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JJ YEAR IN REVIEW

It’s been a wild ride of a year! We started out the year as a
fashion consulting company, and ended the year as not
only that, but owning the Juniper James Boutique!

2013 was full of events (organized & attended), being in/on the news, meeting amazing creatives, and the ups & downs of running, merchandising, stocking & promoting our awesome little boutique.

Our (above featured) highlights include:

• Being in the inaugural Flywheel Incubator Class
• Moving into the Flywheel retail space with our fellow members
• Sacramento Fashion Week
• Being hired as the stylist for the first music
  video shot at The Crocker Art Museum
• Working with tons of talented photographers, hair, makeup artists and fellow stylists.
• Participating in the Local Love event at Crocker Art
• Live-covering the Oscar’s Red Carpet Fashion for Channel 10
• Features in
  – SacMag,
  – Sacramento News & Review,
  – Sacramento Bee
  – Sacramento Press
  – Comstock Magazine
  – & more.
• Speaking to Design & Fashion Students for Sacramento Fashion Week.
• Winning awards for our Juniper James
  Walk a Mile in Her Shoes team fundraising (starting our 2014 team soon!)
• All our lovely (transformed) styling clients throughout the year – we love you!
• Participating in & promoting TOM’s Day Without Shoes
• Bringing on 2 new JJ Crew members:
  — Ruthann: our events coordinator
  — Marci: shop merchandising & assistant stylist
• Becoming owner of the Juniper James Boutique (!!)
• Featuring & selling dozens of local artists’ work at our shop.
• Live on Chanel 40 for fun charity fundraiser segments
• Walking the runway for a number of Sacramento-based charities
• Continuing to blog for Thrift Town –
  recycle reuse, shop local & support charities!
• Asked to return as a judge for this year’s Indie Fashion Challenge
• Event coordinator for THIS IS MIDTOWN: June, July, August & September
• A number of appearances on Good Day Sacramento
  with our good friend Phoebe of The Dress Fiend.
• Returning for our 3rd year as the Retail & Restaurant
  Coordinator for the week-long Launch Design Festival
• Shooting our first lookbook
• And finally, surviving the crazy holiday retail season at the Boutique.

 *WHEW*

 To all our friends, fellow creatives, co-conspirators, supporters and customers
– we love you and couldn’t have had the awesome year we did without you!
Here’s to an incredible 2014!