarily see how it had changed themselves, but it most certainly had. My girlfriend pointed out that if that was what they were aiming for then well done to them, because it's social realism at its finest, which I agree…it is. And I'm sure we often paint these beautiful, perfect images of celebrities, actors, actresses, singers in our heads as the perfect human being, and then sometimes you meet them and they're not what you expected at all - in fact, they're unpleasant and up themselves and forget that their fortune could change over night and they'd be back to being a nobody.
I felt sorry for Jessie with her family history, and with the whole teacher fiasco, who I'm assuming she was in love with, but I don't believe that made her the person she was in that interview. No, I think that made her the quiet, shy person who came to life on stage, who couldn't believe the Prince showed her any interest, and who couldn't do anything without her best friend Carla who had been her constant through it all. Fame did the rest to Jessie - fame made her big headed and stuck up and better than everyone else. I think her costume and make-up choice were also very cleverly picked out - I wasn't used to seeing Jessie dress up like that for day to day - it wasn't that she didn't take pride in her appearance before, but suddenly she had to dress upper class, dress like a star and the red was very harsh and striking and seemed to match that bitchy undertone that was there - she looked hard, she looked self important and I did not like her one bit. I do like to hope, however, partly for the sake of shipping (but that's just me) and partly for the sake of Carla who was so utterly devastated by Jessie's death, that in the hospital when Jessie had come round, they had some kind of heart to heart (what little Jessie could manage) - they sorted out the little situation where Jessie had refused to sing, she realised she had been stuck up and the situation she was in made her realise that she didn't want to be that person anymore.
My criticism: the Masons. Oh my sweet Lord I lost the will to live. It was all very dramatic up until then - it was creepy, it wasn't sitting right, I felt betrayed by these characters I had come to love, something not nice was going on and this creepy fan all in there with twisted little Pamela (who I loved because the actress played her so fantastically) had popped up… and then it just kind of went nowhere. This Mr Luke/Fluke I assume was predicting the coming of the Second World War with the death of millions being the Jews, and the collapsing of business etc and was maybe trying to encourage those who followed him to be Nazis and therefore be saved, because I think the Masons were quite low down on the list of groups Hitler wanted rid of (though maybe only I read that into it), and it could have gone somewhere but it just went nowhere. Maybe if this guy had predicted a murder and the break up of the band, if he had predicted a Mason would be behind it, anything like that it would have had a purpose, but it didn't. I know we never got to find out everything because Louis never finished the interview, but I felt like it wasted the last twenty odd minutes of the episode, where I would have much preferred to see more of Jessie/Angel and Carla/Wunmi.
Criticisms and my dislike of anyone who wasn't Carla or Stanley aside… I applaud the acting like I was front row at a play and giving them a standing ovation. The cast acted perfectly - every single member. I have a ridiculous amount of love for Wunmi Mosaku all of a sudden, who is such an endearing little actress - I just loved the way she told the story of the man with the invention, and Carla was just so harmless and adorable with her cheese on toast and beautifully, blissfully unaffected by fame; she was a bit of a revelation for me. And then, of course, we get to the fantastic Angel Coulby, who can do no wrong in my eyes. THAT was the kind of acting I have been waiting to see from her, and I'm so glad she had the opportunity to do so. I felt the scripting where she became a bitch earlier in the series was too rushed - one minute she was quiet, the next, possessed by fame and it didn't wash, but this showed it had been around for a while. She made me really dislike her character, I stopped caring in those ten minutes and my hackles were up. I just did not like her and she needed bringing down a peg or five. But that made Angel brilliant - she'd had that affect on me, not through the scripting, but through the way she spoke, the tone, the looks she gave Stanley… she was brilliant, and I just wish she had been given more than ten minutes.
In all, I don't really know what to make of this episode still. Certain bits were good, it was cleverly done if it really was the intention to make you realise you didn't know these people at all and actually, they weren't what you expected…but the end I found somewhat pointless. Maybe I missed the point, I don't know. It's a shame because I defended the series when it received a lot of criticisms, but this one I just can't stand by completely. A huge well done to the fabulous cast, though. I loved them if nothing else.
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