blogging from Brisbane!

• You can’t purchase the home from a parent, spouse, or child
• You can’t purchase the home from an entity in which they’re a majority owner
• You can’t acquire the home by gift or inheritance
• All parties to the purchase must meet eligibility requirements

Every time you see them you try and avoid them like the plague because they are just so negative and draining. To them everything is a crisis…everyone and everything is out to get them. Nothing works and everything that is not going right in their world is someone else’s fault, never theirs. They never smile and they always seem to find the negative in everything and everybody…never the positive. Anytime there is a small setback, it is like the world is coming to an end. They treat life like it is a WIN/LOSE game…and trust me, there is no such thing. Whenever someone wins and someone loses, both lose. Does this type of person sound familiar…do you know people like this? I sure do.

Then there are those people you love being around because for whatever reason they just have this positive energy about them which makes you feel good. They are always fired up, have a smile on their face and having a good time. When there are small setbacks, they seem to find the positive side or don’t even acknowledge it…they just keep moving forward as if it is an expected part of the process. They are the ones who keep their emotions under control…they don’t yell, they don’t scream, they don’t attack, they don’t fight and they don’t blame. Now don’t get me wrong, they are passionate and fired up. They just don’t fight it…they seem to always find a way to use the flow to their advantage. They aren’t pushing…they seem to be getting pulled through life. They are WIN/WIN people…always looking for ways that they can WIN, but so can everyone else.

The interesting thing about these two different types of people is that the positive ones almost always seem to win in all the equities of their life…Personally, Professionally, Business, Health…you name it. They actually say people who smile and laugh a lot…the positive ones live longer and are much healthier and happier. The negative ones always seem to look unhealthy and anxious…they seem to struggle in business and in their relationships…they look run down.

So, my question to you is which one are you? Be honest. Is your energy good energy or bad energy? Fired up energy or draining energy? If you asked those around you to describe your energy, what would they say? Fired up and infectious or exhausting and draining. Are you positive or negative? Do you fight life or do you use those people and things around you to propel you to success.

It is a choice…another one of those small choices I write about every Monday morning. It is the cumulative effects of all those small choices that will get you are looking for in life.

Make it a GREAT week!

Tom

India Rose

Just opened in Brisbane, at the former site of Hilltop Market on Visitacion Ave. India Rose is much more than a boutique.

“I was probably six when I started my career of selling my creations door to door: performances, potions, candy and salad dressings. Since then I have gone into design and I am happy to say I have abandoned the potions for textiles. My biggest influence was my father. My dad was a landscape architect and San Francisco city planner but spent a lot of his time drawing, painting and constantly doodling. I spent my childhood looking at and considering every design detail of each environment we were in. I think of him always when trying to create and balance business and design.

I started my first business, Lemonheads, while in school studying art at U.C. Berkeley. After seven years painting custom floorcloths, I became part of the first design team at Pottery Barn, designing textiles and mostly rugs. Working at Pottery Barn was like attending a masters program in design. One side benefit of working at Pottery Barn was meeting my husband (and newest member of India Rose, LLC), Mark Bolick.

Our first daughter, India Rose, was born in 2001. I started India Rose, LLC in 2003, designing products for Anthropologie, Crate & Barrel, The Land of Nod, Pottery Barn, PB Teen, and others. We now work in a tall house perched on a mountain just south of San Francisco amidst the sun, gigantic trees, the constant sprinting of our dog Rexford, and all the children of India Rose whose mothers make up our company. We have slowly expanded our family to include Anu (my mastermind of production, communication, and anything Finnish), Marcus (our website guru and childhood nemesis), Cyrus (our famous for his good looks lawyer), Miriam (our master of shipments), Deanna (our bookkeeper/guardian from IRS audits), and lots of others in India who make possible all the products we produce. We also have a small new addition crawling around on the floor trying to eat the textiles, our second daughter Zarah Rae.

My inspiration comes from novels, thrift stores, fashion, my childhood and a big bag of textiles Anu pulls out after raiding her mother’s closet. I start with an idea and always end somewhere very different, laughing a great deal along the way. I hope you love what we have, and if you have any questions e-mail me at carter@indiarose.com.”

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Yesteryear Brisbane!—
In 1948, Brisbane had two cleaning businesses: Wright Cleaners and Hillside
Cleaners.  Both offered alterations and repair of clothing.  Coats, pants
and sweaters began at 65 cents.   Suits and overcoats, $1.35.
Bates Beauty Shop on Mariposa Street offered permanent waves @ $6.50 while a
shampoo and finger wave $1.25.  Satisfaction guaranteed!
The Brisbane Rexall Drug store, at 49 Visitacion had specials: Duncan Yo Yos
15 & 35 cents, Kolynos Jolly Kap 9 cents, (have no idea what that was!)
Nyltone for Nylon Stocking protection 29 cents and Glenmore 90 poof Straight
Whiskey (5th) $4.99!
While Hillside Pharmacy offered: Jeris Hair Tonic and Jeris Cream Oil-both
for 51 cents plus tax.
Brisbane Radio Shop at 33 Visitacion,  were “Dealers in the Best Line of
Radios,” Zenith, Howard, Philco, and Packard-Bell, portable-console and
table models, and also offering expert repairing.
Anderson’s Store at 341 Visitacion  had “The Best Quality Line of Electrical
Appliances,”   Bendix Washers, Western Holly Stoves, Norge Refrigerators,
vacuum cleaners and radios.
The Sweet Stop at 165 Visitacion featured frozen fresh ice cream, fountain
dishes, wholesome lunch and dinner service.  They were open 8am to midnight!
Dagler’s Market, 301 Visitacion did TWO deliveries daily!  They provided
fancy groceries and choice meats and were consistently the best! There was
also Midtown Market, Thee Market and Joe Demarco’s grocery store where women
shopped for families.
Phil’s Liquor Store and Fountain was at 311 Visitacion (now a Laundromat)
had a complete line of all popular brands of beer, wine and liquors AT San
Francisco prices, fountain service, magazines, ice cream and tobacco.
There was even a women’s clothing store, plus a family shoe store!

After World War II, Brisbane was bustling with new construction,  returning
vets, the newly married and war workers who didn’t go back “home”  and big
changes to come.  Some had automobiles, rarely two.  Many took the Greyhound
to San Francisco, others rode a tiny orange Brisbane bus that circled
Brisbane, and going to Bayshore for major shopping.   Bayshore had a
Safeway, bank and other shops to browse through.
Men were working, purchased automobiles and women learned to drive.  Big
changes occurred.  Shopping malls, nearby, provided the wants and needs of
families, after World War II.  At one time Brisbane provided what residents
needed for their homes and themselves.  There was little need to take the
bus or drive out of town.  Now, in my opinion, Brisbane truly is a “bedroom”
community.

This is from Dolores Gomez