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Green, too
Re Gifts owners Ryan and Tina North are springboarding into another eco-friendly venture:
Twin Cities Green, a home accessories and lifestyle store, is set to open Saturday in Uptown Minneapolis, at 2045 Hennepin Av. S. The business bills itself as the source for decor and other enhancements for the green life, and it's a wide-ranging one. The building's 3,400 square feet house everything from hockey-stick furniture to organic linens, recycled aluminum utensils and Fair Trade ceramic lamps to solar and electric scooters and bikes. Also included: Lines of cleaning and personal products, rain barrels, push and electric mowers and rechargeable products.
Of note: The business has partnered with Do It Green Minnesota to establish an in-store resource center with publications, info on eco-services and free workshops. Similarly, Ryan North said, the business will partner with High Tech Energy Solutions to provide samples of larger home improvement items such as home solar panels, countertops and pavers. Open Tuesday through Sunday; details at www. twincitiesgreen.com.
KIM YEAGER
Hoppen redux
"Kelly Hoppen Style'" was a tough act to follow, but, by Jove, the chic British designer has done it.
"Kelly Hoppen Home: From Concept to Reality" (HachetteBookGroup, $40) is so chock-full of usefulness it will be the resource you'll turn to time and again. But lovely photos by Vincent Knapp, many of them from Hoppen's own home, make the book as luscious as any coffee table tome.
The modernist includes five rules for thoughtful design, liberal boxed information with practical "insider" secrets, floor plan sketches and information on budgeting and managing a project. Clearly written, it takes the mysticism out of good design.
KIM YEAGER
Notes
Supermodel and Breckenridge, Minn., native Cheryl Tiegs has signed on as national spokeswoman for Cambria. The Eden Prairie-based manufacturer said Tiegs, a green advocate, is installing its natural quartz surfaces in the kitchen and foyer of her Beverly Hills home.
Victoria magazine, the defunct Hearst publication about home and garden and the romantic lifestyle, is being revived with the November/December issue. Publisher Hoffman Media said copies, $4.99 each, will be on newsstands at the end of this month.
KIM YEAGER
Two weeks ago a deer (or bear?) - both animals frequent our neighborhood in Hubbard County, came visiting our rose garden and ate all the rose buds except this one bush front and center.
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